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PREFACE 

FOR several years the work incident to the production of this volume has engaged the 
services of a large staff of editors and contributors. The result of these labors is now 
laid before subscribers and the general public. Unique in conception and treatment, it 
constitutes one of the most original and most valuable contributions ever made to the social 
history of an American community. It arrays in a proper and dignified manner the .mportant 
facts regarding the ancestry, personal careers and matrimonial alliances of those who, in each 
generation, have been accorded leading positions in the social, professional and business life of 
the metropolis. At the same time an additional interest attaches to the book from the fact, 
that while dealing primarily with New York City, its scope has not been limited to that locality 
alone. Owing to the wide distribution of the old New York families throughout the country 
and the constant absorption of representatives of other sections into this metropolitan com- 
munity, the authentic and popular account here presented of the constituent elements of social 
New York, past and present, assumes a national importance. In the special field which it 
occupies, the volume is, to a considerable extent, a history of the entire country, since here 
in the metropolis have at all times assembled representatives of the historic families of the 
United States. Upon this particular point an exhibit is made in the following pages that will 
probably be surprising even to those who are most familiar with this side of New York's 
contemporaneous citizenship. 

The records of the families of which the book treats have been arranged in a series of 
genealogical and biographical articles, relating to their lineal heads or most conspicuous repre- 
sentatives in the present generation. The adoption of this method of treatment has been fully 
justified by the results thus secured. The dry and unattractive manner in which genealogical 
facts have been hitherto almost universally presented, has been carefully avoided, and with the 
past thus linked to the present, the exhibition of lines of descent and the history of distin- 
guished individual ancestors have acquired a more striking character than they might otherwise 
possess, and have been infused with an absorbing personal interest. Taken as a whole, the 
book constitutes an important page in the annals of this community and country. 

From the beginning the editors have not lost sight of the fact that the fundamental 
plan of Prominent Families of New York has contemplated an enduring and reliable historical 
record. With this end in view, the researches involved in the preparation and completion of 
the volume have been painstaking and thorough. They have included careful investigation of 
all accessible genealogical and historical records that bear upon the subject, and have also 
called for extensive labor in obtaining and collating a mass of heretofore unpublished data. In 
addition, a careful search has been conducted among genealogical records in Great Britain, 
France, Holland and other countries. 

The comprehensiveness and accuracy of this work is in no small measure due to the 
interest which many individuals, whose names will be found in the sketches devoted to their 
families, have shown in its progress and to their keen appreciation of its important character. 
Members of families represented herein have placed at the service of the compilers valuable pri- 
vate and personal records. By this generous cooperation the stamp of authenticity has been 
placed upon the book and has aided in making it a permanent and reliable authority upon 



CHARLES STEADMAN ABERCROMBIE 

ONE of the oldest and most distinguished families of Scotland is that of Abercrombie, of 
which the Pennsylvania family of the name is a branch. In Burke's History of the Com- 
moners of Great Britain and Ireland, the record of the family begins with Thomas Aber- 
crombie, of the time of James II., of Scotland, who was one of the Lords of Session, or as it was 
then called, the Committee of Parliament. Humphrey de Abercrombie, who, about 1315, obtained 
a charter of lands from Robert Bruce, was the father of Alexander de Abercrombie, who acquired a 
half portion of the lands of Ardhuien. His son, Alexander de Abercrombie, of Pittmadden, was the 
father of the third Alexander de Abercrombie, who was living in 1454. In the next generation, the 
estate was inherited by James Abercrombie, who married Margaret Ogilvie, daughter of Sir James 
Ogilvie, of Findlater, and who is supposed to have fallen upon the field of Flodden. His son, 
George Abercrombie, had a son, James Abercrombie, who was living in 1527 and married Marjory 
Hay, daughter of William Hay, Earl of Errol. 

Alexander Abercrombie, of Birkenbog, next of the line, married Elizabeth, daughter of 
Leslie, of Pitcaple. Their son, Alexander Abercrombie, of Birkenbog, succeeded his father, and 
married Margaret Leslie, daughter of William Leslie, of Balquan. The second son of this marriage 
was Alexander Abercrombie, of Fitterneir, whose son, Alexander Abercrombie, was the father of 
Francis Abercrombie, of Fitterneir, created by James VII., Lord Glassford, for life, and of Patrick 
Abercrombie, M. D., author of Martial Achievements of the Scottish Nation. The eldest son of 
Alexander Abercrombie and his wife, Margaret Leslie, was James Abercrombie, who was suc- 
ceeded by his son, Alexander Abercrombie, of Birkenbog, Grand Falconer to Charles I. 

The wife of this last Alexander Abercrombie was Elizabeth Bethune, daughter of Bethune of 
Balfour, by whom he had a daughter and three sons. The daughter married Robert Grant, of 
Dalvy. The eldest son and heir, Alexander Abercrombie, was created first baronet of Birkenbog, 
in 1636. General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, of the British Army, who commanded the army sent to 
drive the French from Egypt, and was slain after victory at Aboukir in 1801, descended from the 
second son of the first baronet. The present peerage of Baron Abercrombie was bestowed upon 
the family of Lord Ralph Abercrombie. John Abercrombie, of Glasshaugh, the second son of 
Alexander Abercrombie and Elizabeth Bethune, was the ancestor of the American branch of the 
family. His son, Thomas Abercrombie, of Dundee, married Agnes Aikman, and their son, James 
Abercrombie, of Dundee, who was born in 1693, was the father of James Abercrombie, an officer 
of the Royal Navy. The latter was the first of the name in America, coming to Philadelphia about 
1750. He was lost at sea about 1759. 

The Reverend James Abercrombie, D. D., son of James Abercrombie, of the Royal Navy, 
and grandfather of Mr. Charles Steadman Abercrombie, was born in Philadelphia in 1758 and died 
there in 1841. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1776, he studied theology. 
Being ordained to the Protestant Episcopal ministry, he was installed as one of the rectors of Christ 
and St. Peter's churches, Philadelphia, in 1793. He retired from the ministry in 1833. He was an 
able writer, principally upon religious subjects. Among his published works were Lectures upon 
the Catechism and several sermons. For nearly ten years he was principal of the Philadelphia 
Academy. His sons were James Abercrombie and Charles Steadman Abercrombie, M. D., of Rose- 
land, Tenn. A son of the former, the Reverend James Abercrombie, D. D., died in 1889. 

Mr. Charles Steadman Abercrombie, of New York, is the surviving son of James Aber- 
crombie and grandson of the Reverend James Abercrombie, D. D., of Philadelphia. He was born 
in Baltimore, Md., and has long been a resident of New York. He married Nancy Osgood and his 
residence is in Madison Square, North. He is a member of the Metropolitan and the Field and 
Turf clubs. The arms of the Abercrombie family are: Argent, a fess engrailed, gules, between 
three boars' heads, couped, azure. The crest is a bee, volant, proper. Above the shield is the 
motto, Vive ut vivas. Under the shield is the motto, Mens in arduis aequa. 



FRANKLIN ACKER 

THE ancestors of the Acker family were of Dutch origin and came to this country early 
in the seventeenth century, settling in northern New Jersey. The name has been 
thoroughly identified with that section ever since, and various members of the 
family have obtained considerable prominence, while they have been always numbered among 
the stable and responsible citizens of the State and have contracted alliances with many other 
families of corresponding standing and noteworthy descent. In the present century, however, 
the branch to which attention is now directed became identified with the large commercial 
interests of New York, and attained prominence here. 

David de Peyster Acker, father of Mr. Franklin Acker, was born in Bergen County, 
N. J., in 1822. At an early age, he entered upon a business career in New York City, spent 
a number of years in subordinate employment, though constantly rising, and finally became, 
in 1857, a partner and head of the establishment in which he had originally served, and 
which, largely on account of his ability, energy and probity, became one of the most important 
of its kind, having connections and branches in various foreign countries. He was possessed of 
great executive ability and far-sighted enterprise, and secured and retained throughout his life the 
confidence and respect of all with whom he was brought in contact, either in business or socially. 

Mr. Acker acquired great wealth in his years of devotion to business, and in the latter 
part of his life fully enjoyed the pleasures which well-earned leisure brought him. He was 
a frequenter of Saratoga Springs for many years, had a country seat at Fairlawn, near Paterson, 
N. J., where he spent every spring and autumn, and was a frequent visitor to Florida during 
the winter months. Political honors were offered him on several occasions, but public life 
failed to attract him and he refused even a nomination to Congress, though admirably fitted 
for such duties. He was a member of the Produce Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce, 
vice-president of the National Exchange Bank, a member of the Holland Society, and a 
member of St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church. Throughout his life he was notably, though 
unostentatiously, benevolent and considerate in his disposition. He was survived by his widow, 
who was Julia Whitney, and seven children. 

Mr. Franklin Acker, son of the late David de Peyster Acker, was born in New York, 
February 16th, 185^. His early education was received in the local schools and he was then 
sent to an academy in Weston, Conn., and fitted for a commercial life. When he was 
seventeen years old, in 1870, he entered the employ of the business house his father had 
founded, and in 1888 was admitted to a partnership in the firm. He retired from active 
participation in business in 1892. 

In 1884, Mr. Acker married Emma Brinckerhoff, daughter of former State Senator James 
J. Brinckerhoff, of New Jersey, one of a family that has been conspicuously identified with the 
business and public interests of the State of New Jersey, for several generations, and which is. 
like the Ackers, derived from notable Dutch ancestry, going back to the early days of the New 
Netherland, members of it having been, in many successive generations, people of social 
prominence in the city and State. Mr. and Mrs. Acker have two sons, David de Peyster 
and Irving Fairchild Acker. They live in West Seventy-seventh Street. Mr. Acker is now 
a director of the David D. Acker Company, of New York, and of the Fiberite Company, of 
Mechanicsville. He belongs to the Holland Society, and to the Colonial and Hardware clubs. 

A brother of Mr. Acker was the late Charles Livingston Acker, who was born in New 

ihi"l'J 46 ' and d ' ed '" ,89K He was one of the J unior P artners of the firm that his father 
established, vice-president of the Hudson River Bank, treasurer of several other corporations, 
and a member of the Holland Society. His wife was Helena Brinckerhoff, sister of the wife of 
nis brother Mr. Franklin Acker, and he left a son, Charles Livingston Acker, Jr., and three 
daughters, Ella M., Louisa and Adele Acker. 



CHARLES HENRY ADAMS 

IN the eighth generation, Mr. Charles Henry Adams is descended from Henry Adams, of 
Braintree, the founder of the Adams family, that has borne so conspicuous a part in the 
public life of the United States. The pioneer came from England in 1634 and obtained a 
grant of land at Mt. Wollaston, afterwards Braintree, and now Quincy, Mass. Henry Adams, 
second of the name, was born in England in 1614, and married, in 1643, Elizabeth Paine, daughter 
of Moses Paine. He was the first town clerk of Medfield, Mass., was a member of the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, in 1652, and a representative to the General Court, 
1659-65 and 1674-75. He was a Lieutenant in the militia, and was killed by the Indians in 1676 
during King Philip's War. 

The line of descent from Henry Adams, of Braintree, is through Peter Adams; John Adams, 
who married Michal Bloyse, daughter of Richard and Michal (Jennison) Bloyse, of Watertown, 
Mass.; Isaac Adams; Joshua Adams, of Egremont, Mass. ; Dr. Peter Charles Adams, and Dr. Henry 
Adams. The father of Mr. Charles Henry Adams, Dr. Henry Adams, was born in 1787, and died 
on the anniversary of his birth, at the age of seventy years. He was a soldier in the War of 18 12. 
His wife was Agnes Egberts, daughter of Anthony Egberts, a paymaster in the Revolutionary 
War, who married Evau Van der Zee. Dr. Peter Charles Adams, born in 1763, and the father 
of Dr. Henry Adams, was sheriff of Greene County, N. Y., and a State Senator. His wife 
was Christina Van Bergen, daughter of Henry Van Bergen and Nellie Salisbury. The ancestor of 
Nellie Salisbury was Captain Sylvester Salisbury, who came to New Amsterdam from England in 
1664, was in command of Fort Orange in the early history of that outpost, was sheriff of Rens- 
selaerwyck in 1673 and, in association with Henry Van Bergen, obtained a patent of land in Greene 
County. Henry Van Bergen was a grandson of Martin Gerrtisen Van Bergen, one of the early 
settlers of Albany. Through his mother, Mr. Charles Henry Adams is descended from the Egberts, 
one of whom married a granddaughter of Rip Van Dam, acting Colonial Governor of 
New York. 

Mr. Charles Henry Adams was born in Coxsackie, Greene County, N. Y. He was educated 
at the Albany Academy, and studied law in the office of Cagger & Stevens, of Albany. He applied 
himself to the practice of law until 1850, when he gave up professional life to engage in the woolen 
manufacturing business at Cohoes, N. Y. For a long time he was trustee and president of the 
Water Board of Cohoes, and was elected the first Mayor of the city after its incorporation. In 
1851, he was an aide, with rank of Colonel, on the staff of Governor Hunt ; was elected to the 
State Assembly in 1857, and was a State Senator, 1872-73. He was a presidential elector in 1872, 
United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition in 1873, and a member of Congress in 1876. 
In 1859, he was elected a director of the Bank of Cohoes, and in 1869, became its president. In 
recent years, he has been a resident of New York City. 

Mr. Adams has been twice married. His first wife, whom he married in 1853, was Elizabeth 
Piatt, of Rhinebeck, and by her he had two children, Mary Egberts and William Piatt Adams. In 
1877, he married Judith Crittenden Coleman, whose grandfather was John Jordan Crittenden, 1787- 
1863, of Kentucky, a son of Major Crittenden, of the Continental Army, and a graduate of William 
and Mary's College in 1807. The children of Mr. Adams by his second wife are, Agnes Ethel Critten- 
den and Judith Charles Berlina Adams. The city residence of Mr. Adams is in East Sixty-seventh 
Street, his summer home being Mount Wollaston, East Hampton, Long Island. He is a member of 
the Sons of the Revolution and of the St. Nicholas Society, as well as of the Metropolitan Club, 
the American Geographical Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a director of the 
Maidstone Club, of East Hampton. His eldest daughter, Mary Egberts Adams, became the wife of 
Robert Johnston, and has one son, Robert Johnston, Jr. His only son, William Piatt Adams, 
married Katherine Elseffer, of Red Hook, and has two children, Elizabeth Piatt and Katherine 
Elseffer Adams. 



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EDWARD DEAN ADAMS 

R. EDWARD D. ADAMS comes of good old Puritan ancestors, his family being among 
the earliest settlers of New England and prominent in the affairs of the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony. His father, Adoniram Judson Adams, is a well known citizen of Boston. 

Born in Boston, April 9, 1846, Mr. Edward D. Adams was educated in the Chauncey Hall 
School, the noted private school for boys in Boston, and then went to Norwich Universty, at 
Norwich, Vt., where he was graduated as a Bachelor of Science in 1864. After spending two years 
in travel and study in Europe, he returned to Boston in 1866, and entered the office of a firm of 
bankers and brokers, where he remained three years as bookkeeper and cashier. In 1870, he 
assisted in organizing the Boston banking firm of Richardson, Hill & Co., and was a partner in that 
house until 1878. He then removed to New York City and became a partner in the house of 
Winslow, Lanier & Co., a connection that he maintained until 1893. 

During his active business career as a banker, he took a prominent and influential part in many 
of the largest and most important financial transactions of the period. He is particularly con- 
spicuous for his successful work in the reconstruction and reorganization of corporations. Some of 
his achievements in this line are part of the most brilliant pages of recent financial history. 

In 1882-3, ne organized the Northern Pacific Terminal Company, became its president, raised 
the capital for building the plant at Portland, Ore., and superintended the work of construction. 
In 1883, he organized the St. Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Company, raised the capital for it, 
and became its vice-president. Two years later, he organized and constructed the New Jersey 
Junction Railroad Company, and leased it to the New York Central Railroad. In 1885, he planned 
and carried out the reorganization of the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, the New York, 
Ontario & Western Railroad, and the West Shore & Ontario Terminal Company. This was an 
exceedingly embarrassing and difficult undertaking, and the manner in which the work was carried 
out by Mr. Adams evoked the admiration of financial circles and the approval of those most directly 
interested in the properties. For this Mr. Adams was personally and officially thanked by the 
Honorable Chauncey M. Depew, and Messrs. Drexel, Morgan & Co. 

The Central Railroad of New Jersey was saved from being thrown into the hands of a receiver 
in 1887 by the reorganization, conceived by and carried out under the direction of Mr. Adams, and 
in i8 y o he reorganized the American Cotton Oil Co., which was then severely embarrassed. In 
1888, he assisted in marketing the bond issue of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, and for this 
the special thanks of the board of directors of the road was voted him. He became early interested in 
the problem of utilizing the power of Niagara Falls, and was elected president of the Cataract Con- 
struction Company. In this capacity he was successful in solving, not only the financial, but also 
the engineering difficulties, to which he specially addressed himself. In 1893 the German bond- 
holders of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company requested him to look after their interests, and 
he was chairman of the reorganization committee that straightened out the affairs of that company. 
Mr. Adams still retains connection with many of the corporations which he has organized or recon- 
structed. He is chairman of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, a 
director of the American Cotton Oil Company, president of the Cataract Construction Company, 
vice-president of the Central & Southern American Telegraph Company, a director of the West 
Shore Railroad, and a director of the Mercantile Trust Company, and numerous other companies. 

Mr. Adams married Fannie A. Gutterson, daughter of William E. Gutterson, of Boston, in 
1872. He has two children, Ernest K. Adams, a graduate from Yale and Columbia Colleges, and 
Ruth Adams. He lives on Madison Avenue, and belongs to the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Union 
League, Players, Riding, Grolier and other clubs, is a member of the New England Society, a fellow 
in perpetuity of the National Academy of Design, a patron of the American Museum of Natural 
History, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a fellow of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, and a trustee of the gift fund of the American Fine Arts Society. 



JOHN GIRAUD AGAR 

SEVERAL families distinguished in the early history of the Southern States are among the 
ancestors of Mr. John Giraud Agar. His father, William Agar, was a native of Ireland, 
belonging to one of the ancient families of County Carlow. When young in years, 
William Agar came from his native land to this country and settled in New Orleans. Possessed of 
great natural ability, he soon took a foremost position in business in the Southern metropolis. 
He married Theresa Price, of Louisville, Ky., descended from one of the early settlers of that State. 
Born in New Orleans, June 3d, 1856, Mr. John G. Agar was a boy not yet in his teens when 
the Civil War was raging. Instructed by private tutors, in 1869 he was sent to the preparatory 
school of the University of Georgetown, D. C, to continue his studies, and in 1872 matriculated 
at the University, and was graduated in 1876 with the degree of B. A. Immediately he went 
abroad, and for two years studied in the Roman Catholic University of Kensington, London, 
devoting himself especially to biology and moral and mental science. 

Returning to this country in 1878, he settled in New York and took a two years' course in 
Columbia College Law School, graduating in 1880 with the degree of LL. B. Admitted to practice 
at the bar of the State of New York, he soon won a leading position in his profession by the 
soundness of his legal attainments and by his eloquence as a public speaker. By birth, instinct 
and training a Democrat, and devoted to Democratic principles, his political affiliations have always 
been with that party, but he has stood for independence in political action and for honesty in the 
administration of public affairs. In 1881, his prominence as a lawyer and his thorough inde- 
pendence in politics led President James A. Garfield to appoint him Assistant United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Official position had little attraction for him, 
however, and he resigned his office after a year of service and returned to private practice, as the 
senior member of the law firm of Agar, Ely & Fulton, which connection he still maintains. 

The cause of reform in municipal administration early enlisted the support of Mr. Agar, who 
has been one of the most energetic advocates of those measures leading to uprightness in the 
management of the city business that have characterized the political activity of New York during 
the last decade. One of the earliest and most prominent members of the People's Municipal 
League, he has contributed valuable service to the cause supported by that organization. 
He was also one of the first advocates of the State naval militia, and in 1891 Governor David B. 
Hill commissioned him as a Lieutenant of the First Battalion of the Naval Reserve of Artillery of 
the State of New York and acting paymaster. In the State campaign of 1891, he was chairman of 
the executive committee of the People's Municipal League, and it was largely due to his untiring 
efforts that the measure for the adoption of the Australian system of voting by blanket ballot was 
ultimately passed by the Legislature of the State. In October, 1896, he was appointed a com- 
missioner of Public Schools by Mayor W. L. Strong; and as a member of the Reform majority of 
the Board ot Education, he was largely instrumental in procuring from the State Legislature 
adequate appropriations for the greatly needed increase in public school accommodations. 

In 1888, Mr. Agar received the degree of M. A., from the University of Georgetown, and the 
degree of Ph. D. from the same institution in 1889. His wife was Agnes Louise Macdonough, 
whom he married in 1892 at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Agar's father was Joseph Macdonough, of 
San Francisco, one of the earliest American settlers in California. Her mother was Catherine 
O'Brien, a sister of William S. O'Brien, of San Francisco, the noted financier. Mr. and Mrs. Agar 
have two children, John Giraud, Jr., and William Macdonough Agar. The residence of the family 
is in West Forty-eighth Street and they have a country place in Westchester County. He is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Union, University, Lawyers', Reform, City, Players, Racquet, 
Catholic, Commonwealth, New York Yacht and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, the Metro- 
politan Club of Washington, the Country Club of Westchester County, the Bar Association and 
the American Geographical Society. 

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MRS. CATHERINE BEEKMAN AITKEN 

IN the year 1647, there came to New Amsterdam, in the same vessel with Governor and Captain 
General Petrus Stuyvesant, a young Hollander of position and wealth named Willhemus 
Beekman. His family were wealthy burgers, of Keulen, and he was born in 1623 at Hasselt, 
in Oberyssel. Being of higher social rank than most of the Colonists, and having the favor of the 
Governor, he at once became a man of mark, one of the first great matches in the history of New 
York being his marriage to Catherine De Boogh, the belle and heiress of the infant city. He became 
Schepen and Burgomeister of the town, and a large property owner, being in fact its richest inhabi- 
tant. Among other offices which he filled was that of Deputy Governor of the Dutch possessions 
on the Delaware River, which had been captured from the Swedes by Governor Stuyvesant in 1655. 
At all times during his career he showed a keen appreciation for valuable lands, and among his 
other estates, acquired by purchase or grant from the Dutch West India Company, was a large tract 
at Esopus. He partly resided on this estate, and was appointed Sheriff of the district, and in that 
capacity welcomed Governors Nicolls, Lovelace and Andros after the British occupation. He also 
purchased all the land around Rhinebeck, which place he named from the river on whose banks he 
was born, and built there a stone house which is still standing, the bricks of which its chimney is 
constructed having been imported from Holland. Notwithstanding his prominence, he was one of 
the leading Dutch citizens who were suspected of disloyalty by Governor Andros, and subjected 
to arrest by that official in 1675. In 1683 he, however, was named as Mayor of the city, and was 
for many years one of the aldermen, being throughout his career one of the most influential of the 
early Dutch inhabitants of the Province. 

He bought Corlears Hook from Jacob Corlear soon after his arrival in the Colony, and in 
1670 purchased of one Thomas Hall a large tract fronting on the East River and extending nearly 
across the island on a line with the present City Hall. Here he established his homestead, and it is 
recorded that his orchard was on the slopes where Beekman Street now descends, that thorough- 
fare, as well as William Street, taking their names from him. He died in 1707, at the ripe age of 
eighty-four, leaving a large family who have ever maintained the prominence which was given to 
the name by its founder. 

His son, Colonel Gerardus Beekman, the eminent patriot, was a physician and surgeon. He 
married, in 1677, Magdalena Abeel, of Albany, and resided in Flatbush. In 1685, he was appointed 
Justice of Kings County. He was one of Leisler's Council. In 1687, he took the oath of allegiance. 
He became a member of the Colonial Assembly in 1698, and was afterwards Acting Governor. He 
was a large purchaser of lands on the Raritan and Millstone Rivers, in New Jersey, and was active in 
developing that section, dying in 1723. 

Mrs. Aitken is directly descended from this branch of the family, being a daughter of the late 
Abraham Beekman and his wife, Elizabeth (Houghton) Beekman. The Houghtons are also a family 
of distinguished ancestry and connections, being related to many of the most celebrated names in 
Colonial history. The Beekman family twice intermarried with the Van Dyke family. Mrs. 
Aitken, in fact, can trace her descent back for three hundred years in no less than three direct lines 
to ancestors, all of whom were of prominence in the early records of the country, both in Colonial 
and Revolutionary times. 

Among the other Revolutionary patriots included in the number was her great-great-grand- 
father, Rulof Van Dyke, member of the Provincial Congress of New York and of the Committee of 
Safety which governed the State during the Revolution, and who took an active and distinguished 
part in the public affairs of that period, being referred to in the accounts of those trying times as 
one of the most steadfast and energetic supporters of the American cause. 

Mrs. Aitken is the widow of the late Honorable William B. Aitken, who died in 1880. He 
was a lawyer and statesman. Her three children are Lydia A. Aitken, Elizabeth (Aitken) Bull, 
wife of Charles Hudson Bull, and William B. Aitken, a lawyer of New York City. 



LAWRENCE DADE ALEXANDER 

VIRGINIA'S Colonial aristocracy is a factor which has exercised a powerful influence on the 
political history and material progress of the United States. It has been almost a predom- 
inant element in moulding the social side of the American character. Distinctions based 
on birth and ancestry were and are still cherished in the Old Dominion to a greater degree than any 
other State, and the descendants of its gentry, who sprang originally from families of social 
position and gentle blood in the mother country, are now found in every part of the land, and 
have preserved and upheld such traditions. 

Kentucky absorbed much of Virginia's best blood, and has in turn contributed its share to 
the social development of the country at large. During the first quarter of the present century, 
many representatives of the old families of tide-water Virginia migrated to the new region which 
extended from the Blue Ridge to the Mississippi. Among this number was Gerard Alexander, of 
Effingham, an estate in Prince William County, Va., who, with his wife, Elizabeth (Henry) 
Alexander, and his family went in 1823 to Breckenridge County, Ky., where he died in 1834. A 
granduncle of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, General Edmund Brooke Alexander 
was an officer of reputation in the United States Army, and was distinguished in the Mexican 
War, in the operations against the Mormans in Utah, and in the war between the States. 

The father of Mr. Lawrence Dade Alexander was Junius B. Alexander, who as a youth 
accompanied his parents from Virginia to Kentucky. He engaged with success in the banking 
business at Louisville, St. Louis, and later on in New York. The country seat he established 
here was Effingham, on Todt Hill, Staten Island, the name being taken from the ancestral 
Virginia estate, the property afterwards being inherited by his son, Frank D. Alexander. Another 
of the sons of Gerard Alexander was Colonel Thomas Ludwell Alexander, a prominent officer of 
the Mexican War, and who, under the administration of President Lincoln, became governor of the 
Soldiers' Home at Washington, D. C. Junius B. Alexander married Lucy Fitzhugh Dade, a lady 
who also came of ancestors prominent in Virginian history, and was a native of that State. Her 
maternal grandfather, General Lawrence Taliaferro Dade, was commanding officer of the State 
Militia, a member of the Legislature for Orange County, and an emigrant to Kentucky, where he 
died. Her brother, Francis Cadwalader Dade, served with distinction throughout the Civil War 
and is now Chief Engineer on the retired list of the navy. 

Mr. Lawrence Dade Alexander was born of this parentage in Meade County, Ky., in 1843. 
He attended Washington University, St. Louis, and entered Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, where 
he took his degree. He entered his father's profession and followed him to New York City, 
becoming in 1869 a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He married Orline St. John, a 
daughter of the late Newton St. John, who for nearly a half a century was a prominent banker of 
Mobile, Ala. Among her ancestors was General Bibb, the first Governor of the State of Alabama, 
and Colonel Charles Pope, of Delaware, who was prominent in the Revolution. Mrs. Alexander's 
brother, the late William Pope St. John, was president of a prominent national bank in this city, 
and was known for his contributions to economic science. The late Professor Samuel St. John, 
who for many years held the chair of chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New 
York, was also her cousin. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Alexander have four children, St. John 
Alexander, Lawrence Dade Alexander, Jr., Orline Alexander, and Lucy Dade Alexander, the latter 
being now Mrs. E. A. W. Everitt. 

Mr. Alexander has a partiality for country life, characteristic of the race of Southern gentle- 
folk from which he is descended. He is a member of the University Club and the Southern 
Society. His inclinations are literary, and he has been an enthusiastic and judicious collector of 
books. In both respects, his tastes have a close connection with the sport of angling, in which he 
is an expert. He has been a contributor on this subject to The American Angler and to the work 
on American Sports issued by the Century Company. 

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ETHAN ALLEN 

NEW JERSEY was debatable ground during the War of the Revolution, and some of the 
most important military movements of the Continental forces were within and across her 
borders. In particular, Monmouth County was not only the scene of a famous conflict — 
the battle of Freehold — but throughout the struggle between the Crown and the Colonies, its coast 
was subject to raids by the British land and sea forces. The duty of patrolling its shores became 
one of the most imperative as well as most hazardous tasks of the time and was undertaken by 
some of its patriotic inhabitants. Prominent among them was Captain Samuel Allen, a man of 
wealth and influence in the county, who from his own means raised and equipped a company of 
minute men for this purpose. At their head, he took part in some of the most stirring events of 
the war, and rendered service of the highest value to the patriot cause. When British foes again 
threatened this part of the country, during the War of 181 2, the son of this Revolutionary hero, 
Samuel Fleming Allen, performed a like duty on behalf of his State and country, and the State of 
New Jersey gave deserved recognition of the great value of his military services at that time 
by conferring upon him a State pension that ended only with his death, which occurred in 1882, 
at the ripe age of ninety-one. 

Colonel Ethan Allen, son of Samuel Fleming Allen and grandson of Captain Samuel Allen of 
the Revolution, was born in Monmouth County, in the year 1832. He was graduated from Brown 
University in i860 with high rank, being orator of his class. Adopting the profession of law, he 
thenceforth made New York City his residence, and entered upon an active and successful practice. 
At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was holding the important position of Deputy United States 
District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. His own desire was to enter the army, 
but Mr. Stanton, at that time Secretary of War, appreciated his services in his actual post so highly 
that he refused sanction to his proposed relinquishment of that position. But he was enabled to 
devote himself to the military, as well as the civil, service of the Union, for Governor E. D. Morgan 
commissioned him a Colonel in the recruiting service, in which he rendered efficient aid to the 
Government in the war, recruiting for the army what was then known as the Blair Brigade, named 
after the veteran statesman, Francis P. Blair. 

In 1 86 1, Colonel Allen married Eliza Clagett, daughter of Darius and Providence Brice 
Clagett. Mrs. Allen is a native of the District of Columbia, belonging to one of the most distin- 
guished families in Maryland, or indeed in the country at large, and is a member of the Colonial 
Dames, of that State. One of her remote ancestors was Augustine Heerman, who arrived in New 
Netherland in 1663 and afterwards removed to Maryland, where he became the Lord of Bohemian 
Manor in that Province and the founder of a noted family there. Among the other distinguished 
Maryland families with which she is connected by ties of blood and common descent are the 
Vanderhuydens, Brices, Frisbys, Dorseys and Pacas Tillmans, the name of Clagett having been for 
many generations famous in the same State. Her ancestry also includes such families in other 
States as those of Schuyler, Randolph and Jennings. 

The Allen family residence is in West Fifty-second Street. Mr. Allen belongs to the Union 
League Club, and is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Brown University 
Alumni, and many political, charitable and social organizations. He has traveled extensively in 
Europe, his tours covering all portions of the Continent, among his experiences being a visit to the 
North Cape of Norway and a sojourn in St. Petersburg and Moscow. At the New York bar, he has 
won special distinction for his ability before a jury. Out of the several hundred jury cases that 
he was engaged in during his twenty years or more of active practice, he rarely lost one. Among 
other celebrated cases in which he was retained as counsel was the famous contest growing out 
of the will of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, his associate in this instance being former 
Attorney-General Jeremiah Black. Mr. Allen was chairman of the National Committee of 1872, 
which supported the cause of Horace Greeley for the Presidency of the United States. 

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ASA ALLING ALLING 

INSTANCES are found in the early records where the name of the small and distinguished 
family to which this gentleman belongs is given as both Ailing and Allen. The former 
manner has been adhered to by the American bearers of the name descended from Roger 
Ailing, the Puritan emigrant of 1637. Roger Ailing was the son of James Ailing, or Allen, of 
Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. Espousing Puritan opinions, he left England for Holland, and 
thence went to Massachusetts, removed to New Haven, Conn., and on June 4th, 1639, was a 
signer, in company with Davenport, Doolittle and others, of the historical New Haven Compact. 
He became a man of mark in the community, was an officer of the church, Treasurer of the Colony 
and also a Judge, his name occurring repeatedly in the early history of New Haven, where he died, 
September 27th, 1674. Roger Ailing married Mary Nash, daughter of Thomas Nash, one of the 
first settlers of New Haven, and left a family of seven children. 

Members of the Ailing family have always remained in New Haven and held distinguished 
positions there in the professions, in political life, and in connection with Yale College; John Ailing, 
third son of Roger, having been one of the earlier treasurers of that institution and Judge of 
Probate 1711-17. Two grandsons of the original emigrant, however, removed before the year 
1700 to New Jersey, where their descendants hold a distinguished place and have intermarried with 
the Hornblowers, Bradleys and other families of similar prominence in that State. 

Samuel Ailing, one of the pioneer Roger Alling's sons, was a proprietor of the New Haven 
Colony, and from him Mr. Asa A. Ailing, of New York, is descended through his son, Caleb Ailing. 
The latter, born in 1694, married for his second wife Thankful Mix. His son, Asa Ailing, the first 
of that name, was born in 1723, and married, in 1749, Ann Potter, of New Haven. He removed to 
Nine Partners, now in Dutchess County, N. Y., and thus founded the branch of the family known 
as the Hudson River Allings, which has since intermarried with the Knapps, Thompsons, Huntings 
and other leading families of that section. He had four sons, one of whom was the Reverend 
Abraham Ailing, of Connecticut ; and another, Asa Ailing, second of the name, who was born in 
1 7s 1 and was known as Captain Ailing from his service in the Revolutionary Army. He married 
Jemima Purdy, of Dutchess County, and had two sons and three daughters. One of the latter 
married Colonel Jordan, brother of Ambrose L. Jordan, a leader of the New York bar in his day. 
Asa Ailing, 1789- 1864, third of the name, was a son of the second Asa Ailing. He was a 
Judge in Dutchess County, N. Y., and married Cornelia Sackett in 1816. Their son, J. Sackett 
Ailing, born in 1822, is the father of Mr. Asa A. Ailing. J. Sackett Ailing became a leading 
merchant in New York. In 1855, he married the present Mr. Alling's mother, whose maiden name 
was Anna E. Bertine, a descendant of Pierre Bertine, or Berton, a Huguenot of noble family, 
who, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, came to South Carolina and afterwards to 
Westchester County, N. Y. 

Born of this parentage, in New York City, May 4th, 1862, Mr. Asa A. Ailing was educated 
at public and private schools and entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated Ph. B. 
in 1883. He was ivy orator of his class and won the Woodford prize for oratory. He then passed 
two years in the Law Department of Columbia College; and receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1885, 
was called to the bar in the same year. He has since been engaged in active professional practice 
in this city, and is a member of the firm of Kenneson, Crain & Ailing. Mr. Ailing has taken an 
active part in politics, being prominent in the councils of the Democratic party. 

In 1894, Mr. Ailing married Louise Floyd Smith, a descendant of an old Long Island family 
and of distinguished Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry. Mr. Ailing is a member of the 
Metropolitan, University, Reform, Manhattan, Cornell University, Dutchess County and Democratic 
clubs, having been a governor of the latter. He also belongs to the Bar Association, the West 
End Association, the New England Society, the New York Historical Society and the New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Society. 

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ELBERT ELLERY ANDERSON 

LAWYER, soldier, political economist and publicist, Mr. E. Ellery Anderson has taken a 
prominent part in molding and directing opinion and action on the great public questions 
that have agitated the American people in the closing years of the nineteenth century. He 
is a thorough New Yorker, born in this city October 31st, 1833, and his scholastic temperament 
comes to him as an inheritance from his father, who was a distinguished educator and scientist. 

Professor Henry J. Anderson, M. D., LL. D., the father, was born in 1799. He was 
graduated from Columbia College in 1818, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1823, 
two years later becoming Professor of Mathematics, Analytical Mechanics and Physical Astronomy 
in Columbia College. For eighteen years he held that position, and then resigned on account of his 
wife's health and traveled in Europe. While abroad, he became identified with the Roman 
Catholic Church, and on his return to New York gave much time to the promotion of the interests 
of that ecclesiastical body. He was president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and was on the 
official boards of other church organizations. In 1851, he was elected a trustee of Columbia 
College, and in 1866 was made emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. When the 
American Scientific Expedition went to explore the level of the Dead Sea, Professor Anderson 
accompanied the party and conducted some interesting investigations. In 1875, he went to India 
to explore the Himalayas for ethnological and philosophical discoveries. While there, he was 
stricken with disease and died in October of that year. 

Mr. Anderson traveled in Europe in 1843 with his father, and returning to his studies was 
graduated from Harvard College in 1852. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and has seduously 
applied himself to the practice of his profession ever since. He has had the management of many 
trust estates and has been engaged upon some very celebrated cases. In 1868, he entered into 
partnership with Frederick H. Man, under the firm name of Anderson & Man. The partners have 
handled much litigation with railroads, and one of their most important cases was that in which 
they recovered some two million dollars interest due on bonds of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
Railroad. In 1862, Mr. Anderson went to the front as a Major in a regiment of New York volunteers 
and served until he was captured and returned home under a parole of Stonewall Jackson. Although 
a strong Democrat, he joined in the movement against Tweed in 1871, and did good work in 
helping to overthrow the ring. As a Tammany man, he was for several years chairman of the 
Eleventh District, but in 1879, in company with Abram S. Hewitt, William C. Whitney, Edward 
Cooper and others, he withdrew from that organization and became one of the founders of the 
County Democracy, being for a long time chairman of the general committee. 

Although he has given considerable time to politics, he has never permitted his name to be 
used for any elective public office. He has, however, been a school trustee, and in 1896 was 
appointed a member of the Board of Education. He has also served on the Rapid Transit Com- 
mission, the Croton Aqueduct Commission and the Elevated Railroad Commission. In 1887, 
President Cleveland appointed him on the commission to investigate the Union Pacific and Central 
Pacific railroads, and he prepared the majority report of the commission. He was appointed one of 
the directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company on behalf of the Government, and in 1893 was 
appointed by the United States Court one of the receivers of that corporation. 

It is as an advocate of tariff reform in recent years that Mr. Anderson has made himself best 
known, and has exercised the widest and strongest influence. His services to the Democratic party 
on that issue in the Presidential campaign of 1892 were exceedingly valuable. He was president 
of the Reform Club and chairman of the Tariff Reform Committee, and wrote many papers and 
made many addresses. In the campaign of 1896, he was similarly active for the cause of sound 
money. Mr. Anderson married Augusta Chauncey, and lives in West Thirty-eighth Street. He is 
a member of the Metropolitan, Democratic, University, Reform, Whist and other clubs, and of the 
Bar Association. 

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HENRY BURRALL ANDERSON 

OF ancient Scottish origin, that branch of the Anderson family of which Henry Hill 
Anderson, father of Mr. Henry B. Anderson, was the notable representative in New 
York for nearly fifty years, was long settled in the State of Maine. The grandfather 
of Henry Hill Anderson was the Reverend Rufus Anderson, who was a graduate of Dartmouth 
College and a distinguished clergyman. His grandmother was a cousin of Chief Justice Theophilus 
Parsons, of Massachusetts. Her grandfather was Ebenezer Parsons, of Gloucester, Mass., a trader 
with Indians, often a selectman and a deacon and ruling elder of the First Church. His death 
occurred in 1763. The great-grandfather of Mrs. Rufus Anderson was Jeffrey Parsons, who, near 
the close of the first half of the seventeenth century, sailed from England for the West Indies. 
After remaining some time in Barbadoes, he came to Massachusetts, settling in Gloucester, on Cape 
Ann. He had considerable means and was a successful merchant and also held town office. His 
wife was Sarah Vinson, daughter of one of the first settlers of Gloucester. 

The father of Henry Hill Anderson was the Reverend Dr. Rufus Anderson, who was born 
in North Yarmouth, Me., in 1796, and died in 1880. After being graduated from Bowdoin College 
in 1818, he studied in the Andover Theological Seminary, being graduated therefrom in 1822 and 
ordained a minister two years after. He became the secretary of the American Board of Foreign 
Missions in 1832, holding that position for thirty-four years. For two years following 1867, he 
was a lecturer on foreign missions in the Andover Seminary. He traveled frequently upon 
business of the missionary society, visiting the Mediterranean in 1843, East India in i8s4 and the 
Sandwich Islands in 1863. His numerous publications included many books, principally upon 
subjects relating to missionary work. 

Henry Hill Anderson, who was born in Boston, November 9th, 1827, died in York 
Harbor, Me., in September, 1896. Prepared for college in Phillips Academy, Andover, he was 
graduated from Williams College in 1848, receiving the degree of M. A. in 185 1. He studied law 
in New York and entered the office of Henry E. Davies, then Counsel to the Corporation. 
Entrusted with the defense of many important cases against the city, he was uniformly successful. 

In 1852, he became a partner of the law firm of Willard, Sweeney & Anderson, a professional 
relationship that continued for five years, when, for domestic reasons, he retired and spent some time 
in foreign travel. From 1859 to 1862, he was an assistant to Greene C. Bronson, Counsel to the 
Corporation, and afterwards, with Mason Young and Henry E. Howland, established the firm 
which is now known as Anderson, Howland & Murray. He steadfastly refused proffers of public 
office that were frequently made to him, but in 1871, he was candidate for Judge of the Supreme 
Court, being defeated by Noah Davis. He enjoyed a large and profitable private practice, had 
charge of many corporation interests and was frequently a referee. For many years, he was a 
vestryman of the Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, was one of the founders of the University 
Club and its first president, an office which he held for nine years. His wife, Sarah B. Burrall, 
daughter of William P. Burrall, of Hartford, survives him and lives in Gramercy Park, where the 
New York home of the family has always been. 

Mr. Henry Burrall Anderson, the eldest son of Henry Hill Anderson, was born in New 
York in 1863. Educated in Yale University, he was graduated therefrom in the class of 1885 and 
settled to the practice of law in New York, later becoming a member of the firm of which his father 
was the head. He married Marie W. Larocque, daughter of Joseph Larocque, lives in East Fifty- 
seventh Street and spends the summer in Great Neck, Long Island. He is a member of the 
University, New York and City clubs. William Burrall Anderson, second son of the family, was 
graduated from Yale in 1886 and is also engaged in the practice of law. He married Helen 
Tremain, and lives in Gramercy Park, being a member of the University, City, Lawyers' and 
other clubs. The third son, Chandler P. Anderson, was graduated from Yale in 1887, is also a 
lawyer and a member of the University and City clubs. 



CONSTANT A. ANDREWS 

AMONG the many pioneer expeditions that came from England to the New World in the first 
half of the seventeenth century, that which sailed from London, in the ship Hector, was 
one of the most important as well as one of the most interesting. Under the leadership of 
John Davenport, Samuel Eaton, Theophilus Eaton and several other non-conformist clergymen, 
it was well equipped and its members were men and women of good standing in the communities 
from which they came. The company arrived in Boston, in June, 1637, and remained there for 
several months. Governor Winthrop endeavored to persuade these Colonists to take land in the 
Massachusetts Bay Colony and make their homes there, but they preferred to push further into the 
wilderness, and sent couriers to examine the land along the Connnecticut River and Long Island 
Sound. In 1638, the entire company sailed from Boston and settled the town of Quinnipiac, which 
they afterwards called New Haven. In this expedition, William Andrews was prominent, and 
during the early years of the settlement he was active in the administration of the affairs of the 
community. He was the ancestor of a family which has been notable in many ways in Connec- 
ticut and in New York. His descendants have been successful business men, and have proved 
useful and patriotic citizens in public life. 

Loring Andrews, a descendant of the pioneer William Andrews, was during his lifetime one 
of the leading merchants of New York, and one of the prominent representatives of the great 
business interests in the district known as "the Swamp," where the leather trade of the country is 
centered. He was born in Windham, Greene County, N. Y., January 21st, 1799, and died in New 
York, January 22d, 1875. At fourteen years of age, he entered the service of a tanner, and, remaining 
there for eight years, learned the business thoroughly. He then traveled through the West for a 
couple of years and returned East to engage in business with his former employer, and finally 
became a partner. In 1829, he came to New York. Beginning business with a small capital, before 
long he built up an extensive and successful trade. In 1832, he entered into partnership with William 
Wilson, Gideon Lee and Shepherd Knapp. The firm lost heavily in the panic of 1837, but Mr. 
Andrews remained in business and made another fortune. In 1861, he organized the firm of Loring 
Andrews & Co., which in a few years became one of the most important in its line, con- 
trolling a large number of tanneries. He also owned much real estate in New York. He was a 
benefactor of the University of New York, giving one hundred thousand dollars for professorships 
in that institution, while he also contributed largely to philanthropic causes. He was one of the 
first directors of the Mechanics' Bank, was the first president of the Shoe and Leather Bank, and 
first president of the Globe Life Insurance Company. In 1839, he married Blandina B. Hardenburgh, 
daughter of James B. Hardenburgh, D.D., and had seven children, William L., James B., Constant 
A., Loring, Walter S., Clarence and Isabelle Andrews. 

Mr. Constant A. Andrews, the third son of Loring Andrews, was born in New York City, 
February 25th, 1844. He attended the Columbia College Grammar School and later went to 
Germany to complete his education. After the Civil War, he became a partner with his father, and 
subsequently was engaged with his brother, William L. Andrews, in the same business. In a 
few years, he retired and passed some time in European travel. 

Upon returning from abroad, he organized the banking house of Constant A. Andrews & Co., 
with which he has since been connected, and which has been noted for its conservative policy and 
its connection with legitimate investments. Mr. Andrews has other business associations, being 
president of the United States Savings Bank and a director of the Second Avenue Street Railroad 
Company and of other companies. He was an incorporator and the first treasurer of the Reform 
Club, and was for many years the treasurer of the New York City Mission and Tract Society, and of 
the Charity Organization Society, while he is also a supporter of the American Museum of Natural 
History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He married Mrs. Blanche L. Brewster, daughter of 
the Honorable S. B. H. Vance, of New York, and lives in West Fifty-seventh Street. 



RICHARD ALLARD ANTHONY 

IN 1653, when the government of New Amsterdam was officially organized, five schepens 
were appointed to take charge of the city affairs, their names being Paulus Vander Grist, 
Maximilian Van Gheel, Allard Anthony, Peter Van Couwenhoven and William Beekman. 
Allard Anthony was a man of middle age, rich and influential, the consignee of a firm 
in Holland, with a store in the old church building erected by Wouter Van Twiller. He owned a 
farm in the country, just above Wall Street, and had a city residence, one of the finest private 
buildings of its time, in Whitehall Street. His son, Nicholas Anthony, was afterwards Sheriff of 
Ulster County, and his two daughters were among the most fashionable ladies of New Amster- 
dam. The same year that he was schepen, Allard Anthony went to Holland as a special agent of 
the people of New Amsterdam, to present their affairs to the Amsterdam Chamber, and in 1664, 
he was elected Sheriff of the county, an office which he continued to hold under the administration 
of the English Governor, Colonel Richard Nicolls, and retained until 1673. The Anthony family 
is believed to have been originally of Spanish origin, as its coat of arms is the same as that of 
the old Spanish Antonio family, one member of which, a soldier of the Spanish Conquest, 
remained in Holland and established the Dutch family of Antoni. 

Edward Anthony, the father of the subject of this sketch, was descended in the seventh 
generation from Allard Anthony, the Dutch pioneer. His father was Jacob Anthony, for many 
years one of the principal tellers of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States, and 
cashier of the Bank of the State of New York. Edward Anthony was born in New York, in 1819, 
was a civil engineer by profession, and died in 1888. He was graduated from Columbia College in 
1838, and was in the engineer corps on the original Croton Aqueduct, and afterwards, with 
Professor James Renwick, was engaged in the survey of the northeastern boundary of the United 
States. During this survey, he made some practical use of the new art of photography, and upon 
his return engaged in the business of manufacturing and supplying photographic materials. In 
1842, with his brother, Henry T. Anthony, he organized the firm of E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., 
which in 1877 was reorganized as a corporation, with Edward Anthony as president, a position 
that he retained until the time of his death. 

The mother of Richard A. Anthony, whom his father married in 1848, was Margaretta 
R. Montgomery, a daughter of James Montgomery. She was a direct descendant from the Count 
de Montgomerie, who accidentally killed a king of France in a tournament, in remembrance of 
which event, the arms of the Montgomery family display an arm holding a broken spear. The 
two daughters of Edward Anthony, Jane Kipp and Eleanor Anthony, married respectively Charles 
and Louis Soleliac. 

Mr. Richard Allard Anthony, the only son of Edward Anthony, was born in New York, 
May 24th, 1 86 1. He attended Rutgers College for two years, but finished his collegiate course in 
Columbia College, being graduated from that institution in 1881. After completing his education, 
he entered the business house that his father had established. When his uncle, H. T. Anthony, 
died in 1884, he became secretary of the corporation, upon his father's death in 1888 was 
advanced to the position of vice-president, and in 1896 was elected president, which position he 
now holds. He is a trustee of the United States Savings Bank, and for several years was a 
director of the Second Avenue Railroad. In 1895, Mr. Anthony married Amelia Van Valkenburgh, 
a lady who, like himself, descends from an old New York Dutch family. Mrs. Anthony is the 
daughter of Lawrence H. Van Valkenburgh and his wife, Florence Vandewater. Her paternal 
grandfather was John Lawrence Van Valkenburgh, of Albany, while on the maternal side her 
grandparents were Richard Vandewater, of Mobile, Ala., and his wife, Catherine H. Vandewater. 
Mr. Anthony belongs to the University, Storm King, and Richmond County Country clubs, and is 
a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Holland Society, and the Columbia Alumni 
Association. His residence is in New Brighton, Staten Island. 



DANIEL APPLETON 

APPLETON is a familiar name in the annals of New England. The original members of 
the family came to America early in the seventeenth century, and took a prominent part 
in the work of developing the country and its institutions. Three of the great-grandfathers 
of Colonel Daniel Appleton fought in the Revolutionary War, and two of his grandfathers held 
commissions in the War of 1812. But it is in the more peaceful business and professional occupa- 
tions that the Appletons have won their highest titles to fame, and in that direction they have 
achieved an international repute as one of the great publishing houses of this century. In that 
connection the name has been identified with New York for three generations. 

Daniel Appleton, who founded the house of D. Appleton & Co., was born in Haverhill, 
Mass., December ioth, 1785. Early in life he was a dry goods merchant in his native town, then 
established himself in Boston, and in 1825 came to New York. In this city he began the business 
of book selling in connection with his dry goods store, from which it appears that the practice of 
dealing in dry goods and books in conjunction is not altogether a modern innovation. But Mr. 
Appleton soon gave up the dry goods branch of his establishment, and devoted himself entirely to 
importing and selling books, to which, in the course of time, he added the business of publishing. 
He published his first book, a religious work, in 1831. In 1838, he organized the firm of D. Apple- 
ton & Co., taking his son William H. into partnership, and, later on, three other sons, John A., 
Daniel Sidney and George, came into the firm. Daniel Appleton married Hannah Adams, daughter 
of John Adams, in 18 13, and had five sons. Colonel Daniel Appleton, of the third generation that 
has been identified with the great publishing house, is a son of John Adams Appleton, who was 
born in 181 7 and died in 188 1. He was born in New York, February 24th, 1852, and received his 
early education in the public schools of New York, and at Carlsruhe, Germany, where he studied. 
On his return home from Germany he entered Harvard College, but did not remain to graduate, 
entering upon his duties as a clerk in the Appleton establishment in 1871. Since that time, he has 
been one of the most active members of the firm, and is at the head of its business department, 
having been a partner since 1879. 

Colonel Appleton's inherited military tendencies early manifested themselves. When only 
fifteen years of age, he became a member of the famous Boston Cadet Corps, and drilled and 
camped with that organization for five years. After his return to New York to go into business, he 
was not long out of the ranks. In October, 1871, he enlisted as a private in Company F, Seventh 
Regiment, with which organization he has remained ever since. His military career has been 
notable, extending, as it has, over a period of more than a quarter of a century, and covering a 
wide and valuable experience, and important service to the State on many occasions. In April, 
1873, he was promoted to be Corporal, and in November of the same year was advanced to the 
grade of Sergeant. He was made First Sergeant in March, 1875, and Second Lieutenant in May, 
1876. In January, 1877, he was promoted to be Captain, and during the railroad riots of 1877, was 
on active duty with his company. Under his administration, Company F grew rapidly in mem- 
bership, until it reached the maximum allowed by law, which figure has been maintained, while at 
the same time in military excellence it became one of the best companies of the regiment. When 
Colonel Emmons Clark retired from the Seventh in 1889, Captain Appleton was chosen by a 
unanimous vote of the regiment's officers to succeed him, and has seen much active service, 
particularly upon the occasion of the street railroad riots in Brooklyn. 

Aside from his business and military life, Colonel Appleton has comparatively few interests. 
He is unmarried, and his regimental duties command most of his leisure time. He lives in West 
Seventy-second Street, and at the family country place, Rockhurst, Premium Point, New Rochelle. 
He is, however, a member of the Union, New York Athletic, New York Yacht, Aldine and Riding 
clubs and the Century Association. His mother, who was Serena P. Dale, survived her husband, 
and lives in New York and New Rochelle. 



WILLIAM HENRY ARNOUX 

AMONG the French soldiers who came to America with the forces sent to aid the Colonists 
in their struggle against the British Crown, was Jean B. Arnoux, who was a native of 
L Marseilles. He was a Captain in the army of Count Rochambeau, who, family tradition 
says, was his cousin. When the Revolutionary War came to an end, he decided to remain in this 
country, married one of his own countrywomen, and for a time made his home in Vergennes, Vt. 
Jean B. Arnoux was the grandfather of Judge William H. Arnoux. Gabriel A. Arnoux, 
his son, was born in Vergennes, Vt., in 1805, and died in New York in 18^5. He was a 
successful merchant here from 1824 until his death, and a member of the Garde Lafayette, the 
French military organization of this city. His wife was Ann Kennett, a descendant of Bishop 
Kennett, of England. Her mother was a Whaley, a lineal descendant of General Edward Whaley, 
one of the regicide Judges who signed the death warrant of Charles I. 

Judge William Henry Arnoux was born in New York City, September 8th, 1831. He was 
educated here, and at an early age manifested a marked inclination for study. Hs began to learn 
Latin at eight years of age and Greek at eleven, and when he was fifteen years old was fully 
prepared to enter Princeton College. His father, however, preferred that he should engage in 
business, and he accordingly entered a wholesale cloth house. At the end of four years, his plans 
for the future were changed to accord more with his own wishes and his natural aptitude, and he 
was taken from business and afforded an opportunity to study law. In four years, he passed the 
examination for admission to the bar, and in 18^5 entered into partnership with Horace Holden, in 
whose office he had studied. This firm continued for three years only, and for the following ten 
years, Mr. Arnoux practiced his profession without an associate. In 1868, he became a member 
of the firm of Wright, Merihew & Arnoux, and two years later organized the firm of Arnoux, 
Ritch & Woodford. 

In 1882, there being a vacancy on the bench of the Superior Court of the City and County of 
New York, caused by the resignation of Judge Spier, Governor Alonzo B. Cornell appointed Mr. 
Arnoux to fill the place. The Judgeship was contested by Richard O'Gorman, but the court to 
which the matter was submitted decided in favor of sustaining the Governor's action. Judge 
Arnoux served only for a short term as a Judge, but established a reputation for industry, legal 
learning and judicial ability that placed him in the front rank of his profession. On the termination 
of his service on the bench, Judge Arnoux returned to his law firm and engaged in the active 
practice of his profession until the 1st of January, 1896, when he retired. He has been especially 
noted for the exhaustive manner in which he investigated every case that he undertook. The 
results of one of his most remarkable professional studies of this character which was in connection 
with the elevated railroads, and involved research into the early Colonial history of the State, have 
been published as a valuable treatise upon the settlement of the Dutch Colonists in New 
Amsterdam. Since his retirement from professional labors, he has been engaged in literary 
pursuits, principally of a scientific character. 

Judge Arnoux maintains a lively interest in public matters, is active in all movements for 
governmental reform and for the better administration of municipal affairs, and is connected with 
many benevolent and religious societies of the city. He was one of the founders of the Union 
League Club in the early days of the Civil War, and one of the originators of the Bar Association of 
the City of New York. In 1889-90, he was president of the New York State Bar Association, and 
in 1890 chairman of the committee in charge of the celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the 
establishment of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is past vice-president-general of both 
the National and the State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and vice-president of 
the Society for the Prevention of Crime and of the Church Temperance Society. He belongs to the 
Republican, Church and other clubs, and the New England Society. He married Pauline 
Browne, a descendant of Robert Hicks, the Quaker pilgrim of 1621. 



JOHN JACOB ASTOR 

THE year 1783, which witnessed the British evacuation 01 the city, brought to New York the 
founder of one of its foremost families, in the person of the elder John Jacob Astor, a 
native of the town of Waldorf, in Germany. Only twenty years of age, and without 
capital or connections, he possessed education and ability besides a marked force of character 
which, by the beginning of the century, had made him a leader in. business and a man of fortune. 
Then, as in the Colonial era, the fur trade was one of the chief fields for American enterprise, and 
divining the possibilities the Oregon territory afforded, he established at Astoria, Ore., the first 
permanent American settlement on the Pacific coast. During the War of 1812 he gave effectual aid 
to the government, and was the largest individual subscriber to the United States loans of that 
trying period. His acute judgment convinced him of New York's imperial destiny, and his large 
investments in property in the lines of the city's growth established a policy to which his descend- 
ants adhered, and to which the enormous proportions of their wealth are due. Public spirited and 
charitable in practical ways, John Jacob Astor's memory will always be preserved in New York by 
that noble foundation, the Astor Library, for the establishment of which he left on his death in 1848 
the sum of four hundred thousand dollars. His own chief enjoyment was the society of literary 
friends, among whom were Fitz Green Hallock and Washington Irving. 

John Jacob Astor, the elder, married Sarah, daughter of Adam Todd, of New York, a first 
cousin of Mrs. Henry Brevoort. Their son, William B. Astor, who succeeded to the family estate, 
married Margaret Armstrong, daughter of General John Armstrong, the soldier, statesman and 
author, who served in the Continental Army, taking part as Major in the battle of Saratoga, repre- 
sented New York in the United States Senate, and became Minister to France, and Secretary of War 
during the War of 1812. His wife, the mother of Mrs. William B. Astor, was Alida Livingston, 
daughter of Judge Robert R. Livingston, and sister of the famous Chancellor Livingston. 

The late William Astor, father of the present Mr. John Jacob Astor, was the son of William 
B. Astor and Margaret (Armstrong) Astor. He married Caroline Schermerhorn. daughter of Abraham' 
Schermerhorn and his wife Helen, whose father, Henry White, married Ann Van Courtlandt. The 
Schermerhorn family descends from Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, who settled in New York in 1636, 
and on the side of a maternal ancestress from the famous Willhemus Beekman. 

Mr. John Jacob Astor was born in 1864, at Ferncliff, on the Hudson River. He received 
his education at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and graduated from the scientific department of 
Harvard University in 1888. He traveled extensively both in this country and Europe, one of his 
remarkable experiences being the honor of a personal interview with the Sultan of Turkey. In 1891 
he married Ava Willing, daughter of Edward Shippen Willing, of Philadelphia, and his wife, Alice 
Barton Willing. The Willing family stands high in the Quaker City, descending from Charles 
Willing, who came to America in 1728, and was subsequently Mayor of Philadelphia in 1747 and 
again in 1754. His son, Thomas Willing, was also Mayor in 17S3, a Judge of the Supreme Court 
of Pennsylvania from 1767 to 1777, and first president of the Bank of the United States, and has the 
distinction of having designed the present coat of arms of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. John 
Jacob Astor have one son, William Vincent Astor. 

On the death of his father, in 1892, Mr. Astor succeeded to the bulk of the family estate, and 
has since given his attention largely to the administration of his property. This, however, has not 
prevented him from taking an active interest in business and public affairs. He is a director in many 
financial and other corporations, and was an aide-de-camp with the rank of Colonel on the staff of 
Governor Levi P. Morton. Society and sport have also not been neglected, both Mr. and Mrs. Astor 
being devoted to yachting, golf and other fashionable recreations. He owns the Nourmahal, one of 
the finest steam yachts in the country. A considerable part of each year is spent at his handsome 
Newport residence and his country place on the Hudson. Mr. Astor is a member of nearly all 
the foremost New York clubs, and of the Society of Colonial Wars. 



JOHN W. AUCHINCLOSS 

FOR upwards of a century, the Auchincloss family has been resident in New York, and 
during that time its members have closely identified themselves with the best interests 
of the city, social and commercial. Hugh Auchincloss, of Paisley, Scotland, came to the 
United States about the beginning of the century that is now drawing to a close. He had been a 
thrifty and enterprising merchant in his Scotch home, and after settling in New York, engaged, 
in 1805, in the business of importing dry goods. He was eminently successful, and before he died, 
in 1855, had accumulated a considerable fortune and built up a large and profitable business. 

John Auchincloss, the eldest son of Hugh Auchincloss, is well remembered by the generation 
that is just passing off the scene. He was born in New York in 1810, and early in life entered 
his father's establishment and received a thorough mercantile training. Hugh Auchincloss, the 
younger son, was born in New York City in 18 17. He also entered the paternal business house, 
becoming a partner with his father and elder brother. He was a member of Grace Protestant 
Episcopal Church and a director in several financial institutions, including the Merchants' National 
Bank and the Bleecker Street Savings Bank. His only daughter married Lewis P. Child, of New 
Canaan, Conn., and he died at the home of his son-in-law, in 1890. 

While on a visit to Quebec, Canada, John Auchincloss died there, June 26th, 1876. At that 
time, he was a director of the Merchants' Bank, a trustee of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and 
actively connected with other fiduciary institutions. He was a member of the Fifth Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church nearly all his life, and was a generous contributor to the religious and benevolent 
institutions that are supported by the charitably disposed people of the city. He left a family of 
six sons and two daughters, his wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Buck, being still 
alive at an advanced age. Her city home is in West Fifty-seventh Street, and she has a summer 
residence in Newport. 

The firm founded by Hugh Auchincloss, the first of the name, which down to 1855 
continued to do business under the title of Hugh Auchincloss & Son, held a high position in the 
mercantile community. In 1855, however, its style was changed to John & Hugh Auchincloss, and 
later on it became Auchincloss Brothers, which is its title to-day. For many years the business of 
Auchincloss Brothers has been continued by the third generation of the name in America, John W. 
and Hugh D. Auchincloss, sons of John Auchincloss, who uphold the best traditions of the family 
establishment. The brothers were engaged in the dry goods commission business from 1880 to 
1891, when they retired from that branch of commerce, and have since devoted themselves to 
managing and developing their manufacturing, railroad, mining and other properties. 

Mr. John W. Auchincloss was born in New York, April 12th, 1853, and was educated in 
Yale College, graduating in 1873. He is a director of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and 
a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, the National Safe Deposit Company and other 
institutions. He married Joanna H. Russell, daughter of the late Charles H. Russell, and lives in 
East Forty-eighth Street. His summer home is at Bar Harbor, Me. His clubs are the Metro- 
politan, Union League, University and New York Yacht, the Century Association and the New 
England and St. Andrew's societies. 

Hugh D. Auchincloss, the younger son of John Auchincloss, was born in Newport, R. I., 
July 8th, 1878. He is a graduate from Yale College, in the class of 1879, and belongs to the Yale 
Alumni Association and the University Club. Among the other social organizations of which he is 
a member are the Metropolitan and New York Yacht clubs, the Century Association and the New 
England and St. Andrew's societies. The wife of Hugh D. Auchincloss was Emma B. Jennings, 
daughter of the late Oliver B. Jennings. The New York home of the family is in West Forty-ninth 
Street and their summer residence is in Newport. Mr. Auchincloss is a director in the Farmers' 
Loan & Trust Company, the Bank of the Manhattan Company, the Bowery Savings Bank and 
the Consolidated Gas Company. 



SAMUEL PUTNAM AVERY 

IN Normandy and in England, the Avery family was of high station and members of it were 
prominent in early records prior to the fifteenth century. The Averys of this country belong 
to what is known as the Dedham branch of the family, and trace their descent from the 
Averys of the County of Somerset, England. The arms of that family are: Gules a chevron between 
three besants, or. Crest, two lions' jambs, or., supporting a besant. Their estates were situated in 
the parish of Pill, now Pylle, Somersetshire. 

Robert Avery, the English ancestor of that branch of the family which is now under consider- 
ation, resided near Shepton Mallet, in the Hundred of Whitestone. He had a son William and a 
grandson Robert, and his great-grandson, the son of Robert, was William Avery, of Dedham, 
Mass., who was one of the first of his name to come to the New England Colonies. William 
Avery migrated thither in 1650, with his wife and three children, from Barkham, Berkshire, in 
England. After his settlement in this country, four more children were born to him. He was a 
resident of Dedham for some fifteen years after the settlement of that place, was a large land owner, 
an officer of the militia, and a deputy to the General Court. When the Massachusetts Colony gave 
to the town of Dedham a large tract of land at Deerfield on the Connecticut River, William Avery 
was one of the original proprietors of the grant, which comprised eight thousand acres. In early 
life, he was a blacksmith, but became an educated man, was one of the earliest physicians in the 
Colony, a bookseller in Boston after 1680, and a patron of learning. 

The second son of William, was Robert Avery, who was born in England in 1649, and died 
in 1722. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Job Lane, of Maiden, and when his widow died, in 
1746, she left five children, thirty grandchildren, fifty-two great-grandchildren, and two great- 
great-grandchildren. The Reverend John Avery, the son of Robert Avery, of the second American 
generation, was born in Dedham in 1684, graduated from Harvard in 1706 and was the pastor of 
the first church in Truro, Mass., from 171 1 to the time of his death, in 1754- His wife, Ruth Little, 
was a daughter of the Reverend Ephraim Little, and a great-granddaughter of Richard Warren, 
who came over in the Mayflower. A son of the Reverend John Avery, was John Avery, 171 1- 
1796, who became a merchant of Boston. His son, John, born 1739, who graduated from Harvard 
in 1759, was one of the Sons of Liberty who had their meetings on Washington Street, Boston, 
under the famous Liberty tree. He served for a number of years as Deputy Secretary of Massa- 
chusetts, and as Secretary for twenty-six years, and died in 1806. Another son, from whom the 
subject of this sketch descends, was the Reverend Ephraim Avery, born 17 13, who graduated from 
Harvard in 1731, married, in 1738, Deborah Lothrop, and was the minister at Brooklyn, Conn., 
throughout his life and died there in 1754. 

The Reverend Ephraim Avery, the second of the name and son of the above Reverend 
Ephraim and Deborah (Lothrop) Avery, was born at Brooklyn, Conn., in 1741 ; graduated at Yale 
in 1 76 1, married Hannah Piatt in 1762, taught school at Rye, N. Y. ; received the degree of Master 
of Arts from Kings College, New York, 1767, and died in 1776. John William Avery, eldest son 
of the Reverend Ephraim and Hannah (Piatt) Avery, was born at Rye, N. Y., in 1767. He married 
Sarah Fairchild, of Stratford, Conn., in 1794, and died in 1799. 

Samuel Putnam Avery, second son of John William and Sarah (Fairchild) Avery, was born 
at Stratford, Conn., in 1797, and came to New York in early life. He was a merchant on Catherine 
Street, but afterwards went into the hotel business and became proprietor of the East River 
Mansion House, where he died in 1832. He married, in 1821, Hannah Ann Parke, who survived 
him until 1888, a daughter of Captain Benjamin Parke, who was born in Charleston, R. I., 1766, and 
was in the shipping business in New York. He died 1807, and was buried in Trinity Church yard, 
where his tomb still stands. His daughter, Hannah Ann, was a direct descendant from Richard 
Parke, of London, who came over in 1635, and settled at Cambridge, Mass. ; her grandfather was 
Captain Benjamin Parke, born at Westerly, R. I., 1735, who was at the reduction of Crown Point, 



i 7 56, and at the attack on Fort William Henry. He took part in the Lexington alarm at the open- 

the War of the Revolution, commanded a company of minute men and was mortally 
wounded at Bunker Hill. 

Mr. Samuel Putnam Avery, the second of the name and the oldest child of the elder Samuel P. 
and Hannah Ann (Parke) Avery, was born in New York, March 17th, 1822. In early life, he learned 
the art of copper-plate engraving and was first engaged with a bank note company. He, however, 
turned his attention to engraving on wood, being employed by various newspapers and publishers, 
and compiled several volumes of a humorous nature, also supplying the illustrations. In 1865, he 
added to his business, art publishing and dealing in works of art. Appointed commissioner of the 
American Art Department at the Universal Exhibition of 1867 in Paris, he decided on his return in 
the following year to abandon engraving and engaged in art enterprises on a large scale in Fifth 
Avenue. He became one of the most respected and successful dealers of the country, retiring 
from business in 1888. 

For several years, Mr. Avery filled the post of secretary of the art committee of the Union 
League Club, whose action led to the establishment of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of 
which he became one of the founders and a trustee of continued standing. He is also a trustee of 
the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; is president of the Grolier 
Club, vice-president of the Sculpture Society, honorary member of the Architectural League, and 
of the Typothetae Society. Besides this, he is a member of the Century, Union League, Players, 
City, Tuxedo and other clubs, a member of the Civil Service Reform Association and of the Sons 
of the Revolution, a life member of the American Museum of Natural History, of the American 
Geographical, Historical and the Zoological Society, as well as of the National Academy of Design, 
the Chamber of Commerce, and other bodies. One of the collections of Oriental porcelains in the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art was formed by Mr. Avery and was purchased by his friends and pre- 
sented to the institution. The Avery Architectural Library at Columbia College, now numbering 
about fifteen thousand volumes, was created and endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Avery in 1891 in 
memory of their deceased son, Henry Ogden Avery. Mr. Avery has been a generous contributor 
to various artistic, literary and benevolent institutions of this city. His opinion in matters per- 
taining to the fine arts is regarded as authoritative. 

Columbia College, in 1896, conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts for his services 
to the cause of art and art culture in the United States. The Century Magazine of December, 1896, 
contained an illustrated article on his art services and personal remembrances. On his seventy- 
fifth birthday, March, 1897, a gold medal of artistic design, modeled by Professor Scharff, of 
Vienna, was presented to him by seventy-five leading citizens of New York, as a recognition of 
his various public services. 

The wife of Mr. Avery was Mary Ann Ogden, daughter of Henry Aaron and Katherine 
(Conklin) Ogden, of New York. Her name is associated with benevolent gifts. Their oldest son 
is Samuel P. Avery, Jr., who succeeded his father in business. Another son, Henry Ogden Avery, 
was born in Brooklyn, 1852, and died in New York 1890. He was educated as an architect, 
studied seven years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, lectured and wrote upon architectural 
subjects, and was a most promising and esteemed member of his chosen profession. The other 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Avery are Mary Henrietta Avery, who has been prominent in charitable 
works and is president of the Loan Relief Association; Fanny Falconer Avery, who married the 
Reverend M. P. Welcher; and Ellen Walters Avery, who died in 1893 ana " was a poetess of 
considerable talent. The books which she had collected were presented to the Teachers' College 
by her mother. 

The Honorable Benjamin Parke Avery, who as a mere youth emigrated to California in 
1849, became a prominent editor and was appointed United States Minister to China, by President 
Grant, 1874, dying at Pekin, 1875, was the only brother of Mr. Samuel P. Avery, and Mary 
Rebecca Avery, who became the wife of the Reverend T. De Witt Talmage, and died at Phila- 
delphia in 1861, was his sister. 



SAMUEL D. BABCOCK 

JAMES BABCOCK, the founder of the family of his name in this country, was a native of Essex, 
and was born in 1580. He was one of the earliest and most steadfast Puritans, going to 
Leyden, Holland, and afterwards emigrating to America, with the band of Colonists who 
came to Plymouth in 1623, bringing with him his four children. His second son, Captain 
John Babcock, became a prominent man in the Plymouth Colony and in Rhode Island. He lived in 
Newport and for some ten years dwelt among the Narragansett Indians. Afterwards he settled in 
Westerly, R. I., where he was a justice of the peace and town clerk and owned considerable land. 
His son, Captain James Babcock, born in Westerly in 16^0, who was the first male white child 
born in the Narragansett Colony, was also a man of wealth and influence, being the proprietor 
of a grant of two hundred acres of land. In 1687, he married Elizabeth Babbitt, the ancestress 
of the branch of the family now under consideration. She died in 1730, and afterwards, in 1731, 
he married Content Maxson, daughter of Jonathan Maxson, of a pioneer family of Westerly. 

In the next two generations, members of this family became distinguished in public and 
professional life. The Honorable Joshua Babcock, 1 707-1 783, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. 
Samuel D. Babcock, was both a physician and jurist. He was graduated from Yale College in 
1724, studied medicine in Boston, afterwards going to England to complete his education. He was 
a staunch patriot during the Revolutionary War, giving to the Continental cause valuable service, 
both in military and in civil life. He was Chief Justice of the Colony, several times a member and 
Speaker of the Rhode Island Assembly, and served his fellow-citizens in other positions of trust and 
responsibility. His first wife, the great-great-grandmother of Mr. Samuel D. Babcock, was Hannah 
Stanton, of Pawtucket, R. I., who was descended from Thomas Stanton, one of the earliest settlers 
of the Providence Plantation and a famous Indian interpreter. 

Colonel Henry Babcock, son of the Honorable Joshua Babcock, was born in Westerly, R. I., 
in 1736, and was graduated from Yale College when sixteen years of age. He began a brilliant 
military career before he had attained to his maturity. In the French and Indian War, he was 
Captain of a company of infantry. He was at the battle of Lake George, in 1755, captured Baron 
Dieskau, the French commander, and for his bravery was promoted to be Major. At the age of 
twenty-one, he was a Colonel and the following year commanded the Rhode Island regiment in 
Abercrombie's expedition against Ticonderoga. Afterward he spent a year in England, and when 
the War of the Revolution broke out was appointed Commander of the Continental forces of Rhode 
Island. After the war, he engaged in the practice of law. His wife was Mary Stanton, daughter 
of Robert Stanton, who came of the same family as his mother. Colonel Babcock left two sons, 
Paul and Dudley Babcock. The younger son had one daughter, who married Phineas Stanton. 
The elder son left several male descendants, and it is through them only that the male line of 
Colonel Henry Babcock's family has been preserved. 

Mr. Samuel D. Babcock, the prominent representative of this interesting family in the present 
generation, was born in Rhode Island and removed to New York at an early age. He has been 
connected with large business enterprises, particularly railroad corporations, having been president 
of, and otherwise active, in the management of several companies. He lives in upper Fifth Avenue, 
and has a country seat at Riverdale-on-Hudson. His only son, Henry D. Babcock, was graduated 
from Columbia College in 1868, and married Anna M. Woodward. Their children are Samuel 
D., Woodward and Alice W. Babcock. He is a member of the firm of Hollister & Babcock, and 
belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, University, Riding, Rockaway Hunt, Larchmont Yacht 
and New York Yacht clubs, and the Sons of the Revolution. Mr. Samuel D. Babcock is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Union, Manhattan and New York Yacht clubs, the Downtown 
Association, the Country Club of Westchester County, the Century Association, the New England 
Society and the American Geographical Society, and is a supporter of the National Academy of 
Design, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 



JULES SEMON BACHE 

AN intimate connection has always existed between the social world of New York and 
its great financial and business interests. The founders of the leading families of the 
city during the Colonial epoch and the early part of the present century were, almost 
without exception, successful and energetic men of business, actively engaged in trade, finance 
or in one of the learned professions. Mr. Bache is personally an exemplar of the fact that 
this honorable tradition of the great commercial city is still in full force and effect. One of 
the most prominent men of affairs among the younger generations of society people, he is 
successful and popular in both relations. 

Mr. Jules S. Bache was born in this city on November 9, 1861. His father, Semon Bache, 
was an eminent and wealthy merchant, who was the founder of a house which took rank 
under his guidance as one of the largest importing establishments in the United States, if not 
in the world. The firm of Semon Bache & Co. has now been in successful existence for over 
half a century. Mr. Bache's mother, the wife of Semon Bache, and born Elizabeth Von Praag, 
was a native of this city. 

After an academic education at the Charlier Institute, New York, and at schools in 
Europe the subject of this sketch entered the banking profession, which he has pursued with 
the aid of inherited business ability and natural financial talent, being at present at the head of 
a large financial and banking firm bearing his own name, and is naturally a leading figure in 
Stock Exchange and banking circles. He has been intimately associated during his career with 
most of the prominent leaders of cotemporary finance and business, and has a wide circle of 
distinguished friends, not only in that connection, but socially as well. Mr. Bache has also 
taken an active and prominent part in a number of large and important financial transactions. 
Among other incidents of this character was the reorganization of the Distillers' and Cattle 
Feeders' Company, he having been one of the leaders in the movement to protect the shareholders 
of that corporation, and a member of the committee by which its involved affairs were 
adjusted and the company successfully reorganized as the American Spirits Manufacturing 
Company, in the board of directors of which Mr. Bache is a leading member and also holds 
the office of vice-president. Mr. Bache has also been intimately connected with several other 
prominent railroad and industrial corporations and has manifested the possession of financial 
talents of a high order. 

In 1892 Mr. Bache was united in marriage to Florence R. Sheftel, daughter of Adolph 
Sheftel, a retired merchant and capitalist long a resident of New York, and identified with the 
managements of some of the most prominent financial and charitable institutions of the city. 
Mr. and Mrs. Bache have two daughters, Hazel Joy and Kathryn King Bache. 

The family residence is No. 13 East Sixty-fourth Street. Their country seat is Arsdale 
Manor, Wilson Park, Tarrytown-on-Hudson, an estate which includes on its grounds the spot 
on which Major Andre was arrested by the American soldiery and where the tragedy of his 
fate began. He also has a mountain place at Camp Winona, on Upper Saranac Lake, N. Y. 
Mr. Bache has traveled both in this country and in Europe and is a member of the New York 
Club, the Suburban Riding and Driving Club and the Liederkranz. 

His own tastes and those of Mrs. Bache lean in the direction of art. Among the many 
paintings which he has brought together, are examples by Henner, Lesrel, Meyer Von Bremen, 
Schenck, Berne, Weiss and Schreger; the higher types of German art being particularly 
represented among his collection. It also includes a Napoleon by David, and with the other 
artistic treasures which he has gathered here and in Europe, is an interesting collection of 
miniatures of historical personages, particularly those of English and French beauties and 
celebrities of the preceding century, which ranks with the finest collections of a similar character 
in the country. 



BRADY ELECTUS BACKUS, D.D. 

WILLIAM BACKUS, from Norwich, England, was a settler at Saybrook, Conn., and a 
founder in 16S9 of Norwich, in the same Colony. His son, also named William, 
born at Saybrook, in 1640, became a lieutenant, committeeman and deputy to the 
General Court 1680-93, and was an original patentee of Norwich and one of the company 
which, in 1678, obtained the grant of Windham, Conn. His wife, Elizabeth Pratt, was daughter 
of Lieutenant William Pratt, who came to Saybrook in 1633. The Pratt ancestry is traced to 
Sir William de Pratellis, a knight of Richard Cceur de Lion. 

The son of William Backus the second was John Backus, 1661-1744, who married Mary 
Bingham; and John Backus, Jr., their son, 1698-1769, moved, about 1737, to Woodbury, Conn. 
His wife was Sybil, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Whiting and his wife, Elizabeth Adams. 
Her father, the first minister of Windham, was the son of the Reverend John Whiting, a graduate 
of Harvard College in 16^3, and Chaplain in King Philip's War, and her grandfather, Major William 
Whiting, who settled at Hartford in 1632, was Treasurer of Connecticut. Her mother, Elizabeth 
Adams, was a daughter of the Reverend William Adams and his wife, Alice Bradford, grand- 
daughter of Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth. 

Delucena Backus, great-grandfather of Brady E. Backus, was the son of John and 
Sybil Backus and was born at Woodbury, in 1744. He became a prominent member of the 
Masonic body, married Electa, daughter of Captain Abner Mallory, and died at Athens, N. Y., 
181 3. Lieutenant-Colonel Electus M. Backus, their son, born at Woodbury, in 1765, served in 
the Army of the Revolution when a lad, became a Captain in the United States Army, Major in 
1808 and Lieutenant-Colonel the following year, and served also in the State Militia as Captain 
and Major. He commanded the American forces at Sackett's Harbor when it was attacked by 
the British, in 18 13, and was slain defending it, being one of the officers whose deaths are 
commemorated by the monument there. He married Sabra, daughter of Nathan Judson, and 
one of his sons, Electus Backus, born in 1804, graduated at West Point in 1824, served in the 
Seminole and Mexican wars, was Colonel of the Sixth United States Infantry, and married 
Mary, daughter of General Hugh Brady, U. S. A. His elder brother, Augustus Backus, 1802- 
1866, was the Reverend Dr. Backus's father. He was in early life Professor of Music in the Emma 
Willard Seminary, at Troy, N. Y., and afterwards engaged in business in Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Dr. Backus's maternal descent is also distinguished. His mother was Martha Cordelia 
Mann, daughter of Judge Benning Mann, 1781-1863, of Hartford, Conn., whose wife was his 
cousin, Phcebe Mann, daughter of Andrew Mann, 1755-1846, a Captain in the Revolutionary 
Army. Captain Mann's mother was Margaret Peters, daughter of John Peters, of Hebron, 
Conn., and a sister of the Reverend Dr. Samuel Peters, rector of St. Peter's Church, Hebron, 
Conn., and who was elected first Bishop of Vermont. The Peters family were descended from 
Sir John Peters, of Exeter, 1509, whose grandsons came to New England in 1634. 

Born at Troy, in 1839, Dr. Brady Electus Backus was educated at Grand Rapids, Mich., 
was admitted to the bar and practiced law till 1866. He then entered Trinity College, being 
a member of the ¥ T fraternity, was graduated in 1870, and also from the General Theo- 
logical Seminary, New York, in 1873, becoming in the latter year assistant minister of St. 
Peter's Church, New York, and in 1874 rector of Christ Church, Cooperstown, N. Y. Since 
1876 he has been rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, New York. In 1881, Nebiaska 
College conferred on him the degree of D.D. He is a member of the New England Society, 
the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Colonial 
Wars, the Society of the War of 181 2 and the Washington Guards, and has been vice-president 
of the Trinity College Alumni of New York. In 187s, Dr. Backus married Annie Taylor, their 
surviving children being Cordelia M. Backus and Electus T. Backus. His city residence is 360 
West Twenty-eighth Street, and his country place is at Ridgefield, Conn. 



J. BAYARD BACKUS 

THE Backus and Walworth families of New York have always occupied a prominent 
position in the social and political history of the State, while the name of Chester is one 
that occurs throughout the history of Connecticut. It is this Colonial and Revolutionary 
blood which is represented by the subject of these paragraphs. In addition, Mr. Backus is one 
of the few Americans who can trace their descent to royalty on both the paternal and maternal 
sides in distinct and separate lines, as is displayed in full in Browning's work on Americans of 
Royal Descent, which volume sets forth in detail the right of the Backus family to such distinction. 

Mr. Backus was born at Schenectady, September 20th, 1853. His father, the Reverend 
Jonathan Trumbull Backus, D.D., LL.D., of Schenectady, N. Y., was one of the prominent 
Presbyterian divines of the United States. A graduate of Columbia College, he was famous for his 
piety, learning and eloquence. He was for many years a trustee of Union College, Schenectady, 
N. Y., and at the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America, held at Philadelphia, in 1870, 
occupied the distinguished position of moderator, it being the first General Assembly held after a 
permanent union between the Old and New School bodies of the Church had been agreed upon. 
That happy result was largely due to the personal influence of such men as Dr. Backus. His wife, 
the mother of the gentleman we are considering, was Ann E. Walworth, a daughter of the 
Honorable Reuben Hyde Walworth, of Saratoga Springs, the last of the Chancellors of the State 
of New York, and one of the most eminent lawyers who ever occupied that high office, and a 
jurist whose decisions are cited in every State of the Union. 

The father of the Reverend Jonathan Trumbull Backus and paternal grandfather of the 
present Mr. Backus of New York, was Eleazer Fitch Backus, who married Elizabeth Chester, a 
daughter of Colonel John Chester, a Revolutionary hero and a friend and trusted officer of General 
Washington, and a granddaughter of General Huntington. Colonel Chester, who was one of the 
wealthiest citizens of Connecticut, was an ardent patriot at the outbreak of the war against the 
mother country. He raised, and at his own expense equipped, a company of Connecticut troops, 
at the head of which he served throughout the Revolution. His command was noted for its 
discipline and efficiency. General Humphrey referred to it as the "Elite Corps of the (Con- 
tinental) Army," and it was spoken of in Sweet's History in the following terms : "Chester's 
company was by far the most accomplished body of men in the whole American Army." He 
was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in Trumbull's historical painting of that famous 
engagement is depicted in a prominent position close to the dying General Warren, whom he 
supports in his arms. The genealogy of the Chester family has been delineated with unusual 
accuracy and completeness, several extended monographs on it having appeared in the various 
publications devoted to these subjects. Among the illustrious dignitaries who are found in Mr. 
Backus's direct ancestral line were Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth, who stands to him 
in the relation of a seventh great-grandfather. Another is Governor John Haynes, Governor of 
both Massachusetts and Connecticut. A third was Governor Thomas Welles, of Colonial Con- 
necticut, with many other worthies of the same type and age. 

Mr. Backus was graduated from Union College, and adopted the law as his profession. In 
1877, he married Cornelia N. Price, daughter of Joshua C. Price, of Rockingham County, 
Va., a lady whose family is well known in Virginia and Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Backus have 
one daughter, Elizabeth Chester Backus. Foreign travel has occupied a portion of Mr. Backus's 
leisure. He was one of the original members of the University Athletic Club, is a member of the 
Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, the New England Society, the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is a fellow of the American Geographical Society. He was one 
of the seven incorporators of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, is at present an active member 
of its Board of Assistants, and takes a warm interest in the organizations designed to nourish a love 
for the patriotic traditions of our country. 

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AUSTIN P. BALDWIN 

ENGLISH blood mingled with that of the Dutch founders of New Netherland produced 
the race to which New York owes much of its preeminence in the country at large. 
The same strain has also been dominant from the outset in the city's social organization. 
Furthermore, each generation of this typical New York stock attracts to and reinforces itself with 
the best elements from every part of the land. 

A striking and pertinent example of these interesting facts is furnished by the history of the 
Baldwin family. The name has long been familiar alike in the history of New York and that of 
Connecticut, many of its bearers having been prominent in Colonial, as well as in later days, in 
both political life and in professional and commercial pursuits. The New York branch of the 
family was, at the beginning of the present century, well represented by Enos Baldwin, who 
married Mary Parker, a native of Cavendish, Vt. Their son, Austin Baldwin, the first of that 
name, born in Albany, N. Y., became an eminent merchant in that city and a leader in politics. 
He was an adherent of the old Whig party and an associate of Henry Clay and the other leading 
men of the same political faith. He became a prominent figure in the higher councils of his 
party, frequently held office, was appointed to a position of national responsibility by President 
William Henry Harrison, and also served in the Assembly, becoming its Speaker. 

In 1829, he married Julia Clarissa Huyck, daughter of Colonel John Van Heusen Huyck and 
his wife, Clara (Radcliffe) Huyck. She was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., and descended on both sides 
from the oldest and most influential families of Colonial antecedents in the river counties of the 
State, her near relatives including such prominent names as Radcliffe, Van Ness, Dewitt, Van 
Hovenburg, Kip, Van Wagener, Van Heusen, Hogeboom and Schermerhorn. Her mother was a 
daughter of General William Radcliffe, an officer of the Revolutionary Army. One of her brothers 
was Jacob Radcliffe, who became a Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and was Mayor of 
the City of New York for two terms, in 1810-1 1 and again in 181 5-18, and was one of the leading 
figures in the political life of his day in New York. Another brother was Peter W. Radcliff, who 
was also a distinguished lawyer and active in politics, being a State Senator and Judge of the King's 
County Court. Few among the early settlers of this State held a more distinguished position or 
were more useful and patriotic citizens than the Radcliffs, descended from Joachim Radcliffe, 
one of the earliest settlers. 

Mr. Austin P. Baldwin is the son of Austin and Julia Clarissa (Huyck) Baldwin, and was 
born in New York in 1834. He was educated in Middletown, Conn., and entered business in early 
life, becoming an enterprising and successful merchant. He married Alice Bradford, of Providence, 
R. I., a member of a family whose lineage includes some of the most notable names in the 
Colonial and Revolutionary history of the New England States. Mrs. Baldwin is a direct 
descendant of Governor William Bradford, one of the leaders of the Mayflower Pilgrims, Governor 
of the Plymouth Colony and the earliest historian of the Puritan settlement in America. Another 
of her ancestors in a direct line is Captain Miles Standish, 1 584-1656, famous in New England 
tradition as the first commissioned military officer of the Colonists, and immortalized by the 
greatest of American poets. He was also the founder of Duxbury, Mass., and the magistrate of 
that town until his death. The erection, in 1872, of the monument to the memory of Miles 
Standish, at Duxbury, was due to a movement in which Mrs. Baldwin's father took an 
active part. 

Mr. Baldwin resides m West Thirty-second Street. His children are Standish Bradford, 
Austin Radcliffe, and Alice Maud Baldwin. His son, Austin R. Baldwin, was graduated from 
Yale University in the class of 1886. Mr. Baldwin has traveled extensively, having made more 
than thirty visits to Europe. In 1896, accompanied by his children, he made a trip to Japan. 
He is a member of the Union League Club, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Downtown 
Association. 



GEORGE VAN NEST BALDWIN 

EVEN before the Norman Conquest, the name of Baldwin occurs in English history. It 
was borne by several noble families of France and Normandy, while it was also the 
appellation of the ancient counts of Flanders. In later times, there were several 
families of the landed gentry bearing the name in England and Normandy. The American 
Baldwins trace their descent to Richard Baldwin, of Bucks County, England, one of a family 
which possessed estates in that locality. The most eminent Baldwin of Bucks County was Sir 
lohn Baldwin, Chief Justice of England from 1536 until his death, in 1546. Richard Baldwin, of 
Donrigge, as the name appears in the records, was of the parish of Aston Clifton, Bucks County, 
where he died about 1552. His son Richard was born about 1530 and died in 1630. Three 
sons of this second Richard Baldwin, Nathaniel, Timothy and Joseph, came to this country early 
in the seventeenth century. 

Joseph Baldwin was born in Cholesbury, arrived in New England soon after 1620, 
and lived in Milford, Conn., where he is recorded among the first settlers in 1639. ^ e 
remained in Milford nearly a quarter of a century, but about 1663 joined a company of pioneers, 
who pushed further west to the banks of the Connecticut River. He settled in Hadley, Mass., 
and became a freeman of that place in 1666. He was married when he came to this country, 
and his second wife, whom he married here, was Isabel Northam, who died in 1676. After- 
wards he married Elizabeth Hitchcock, who died in 1696, he having already died in 1684. In 
the second generation, Jonathan Baldwin, of Milford, 1649-1739, was a man of prominence. 
His first wife, the ancestress of the subject of this sketch, was Hannah, daughter of John 
Ward. His second wife was Thankful Strong, daughter of the famous Elder John Strong, of 
Northampton, Mass., who was the American founder of a family that became one of the largest 
and most influential in the annals of Colonial New England. 

John Baldwin, son of Jonathan Baldwin, was born in Milford in 1688, and removed to 
New Jersey with other families from Milford, who established a settlement called Connecticut 
Farms, in remembrance of their former home; there he died in 1773. In tne next generation, 
the ancestors of Mr. George Van Nest Baldwin were Ezekiel Baldwin, 1719-1805, and his wife, 
Sarah Baldwin, who was his cousin, a daughter of Benjamin Baldwin. Ezekiel Baldwin was 
a soldier of the Revolutionary Army, serving in the New Jersey forces. Jotham Baldwin, his 
son, was born in 1765 and died in 1854. His wife, Joanna Baldwin, was a cousin, being the 
daughter of Nathan Baldwin. The Reverend Eli Baldwin, D. D., their son and father of the 
gentleman referred to in this sketch, was born in 1791 and became an eminent divine of the 
Dutch Reformed Church. His wife, Phoebe Van Nest, came of the old Dutch family of that 
name. Her grandfather, George Van Nest, served during the Revolutionary War as Captain in the 
First Battalion of the New Jersey Line. After the war, he was a resident of Somerset County, 
N. J., and a large landowner. Mr. Baldwin's grandfather, Abraham Van Nest, was a wealthy 
New York merchant, and owned a country seat in Greenwich Village. 

Mr. George Van Nest Baldwin was educated in private schools in New Brunswick* N. J., 
and was graduated from Rutgers College in 1856, and from the Law School of Columbia College 
in i860, taking first honors there. Admitted to practice in New York, he has since pursued 
his profession with distinction and success, and is a leading member of the bar. His attention 
has been largely given to the law of trusts, and in that branch of practice he is a recognized 
authority. In late years his practice has been largely as consulting counsel and in the manage- 
ment of estates. He has been a member of the Bar Association since its foundation, and is 
also a member of the Metropolitan and Union clubs and of the Century Association and the St. 
Nicholas Society. He was one of the founders of the University Club, was its first vice- 
president, afterwards president, and for many years a member of its council. He is also a trustee 
of the Society Library and belongs to many other literary and social organizations. 

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MISS MARY E. C. BANCKER 

THE Bancker family has been prominently represented in New York history from the earliest 
Colonial days. Members of it have at all times been numbered among the leading citizens 
of the Metropolis and the State, and they have intermarried with such families as the de 
Peysters, Rutgers, Henrys and others. The family was of Dutch origin, and the coat of arms to 
which it is entitled and which are borne by its American representatives was given in 1448 to four 
brothers, Admirals in the Dutch Navy. 

Gerrit Bancker came from Holland about 1656. He was a native of Amsterdam, where he 
left a brother, Willem, who, according to the records, was living as late as 1700. Soon after 
arriving in New Amsterdam, Gerrit Bancker went to Beverwyck (Albany), where he engaged in 
business as a trader. He owned considerable real estate in various parts of that village, and 
was one of the fifteen proprietors of Schenectady. His wife was Elizabeth Dircks, a daughter 
of Dirck Van Eps and Maritje Damens. After his death, his widow removed to New York, 
where she died in 1693, being at that time the owner of houses and lands in Schenectady, 
Albany, Catskill and New York, besides a large amount of personal property. 

Evert Bancker, the second of the family name in this country, was the oldest son of Gerrit 
Bancker, and was born in 1665. His sister, Anna, became the wife of Johannes de Peyster, Mayor 
of New York. Evert Bancker was a merchant of Albany, and was held in high esteem by his 
fellow colonists, who elected him to many important offices. He was Justice of the Peace in 1692 
and Mayor of Albany 1695-6 and 1707-9. His wife was Elizabeth Abeel, daughter of Stoffer Janse 
Abeel. He died in 1734, his wife having departed only a few months previously. The children of 
Evert and Elizabeth (Abeel) Bancker were Gerardus, Neeltje, Gerardus second, Elizabeth, Gerrit, 
Lansing, Christopher, Anna, Willem, Jannetje, Adrianus, Gerardus third, Anna second, Johannes, 
and Johannes second. Three of the sons of this family, Christopher, who was born in 1695, 
Adrianus and Gerardus, settled in New York, Christopher and his son Christopher, who was born 
in 1732, being the direct ancestors of Miss Mary E. C. Bancker. The Bancker homestead stood for 
many years on the site of the Bank of America in Wall Street. Evert Bancker, the great-grand- 
father of Miss Bancker, was one of the Committee of One Hundred appointed to govern the City of 
New York during the Revolution, 1779-1782. In June, 1776, he and Comfort Sands constituted 
the committee to make statement to Congress of all the cargoes of vessels in port and of the 
amount of lead and powder in stock. Afterwards he was a member of the Assembly and Speaker 
of the House. Gerard Bancker was Treasurer of the State in 1789, and held that office until after 
1798. In 1784, Abraham B. Bancker was elected clerk of the State Senate, to succeed Robert 
Benson, who had been the clerk through six preceding sessions. Abraham B. Bancker was also 
one of the early Regents of the State University. 

The Banckers owned for many generations a large tract of land in the vicinity of Bancker, 
afterwards Madison Street, adjoining the Roosevelt property, from which Roosevelt Street received 
its name. They were then among the largest land owners in the city. The men of the family 
were lawyers and merchants, and were often aldermen, when to be an alderman was regarded as 
one of the greatest civic honors that could be bestowed. In every generation they held seats in the 
Assembly and the Senate of the State Legislature. 

Miss Mary E. C. Bancker is the daughter of the late Josiah Hook Bancker and his wife, Mary 
Elizabeth Henry, daughter of Michael Henry, a famous New York merchant, born in New York 
City, in 1784. He was a merchant on Water Street, and afterwards proprietor of the New York 
Gallery at 100 Broadway, one of the first establishments devoted to the exhibition of paintings and 
fine arts in New York. The paternal grandfather of Miss Bancker was John Bancker, and her 
maternal great-grandfather was John Sinclair Henry, a merchant of the eighteenth century, 
Commissary General of United States Army from 1776 to close of the war, and one of the founders 
of the New York Stock Exchange. Miss Bancker makes her home at Englewood, N. J. 



DAVID BANKS 

DAVID BANKS, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Newark, N. J., in 1786 and 
died in New York in 1871. His early education was outlined with a view to his prepara- 
tion for the legal profession, and when he was twenty years old he began the study of 
law in New York in the office of Charles Baldwin, whose partner he afterwards became. He was 
more thoroughly identified, however, with the business of publishing law books, than he was with 
active practice at the bar. In 1804, h's attention was turned to the pressing need for more and 
better law books than were then procurable in this country. He formed a partnership with Stephen 
Gould, under the name of Banks & Gould, thus founding the publishing firm which has now been 
in existence for very nearly a century, and is the oldest law publishing house in the United States. 

Apart from his business, Mr. Banks was one of the popular and active men of his day. He 
took considerable interest in municipal affairs, and held the office of alderman and assistant 
alderman for nearly ten years, and during part of that time was president of the Board of Aldermen. 
During the latter years of his life, he was president of the East River Bank. His ancestors were of 
old Revolutionary stock. David Banks, his father, was a distinguished Revolutionary soldier who 
fought bravely throughout the entire struggle for independence and was a trusted soldier of 
General Washington, being one of the party which made that famous winter passage across the 
Delaware before the battle of Trenton. His uncle was the Right Honorable Sir Joseph Banks, for 
many years president of the Royal Society of England, and a companion of Captain James Cook 
on that explorer's first voyage around the world in 1768. He was an eminent patron of literary 
and philosophical writers, and personally engaged in many important researches in natural history 
in Newfoundland, Iceland and elsewhere. His expedition to Iceland in company with his friend, 
Dr. Solander, was one of the most important and fruitful scientific enterprises of the eighteenth 
century. Sir Joseph Banks was born in 1743, was created a Knight of the Bath in recognition of 
his services to the cause of science, and died in 1820. 

During his long life, David Banks, Sr., was intimately associated with all the great political 
leaders of his day, numbering among his friends such men as ex-Governors Wright and Marcy, 
Chancellors Kent and Walworth, Judges Sanford and Samuel Jones, Chief Justice Nelson and 
President Martin Van Buren. He married early in life Harriet Breneck Lloyd, daughter of Paul B. 
Lloyd, of the old New York family of that name. 

The present Mr. David Banks, his son, was born in New York, December 25th, 1827. He 
entered the publishing house of his father at an early age, and in time succeeded to the position of 
head of the establishment. He has been connected with many financial and social institutions, 
and is a vice-president of the East River National Bank, of which institution his father was the first 
president. By virtue of his ancestry, he is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of 
Veterans of 1812, while he was the last Captain of the Old City Guard and is an honorary member 
of the Old Guard. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and a commander of the 
Society of Foreign Wars. His club memberships include the Union, Manhattan, New York, 
Lawyers', St. Nicholas and City clubs. A devoted yachtsman, he owns the Water Witch and has 
been commodore of the Atlantic Yacht Club, belonging also to the New York Yacht Club and the 
Atalanta Boat Club. Naturally a patron of science and literature, he is a member of the American 
Geographical Society and the American Museum of Natural History, a member of the Council, and 
also a member of the building, library and law committees of the New York University. His 
residence is in West Fortieth Street. 

The wife of Mr. Banks was Lucetta G. Plum, daughter of the late Elias Plum, of Troy. Their 
daughter is Lucetta P. Banks, and their son David Banks, Jr. The latter is a graduate of Columbia 
University and is engaged in the law publishing business with his father. He is a member of the 
Calumet and A * clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, the Society of Colonial Wars and the Sons of the 
Revolution. 

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THEODORE MELV1N BANTA 

UNDER the title, A Frisian Family, Mr. Theodore M. Banta has published an interesting 
account of the family of which he is a representative. The name of Banta is a very 
ancient one, and in Kemble's The Saxons in England, it is recorded as having been borne 
as early as 738 A. D. by a sub-king of Kent. Epke Jacobse Banta was the ancestor of the race 
in this country, the name of Epke being the Frisian equivalent of Egbert, while Jacobse 
signifies son of Jacob. This founder of the Banta family in the United States came from 
Harlingen, a seaport of the Province of Friesland, and arrived in New Netherland, in 1659, 
in the ship De Trouw, being accompanied by his wife and five sons. Settling near Flushing, 
Long Island, he removed to Bergen, N. J., ten years later, where, in 1679, he was one of the 
Judges of Oyer and Terminer. 

In 1681 he purchased a large tract in Hackensack, N. J., and with his sons was among the 
earliest settlers in that section. His son Hendrick was one of the deacons of the Dutch Reformed 
Church in Hackensack, when it was organized in 16 16. Cornelius Epke Banta, probably the 
eldest son of Epke Jacobse, was born in Holland in 1652, his first wife being Jannetje, daughter 
of Jan De Pre and Jannetje De Ruine, who was baptized in New Amsterdam in 1662. He 
died in May, 17 19. 

Jacob Banta was the son of Cornelius Epke Banta by his second wife, Magdalena Demarest, 
and was born in 1702. His son, Cornelius Banta, who was born May 7th, 1730, and died in 1812, 
was a Chosen Freeholder for Hackensack township in 1800. By his second wife, Hendrickye 
Outwater, a daughter of Jacob Outwater, Cornelius Banta had several children, among them the 
grandfather of Mr. Theodore Melvin Banta, Jacob Banta, who lived in Winkleman, now Bogota, 
on the east side of the Hackensack river, opposite Hackensack, where he inherited a large 
amount of land from his father. In 1816 and in 1817, he was a member of the Assembly of the 
State of New Jersey from Bergen County, and in 1819 was elected Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas. He died in 1844. His wife was Wintje, daughter of Jacob H. Zabriskie. 

Albert Zabriskie Banta, the father of Mr. Theodore Melvin Banta, was born in Hackensack. 
He was a manufacturer in New York, and had a large establishment in Catherine Street, near 
East Broadway, in 1832. In 1837, he removed to Augusta, Ga., where he continued in 
business, and while there he held a commission as Lieutenant in the Georgia militia. Returning 
to New York, in 1841, he again engaged in business there until his death, in i8s4- The wife of 
Albert Zabriskie Banta was Sarah Ann Sayre, of Essex County, N. J. Her father, Calvin Sayre, 
was a descendant of Thomas Sayre, who came from Bedfordshire, England, in 1636 to Lynn, 
Mass., and was one of the founders of the town of Southampton, Long Island, in 1641. The 
mother of Sarah Ann Sayre was Mary Dickerson, a descendant of Philemon Dickerson, who was 
also one of the founders of Southold, Long Island, in 1641. 

Mr. Theodore Melvin Banta was born in New York, November 23d, 1834. He entered 
the College of the City of New York at its first session, in 1849, ar, d completed a two-years' course 
of study. For several years he was engaged as an accountant, and in 1858 took charge of the actuarial 
work of the New York Life Insurance Company, becoming, in 1863, cashier of that corporation. 
He belongs to the St. Nicholas Society, the Huguenot Society, the New York Historical Society, 
the Society of Colonial Wars, the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, the Long Island 
Historical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, the New York Genealogical and Biographical 
Society, the American Geographical Society and the Holland Society, of which he has been 
secretary since 1891. He also belongs to the Reform and Twilight clubs. He is a member of the 
Baptist Church, and has been president of the Baptist Social Union of Manhattan and treasurer of 
the Baptist Social Union of Brooklyn. In 1862, he married Cornelia Crane. Mr. and Mrs. Banta 
have had three children, of whom two daughters, May and Effie Banta, survive and are graduates 
of Wellesley College. 



AMZI LORENZO BARBER 

MORE than half a century ago, when the country was stirred to the depths on the slavery 
question, the trustees of the Lane Theological Seminary, in Cincinnati, O., interdicted the 
discussion of the subject in that institution. Several of the students, resenting this sup- 
pression of free thought and free speech, left the seminary, and journeyed across the State of 
Ohio to Oberlin College, where such privileges were not denied, and continued their studies there. 
In this band of liberty-loving young men was Amzi Doolittle Barber, who graduated from Oberlin 
Theological Seminary in 184 1, and became a Congregational clergyman, settled for many years in 
Saxton's River, Windham County, Vt. The great-grandfather of the Reverend Amzi D. Barber 
was Thomas Barber, the elder of three brothers, who came from England before the Revolution. 
Thomas Barber settled in Vermont, and his descendants have been from that time prominent 
citizens of the Green Mountain State. Mr. Amzi L. Barber, son of the Reverend Amzi D. Barber, 
can trace his lineage to four nationalities. On his father's side, his ancestors were of Scotch and 
Irish blood, while his mother, who was born Nancy Irene Bailey, of Westmoreland, Oneida 
County, New York, belonged to a family of English and French origin. 

Mr. Amzi Lorenzo Barber was born in Saxton's River, Vt., in June, 1843. His family 
moved to Ohio when he was a child, and he was educated in the schools and academies of several 
towns where his father occupied pastorates. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1867, and 
after a short postgraduate course in the theological department of that institution of learning, 
went to Washington in 1868, to take charge of the normal department of Howard University, 
under the direction of General O. O. Howard. Subsequently, he was in charge of the preparatory 
department, and also professor of natural philosophy in the same institution. He, however, 
finally turned his attention from letters to business. In 1872, he engaged in the real estate busi- 
ness in Washington; and while thus occupied, the subject of street improvement began to press 
upon his attention, and he made the construction of asphalt pavements, on a large scale, his 
occupation, incorporating in 1883 the Barber Asphalt Company. He has also been a director 
of the Citizens' National Bank of Washington, and the Washington Loan & Trust Company. 

Despite his business cares, Mr. Barber gives much time to yachting, a pleasure to which 
he is enthusiastically devoted. He has a steam yacht in commission at New York throughout 
the season, and makes many cruises in home waters. In 1893-94, he made a yachting trip 
with his family to the Mediterranean and the East. He is a member of the Royal Thames 
Yacht Club of London, and also of the New York, Seawanhaka-Corinthian and Larchmont 
Yacht clubs. His other important clubs include the Metropolitan, the Engineers', the Church, 
and the Lawyers', for he is a member of the bar, although he has never practiced the profession. 
He is also a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the Society of 
Arts, in London, a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of 
Natural History, and a member of the New England Society, the Ohio Society, and the American 
Geographical Society. 

Mr. Barber built Belmont, a beautiful place in Washington; at one time he occupied the 
Cunard place on Staten Island, and now owns Ardsley Towers, a large country estate in 
Irvington, once the property of the late Cyrus W. Field. For many years his New York City 
residence was the Stuart mansion, at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-eighth street, recently sold to the 
Honorable William C. Whitney. In 1868, Mr. Barber married Celia M. Bradley, of Geneva, O., 
who died in 1870. For his second wife he married Julia Louisa Langdon, daughter of 
J. Le Droict Langdon, formerly of Belmont, N. Y., and a member of the Langdon family, con- 
spicuous in the annals of New York City and State. Mr. and Mrs. Barber have had five children, 
four of whom are living, Le Droict, Lorina, Bertha and Roland Langdon. His eldest son is a 
member of the New York Club. His eldest daughter, Lorina Langdon Barber, was married at 
Ardsley Towers, in June, 1897, to Samuel Todd Davis, of Washington. 

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HENRY ANTHONY BARCLAY 

IN the early annals of New York, the name of Barclay is of constant recurrence, and the family's 
civic fame has been perpetuated in the naming of Barclay Street. Its representatives were of 
the eminent Scotch race known as de Berkeley, the ancestry of which is traced back to 
Edward I., King of England, and his Queen, Margaret, daughter of Philip III., of France. They 
were allied to the Earls of Kent and the Earls of Somerset, and were also descendants of King 
James of Scotland through the Gordons, Earls of Sutherland. 

Colonel David Barclay, of Ury, born in 1610, was a son of David Barclay, laird of Mathers. 
He served in the Swedish Army as a Major and was commissioned Colonel by King Charles I. He 
was Governor of Strathbogie, and a member of Parliament in 1654-58, but became a Quaker and 
was imprisoned for his belief. His wife was Catharine Gordon, daughter of Sir Robert Gordon, 
1 580-1656, of Gordonstown, the second son of the titular Earl of Sutherland, Alexander Gordon. 
The eldest son of this union was Robert Barclay, one of the proprietors of East New Jersey, and 
its Governor, an appointment which he held for life by the favor of Charles II. He never came to 
America, but governed through a deputy. His brother John, who removed to America, married 
Cornelia Van Schaick and became the ancestor of the New York Barclays. A sister of John Barclay 
married the son of Sir Evan Dhu Cameron, of Lochiel, and her daughters married the chiefs of such 
Scotch houses as Cameron of Dungallen, Campbell of Auchlyne, Macgregor of Bohawslie, Grant 
of Glenmoriston, McPherson of Cluny, and Cameron of Glendinning. 

The eldest son of John Barclay was the Reverend Thomas Barclay, a man of great learning 
and influence in the City of Albany, where he was pastor of the Dutch Church. He married Anna 
Dorothea Drauyer, who was the daughter of Admiral Andries Drauyer, of the Dutch Navy, and 
granddaughter of Levinius Van Schaick. Their son, the Reverend Henry Barclay, was born in 
Albany and graduated from Yale College in 1734. He lived several years in the Mohawk Valley 
with the Indians, among whom he was a devoted Christian worker. In 1746, he became rector of 
Trinity Church, New York, and remained there until his death, in 1764. Shortly after coming to 
New York, he married Mary, the beautiful daughter of Anthony Rutgers. The eldest son of the 
Reverend Henry Barclay was Colonel Thomas Barclay, who was a Tory in the Revolution. His 
second son was Anthony Barclay, of Trains Meadow, Newtown, Long Island, who died in 1805, 
having married Anna Lent, daughter of Abraham Lent, and sister of Judge James Lent. The grand- 
father of Anna Lent was William Lawrence, of the celebrated New York family of that name. 
From this union came one son, Henry Barclay, who was born in 1794, married Sarah Moore, and 
lived until 1865. 

Mr. Henry Anthony Barclay, the eldest son of Henry Barclay and Sarah Moore, and present 
head of this historic family, was born in Astoria, Long Island, December 4th, 1844, and was 
educated privately. He married Clara Oldfield Wright, daughter of John Skinner Wright, of the 
firm of Wright, Maxwell & Co., and his wife, Isabella Mary Oldfield, daughter of Granville 
Oldfield. On the paternal side, Mrs. Barclay's grandfather was the Honorable Robert Wright, who 
was the first Democratic Governor of Maryland, in 1806. Mr. and Mrs. Barclay have five children. 
Their sons, Henry Anthony, Jr., and Wright Barclay, are both members of Company K, of the 
Seventh Regiment. The three daughters of the family are Gertrude Oldfield, Mildred Moore and 
Clara Wright Barclay. Mr. Barclay's residence is in Madison Avenue, and he has a country house, 
Bonnie Brae, at Lenox, Mass. His clubs are the Union and Metropolitan. 

The second son of Henry and Sarah (Moore) Barclay is James L. Barclay, who married Olivia 
Bell, only daughter of Isaac Bell, 181 5-1897. She died in 1894 and he married Priscilla (Dixon) 
Sloan. Mr. Barclay's youngest brother, Sackett M. Barclay, married his cousin, Cornelia Cockrane 
Barclay, and has five children, Harold, Robert Cockrane, Beatrice W., Ethel N. and Cornelia 
Barclay, his residence being in West Forty-sixth Street. Mr. Barclay's only sister, Fanny Barclay, 
married William Constable, of Constableville, N. Y. 



SAMUEL F. BARGER 

OF Dutch origin, the name of Bergen, which was the family name of the American 
ancestor of Mr. Samuel F. Barger, signifies hill. It is common in the Netherlands, 
Germany and Ireland. Hans Hansen Bergen, who was the first of the name in this 
country, was a resident of Holland in the early part of the seventeenth century. When 
Wouter Van Twiller was sent to New Netherland as the second director-general of the Colony 
in 1633, he brought with him a large company of soldiers, officials and Colonists, and among 
them was Hans Hansen Bergen. Six years after landing in New Amsterdam, this pioneer 
married Sarah Rapalje, daughter of Joris Jansen Rapalje. The father of Sarah Rapalje was a 
Huguenot who came from Rochelle, France, in 1623, and settled in Fort Orange, Albany. After 
a few years, he moved to Manhattan and thence to Wallabout, on Long Island. In 1655, and 
several times thereafter, he was one of the magistrates of Brooklyn. His wife was Catalyntie 
Trico. Sarah Rapalje became a historical personage from the fact that she was the first Christian 
female born in New Netherland. When she was twenty-nine years of age her husband died 
and left her a widow with seven children. She afterwards married Teunis Gysbert Bogaert, and 
was thus the ancestress of two of the greatest Dutch Colonial families of New Netherland. 

Jacob Hansen Bergen, son of the pioneer, was born in 1653. He took the oath of 
allegiance to the British Government in 1687, and was a constable in 1698. His wife was 
Elsje Frederiks, daughter of Frederik Lubbertsen and Tryntje Hendricks. Their son, Frederick 
Jacobse Bergen, was the great-great-grandfather of Mr. Samuel F. Barger. He was born in 
1681 and died before 1762. In 171s, he was a private in the militia company of Brooklyn, in 
1738, was a Lieutenant in the Richmond County militia, and late in life removed to Somerset 
County, N. J., where he died in 1762. His wife was Gerretye Vechte, daughter of Gerrit 
Vechte. Henry Bergen, son of Hendrick Bergen and grandson of Frederick Jacobse Bergen, 
was born in 1 757, lived on Staten Island and died in 1804. His wife, whom he married in 
1783, was Polly, or Mary, Tyson. He changed his family name to Barger, and his descendants 
have since adhered to that usage. Henry Barger, father of Mr. Samuel F. Barger, was born in 1797 
and died in 1867. He was engaged in mercantile life in New York, and was Colonel of a regiment 
of artillery in the Counties of Kings and Richmond. His wife was Matilda Anna Frost. 

Mr. Samuel F. Barger was born in New York, October 19th. 1832. Educated in the 
Columbia College Grammar School and the University of the City of New York, he practiced 
law in the office of Aaron S. Pennington, of Paterson, N. J., being admitted to the bar of the 
State of New Jersey in 1854, and to the bar of the State of New York the following year. 
Early in his professional career, he became a director of the New York Central Railroad 
Company. When the New York Central and the Hudson River Companies were consolidated 
in 1869, he was retained as a director in the new corporation, and has since devoted himself, 
both in a business and in a professional way, to the interests of those railroads. He is a 
member of the executive committee, and chairman of the law committee of the New York 
Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, is officially connected with other companies of 
the Vanderbilt system, is a trustee of the Wagner Palace Car Company and of the Union Trust 
Company, and was for several years a director and member of the executive committee of the 
Western Union Telegraph Company. He has served as a commissioner on the Board of Edu- 
cation of New York City, and was a Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876. 

In 1869, Mr. Barger married Edna Jeanie Le Favor, of Medway, Mass., of distinguished 
ancestry; their children are Maud Anna, Edna Holbrook and Milton Sanford Barger. His city 
residence is in Madison Avenue, and his summer home is Edna Villa, in Newport. He is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Union, Knickerbocker, Tuxedo, New York Yacht, 
Riding and Racquet clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New 
York Historical Society, the American Geographical Society and the Somerset Club of Boston. 

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MRS. FORDYCE DWIGHT BARKER 

MRS. EMILY FRANKLIN (BABCOCK) BARKER is the widow of the late Fordyce Dwight 
Barker, who died in New York in December, 1893, and a daughter of Samuel D. Babcock. 
The Babcock family were closely connected with the Colonial and Revolutionary history 
of Rhode Island. Mrs. Barker's great-great-grandfather was the famous Colonel Henry Babcock, 
1733-1800, who was a volunteer on the patriot side at the siege of Boston in 1775, and afterwards 
became Colonel of the Rhode Island militia, and Commandant of the Rhode Island Colony brigade 
of troops in the Continental service. Her great-great-great-grandfather was Major-General Joshua 
Babcock, who also at one time commanded the militia brigade of Rhode Island, was Chief Justice 
of the Colony, a member of the State Council of War during the Revolution, and several times a 
member and Speaker of the Rhode Island Assembly. The direct representative of this notable 
family removed from Stonington to New York, and it was in this city that Mrs. Barker was born 
and has since resided. 

Her marriage with the late Fordyce D. Barker took place in 1878. The latter inherited the 
blood of a number of prominent old New England families. He was the son of Fordyce Barker 
and Elizabeth Lee Dwight. 

Fordyce Barker, born in Winton, Me., bore a name which is widely known throughout 
that State, and which has been that of many men of prominence in its annals. He was celebrated 
as one of the most skilful physicians in New York, being known throughout the United States 
and Europe as an eminent member of his profession in this country, and as a medical writer of 
the highest rank. 

Fordyce D. Barker was born at Norwich, Conn., in 1847, but in the second year of his age 
was taken to New York, where he resided during the rest of his life. On his father's side, he 
descended from a family of prominence in Maine and New Hampshire, his great-great-grandfather 
being Mayor Abiel Abbott, 1741-1809, who raised a body of troops in New Hampshire to reinforce 
the Continental Army at Ticonderoga. He was a member of the New Hampshire Provincial 
Congress in 1777, and as an ardent patriot, took a leading and influential part in organizing the 
Government of the State of New Hampshire, and completing the severance of the former Colony 
from Great Britain. Mr. Barker's mother, Elizabeth Lee Dwight, was born in Springfield, Mass., 
her family being one which has occupied a leading political and social position in Massachusetts 
for many generations, which supplied many famous clergymen, professors and lawyers, and which 
is connected by ties of blood and intermarriage with many of the illustrious names in the history 
of the State. Her great-great-grandmother was Mary Pitt, a favorite niece of the great Earl of 
Chatham. This lady was the mother of Benjamin Lee, of Taunton, England, who, while in the 
English Navy, was a fellow midshipman with the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William the 
Fourth. Among other distinguished ancestors, Mr. Barker also numbered Nathaniel Gorham, one 
of the delegates from Massachusetts to the Convention, which in 1787 framed the Constitution of 
the United States, his signature being affixed to the document, in company with that of Rufus King, 
as representatives of Massachusetts. 

Educated at private schools in New York and at Exeter, N. H., followed by a course of study 
at Dresden, Germany, and at Versailles, France, Fordyce D. Barker entered the banking profession 
in this city. After his marriage, he traveled abroad with his wife, and was an active participant in 
the social life of the city. He was, in a moderate degree, a sportsman and a patron of hunting and 
the turf. At the time of his premature death, he was a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Riding 
and City Clubs, of the Rockaway Hunt and Coney Island Jockey Clubs, of the Sons of the Revo- 
lution and Seventh Regiment Veteran Association, and of Holland Lodge F.A.M., and of many 
other social and benevolent organizations. Two children were born to Mrs. Barker and her late 
husband, Elizabeth Crary Fordyce Barker and Lillian Lee Fordyce Barker. The family residence is 
at No. 36 West Fifty-first Street. 



PETER TOWNSEND BARLOW 

IN the early part of the seventeenth century the first Barlow emigrated to this country from 
England and settled in New England. Descendants of this pioneer have been prominent 
in the public affairs of that section and many of them have attained to high distinction in 
the councils of the nation. One of the most illustrious Americans who has borne the name 
was the Honorable Joel Barlow, who crowded into a long and busy life as much of variety, 
romance and usefulness as generally falls to the lot of a dozen ordinary men. He is best 
recalled, perhaps, as the author of that remarkable effort in verse, The Columbiad. But he 
was more than a poet and author. He was a soldier of the Revolution, a Chaplain in the 
Continental Army, a practicing lawyer, a vigorous journalist, a bookseller, an agent for Western 
lands and a speculator. Sympathizing with the French Revolutionists, he became a leader in 
their councils and was made a citizen of the French Republic. Some of the most brilliant political 
pamphlets of that interesting period were from his trenchant pen. He served as the United States 
Consul to Algiers and also as United States Minister to France. 

In the generation that is now passing away, Samuel L. M. Barlow was a conspicuous 
figure in New York professional and social circles. He belonged to the Connecticut branch 
of the family, the same that nearly a century earlier had produced the Honorable Joel Barlow. 
His father was Dr. Samuel Bancroft Barlow, a graduate from Yale College and a physician of 
high reputation. Dr. Barlow practiced his profession in Connecticut for several years immedi- 
ately following his graduation from Yale College, and then removed to New York. At one 
time he was president of the New York Homoeopathic College. 

Samuel L. M. Barlow was born in Granville, Hampden County, Mass., July 5th, 1826. 
When his father moved to New York City, he was a mere child. After completing his educa- 
tion, he engaged himself as office boy in a law office, where he earned a salary of one dollar 
a week. Within seven years from the time he started in this small way, he was manager of 
the firm at an annual salary of three thousand dollars, which was a large sum for those days. 
During that period of seven years, he had attained the age of twenty-three, had studied law 
and been admitted to the bar. From that time on, his career was one of the most successful 
in the history of the New York bar. At the age of twenty-three, he settled a claim under 
the treaty with Mexico, for which he received a very large fee. A claim of two million 
dollars against the French Government for arms furnished by American manufacturers during 
the Franco-Prussian War was adjusted by him after about one hour's work, and for that he 
received twenty-five thousand dollars. He was employed by many railroad companies, and 
one of his greatest triumphs was in defeating Jay Gould for the control of the Erie Railroad, 
after which he was a director and the private counsel for that corporation. In 1852, he 
became a member of the firm of Bowdoin, Larocque & Barlow, and afterwards, with Judges 
W. D. Shipman and W. G. Choate, organized the firm of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate. 
He conti oiled The New York World, 1864-69, was one of the founders of the Manhattan Club, 
a discriminating collector of pictures and bric-a-brac and the owner of one of the finest collec- 
tions of Americana in this country. He died in Glen Cove, Long Island, July 10th, 1889. 

Mr. Peter Townsend Barlow, son of S. L. M. Barlow, was born in New York, 
June 21st, 1857. His mother was a daughter of Peter Townsend, after whom he was named. 
He was graduated from Harvard College in 1879 and studied law in the Law School of Columbia 
College and in the office of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque & Choate. He lives at 55 East 
Twenty-first Street and his country residence is Tario, in New London, Conn. His club 
membership includes the Union, University, Harvard, New York Yacht and Racquet clubs and 
the : Downtown Association. He is also a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. 
Barlow married, in 1886, Virginia Louise Matthews, daughter of Edward Matthews. Their 
children are Edward Matthews and Samuel L. M. Barlow. 



JOHN SANFORD BARNES 

GENERAL JAMES BARNES, the father of Mr. John Sanford Barnes, lawyer and broker, 
was a distinguished civil engineer and soldier. Born about 1809, he was graduated 
from West Point in 1829, in the class with Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston and 
O. M. Mitchell. During the seven years that he remained in the army, he was advanced to the 
rank of Lieutenant in the Fourth Artillery. Resigning from the military service, he entered the 
engineering profession and was chief engineer and superintendent of the Western Railroad of 
Massachusetts from 1836 to 1848, and chief engineer of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad from 1848 
to i8=>2. He was also engaged in the construction of the Rome & Watertown, the Sacketts Harbor 
& Ellisburg, the Buffalo, Corning & New York, the Terre Haute, Alton & St. Louis and the 
Potsdam & Watertown Railroads. During the Civil War, General Barnes performed distinguished 
service. Going to the front as Colonel of the Eighteenth Massachusetts Volunteers, he was 
promoted in 1862 to be Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and took part in the battles of 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and other contests of the Virginia campaign. At the battle of 
Gettysburg, he was severely wounded, while in command of the First Division of the Fifth 
Army Corps. He was breveted Major-General of Volunteers in 1865, and mustered out of 
service the following year with health permanently impaired by wounds and exposure. He died in 
Springfield, Mass., February 12th, 1869. 

Mr. John Sanford Barnes was born at West Point, May 12th, 1836, entered the Naval 
Academy at Annapolis, and was graduated in 1854. When the Civil War broke out, he was in the 
naval service of the United States and served throughout the struggle, being promoted from time 
to time until he attained the rank of Commander. When the war was concluded, he resigned 
from the service, and prepared himself for professional life by studying law. He was admitted to 
the bar, and practiced in Albany and New York City for a short time, and then became a partner 
in the banking firm of J. S. Kennedy & Co., where he was engaged for twelve years, withdrawing 
from that concern in 1879. After that, he devoted his attention to law business for several years, 
and then reengaged in banking. 

In 1862, Mr. Barnes married Susan Bainbridge Hayes, daughter of Captain Thomas Hayes, 
of the United States Navy. The grandfather of Mrs. Barnes was the famous Commodore William 
Bainbridge, whose ancestors were settled in New Jersey soon after 1600. Sir Arthur Bainbridge, 
of Durham County, England, was the head of the family in the Old World, from which the New 
Jersey Bainbridges were descended. The father of Commodore Bainbridge was the sixth in descent 
from Sir Arthur Bainbridge. Commodore Bainbridge is one of the most impressive figures in the 
naval history of the United States during the first quarter of a century of the republic. He was in 
the merchant marine at the age of fifteen, captain of a ship at nineteen, commander of a frigate in the 
wars with Algiers and Tripoli in the early years of the present century, and a prisoner in Tripoli for 
a year and a half. He was in command of the frigate Constitution in the engagement with and 
capture of the English frigate Java, and commanded the fleet composed of the Constitution, Essex 
and Hornet in the War of 18 12 in some of the most brilliant episodes of that time. His portrait, 
painted by Chappel, by order of the City Government, hangs in the City Hall of New York. 
The grandmother of Mrs. Barnes was Susan Hyleger, whom Commodore Bainbridge married in 
1798 at the Island of St. Bartholomew. Her grandfather was John Hyleger, of Holland, for many 
years Governor of St. Eustatia. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes are : J. Sanford Barnes, Jr., James Barnes and Edith S., 
Charlotte A. and Cornelia R. Barnes. The city residence of the family is in East Forty-eighth 
Street, and the country home is in Lenox, Mass. Mr. Barnes is a member of the Union League, 
Metropolitan, Union, University, Knickerbocker, Whist, Riding and Westminster Kennel clubs, 
the Downtown Association and the New England and American Geographical Societies, and is a 
patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 

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JOHN CONNER BARRON, M.D. 

WOODBRIDGE, N. J., was settled in 166s, soon after the Duke of York's grant to 
Berkely and Carteret by families largely drawn from Connecticut, and was named 
after the Reverend John Woodbridge, the pastor and magistrate of its New England 
founders One of the names met most frequently in the early annals of this ancient town is that 
of Barron, a family of English origin, representatives of which came to the American colonies early 
in the seventeenth century. 

Elizeus Barron, it is shown by the records of the town, married Mary Andrews in 1705. 
John Barron built the church in 1714, and in 1774 Samuel Barron was chairman of the 
Freeholders of the county, while Ellis Barron was commissioned Captain in the First Middlesex 
Regiment in 1776. Of the same family were Captain Barron, Fleet Captain under Perry on the 
lakes ; Thomas Barron, a prominent financier in the early part of the century, and Director of 
the New Orleans branch of the Bank of the United States ; as well as Commodore James 
Barron, one of the ablest officers in the infant Navy of the United States. The attack on his 
vessel, the Chesapeake, by the British frigate Leopard, in 1807, was among the events which led 
to the'war of 1812. The same occurrence also caused the feud between Barron and Commodore 
Stephen Decatur. The latter, though Commodore Barron's inferior in rank, was a member of the 
Naval Court which passed upon his conduct and which harshly sentenced him to suspension from 
the service. Decatur was particularly active in the matter, and this culminated in the famous duel 
in 1820, at Bladensburg, between the two officers, in which Decatur was slain. Commodore 
Barron's grandson, an officer of the United States Navy, adhered to the cause of the South in the 
Civil War, and was a Commodore in the Confederate States service. 

Mr. John Conner Barron was born at Woodbridge, in 1837, of which town his direct 
ancestors were all natives. His great-grandfather, Samuel Barron, was a large land owner, and 
his grandfather, Joseph Barron, was prominent in the church at Woodbridge. Mr. Barron's 
father, John Barron, married a lady belonging to one of the oldest Revolutionary families on Staten 
Island, Mary Conner, daughter of Colonel Richard Conner and his wife, Mary Claussen. Colonel 
Conner was a member for Richmond County of the New York Provincial Congress of 1775, and 
took a prominent and patriotic part in the ensuing struggle. 

Educated at Burlington College, New Jersey, and at Yale (class of i8s8), Dr. Barron, who 
had entered the Medical Department of Yale College during his senior year, graduated in 1861 
from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons with the degree of M.D. In 1869 he 
married Harriet Mulford Williams, of Clinton, N. J., daughter of the Reverend Albert Williams, a 
direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. Mrs. Barron's great-grand- 
father was a lieutenant in the Second Regiment of the New Jersey Line during the Revolution, and 
served in all of Washington's campaigns. The issue of the Barron-Williams marriage are five 
children, Thomas, May, Carlile Norris, John Conner and Ellis Barron. The family residence is 
Barron Court, a mansion and estate of fifty acres at Tarrytown-on-Hudson. 

Foreign travel, society, literature and yachting have claimed Dr. Barron's attention rather 
than his profession. He has journeyed in Europe and the East, and is a member of the Union 
and Union League Clubs, a life member of the New York Historical Society, and a life Fellow 
of the New York Geographical Society. He was a box owner of the original Metropolitan 
Opera House. Belonging to the Jekyl Island, Currituck, and Narrows Island Shooting Clubs, 
he has been most active in the New York Yacht Club and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht 
Club. He sailed and owned the Wave, the match of which against the Scotch cutter Madge 
inaugurated international cutter racing, while he also built the Athlon, and owned the famous 
English cutter Clara. The arms of the Barron family, which Dr. Barron inherits and bears, are: 
A red shield with a gold chevron and three golden sheaves, the crest being an eagle and the 
motto "Fortuna jiivat Audaces." 



JOHN OLMSTED BARTHOLOMEW 

ONE of the ancient families in England is that of Bartholomew. Its history is traced back to 
the early centuries, and before that there were branches existing in France. The 
American family is descended from that branch which was settled in Burford, England, 
whose arms, as they appear on tombs in the Bartholomew Chapel, are: Argent, a chevron 
engrailed between three lions, rampant, sable. About the middle of the sixteenth century, three 
Bartholomews were living in Warborough, Oxfordshire. One of them, William Bartholomew, the 
immediate ancestor of the American Bartholomews, was born in Warborough in 1557 and died in 
1634. He was a large wholesale dealer in silks and woolens, and accumulated a considerable 
property, so that he was a man of wealth for those days. His wife was Friswede Metcalf, 
daughter of William Metcalf, who was at one time Mayor of New Woodstock. She died in 1647. 
The first Bartholomew to come to this country was William, the second son of William and 
Friswede Bartholomew. He was born in 1602, and received a good education in the grammar 
school of his native place. His wife, whom he married before coming here, was Anna Lord, a 
sister of Robert Lord. He arrived in Boston in 1634, and immediately took a foremost position in 
the Colony, being admitted as a freeman of Boston the same year that he landed. A year later he 
went to live in Ipswich, and represented that town in the Great and General Court. In 1637, he 
was called upon to serve upon a special grand jury in Boston. He was town clerk of Ipswich in 

1639, a deputy in 1641, 1647 and 1650, and treasurer of the town in 1654. He died in 1680. 

In the second American generation, William Bartholomew, who was born in Ipswich in 

1640, also took a leading part in the direction of affairs in the Colony. In 1663, he was in Medfield, 
and was living in Deerfield in 1678. Eleven years after he was an ensign in the New Roxbury, 
Conn., company of militia, and became Lieutenant of the company in 1691. He was a representa- 
tive to the General Court from Woodstock in 1692, Woodstock being the new name of New Rox- 
bury, of which place he was then a resident. He died in 1697. The wife of this William Bartholo- 
mew was Mary Johnson, daughter of Captain Isaac and Elizabeth (Porter) Johnson. Her grand- 
father was John Johnson, surveyor of the King's Army in America. 

In the succeeding four generations the ancestors of Mr. John O. Bartholomew were 
Andrew Bartholomew, who was born in 1670, and died soon after 1752, and his wife, 
Hannah, daughter of Samuel Frisbie, of Branford; Joseph Bartholomew, who was born in Branford 
in 1712 and died in 1781, and his wife, Mary Sexton, of Wallingford ; Ira Bartholomew, who was 
born in 1753 and died in 1828, and his wife, Caroline Shattuck; and Sherman Bartholomew, who 
was born in Wallingford in 1781 and died in 1814, and his wife, Sally Hackley. Andrew Bartholo- 
mew was a prominent man in Branford. Joseph Bartholomew commanded all those who were 
subject to military duty in the town. Ira Bartholomew was the first of his family to leave Connec- 
ticut, going to Cornwall, N. Y., then to Salisbury, and finally to Waterville, where he died. 
Sherman Bartholomew was a physician in Brownsville, Jefferson County, N, Y. In the War of 
1812, he was a surgeon in the Federal Army, and falling sick at Sackett's Harbor, died there. He 
was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Dr. Erasmus Darwin Bartholomew, the father of 
Mr. John Olmsted Bartholomew, was the son of Dr. Sherman Bartholomew. He was born in 
Waterville, N. Y., in 1804, studied medicine and had an extensive practice in the western part of 
the State. His wife, whom he married in 1826, was Mary Seline Brewster, a descendant of the 
Pilgrim elder, William Brewster. Dr. Bartholomew died in 1836, and his widow survived him 
for forty-four years, dying in 1880. 

Mr. John Olmsted Bartholomew, the eldest son of Dr. Erasmus Darwin Bartholomew, was 
born in Denmark, Lewis County, N. Y., February 10th, 1827. He came to New York early in 
life, and has since been a resident of this city, first being engaged in the British importing business, 
and later as a member of a banking firm in Wall Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan and 
Union clubs. 



EDMUND LINCOLN BAYLIES 

IN the middle name of Mr. Edmund Lincoln Baylies the connection of his ancestors with one 
of the most famous soldiers of the Revolutionary War and a participation in some of 
the most glorious events of that patriotic struggle are commemorated. His great-grand- 
father, Hodijah Baylies, of Massachusetts, was an officer in the Continental Army, serving from 
the beginning to the close of the war. He was a member of the staff of General Benjamin 
Lincoln, and fought at the siege of Charleston and again at the capitulation of Yorktown, where 
his commander was deputed by Washington to receive the sword of Lord Cornwallis. 

General Lincoln's family was of English extraction and his ancestors were among the 
earliest settlers of New England. From one of its branches President Abraham Lincoln 
descended, while another branch produced Levi Lincoln, 1749- 1820, one of the leading Revo- 
lutionary patriots and lawyers of Massachusetts, and his equally famous son, Governor Levi 
Lincoln, 1782-1868, who was foremost among the statesmen of the early part of this century. 
General Benjamin Lincoln was born in Hingham, Mass., in 1733 ; was a member of the 
Colonial Assembly, and as Colonel of the militia was active in organizing troops at the outbreak 
of the Revolution, and in the siege of Boston; he became a Major-General in 1776 and served 
throughout the war, being wounded at Bemis Heights, in the Saratoga campaign, while acting 
as second in command under General Gates. He was in command of the Southern Department 
and became Secretary of War under the Confederation from 1781 to 1784; suppressed the 
famous Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts; was Lieutenant-Governor of the State in 1787, and 
held many offices of prominence, including that of Commissioner to various Indian tribes. Before 
his death, in 1810, his daughter Elizabeth became the wife of Colonel Baylies, soon after the 
end of the Revolutionary War. In 1782, Colonel Baylies was selected by Washington as aide- 
de-camp. After the war he occupied various civil positions of prominence, including that of 
Collector of the Port of Dighton, Mass. In 1810, he became judge of Probate for Bristol 
County, Mass., which office he occupied till 1834. 

His son, Edmund Baylies, was born in Hingham, Mass., in 1787, and married Elizabeth 
Payson, of Charlestown, Mass. Their son, Edmund Lincoln Baylies, Sr., was born in Boston, 
Mass., in 1829, and married Nathalie E. Ray, of the notable New York family of that name, 
which has given a number of distinguished men to the city and State. 

Mr. Edmund Lincoln Baylies, their son, thus combines in his ancestry families of the 
highest consideration in both this State and New England. He was born in New York in 
1857 and graduated A. B. from Harvard University in the class of 1879, receiving the degree 
of LL. B. from the same institution in 1882, his legal training being supplemented by a course 
in Columbia College in this city. He has pursued the practice of law with energy and 
success, being a member of the firm of Carter & Ledyard. 

By his marriage in 1887, Mr. Baylies became connected with one of the very foremost of the 
old families of New York, if not of the country at large. His wife was Louisa Van Rensselaer, 
a direct descendant of the original patroon of Rensselaerwyck. The founder of the Colony, 
it is well known, was Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a rich merchant of Amsterdam, who, in 1630, 
obtained from the Dutch West India Company, lords of New Netherland, and from the 
States General, the grant of an enormous tract of land composing nearly all of the present 
counties of Albany and Rensselaer. This was erected into a manor with feudal rights and 
remained as such under the rule of the successive patroons down to the Revolution, when the 
manorial privileges were abolished. The original Kiliaen Van Rensselaer never visited his 
transatlantic estates, but his sons came here and from them descended a numerous family con- 
nection. Taking an active interest in society, Mr. Baylies was one of the Patriarchs and, among 
other clubs, belongs to the University, City and Knickerbocker. His residence is in West 
Thirty-sixth Street. 

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GERARD BEEKMAN 

AMONG the honored family names of this country none has stood higher than that of 
Beekman. It is also one of the oldest, the founder of the American branch of the family 
having made his advent on these shores in 1647. Its representatives in both the Nether- 
lands and Germany had gained distinction in war and peace as far back as the thirteenth century. 
In those countries, they were of titled rank, and ancient records show that the heads of the family 
were often sent upon embassies, or were called upon as representatives of the State to entertain 
dignitaries from other countries. 

A characteristic which has been transmitted to the American bearers of the Beekman name 
is a religious temperament and courage in the assertion of their convictions. For two hundred 
and fifty years these traits have appeared in the successive generations of the New York Beekman 
family. In the various professional occupations, bearers of the name have stood in the forefront, 
while they have consistently evinced a philanthropic spirit and as citizens have shown a patriotic 
devotion that has won public acknowledgment. Socially they have been true to the obligations 
of their origin, and have become allied by marriage with the leading families of the Middle and 
New England States. 

Wilhelmus Beekman came to New Amsterdam in the year mentioned above, with Director 
General Peter Stuyvesant, as treasurer of the Dutch West India Company. He also became Vice- 
Governor of the Dutch Colony upon the South or Delaware River, and afterwards filled many 
offices, including those of Vice-Governor at Esopus, now Kingston, alderman of New York and 
Deputy Governor. In some of these or other equally honorable offices, his sons and grandsons 
also served with public approval. Soon after his arrival he married an heiress and in the course of 
time increased his possessions by obtaining large grants of land from the Dutch Government. He 
resided for many years near the East River, at the intersection of Pearl and Beekman Streets. As 
the city extended, he removed to the northward, to what was termed "the Hook." His great 
grandsons went even further north on the island. James, one of them, purchased in 1762 a country 
place near Turtle Bay. at the present Fiftieth Street, and two of his brothers settled half a mile 
beyond that point. The Beekmans have always been large landholders in New York, and it is of 
interest to note their preference for a water view in connection with the estates upon which 
they established their homes. 

Of the numerous descendants of Wilhelmus Beekman, none observed the injunction 
contained in his last will and testament, to remember that "A good name is more to be desired 
than great riches," more than James William Beekman the elder, father of the gentleman whose 
name heads this article. He was the son of Gerard Beekman and descended, in the sixth 
generation, from the family's founder. His aim in life was to do good, devoting time and means 
to the acquisition of such knowledge as would benefit his fellow men. Much of the intelligent 
labor of his life was given to hospitals and their improvement, and the result of his investigations 
were embodied from time to time in reports and addresses for general circulation. His last illness, 
in 1877, was caused by too close attention to such duties as a governor of the New York Hospital. 
He was long an eminent member of the bar, and married Abian Steele Milledolar. 

His two sons, Mr. Gerard Beekman and Mr. James William Beekman, have continued the 
work which interested their father. The former is, like his father, a graduate of Columbia College, 
and has been for some years one of its trustees. The latter graduated from Columbia Law School, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1871, but devotes much attention to charitable institutions, 
being a trustee of the New York Hospital and officially identified with other similar organizations. 
Both brothers are connected with the principal social clubs and patriotic societies. Mr. James 
William Beekman, among other distinctions, was made a Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, 
by the Queen Regent of the Netherlands, in recognition of his services to the officers of the 
Dutch man-of-war Van Speijk during the Columbian Naval Review in 189^. 

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MILO MERRICK BELDING 

THE Beldin* family is old as well as influential. The first of the name to come to this coun- 
try was"william Belding, who settled in Wethersfield, Conn., about 1640. His 
descendants scattered throughout the Connecticut River Valley, and many of them 
found their way northward into the State of Massachusetts. That brand! of the family from which 
the present Mr Belding is descended was settled in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts long 
before the Revolution. Mr. Belding's great-grandfather was Samuel Belding, and his grandfather. 
John Beldin* was a Revolutionary soldier. His father, Hiram Belding, of Ashfield, Mass., was 
a prosperous former and country merchant, and also taught school. On his farm was built 
the first house erected in Ashfield, the old homestead being still preserved. 

Mr Milo Merrick Belding was born in Ashfield, April 3d, 1833. He was educated in the 
village school, and then attended the Shelburne Falls Academy in the winter and worked on the 
farm"in the summer. When he was only seventeen years of age, he began to devote himself to 
business, and after a time went into the employ of a firm in Pittsfield, Mass., where he remained 
until 1858. Then he started independently, and in a few years became one of the prosperous 
young merchants of Western Massachusetts. His father and two brothers had removed to 
Michigan in 1858, and Mr. Belding commenced sending them invoices of silk. From this small 
beginning began the business which in five years culminated in the establishment of a house 
in "Chicago, and two years later a branch in New York City. In 1866, the firm started a silk 
mill in Rockville, Conn., and in 1874 built a larger mill in Northampton, Mass. Later on, 
their growing business led to the establishment of another mill in Belding, Mich., a village 
which they founded. They now own five mills in different parts of the country, and have offices 
in New York, Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Paul, San Francisco and 
Baltimore, employing in the manufacture and sale of their goods over three thousand people. 
The village of Belding, Mich., covers nine hundred acres of land, and is now a town of over five 
thousand inhabitants. It has ten mills, several other manufacturing establishments, and all the 
accessories of a prosperous community. It is a monument to the enterprise and public spirit of 
the family which established it, and from which it takes its name. 

Mr. Belding is actively interested in other enterprises besides that with which his name has 
become most prominently connected. He is the president of the Livonia Salt and Mining 
Company, of Livonia, and president of the St. Lawrence Marble Company, which owns extensive 
quarries in Gouverneur, N. Y. Some years ago, he became interested in mining and lumber, 
and is now a large owner of mining and timber interests in North Carolina and Tennessee, 
industries which, under his direction, have developed into large and profitable proportions. He 
also has large ranch properties in Montana. In financial enterprises, he has also taken an 
active part, being one of the organizers and the first president of the Commonwealth Fire 
Insurance Company, and president of the American Union Life Insurance Company. 

In 1858, Mr. Belding married Emily C. Leonard, daughter of William Leonard, of Ashfield, 
Mass., a descendant from Noadiah Leonard, of Sunderland, Mass., who was a Captain in the 
Revolutionary Army, and fought at Bunker Hill. The mother of Mrs. Belding was Almira A. 
Day, who came of an old Colonial family of New England. Mr. and Mrs. Belding live in West 
Seventy-second Street, near Central Park. They have one son, Milo M. Belding, Jr., who 
married Anne Kirk, daughter of Daniel Kirk, of Belfast, Ireland, and is in business with his 
father. Mr. Belding belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Sons of the Revolution, the 
American Geographical Society, the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and the 
Silk Association. His clubs are the Colonial and Merchants' Central. Milo M. Belding, Jr., is a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Union League, New York Athletic, 
Montauk, Marine and Field, and Merchants' Central clubs. The country residence of the family 
is at the ancestral home, in Ashfield, Mass. 



ROBERT LENOX BELKNAP 

BORN in New York, July 23d, 1848, Mr. Belknap was a representative of several of the 
oldest American families. He was directly descended from Abraham Belknap, who died 
in 1643, one of the earliest settlers of Salem, Mass., and from Joseph Belknap, 1630-1712, 
one of the founders of the old South Church in Boston. Joseph Belknap's grandson, Samuel 
Belknap, 1 707—1771, of Woburn, Mass., sold his Massachusetts estate in 1751, and removed 
to Newburg, N. Y., where he purchased nearly the whole of a tract called the Baird patent. 
Abel Belknap, 1739-1804, son of Samuel, was a member of the County Committee during 
the Revolutionary War. His son, Aaron Belknap, 1789-1847, was a distinguished lawyer, 
and married his cousin, a daughter of Samuel Belknap, Captain of the Massachusetts provincial 
troops, and afterwards a member of the State Legislature. 

Their son, Aaron Betts Belknap, 1816-1 880, was, like his father, a lawyer of high distinction. 
He was also a leader in the Presbyterian Church, and was connected with many public and 
charitable institutions — among them the Princeton Theological Seminary, the Lenox Library, the 
Presbyterian Hospital, the Port Society and others. He married Jennet Lenox Maitland, daughter 
of Robert Maitland, 1768-1848, and his wife, Elizabeth Sproat Lenox. The Maitlands come of 
ancient Scotch lineage, tracing their descent to Sir Robert Maitland of Thirlstane, Knight, who 
died in 1434. The Lenoxes, also of old and honorable Scotch origin, are another of New York's 
foremost families, one of its representatives being the founder of the Lenox Library, now 
merged in the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. 

Mr. Robert Lenox Belknap, their son, was educated at Columbia College, receiving the 
degrees of A. B. in 1869 and of A. M. in 1872. Entering upon a business career, he speedily 
displayed marked abilities in the conduct of large enterprises. His first achievement was his 
active share in the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad, of which he was treasurer from 
1879 to 1888. He contributed largely to the opening up of the great Northwest by the 
prominent part he took in the development of the lake ports at the head of Lake Superior. 
The National Guard movement owed much to Mr. Belknap's disinterested efforts. Entering 
the Seventh Regiment, in 1866, after being president of his company for several years, he became 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief-of-Staff of the First Brigade. After four more years' service he 
resigned his active commission, receiving the brevet rank of Colonel. In 1875, having been 
detailed as Acting Assistant Inspector-General, he made many of the inspections and reports 
which inaugurated the reforms that have made a new era in National Guard affairs. Mr. 
Belknap also devoted much time to charitable, philanthropic and educational work. For twelve 
years he served as treasurer of the Presbyterian Hospital. He was a trustee of the Princeton 
Theological Seminary, a member of the Church Extension Committee of the Presbytery of New 
York, and treasurer of the Lying-in Hospital. 

He was one of the founders of the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at Columbia College, and 
was for two years president of the Psi Upsilon Club. He was also a member of the Union, 
Union League, University, Down Town, New York Yacht and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs of New 
York, besides the Minnesota Club of St. Paul, the Kitchi Gammi Club of Duluth, and the 
Superior Club of Superior ; a member and manager of the New York Society of the Sons of 
the Revolution, and a hereditary member of the Society of Cincinnati, and of the Society of 
the Colonial Wars. 

Mr. Belknap married, in 1870, Mary Phoenix Remsen, daughter of Henry Rutgers Remsen 
and his wife, Elizabeth Waldron Phoenix, both of whom represented old New York families. 
He died March 13th, 1896, at his residence in New York city. His widow and six children 
-survived him. On January 25th, 1897, his eldest son, Robert Lenox Belknap, Jr., died. The 
remaining children are Waldron Phoenix, Mary Remsen, Jennet Maitland, who is the wife of 
Robert McAllister Llovd, Elizabeth and Maitland Belknap. 

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ISAAC BELL 

REPRESENTATIVES of the Bell family were among the first settlers of this country in the 
early part of the seventeenth century. Isaac Bell, the progenitor of the New York 
branch, came to America from Edinburgh in 1640, and settled in Connecticut. He 
purchased a tract of land eight miles square from the Indians, and soon became a prosperous and 
influential man. One of his descendants was James Bell, the great-grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch. James Bell, who was born in 1709, owned property near Stamford, Conn. By 
his wife, Sarah, he had five sons: James, born in 1734; Isaac, 1736; Jacob, 1738 ; Jesse, 
1746, and Jared, 1755. His son, Isaac Bell, 1736-1809, the ancestor of the New York Bells, 
married Hannah Holley, and their daughter, Hannah Bell, married Fitch Rogers, son of Samuel 
Rogers, of Norwalk, Conn. The second wife of Isaac Bell, the second of the name, was 
Susannah Smith, who died in 1807, and who was a daughter of Ephraim Smith, of Stamford. 
Adhering to the Royal cause at the time of the Revolution, Isaac Bell and his wife, like other 
Loyalists, suffered many losses, their property being confiscated and much of it destroyed. He 
owned several mills in Stamford and was also a large shipping merchant in New York. Leaving 
his possessions in Connecticut, he came within the British lines in New York, and, in 1783, 
took his family to St. John, New Brunswick, where they remained for several years. He was 
annually elected Chamberlain of the city, as long as he remained in that Province. 

The children of Isaac and Susannah (Smith) Bell were James Bell, who died in Frederickton, 
New Brunswick; Henry Bell, 1 765-1 773, who was accidentally killed in New York, and was 
buried in Trinity Churchyard; Isaac Bell, who was born in 1768, and Catharine Bell, who was born 
in 1770 and married Nehemiah Rogers, a brother of Fitch Rogers. 

Isaac Bell, third of the name and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Stamford, 
Conn., being the third son of Isaac and Susannah (Smith) Bell. His boyhood was spent in New 
York during the British occupation of the city. He married, in 1810, Mary Ellis, daughter of John 
Ellis, 1754-1812, and Marie Faugeres, 1767-1846. The father of Mary Ellis was a native of 
Yorkshire, England, and came to this country in 1783. Her mother was a daughter of Dr. Lewis 
Faugeres and Evana, or Eve, Remsen, of New Lots, Long Island. Dr. Faugeres was born in 
Limoges, France, in 1731, and was the son of Francis Faugeres, a surgeon in the French Navy. He 
was brought to New York in 17S6, a prisoner of war, and remained permanently in this country 
thereafter. His mother was Magdalen Bertrand, of a noble French family. His wife, Eve Remsen, 
was a daughter of Jacob Remsen, a merchant of Brooklyn, by his wife, Maria Voorhies, of 
Gravesend. Her grandparents were Rem Remsen, 1652- 1742, of New Lots and Flatbush, and 
Marratie Janse Van Der Bilt, of Flatbush, who was a daughter of Jan Aertsen Van Der Bilt, the 
ancestor of the Vanderbilt family. 

The sons of Isaac and Mary (Ellis) Bell were John Ellis, who died in 1837; James Henry, 
Isaac, Mary Ellis and Edward R. Bell. James Henry Bell, who died in 185 1 in Philadelphia, before 
he had attained the age of forty, was an accomplished civil engineer, and before he reached his 
majority, was chief engineer of five railroads. The only daughter of the family, Mary Ellis Bell, 
married Henry Farnum, of Philadelphia. The youngest son, Edward R. Bell, was educated as a 
civil engineer, and in 1836 was engaged on a survey for the first railroad in Ohio. In 1837-38, he 
was in Michigan, and was afterwards employed upon the boundary survey between the United 
States and Great Britain under the Ashburton treaty. He now resides in New York and has two 
sons, Gordon Knox and Bertrand Faugeres Bell. 

Isaac Bell, the third son of Isaac and Mary (Ellis) Bell, and the fourth to bear that name in 
America, was the head of this historic family for more than half a century and passed away, ripe 
in years and rich in the affection of his fellow citizens, on September 30th, 1897. Mr. Bell was 
born August 4th, 181 5, in New York. Receiving a business training in early life, he went South 
in 1836 and engaged in the cotton trade. His interest in public affairs began while he was living 

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in Mobile, Ala. He was on the staff of the Governor of Alabama, with the rank of Captain, and 
was elected a member of the Alabama Legislature. In 1856, he returned to New York, and 
during the rest of his life made his home here. His wealth, his business training and his public 
spirit made him one of the prominent citizens of the metropolis, and for thirty-tive years he devoted 
a large portion of his time to municipal affairs. He was a Democrat and a member of Tammany 
Hall, and his first public service was as a member of the Board of Supervisors. Afterwards he 
became one of the ten governors of the Almshouse, a position he held until that municipal depart- 
ment was succeeded by the Department of Charities and Corrections, of which he was one of the 
first commissioners, and the president of the board from i860 to 1873. He was also a member 
of the Board of Education and Commissioner of Immigration. Largely by his efforts the Normal 
College was established, and for many years he was chairman of its executive committee. He 
was the founder of the Bellevue Medical College, and for thirty years president of its board of 
trustees. It was due to him that the schoolship under control of the Department of Charities 
and Corrections and the Department of Education was put into service. 

In 1863, with Paul S. Forbes and Leonard Jerome, Mr. Bell organized the Riot Relief Fund 
for the police of the city, and for many years was its financial manager. Nominations for Mayor 
and Member of Congress were frequently offered to him, but were invariably declined. During 
the Civil War, he was one of the most devoted supporters of the Union cause. He was associated 
with William M. Evarts, Alexander T. Stewart, John Jacob Astor, William E. Dodge, Hamilton 
Fish and others in the organization of the Union Defense Committee of the State of New York, 
and became its vice-chairman and one of its most untiring officials. He was the owner of the 
steamships Arago and Fulton, which were used as transports during the war, and afterwards were 
included in the fleet of the New York & Havre Steam Packet Company, of which he was president. 
The Old Dominion Steamship Company was organized by him in 1866, and he was vice-president 
of that corporation for twenty-two years and a prominent director of the Farmers' Loan & Trust 
Company, while he was also actively interested in other financial institutions. 

In the social world, Mr. Bell was not less conspicuous than in public affairs. At the time of 
his death he was the third oldest member of the Union Club, was one of the founders of the 
Manhattan Club, a member of other leading social organizations and of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art and American Museum of Natural History. His wife, whom he married in 1844, was 
Adelaide Mott, daughter of the famous surgeon, the elder Or. Valentine Mott. Mrs. Bell, who 
survives her husband, is descended from Adam Mott, of Hempstead, Long Island, the American 
pioneer of the name. She was educated in France, where she enjoyed the intimate acquaintance 
of members of the Orleans family. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bell. The eldest son 
was the Honorable Isaac Bell, who was born in New York in 1846. He had a short and successful 
business career, being principally engaged in the cotton trade in the years following the close of 
the Civil War. In 1878, he married Jeanette Bennett, daughter of James Gorden Bennett, founder 
of The New York Herald. In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him United States 
Minister to the Netherlands, and in that position he acquitted himself with dignity and honor to 
his country. In 1888, he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in St. Louis. 
When he died, in 1889, he left three children, one son and two daughters. His son inherited the 
family name of Isaac. The second son of Isaac and Adelaide (Mott) Bell is Louis V. Bell, a leading 
member of the New York Stock Exchange, who belongs to the Metropolitan, Union, Meadow 
Brook Hunt, Manhattan, Riding and Seawanhaka Yacht clubs. The third son of this family is the 
Honorable Edward Bell, who is a member of the Stock Exchange. He married Helen A. 
Wilmerding, daughter of Henry A. Wilmerding; lives in Lexington Avenue, and has a country 
residence in Southampton, Long Island. He has been a member of the Board of Park 
Commissioners and also a member of the Board of Education and succeeded his father as custodian 
of the Riot Relief Fund. His clubs include the Metropolitan, Union, Manhattan, Democratic and 
Shinnecock Golf and the Downtown Association. The only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac 
Bell was Olivia Bell, who married James L. Barclay and died in 1894. 



PERRY BELMONT 

FOR more than fifty years, the late August Belmont was a conspicuous figure in the political 
and financial history of our country and in its social development. In the present 
generation, his sons inherit his force of character, and exhibit the same traits that made 
him famous. The family name has thus become distinctly American, though August Belmont was 
born, in 1816, at Alzey, in the Rhenish Palatinate, where, for several centuries, his ancestors 
were people of wealth, and where, at the present day, representatives of the name occupy the 
same position. His grandfather, A. J. Belmont, and his father, Simon Belmont, were landed 
proprietors, and his uncle, Joseph Florian Belmont, was a man of great influence. The latter's 
daughter, Anna, became the wife of the German statesman, Louis Bamberger. 

Educated at first with a view to the law, August Belmont was at an early age placed in the 
banking house of the Rothschilds, in Frankfort, and was for a time in their Naples establishment. 
In 1837, he came to New York as representative of the Rothschilds, and founded the banking 
firm which, bearing his name, has now had an honorable history for sixty years. For the rest 
of his life, Mr. Belmont was a power in the American financial world, but nothing was more 
conspicuous in his character than his conservatism and his avoidance of speculative ventures. 

He became an American citizen soon after arriving in New York, and thenceforward no 
native of the United States exhibited more patriotic devotion to its interests. In this he set an 
example to other prominent men of his day, who were inclined to hold aloof from participation in 
politics. Mr. Belmont, however, considered it a duty he owed to his adopted land, and became 
prominent in the Democratic party. The only public office he accepted was the post of Minister to 
the Netherlands, which he held under President Pierce. He effected important negotiations 
between the United States and Holland, and received the special thanks of the Department of State. 
From i860 to 1872, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee. While the Civil War 
was in progress, he supported the Government effectively, and visited Europe on confidential 
financial missions, receiving the thanks of President Lincoln for his services and advice. In another 
direction, August Belmont left a strong impression of his personality. Coming from the capitals 
of Europe and familiar with their social life, his example was most beneficial in New York, and 
his tastes for the letters, for art and for music, as well as for country life and gentlemanly sports, 
were an important part of the influence he always exerted. His love for outdoor recreation 
revealed to Americans the necessity of such relaxation. He was one of the first patrons of the turf 
in America, his interest in it being as an amusement only, and was for twenty years the 
president of the American Jockey Club. He married the beautiful daughter of Commodore 
Matthew C. Perry, U. S. N., and dying in 1890, left three sons, Perry Belmont, August Belmont, 
Jr., and Oliver H. P. Belmont, and a daughter, Frederika, who is Mrs. Samuel S. Howland. 

On their mother's side, Mr. Belmont's children are descended from Edmund Perry, a 
Quaker, who came from Devonshire, England, to Sandwich, Mass. In 1676, he was fined for a 
"railing" written against the magistrate of Plymouth, and retired to Rhode Island. Christopher 
Raymond Perry, 176 1-18 18, the fifth in descent from Edmund, was born at Newport, R. I., and 
was an officer of the Continental Navy. His wife was Sarah Alexander, a native of Newry, 
County Down, Ireland, whom he met while a prisoner of war at that place. The five sons of 
Captain Perry all distinguished themselves in the navy of the United States. One daughter, 
Sarah Wallace Perry, married Captain George W. Rogers, U. S. N., and another, Jane Tweedy 
Perry, became the wife of Dr. William Butler, of the navy, and was the mother of Senator Matthew 
C. Butler, of South Carolina. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1785-18 19, one of the sons of 
Captain Perry, lives in American History through his victory on Lake Erie in 1813. 

Matthew Calbraith Perry, a younger brother, was born in Newport in 1794, and served 
in the navy during the War of 1812 under his brother. From 1833 to 1843, he was commandant 
at the Brooklyn Navy yard and devoted himself so assiduously to the study of his profession 



that he earned the title of "Chief Educator in the United States Navy." He also advocated the 
adoption of steam power for men of war, and from 1838 to 1840 commanded the first steam 
vessel in our navy— the Fulton II. Attaining the rank of Commodore, he commanded various 
squadrons and took part in the naval operations of the Mexican War. He was at the head of 
the American expedition to Japan, and negotiated the famous treaty of March 21st, 1854, which 
opened that empire to civilization. He died at New York in 1858, his services being commem- 
orated by a statue in Touro Park, Newport, a bust at Albany, and other memorials. His wife, 
Mrs. Belmont's mother, was Miss Slidell, a sister of the Honorable John Slidell, Senator from 
Louisiana prior to the war. He, with his fellow Confederate Commissioner to England, Mr. 
Mason, were the central figures in the Trent affair in 1861. Through the relationship with the 
Slidell family, General Ronald McKensie, U. S. A., was a cousin to the Messrs. Belmont. 

In the eldest sons of August Belmont are found all the strong traits of character of the 
Belmonts and Perrys, determination, energy, patriotism, a keen sense of right and wrong, and 
fearlessness in their convictions. The Honorable Perry Belmont, the eldest son, was born in 
New York, December 26th, 185 1, and graduated at Harvard in 1872, taking special honors in 
history and political economy. He then studied civil law in the University of Berlin, and, 
graduating from the law school of Columbia College in 1876, entered into a law partnership 
with Dudley Vinton and George Frelinghuysen. Mr. Belmont has been professionally engaged 
in important litigation before the higher courts, and, in 1880, argued, in the Supreme Court of 
the United States, the constitutional points in the well-known Pensacola Telegraph case, the 
decision of which was in favor of his clients. He is not a member of the firm of August 
Belmont & Co. Sharing his father's belief as to the duty of a citizen, Mr. Belmont has taken 
an active part in public life and lent his efforts toward the success of Democratic principles. 
He was elected to Congress in 1880 from the First New York District, and was re-elected three 
times, serving during four successive terms. He had a brilliant career in Congress and won 
a national reputation, opposing nefarious legislation and supporting all measures for the 
benefit of the people. He was a zealous advocate of tariff reform and was also prominent in 
constructive legislation, securing the passage of useful measures. During his last four years in 
Congress, he was head of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, one of the most important 
chairmanships. He was a forcible debator, and is also a public speaker of ability, while he 
has been a prominent figure in the conventions of his party. In 1882, the delegates of his own 
district pressed his name for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, an honor 
which he declined. In 1888, President Cleveland appointed Mr. Belmont Minister to Spain. 

Among the incidents of his public life he received the Cross of Commander of the Legion 
of Honor from the French Government for his efforts to secure the co-operation of the United 
States in the last Paris International Exhibition, at a critical moment, when the monarchical 
governments of Europe had officially declined anything more than commercial co-operation, 
withholding official recognition on account of the political aspect of that exhibition, held to 
celebrate the triumph of the revolution of 1789, and the establishment of the French republican 
form of government. 

August Belmont, second of the name and the second son of the family, was born in 
1854, and graduated at Harvard in 1874. He was trained in business under his father's eye and 
in the Iatter's banking office, succeeding to the senior partnership in the establishment on the 
death of August Belmont, Sr. He has shown great ability as a financier and has carried out 
many large monetary transactions. He was prominently identified with the syndicate of 1895, 
which subscribed for a large issue of Government bonds and thus assured the ability of the 
Government to continue specie payments. In 1881, he married Bessie Hamilton Morgan, and 
has three sons, August, Jr., Raymond and Morgan. He displays a fondness for the turf as a 
recreation for his leisure hours, and has done much for its welfare, his position in this connection 
resembling that which his father occupied. He is chairman of the Jockey Club and was 
appointed chairman of the State Racing Commission by Governor Morton. 

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GEORGE HOFFMAN BEND 

ON the maternal side, this gentleman's ancestors belong to the famous New York Ludlow 
family. He is a descendant in the seventh generation of Gabriel Ludlow, the first of that 
family in America, and beyond that point his lineage can be traced in clear and distinct 
form to some of the oldest families of nobility and landed gentry in Great Britain. On one side the 
family line goes back to Edward I. of England, in 1272, and his second wife, Margaret, daughter of 
Philip III. of France. In the tenth generation from Edward I., Edith, the daughter of Lord Windsor, 
married George Ludlow, of Hill Deverhill, Wiltshire. George Ludlow was the fourth in direct 
descent from William Ludlow, and his son, Sir Edmund Ludlow, was the grandfather of Major- 
General Edmund Ludlow, of the Parliamentary Army, and one of the Judges of the court which 
tried and condemned Charles I., and by his second wife, was the grandfather of Gabriel Ludlow, 
the first of the name, who was the father of Gabriel Ludlow, the American immigrant. The 
grandfather of the second Gabriel Ludlow was Thomas Ludlow, a cousin of General Ludlow. 

Gabriel Ludlow, who established the family name in this country, was born at Castle Carey, 
England, in 1663. Coming to New York in 1694, he became one of the most successful merchants 
in the young metropolis of the New World, and was a man of high standing in the community. 
In 1697, he married Sarah Haumer, daughter of the Reverend Dr. Joseph Haumer, and had a family 
of thirteen children, six of whom were sons. William Ludlow, the fourth son of Gabriel Ludlow, 
married Mary Duncan, daughter of Captain George Duncan, and had a family of twelve children. 
James Ludlow, the tenth child, was born in 17SO and married, in 1781, Elizabeth Harrison, 
daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Pelham) Harrison. He was graduated from Columbia College in 
1768, and his second daughter, Frances Mary, married Philip Thomas, son of Philip Thomas, of 
Rockland, Cecil County, Va., and his wife, Sarah Margaret Weems, daughter of William Weems, 
of Weems Forest, Calvert County. The Thomas family of Virginia also had a remarkable Old 
World ancestry. Philip Thomas, of Rockland, was a descendant of John, the fourth Baron 
Mowbray, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Seagrave, great-granddaughter of Edward I. of England; 
and a great-great-grandson of John, third Baron Mowbray, and Lady Joan Plantagenet, daughter of 
Henry, third Earl of Lancaster, a grandson of Henry III. of England. 

On the paternal side, Mr. George Hoffman Bend has a distinguished American ancestry. 
His grandfather was the Reverend Doctor Joseph G. Bend, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 
Baltimore, who married a granddaughter of Mary Boudinot, sister of Elias Boudinot. This latter 
name was established in America by Elle Boudinot, a French Huguenot refugee. His descendant, 
Elias Boudinot, was a Revolutionary patriot and was president of the Continental Congress from 
1779 to 1783. His only daughter married William Bradford, Attorney-General in President 
Washington's second cabinet. 

William Bradford Bend, the son of the Reverend Dr. Bend, was the father of Mr. George 
Hoffman Bend. He married Catherine Ann Thomas, daughter of Philip and Frances Mary 
(Ludlow) Thomas. Besides Mr. George H. Bend, the children of this alliance were : William 
Bradford Bend, second of the name, who married Isabella Innes; their children being Isabella 
Hadden, who married George Edward Wood; Harold Pelham, Meredith and Mary Aspinwall Bend; 
Catherine Ann Bend, who married James K. Whitaker, their daughter being Marion Ludlow 
Whitaker, and Elizabeth Pelham Bend, who married Henry Asher Robbins, her children being 
Henry Pelham Robbins and Maud Robbins, who married Harry Whitney McVicker. 

Mr. George Hoffman Bend is the second son of William B. and Catherine Ann (Thomas) 
Bend. He has long been an active member of the New York Stock Exchange and is prominent 
in both business and society. He married Elizabeth A. Townsend, their children being two 
daughters, Amy and Beatrice Bend. The family residence is in West Fifty-fourth Street. Mr. 
Bend is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League, New York City Riding, Players, 
and New York Yacht clubs, and of the American Geographical Society. 

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CHARLES LINNEAUS BENEDICT 

AMONG the prominent early settlers of Connecticut and Long Island was Thomas Benedict, 
from Nottinghamshire, England, who died in Norwalk, in 1685. Of his children, John 
Benedict, who was born in Southold, Long Island, was the ancestor of that branch of the 
family of which the Honorable Charles Linneaus Benedict is the prominent representative in this 
generation. Removing to Norwalk, John Benedict was a freeman of that place in 1670, a selectman. 
a deacon and a representative to the General Assembly. His wife was Phoebe Gregory, daughter 
of John and Sarah Gregory and a descendant of Henry Gregory, of Springfield, Mass. His son, 
James Benedict, 1685-1767, with several associates, purchased from the Indians the land whereon 
the town of Ridgefield, Conn., was established in 1708. He was an ensign and Captain in the 
train band, a justice of the peace, and several times a representative to the General Court. His 
wife was Sarah Hyatt, daughter of Thomas and Mary Hyatt. 

Peter Benedict, of the third American generation and great-great-grandfather of Mr. Charles 
L. Benedict, was born in Ridgefield in 17 14, was educated in Yale College and afterwards entered 
the Colonial Army. His death occurred in 1787. His second wife, the great-great-grandmother 
of the subject of this sketch, was Agnes H. Tyler, daughter of John Tyler, of Branford, Conn. His 
son, the Reverend Abner Benedict, 1740-1818, was next in line of descent of this branch of the 
family, graduated from Yale College in 1769, was ordained to the Congregational ministry and set- 
tled over the church in Middlefield, Conn. During the War of the Revolution, he was engaged in 
the patriot cause, taking part in the battles of White Plains, Harlem and elsewhere. After the war, 
he was settled in New Lebanon, North Salem and North Stamford, Conn., and Roxbury, N. Y. 
His wife, whom he married in 1771, was Lois Northrop, daughter of Dr. Northrop, of New Milford, 
Conn. His son, the Reverend Joel Tyler Benedict, 1772-1833, studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in Fairfield County in 1794, but afterwards entered the ministry as a Presbyterian clergy- 
man. In his later years, he was connected with the American Tract Society of Philadelphia. His 
wife was Currance Wheeler, daughter of Adin Wheeler, of Southbury, Conn. 

The father of Mr. Charles L. Benedict was George Wyllys Benedict. He was born in North 
Stamford, Conn., in 1796, and died in Burlington, Vt., September 24th, 1871. Graduated from 
Williams College, he became the principal of the academy in Westfield, Mass., then was a tutor in 
his alma mater, principal of the Newburgh Academy in Newburgh, N. Y., and a professor in 
the University of Vermont. He was also secretary and treasurer of the University board of 
trustees, and was the proprietor and editor of The Burlington Free Press. Twice he was elected 
a member of the Vermont State Senate. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the 
University of Vermont. His first wife, the mother of Mr. Charles L. Benedict, was Eliza Dewey, 
daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Owen) Dewey, of Sheffield, Mass. 

The Honorable Charles Linneaus Benedict was born in Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, in 1824. 
He was educated in the University of Vermont, being graduated from that institution in 1844. 
Taking up the study of law in the office of his uncle, Erastus C. Benedict, of New York, he was 
admitted to the bar and entered upon practice as a partner of his uncle. In 1865, President Abra- 
ham Lincoln established the United States Court of the Eastern District of New York and appointed 
Mr. Benedict to be Judge thereof. His career as a Judge was long and brilliant and he was recog- 
nized as one of the ablest, most independent and upright members of the judiciary. He resigned 
his position, June 19th, 1897, having occupied it for thirty-two years. The first wife of Judge 
Benedict, whom he married in i8s6, and who died in 1858, was Rosalie Benedict, daughter of 
Abner Benedict. By her he had one son, George Abner Benedict. His second wife was Sarah 
Cromwell, daughter of Dr. William Seaman, of New York, and widow of Henry B. Cromwell, of 
New York. His city residence is in Fifth Avenue and his country home is Far View, Dongan 
Hills, Staten Island. Judge Benedict is a member of the Century Association, the New England 
Society and the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn. 



EL1AS CORNELIUS BENEDICT 

DETAILED reference is made in another page of this volume to the origin of the 
Benedict family, of New England and New York, and to the circumstances connected 
with the emigration of its founder, Thomas Benedict, or Bennydick, as it was some- 
times written in his own day, who arrived at Boston in 1638. As related therein, he finally 
settled in Norwalk, Conn., where he was a town official and a legislator. One of his sons, 
James Benedict, settled in Danbury, Conn., and had a son who was the first white child born in 
that place. 

Descendants of this and of the other sons of Thomas Benedict were pioneers in the 
settlement of the different parts of the present State of New York, and during the Revolution 
members of the family were prominent and active patriots both in the army and in civil offices 
of honorable character. In each successive generation of the Benedict family, the bearers of the 
name have been distinguished by industry, intelligence and success in practical matters, while 
among their number have been some who have attained eminence in public and professional life 
or in the higher ranks of business. In fact, while the family is not as extensive as many of 
those which trace their descent from Puritan worthies of the early New England type, it has 
produced an unusually large number of men of the highest character and corresponding standing 
and influence in the community, while some of its members, notably the subject of this article, 
have, by their energy and attention to business affairs, contributed much to the material develop- 
ment of the country. 

Mr. Elias Cornelius Benedict is one of the leading representatives of the family in this 
generation. He is the son of the Reverend Henry Benedict and his wife, Mary Betts Lockwood, 
and was born January 24th, 1834, in the town of Somers, Westchester County, N. Y., where 
his father was pastor of a church. He was educated in schools at Westport, Conn., and 
Buffalo, N. Y., part of his early youth having been spent in the latter city. When fifteen years 
of age, he entered upon business life as a clerk in the Wall Street office of Corning & Co. In 
1857, when twenty-three years old, he succeeded to their business, organizing the banking firm 
of Benedict & Co., of which he has ever since been at the head. In 1871, Roswell P. Flower, 
who at a later date was Governor of New York, joined the firm which took the name of Benedict, 
Flower & Co., this partnership continuing for about four years. The firm has made a specialty 
of investment securities and in recent years has been largely interested in gas securities. Mr. 
Benedict is also connected with many financial institutions. The Gold Exchange Bank, which 
grew out of the gold speculation of the war time, was founded by him and his brother, and he 
has been prominent in the management of railroad and financial enterprises of great magnitude. 
He is a Democrat, but has never taken any active part in politics, although political preferment has 
often been tendered to him. He is an intimate friend of ex-President Cleveland. 

In 1859, Mr. Benedict married Sarah C. Hart, daughter of Lucius Hart, of New York. 
They have four children. Frederic Hart Benedict, the only son, married first Jennie Flagler, 
daughter of Henry M. Flagler, of New York, and after her death married Virginie Coudert, 
daughter of Frederic R. Coudert. Martha Benedict, the eldest daughter, married Ramsay 
Turnbull and lives in Bernardsville, N. J. The two unmarried daughters are Helen Ripley and 
Louise Adele Benedict. 

The family residence is 10 West Fifty-first Street and Mr. Benedict owns an estate at 
Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn., once the site of the famous Americus Club. Yachting engages 
much of his leisure time. He owns the steam yacht Oneida, belongs to the New York, American, 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian and other yacht clubs and is also a member of the Manhattan, Players and 
City clubs and the New England Society. He is also a trustee of the New York Homeopathic 
Medical College and Hospital, and a director of the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, having served 
as its treasurer for over twenty-five years. 

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HENRY HARPER BENEDICT 

AS far back as the beginning of the sixteenth century, William Benedict is mentioned in the 
records of Nottinghamshire, England, as a man of substance and member of a family that 
for several generations had been resident in the same county. Thomas Benedict, the 
great-grandson of William Benedict, who was born in Nottinghamshire in 1617, came to America 
when he was twenty-one years of age and was the founder of the family in this country. At first 
he lived on Long Island and was one of the founders and a deacon of the first Presbyterian Church 
of Jamaica, held several important local offices and was a delegate to Governor Nicolls' convention 
which was called to make laws for the inhabitants of Long island. For five years, from 1670 to 
1675, he was a member of the Assembly of the Province of New York. Removing afterwards to 
the Connecticut Colony, he died in Norwalk in 1690. 

James Benedict, a son of Thomas Benedict, the pioneer, was one of the company that settled 
the City of Danbury, Conn., where his son, James, was born in 1685, being the first male child 
born in that place. John Benedict, a grandson of James Benedict, Sr., was prominent in the 
administration of public affairs, being a Captain in the militia and for many years a member of the 
Legislature. After the Revolution, James Benedict, the son of John Benedict, removed to New 
York State, where he settled originally in Ballston, and finally in 1793 in Auburn. One of the first 
settlers of Herkimer County, N. Y., in 1790, when that section was far upon the frontier, was Elias 
Benedict, the son of James Benedict, of Auburn. He owned a farm in the wilderness and built 
one of the first houses ever erected in that part of the country. There his son, Micaiah, the father 
of Mr. Henry Harper Benedict, was born in 1801. Micaiah Benedict was an energetic, enterprising 
man of the most approved frontier stamp and made his own way in the world. Throughout most 
of his life an ardent Jackson Democrat, he became a Republican in the period just before the Civil 
War, casting his last Democratic vote for Franklin Pierce in the Presidential campaign of 1852. 
He was a member of the Order of Free Masons, and for several years Deputy Grand Master in 
New York State. His death occurred in 1881. 

Mr. Henry Harper Benedict was born in German Flats, Herkimer County, N. Y., October 
9th, 1844. He was educated in the Little Falls Academy, the Fairfield Seminary, and the Marshall 
Institute in Easton, and then took a regular course in Hamilton College, from which institution he 
was graduated in 1869. During a portion of the time that he was in college, he was also engaged 
as professor of Latin and higher mathematics in Fairfield Seminary. He was a member of the 
A K E fraternity. 

After he had completed his college course, he entered the establishment of E. Remington & 
Sons, at Ilion, N. Y., in a confidential position. Within a short time, he became one of the 
directors of Remington & Sons, and the treasurer of the Remington Sewing Machine Company. 
In 1882, he became a member of the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, and removed to 
New York. He is now the president of the corporation of the same name, having the foreign 
interests of the company under his care. 

While living in Ilion, N. Y., Mr. Benedict assisted in organizing the first Presbyterian Church 
of that place, and of which he was an elder, trustee and treasurer. He was also president of the 
Herkimer County Bible Society and for many years president of the Ilion Literary Association. 
Since his removal to New York, he has made his home on the Heights, in Brooklyn. He has 
intimate social relations in New York City, however, and is a member of the Fifth Avenue Presby- 
terian Church. He belongs to the Hamilton Club, the Riding and Driving Club, and the Long 
Island Historical Society of Brooklyn, and to the Grolier, A K E, Republican and Union League 
clubs of New York. He is a trustee of Hamilton College and of the Brooklyn Institute ot Arts and 
Sciences. In 1867, he married Maria Nellis, a daughter of Henry G. Nellis and granddaughter of 
General George H. Nellis, of Fort Plain, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict have one daughter, Helen 
Elizabeth Benedict. 



LE GRAND LOCKWOOD BENEDICT 

THE family name of Benedict is of very ancient origin. It is derived from the Latin 
Benedictus, or Blessed, and in different forms is common in all languages. First it 
was undoubtedly applied as a designation of ecclesiastics, but after a time it became 
secularized and adopted as the family name of those who had no special connection with the 
church. The ancestors of the American Benedicts are believed to have been originally Huguenots. 
Thomas Benedict, of Nottinghamshire, was living there in the seventeenth century, but his 
progenitors had removed from France, first to Germany, then to Holland, and finally to England in 
successive generations. He was an only son and bore a name that had been confined to only 
sons in the family for more than a hundred years. About the middle of the sixteenth century, 
to escape the oppressions of King Charles and Archbishop Laud, he exiled himself to this 
country. Upon the vessel in which he came to New England, in 1638, was Mary Brigdum, 
daughter of a widow, who had been his father's second wife. 

Thomas Benedict and Mary Brigdum were married soon after they arrived in this country, 
and resided for some time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Afterwards they removed to Long 
Island, where they lived at Huntington, Southold and Jamaica, and finally at Norwalk, Conn. 
Thomas Benedict was a freeholder of Jamaica in 1663 and a magistrate the same year, a 
commissioner of Huntington in 1662, a Lieutenant in 1663, town clerk of Norwalk, Conn., in 
1665, and the following year was reappointed to that position, which he retained until 1674. 
He was a representative to the General Assembly in 1670 and 1675. John Benedict, son of 
Thomas Benedict, was a freeman of Norwalk, Conn., in 1680, selectman in 1689, 1692-4, and 
1699, and representative to the General Assembly in 1722 and 1725. In the third generation, 
John' Benedict was a selectman in 1705 and 1715, a Sergeant of the troops in 171 1 and held 
other local offices. Nathaniel Benedict, son of the second John Benedict, was a selectman in 
1755-1778, a Lieutenant of the militia in 1762 and a representative to the General Assembly the 
same year. The second Nathaniel Benedict, who was born in 1744 and died in 1833, was a 
justice of the peace, a surveyor and a grand juror. Seth Williston Benedict, grandson of the 
second Nathaniel Benedict and the descendant in the seventh generation from Thomas Benedict, 
the pioneer, was the grandfather of the present Mr. Benedict. He was born in 1803 and 
became one of the leading newspaper owners and editors of the early part of the present 
century. Originally he was proprietor of The Norwalk (Conn.) Gazette. He removed to New 
York in 1833, and became proprietor and publisher of The New York Evangelist, a business 
relation that he maintained until 1837. In the latter year, he became publisher of The 
Emancipator and was also connected with other literary enterprises. In 1848, he commenced 
the publication of The New York Independent, but gave up his connection with that periodical 
in 1853. He was prominent in the religious life of the metropolis in the first half of the 
century, being a trustee and elder of the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church, and for many 
years a trustee and deacon of the Broadway Tabernacle. He died in 1869. 

James Hoyt Benedict, son of Seth Williston Benedict, was born in 1830, in Norfolk, 
Conn., and throughout the active years of his life was one of the leading bankers in New 
York City. His first wife, who was the mother of Mr. Le Grand Lockwood Benedict, was 
Mary Elizabeth Andrews, daughter of Samuel Andrews. The children of James Hoyt Benedict 
were Alida Andrews, Le Grand Lockwood, James Henry, Charles Williston, Howard Robinson 
and Elliot S. Benedict. 

Mr. Le Grand Lockwood Benedict was born in New York City August 24th, 1855, and 
is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. In 1881, Mr. Benedict 
married Sarah Collier Blaine and has two children, Le Grand Lockwood, Jr., and Margaret 
Dewitt Benedict. Mr. Benedict's residence is at Cedarhurst, Long Island, and he is a member of 
the Union and Rockaway Hunt clubs. 

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FREDERICK HENRY BETTS 

FOR seven generations, members of the Betts family have been prominent in Connecticut 
and New York, and by marriage have been connected with many other leading families 
of the Connecticut and Massachusetts Colonies. The lineage of Mr. Frederick Henry Betts 
goes back to distinguished ancestry. Thomas Betts, the head of the family in England, was 
the owner, in 13S6, of Hastings and Whitefoots Hall manors, Norfolk. One of his descendants, 
Thomas Betts, born in England in 161 8, emigrated to America in 1639 and was among the 
original founders of Guilford, Conn., and an early settler in Norwalk. Made a freeman of 
Norwalk in 1664, with fourteen others he received a grant of land in Wilton. He died in 1688. 
Daniel Betts, son of Thomas Betts, was born in 1657. He was a large land owner and lived 
to be over one hundred years old. His grandson, Samuel C. Betts, 1 732-1823, was one of the 
first settlers of Berkshire County, Mass. He was a member of the Ninth Regiment of Foot in 
the Revolution. Uriah Betts, the great-grandson of Sergeant Daniel Betts, born in Norwalk in 
1761, died in Newburgh, N. Y., in 1843. With his five brothers, he went into the Continental 
Army and served throughout the war. 

The father of Mr. Frederick Henry Betts was Frederick J. Betts, son of Uriah Betts. He was 
prominent in the military and civil life of New York half a century and more ago. Born in 
Richmond, Mass., in 1803, he was graduated from Williams College in 1821, became District 
Attorney of Orange County, N, Y., in 1824, and later on Master in Chancery. In 1826, he was 
Quartermaster of the Second Brigade of Cavalry and on the staff of Governor George Clinton. 
From 1827 to 1841, he was clerk of the United States District and Circuit Courts in New York, 
and 1868-69, Judge of the Hastings Court, Campbell County, Va. 

A review of the female ancestry of Mr. Betts brings up a long line of personages dis- 
tinguished in the first two centuries of the country. His mother, whom his father married in 
1833, was Mary Ward Scoville, who was descended on her father's side directly from John 
Scovil, one of the original proprietors of Waterbury, Conn., and on her mother's side from 
John Eliot, the famous apostle to the Indians, and Andrew Ward, who was a Colonel in the 
Colonial wars. She was also descended from George Wyllys, one of the first settlers in Hart- 
ford, Conn., and the second Governor of the Colony. Mr. Betts' grandmother was a daughter of 
the Honorable Nathan Rossiter, of Richmond, Mass., and a descendant in the third generation from 
the Honorable Josiah Rossiter, Assistant-Governor of Connecticut. His great-grandmother was 
a descendant from Captain John Taylor, of Northampton, Mass., and a generation further back 
the female head of the house was Sarah Comstock, granddaughter of Christopher Comstock, 
representaive to the General Assembly of Connecticut, 1686-90. 

Mr. Frederick Henry Betts was born in Newburgh, N. Y., March 8th, 1843. He was 
graduated from Yale College in 1864, and studied law in the law department of Columbia 
College, graduating therefrom with the degree of LL. B. in 1866. Yale gave him the degree 
of A. M. in 1867. He entered at once upon the practice of law and established a large 
practice. In 1872-73, he was counsel for the Insurance Department of the State of New York, 
and was lecturer on patent law in Yale College, 1873-84. In 1879, he published the Policy 
of Patent Laws, and he is recognized as one of the leading patent lawyers of the United States. 
Deeply interested in public affairs and a Republican in politics, he was a member of the 
Republican County Committee, 1884-85, a member of the Citizens' Committee of Seventy in 
1882, a member of the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred in 1883, vice-president of the City 
Reform Club, vice-president of the Republican Club in 1885 and a member of the People's 
Municipal League in 1890-91. He belongs to the University, Century, Grolier, Riding and other 
clubs. He married, in 1867, Louise, daughter of John F. Holbrook; they have three children, Louis 
Frederick H. Betts, Yale 1891; M. Eliot Betts, who married Russell H. Hoadley, Jr.; and Wyllys 
Rossiter Betts, Yale 1898. In 1875, he founded the Betts prize in the law department of Yale College. 

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JOHN BIGELOW 

JOURNALIST, historian, statesman and diplomat, the Honorable John Bigelow comes of one of 
the oldest New England families. John Bigelow, the ancestor of the Bigelows of America, 
was an Englishman who settled in Watertown, Mass., before 1642. His son Joshua, 1655- 
1745 was a soldier in King Philip's War, where he was wounded. For his valiant services 
he received a grant of land in Westminster, Mass., and became one of the first citizens of that 
place. His grandson John, 1681-1770, went in early life to Hartford, Conn., and thence to 
Colchester Conn., where he was a prominent man, being ensign and Lieutenant in the militia. 
In subsequent generations, the descendants of the first John Bigelow were prominent in Colchester, 
Marlborough and Glastonbury, Conn., and in Maiden, N. Y. The father of the Honorable John 
Bigelow was Asa Bigelow, of Maiden, who was born in Marlborough, Conn., in 1779 and 
died in Maiden, in 1850. He was of the sixth generation in descent from John Bigelow, of 
Watertown, Mass. 

The Honorable John Bigelow was born in Maiden, N. Y., November 25th, 1817, and was 
graduated from Union College in the class of 1835. Admitted to the bar in 1839, he engaged in 
active practice for several years, but becoming interested in journalism was editor of The Plebeian 
and The Democratic Review. From 1845 to 1848, he was an inspector of the State prison at Sing 
Sing. In 1849, he began an active journalistic career that lasted for several years. Becoming 
associated with William Cullen Bryant as joint owner of The Evening Post, he was managing 
editor of that journal until 1861. With the accession of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency his 
most conspicuous public service began. In 1861, he was appointed to the United States Consulate 
in Paris, and after the death of Minister Dayton, in 1865, was advanced to the position of United 
States Minister to the Court of France, which position he retained until 1867. Returning home at 
the expiration of his term of service he was elected Secretary of State of New York in 1868. 
During the last twenty-five years, Mr. Bigelow has been principally engaged in literary 
work. In 1886, he inspected the Panama Canal for the New York Chamber of Commerce and 
made a valuable report of that undertaking as a result of his investigations. The same year he 
received the honorary degree of LL. D. from Racine College, Wisconsin, and was made an honorary 
member of the Chamber of Commerce. His first book, Jamaica in 1850; the Effects of Sixteen 
Years of Freedom on a Slave Colony, the result of several trips made to the West Indies, was 
published in 1850. In 1856, he published A Life of Fremont and, in Paris, in 1863, Les Etats Unis 
d'Amerique. While in Paris he discovered original manuscripts of Benjamin Franklin which he 
edited in an Autobiography of Franklin published in 1868, and the following year he published 
Some Recollections of the late Antoine Pierre Berryer. His other literary productions include The 
Wit and Wisdom of the Haytiens, Molines the Quietist, Life of William Cullen Bryant, Some 
Recollections of Edouard Laboulaye, the Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin, and France and 
Hereditary Monarchy. 

Mr. Bigelow has come again into special public prominence during the last few years through 
his connection with the estate of Samuel J. Tilden. When Mr. Tilden died, in 1886, he made Mr. 
Bigelow one of his executors and his authorized biographer, and a two-volume edition of the 
writings and speeches of Mr. Tilden has been one of the results of this trust. He is president of 
the Tilden Trust, that has the management of Mr. Tilden's bequest for a free public library in New 
York, and is president of the board of trustees of the New York Public Library. 

Mr. Bigelow has a city residence in Gramercy Park and a country home at Highland Falls. 
He belongs to the Century Association and other clubs, is a member of the New England Society 
and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and connected with other literary and social 
organizations. In 1850, he married Jane Tunis Poultney, of Baltimore, Md. His eldest son is 
Captain John Bigelow, U. S. A., and another son is Poultney Bigelow, the traveler and author. 
His daughter, Grace Bigelow, has also done some excellent literary work. 



ARTHUR. F. BISSELL, M. D. 

ON the female side of his house Dr. Arthur F. Bissell traces his ancestry back to the 
Wolcott family, famous in the early annals of New England. The Wolcotts were 
aristocratic English folk, and Henry Wolcott, who came to America in 1630, was one of 
the first settlers in Windsor, Conn. Among his numerous descendants within two centuries were 
eleven Governors of States, thirty judges and many lawyers and clergymen of prominence. In 
Connecticut, Governors Roger, Oliver and Oliver Wolcott, Jr., and Governors Matthew and Roger 
Griswold, were most distinguished in the family in the last century. Branches of the family have 
since become established in other parts of the United States, and the bearers of the name have in 
many instances displayed an hereditary talent for public life, as well as for professional, literary and 
business pursuits. 

The Wolcott ladies were celebrated for their beauty, and none more so than Jerusha, grand- 
daughter of Governor Roger Wolcott, who married Epaphras Bissell and became the mother of a 
family that has given many able men and women to professional and business life both in the States 
of Connecticut, New York and elsewhere. Dr. Arthur F. Bissell is the grandson of Epaphras and 
Jerusha (Wolcott) Bissell. His father, Edward Bissell, the second child of Epaphras Bissell, was 
born in 1797. He married Jane Loring Reed, and became a leading merchant and manufacturer 
in the western part of New York State. He built and operated mills in Lockport, and conducted 
other important business interests. In 1833, he moved to Toledo, O., was one of the founders of 
that city and very largely instrumental in its development. The Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad, from 
Toledo to Kalamazoo, was constructed by him in the face of much opposition, and this was the 
beginning of the railroad operations in that section which resulted in making Toledo the commer- 
cial centre that it is to-day. Edward Bissell died in 186 1. A condensed history of Toledo, 
published in 1869, says : "Whatever Toledo may become in the future, she will always owe her 
first start in life to Edward Bissell, a gentleman of high education and refinement, of great fore- 
sight and sagacity." 

The Bissells, paternal ancestors of the gentleman whose descent is traced in this page, 
were French Huguenots. The arms of the family, as described by Burke, are : gules, on a 
bend or. ; three escallops, sable, crest a demi-eagle, with wings displayed, sable ; charged on 
the neck with an escallop shell or. Motto, In Recto Decus. Leaving France after the 
massacre of St. Bartholomew, members of the family went to England. John Bissell emigrated 
to America, coming to Plymouth, Mass., in 1628. He afterwards removed to Connecticut, and 
was among the first founders of the settlement of Windsor, a community that stands preeminent 
in the annals of New England as the home from which have sprung so many families of great 
distinction in public service, and in professional and commercial life. Epaphras Bissells father was 
a Captain in the Revolutionary war, and the fourth in descent from the original John Bissell, 
through his second son, Thomas. 

Dr. Arthur F. Bissell, son of Edward Bissell, is of the seventh generation from John Bissell 
of Windsor. Born in Geneseo, N. Y., June, 1826, he studied medicine in the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of New York City, from which institution he was graduated in 1848. Until 1863, 
he practiced medicine in Toledo, O., where he built up a large practice. Since that date he has 
been actively engaged in manufacturing business in New York City. In 185 1, he married Anna E 
daughter of Judge Nehemiah Browne, of Rye, N. Y., a descendant of Thomas Browne, of Rye[ 
England, who was a descendant of Sir Anthony Browne, Standard Bearer of all England in the 
reign of Henry VII., and who married Lady Lucy Neville, fourth daughter of Sir John Neville 
Marquis of Montague. In 1664, Thomas and Haekaliah Browne, with their friend, Peter Disbrow' 
removed to Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., where they became its largest land owners, naming 
the town from Rye, in the County of Sussex, England, which had been their former home in the 
mother country. 



PELHAM ST. GEORGE BISSELL 

ONE of the first individuals to divine the vast stores of wealth that were hidden for 
centuries in the petroleum fields of Pennsylvania was George H. Bissell, college 
professor, journalist and scientist. He was a descendant in direct line from John 
Bissell, the American pioneer, who was one of the first settlers of the town of Windsor, Conn. 
A member of a noble and ancient Huguenot family, John Bissell came from England to the 
Plymouth Colony in 1628. His numerous descendants have been conspicuous in business and in 
public life in Connecticut and elsewhere in every generation since his time. One of them, Isaac 
Bissell, the father of George H. Bissell and a Revolutionary soldier, born in Connecticut, was noted 
as a fur trader in Mackinaw and Detroit. 

The mother of George H. Bissell was Nancy Wemple, daughter of Captain John Wemple, 
of Revolutionary fame, and herself the owner of an estate on the Mohawk River, near Johnstown, 
N. Y. Captain John Wemple commanded the Tryon Company of Militia in 1775. His father, who 
died in Schenectady in 1749, was one of the patentees of that place, and his grandfather, Myndert 
Wemple, a justice of the peace, who was killed in the massacre of the Mohawk Valley in 1690, 
married Diewie, daughter of Evert Janse Wendel, a member of another noted Dutch family of 
Western New York. Jan Barentse Wemple, the first of the name in this country, was the ancestor 
of George H. Bissell in the fifth generation. Born in Dort, Lower Netherlands, in 1620, he came 
to America in 1640 and settled in Esopus, now Kingston. He moved to Albany about 1643, and 
was one of the fifteen original settlers of Schenectady. In the old records, he is set down as the 
owner of the bouwery in Lubberdes Land, now Troy. He died in 1663, and his widow, Maritie 
Myndertse Wemple, who spent the remaining years of her life with her son Myndert in Schenec- 
tady, perished in the massacre of 1690, when the Indians destroyed that little settlement and 
nearly all its inhabitants. 

George H. Bissell, who was born in Hanover, N. H., in 1821, died in New York in 1884. 
He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1845, and became a professor of Greek and Latin 
in the University of Norwich, Vt. Subsequently he was the Washington correspondent of The 
Richmond Times, traveled extensively throughout the West Indies, was a journalist in New 
Orleans, and principal of the High School and superintendent of the schools in the same city. The 
observation of traces of coal oil in specimens of rock from Pennsylvania that had been submitted 
to him for examination at Dartmouth, led him to look carefully into that subject. He became 
convinced of the existence of reservoirs of oil underground where these specimens had come from, 
and coming to New York in 1853, he organized, the following year, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil 
Company, the first petroleum company ever started in the United States. In association with 
J. G. Eveleth, he leased land in Titusville, Pa., and began operations. The first venture was not a 
success, however, and in 1855 the company was reorganized, although it was not until 1859 that 
rich veins of oil were struck. Mr. Bissell, with his partners, reaped handsome financial returns 
from their enterprise, and in a few years he retired from business and settled in New York City, 
spending the remaining years of his life in caring for his real estate interests. He always retained 
his early affection for Dartmouth College, and presented to that institution its handsome 
gymnasium. 

Mr. Pelham St. George Bissell, son of George H. Bissell and his wife, Ophie Louise Griffin, 
was born in New York, December 5th, 1858. Educated in the Columbia Grammar School and in 
Columbia College, he graduated from the latter institution in the class of 1880. He succeeded his 
father in the care of the family property, and is also interested in the manufacture of paper, being 
the organizer and a large owner of the Adirondacks Pulp Company. He married Helen Alsop 
French, daughter of Colonel Thomas J. French, lives in West Thirty-ninth Street, and has one son, 
Pelham St. George Bissell, Jr. He is a member of the Columbia College Alumni Association, the 
New York Athletic Club and the New York Historical Society. 

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GEORGE DACRE BLEYTHING, M.D. 

ON the one hand Dr. Bleything's descent is traced to a family of Welsh gentry, possessing 
aristocratic connections, which at an early date in the history of this country became 
identified with its social and material progress; and on the other it is connected with 
the struggle for independence through a family which took a patriotic part in the conflict. His 
great-grandfather was William Bleything, of Wrexham, in the County of Denbigh, Wales, a 
landed gentleman of ancient descent, the family coat of arms being still borne by its American 
branch. He married Ellen Duckworth, of the same county, and their second son, Joseph 
Duckworth Bleything, grandfather of the subject of this article, became a prominent manufacturer, 
possessing large mills for the manufacture of paper at Manchester, Eng. ; Whippany, Morris 
County, N. J. ; Paterson, in the same State, and Westchester, N. Y. His largest interests were in 
this country, and it was in his establishment at Whippany that paper was first manufactured by 
machinery in the United States. The wife of Joseph Duckworth Bleything was an English lady 
of high connections, Mary Hughes, daughter of Captain John Hughes of the Royal Navy, and his 
wife, Mabel Beresford Hope, whose family, it is needless to say, has for many generations 
occupied a place in the British peerage and taken a conspicuous place in the history of the mother 
country, many of its representatives being noted in annals of the British Army and Navy or in 
Parliamentary and administrative affairs. Members of it have intermarried with a large number 
of the families of nobility and gentry in the United Kingdom and it continues to the present 
day one of the most representative names of its class in England. 

Edmund Langstreth Bleything, Dr. Bleything's father, was the son of Joseph Duckworth 
Bleything and his wife, Mary Hughes, and married Mary Ward Tuttle, of Morris County, N. J., 
her family having taken part in the Revolutionary War on the patriotic side. The Burn, at 
Whippany, near Morristown, now Dr. Bleything's country residence, occupies the site of the old 
Colonial mansion in which the American and French officers of Washington were often hospitably 
entertained by his mother's family when the Continental headquarters was established at Morris- 
town. The estate was a Colonial grant, and was inherited by its present possessor through his 
mother, whose family was noted in the early history of Morris County, being among the earliest 
people of social distinction in that section of the present State. The original papers relating to 
their grant are still in the possession of the family. 

Dr. George Dacre Bleything was born in Morris County, October 18th, 1842. He was 
educated under a private tutor at Trenton, N. J., and entering Columbia College, graduated from 
the medical department with the degree of M.D., and has since practiced his profession in this 
city. His marriage connected him with one of the most prominent families in New England ; 
Mrs. Bleything, who was a native of Savannah, Ga., having been born Maria Howard Bulfinch. 
Her father was the Reverend S. G. Bulfinch, of Boston, and her mother Maria Howard, of 
Savannah, Ga., daughter of Samuel Howard, who was the first in this country, after Robert 
Fulton, to construct steamboats. Her maternal grandfather, it should also be noted, figured in the 
Boston Tea Party. On the paternal side, Mrs. Bleything's grandfather was the famous Charles 
Bulfinch, the leading American architect of the period succeeding the Revolution, whose work is 
still admired in the venerable State House at Boston, and who designed the west wing of the 
Capitol at Washington, D. C. Her grandmother was Susan (Apthorpe) Bulfinch, and the family is 
still represented in Boston society, its members possessing many valuable and interesting relics, 
including family portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lely, Coply, Smibert, Sir Benjamin West and 
Angelica Kaufman. 

Dr. Bleything's town residence is No. 1008 Madison Avenue, and, as already indicated, his 
country place is the old seat of his maternal ancestors in Morris County, N. J., which has come 
down to him as the representative of its original Colonial grantees and which is one of the historical 
places of that vicinity. 

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CORNELIUS NEWTON BLISS 

SEVERAL branches of the Bliss family have been prominent in New York during the last two 
generations or more. They are derived from different sons of Thomas Bliss, the American 
pioneer, who came from Devonshire, England, to America about 1635, lived in Braintree, 
Mass., and Hartford, Conn., and died about 1640. The Honorable Cornelius Newton Bliss is 
descended from Jonathan Bliss, of Rehoboth, Mass., who was born in England about 1625, the son 
of Thomas Bliss, the pioneer. Jonathan Bliss was a freeman of Plymouth in 1655 and a freeman of 
Rehoboth in 1658, being one of the first settlers of that place. His wife, whom he married in 1648, 
was Miriam Harmon. He died in 1687. His son, Jonathan Bliss, of Rehoboth, who was born in 
1666, married, in 1691, Miriam Carpenter, daughter of William and Miriam (Searls) Carpenter. 
Their son, Lieutenant Ephraim Bliss, who was born in 1699, married, in 1723, Rachel Carpenter. 
Captain Jonathan Bliss, of Rehoboth, 1739-1800, married, in 1759, Lydia Wheeler. Their son, 
Asahel Bliss, who was born in 1771, was a deacon of the Congregational Church of Rehoboth for 
fifty years. His wife, whom he married in 1794, was Deborah Martin, daughter of Edward Martin. 
He died in 1855 and his wife survived him three years, dying in 1858. Asahel N. Bliss, 1808- 1833, 
son of Deacon Asahel and Deborah (Martin) Bliss, was the father of the Honorable Cornelius N. 
Bliss. He was a prominent merchant of Fall River, Mass. His wife, whom he married in 1831, 
was Irene B. Luther. 

The Honorable Cornelius N. Bliss was born in Fall River, January 26th, 1833. His father 
died while he was still an infant, and his mother, after some years of widowhood, married Edward 
S. Keep, of Fall River. Mr. and Mrs. Keep removed to New Orleans in 1840, but the son was left 
with friends to attend school until he had attained the age of fourteen. Then he joined his 
mother in New Orleans and completed his education in the high school in that city. When he 
was through with his books, he entered the counting-room of his step-father, and after remaining 
there for a year, left New Orleans for Boston and went into the dry goods and jobbing house of 
James M. Bebee & Co. In 1866, the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Bliss became a member of the 
firm of John S. & Eben Wright & Co., one of Boston's largest commission houses. But after 
the Civil War, Boston began to lose its great dry goods trade, that had been centered in that 
city for a quarter of a century or more, and that now was gradually shifting to New York, and 
shortly Mr. Bliss removed to the metropolis and established a branch of the Boston house. 
Important branches were established afterwards in Philadelphia and Chicago, and the concern has 
become one of the largest and most influential in its trade in the country. In the course of 
time, the firm name was changed to Wright, Bliss & Fabyan, and later to Bliss, Fabyan & Co., 
as it now stands. 

Politically Mr. Bliss is a Republican, and his activity in the party organization has given him 
a national reputation. He has been particularly prominent in the interest that he has taken in 
municipal affairs and is a recognized leader in every movement for honest government. The 
Republican nomination for Governor of the State was suggested to him in 1885, but he resolutely 
declined the honor, and again in 1891 he refused to be a candidate for the same office. In 
1892, and in 1896, in important Presidential campaigns, he was treasurer of the Republican 
National Committee. In 1897 he became a member of the Cabinet of President McKinley, taking 
the portfolio of the Interior Department. 

For several years he was a vice-president of the Union League Club, and one of the most 
active and honored members of that influential organization. He has been chairman of the 
executive committee and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce; vice-president of the Fourth 
National Bank ; president of the New England Society ; a governor and treasurer of the New 
York Hospital, and is at the head of many social and benevolent organizations. He married, in 1859, 
Elizabeth Plumer, daughter of the Honorable Avery Plumer, of Boston, and has two children 
living, a son, Cornelius Bliss, Jr., and a daughter. His residence is in Madison Avenue. 

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GEORGE BLISS 

ONE of the foremost lawyers of his time, and also noted for his public spirit and devotion to 
the cause of religion, Colonel George Bliss had a line of distinguished New England 
ancestry. His remote progenitor was William Bliss, of Belstone, Devonshire, a wealthy 
landowner who, as a Puritan, was subjected to persecution in the time of Archbishop Laud and 
suffered the loss of his estate. His sons sought refuge in the New World and one of them, 
Thomas Bliss, 1 580-1640, founded the branch of the family to which Colonel Bliss belonged. 
Thomas Bliss lived in Braintree, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., his son being Samuel Bliss, 1624- 
1720, of Springfield, Mass., who married Mary Leonard. Next in line of descent were Ebenezer 
Bliss, 1683-1717, who married Mary Gaylord, and Jedediah Bliss, whose wife was Rachel Sheldon. 
The Honorable Moses Bliss, 1 736-1814, was their son. He was graduated from Yale College in 
1755, studied theology and preached for a short time, but finally abandoned the church for the 
bar, becoming a very successful lawyer and a Judge in Hampshire County, Mass. He was a 
strong patriot in the Revolution. His wife was Abigail Metcalf, daughter of William and Abigail 
(Edwards) Metcalf. Their son, the Honorable George Bliss, of Springfield, was born in 1764, 
graduated from Yale in 1785 and in 1823 was made an LL. D. by Harvard. He also was a very 
distinguished lawyer, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, Senate and Executive Council, 
and a delegate to the famous Hartford convention. His wife was Hannah Clarke, daughter 
of Dr. John Clarke, of Lebanon, Conn. The Honorable George Bliss, second of the name, was 
born in Springfield in 1793 and was graduated from Yale in 1812. In the war with England, he 
served as aide, with rank of Colonel, on the staff of General Jacob Bliss. He was several 
times in the Massachusetts Legislature, being Speaker of the House in 1853, president of the 
Senate in 1855, a member of the Council and a Presidential elector. He was one of the founders of 
the Boston & Albany Railroad and president of the company, 1836-42, and also president of several 
other roads. His wife, Mary Shepard Dwight, was the daughter of Jonathan and Sarah Dwight. 

Colonel George Bliss, of New York, was born of this parentage in Springfield, May 3d, 
1830. He graduated from Harvard in 1851, studied law and made New York City his home. 
In 1859, he was private secretary to Governor Edwin D. Morgan, and was on the Governor's staff 
with rank of Colonel, was Captain in the Fourth Heavy Artillery, and raised several regiments of 
colored troops for the Civil War. 

The services of Colonel Bliss to the community and to his own profession have been 
notable. During 1872-77, he was United States District Attorney, and was one of the com- 
mission to revise and condense the laws relating to New York City. As an author, he is 
known throughout the whole United States for his great work, Bliss' Annotated Code of Civil 
Procedure of the State of New York. Early in his legal career, he issued a standard treatise 
on The Law of Life Insurance. He was an active member of the Republican party and a leader in 
its councils in this city and State. 

During the administration of President Arthur, the property of the American Catholic 
College in Rome was threatened with confiscation by the Italian authorities, though belonging to 
American citizens. Colonel Bliss actively interested himself in the matter and secured the interven- 
tion of the United States, the protest of our Minister at Rome, W. W. Astor, being effectual to stop 
the spoliation. In 1895, His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII., in recognition of this and other services 
of Colonel Bliss to the Church, made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory. 

In 1858, Colonel Bliss married Catharine Van Rensselaer Dwight, daughter of Frances 
Dwight, of Albany. She died in 1884. In 1887, he contracted a second alliance with Anai's 
Casey, daughter of Henry H. Casey, of New York. Three children were born to them, of 
whom Ruth Alice Bliss and George Bliss, Jr., survive. Colonel Bliss died September 2d, 1897. 
The family residence is in West Thirty-ninth Street, and Colonel Bliss' clubs embraced the 
Union League and Catholic, and he belonged also to the New England Society. 

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JAMES ORVILLE BLOSS 

AMONG the early settlers of Watertown, Mass., were Edmund Bloys, or Bloss, Robert 
Jennison and James Cutler. From these pioneers, as well as from other early Colonists 
of New England, Mr. James Orville Bloss is descended. Edmund Bloss, the first 
American ancestor of the family, was admitted a freeman of Watertown in 1639, and was one of 
the leading men of that place. He was a native of England and came of an old Suffolk family. 
His first wife, Mary, died in 1675, and he afterwards married Ruth Parsons, daughter of Hugh 
Parsons. He died in 1681, having been born in 1587. Ruth Parsons was a niece of Joseph 
Parsons, who, with his brother Hugh, was settled in Springfield before 1636. The brothers came 
originally from Devonshire, England. 

Richard Bloss, of the second American generation, was born in England in 1623 and took 
the oath of fidelity in Watertown in 1652. He died in 1665. His wife, whom he married in 1658, 
was Micael Jennison, daughter of Robert Jennison, who was a freeman of Watertown in 1645 and 
owned many acres of land there. Robert Jennison came to this country with his brother, 
William Jennison, as a follower of Governor John Winthrop. William Jennison became prominent 
in early Colonial affairs, was a freeman of Watertown in 1630, frequently a selectman of the town, 
a representative to the General Court and Captain of the train band. The New England families 
now bearing the name are all descended from Robert Jennison. 

Richard Bloss, grandson of Edmund Bloss, the pioneer, was born in 1659 and removed from 
Watertown to Killingly, Conn., in middle life, being a freeman of that place in 1690. He married, 
in 1688, Ann Cutler, daughter of James and Lydia (Wright) Cutler, of Cambridge Farms, now part 
of the town of Lexington, Mass. Her father was born in 1635 and died in 1685. He was a farmer 
and a soldier in the War with King Philip's Indians. His wife, whom he married in 1665, was 
the widow of Samuel Wright and daughter of John Moore, of Sudbury. The paternal grand- 
father of Ann Cutler was James Cutler, who was born in England in 1606 and settled in Watertown 
in 1634, being one of the original grantees of that place. Tradition says that his wife, Anna, was 
a sister of the wife of Captain John Grout. About 1651, he removed from Watertown to Cam- 
bridge Farms. 

James Bloss, 1702-1790, of Killingly, Conn., was the great-great-grandfather of Mr. James 
Orville Bloss. The great-grandparents of Mr. Bloss were James Bloss, of Hebron, Conn., who 
was born in Killingly and died in New Rochelle, N. Y., in 1776, and his wife, Elizabeth Clough, 
1733-1803, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Clough. James Bloss was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
War and his son, Joseph Bloss, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was also a Revolutionary 
soldier, being in the detachment of troops that was on duty at the execution of Major Andre. 
Joseph Bloss was born in Thompson, Conn., in 1759 and died in 1838. His wife was Amy 
Kennedy, who was born in Milton, Mass., in 1768, daughter of Andrew Kennedy, 1729-1788, and 
Amy Wentworth, 1732- 1802. The father of Mr. Bloss was James Orville Bloss, Sr., of Rochester, 
N. Y., who was born in Alford, Mass., in 1805 and died in Rochester in 1869. His wife was Eliza 
Ann Lockwood, 1810-1880, daughter of Roswell Lockwood, 1783-1863, and Thalia Oviatt, 
1787-1873. 

Mr. James Orville Bloss was born in Rochester, N. Y., September 30th, 1847. Early in life, 
he determined to devote himself to business pursuits, and with that end in view secured a thorough 
business training. When he arrived of age, having settled in New York, he became a cotton 
merchant and has followed that business with success. In 1892, he was elected president of the 
New York Cotton Exchange and reelected to that honorable position in the following year. He is 
also a member of the Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Third National Bank. Although 
actively engaged in business for many years, he has found time and opportunity for extensive 
travel abroad. He is unmarried and resides in East Forty-seventh Stret. His clubs are the Metro- 
politan and the Union League. 



CARL F. W. BODECKER, D.D.S. 

CARL F. W. BODECKER, D.D.S., M.D.S., is of German birth. His parents, Henry 
Bodecker and Doris Bodecker, born Lohmann, were residents of Celle, Hanover, where 
Dr. Bodecker was born July 6, 1846. He was educated in the schools of his native 
city. He began the study of dentistry in Germany ; in 1866, he went to London, Eng., where 
he was engaged in the practice of his profession till 1869, when he came to this country. He 
graduated from the New York College of Dentistry in 1871, receiving the first prize awarded by 
the faculty. 

One of the most successful and most popular members of the dental profession in this city, 
he has made his personal impression on dental science, and is a member of many societies 
connected with his profession, both in the United States and in Europe. In 1878, when the Dental 
Society of the State of New York desired that the practitioners whose interests it concerned should 
be represented in the book entitled The Public Service of the State of New York, Dr. Bodecker 
was one of four gentlemen honored by being selected to have their portraits as representative 
dentists appear in the volume. When the International Medical Congress, made up of delegates 
from all parts of the world, assembled in Washington, in 1887, Dr. Bodecker was Chairman of 
the Dental Clinic. Again, in 1893, he presided over the Clinic of the International Dental 
Congress, that met at Chicago during the World's Fair, and has held a distinguished position in 
other scientific gatherings connected with his chosen profession and its interests in various 
directions. 

Aside from his private practice, Dr. Bodecker has occupied many important positions in 
connection with dental institutions. He was a professor of Dental Histology and Embryology in 
the New York College of Dentistry, and occupied the same chair in the University of Buffalo. 
Many dental societies have honored him with election as an honorary member ; in this country, 
the New Jersey State Dental Society, the New Jersey Central Dental Society, and the California 
State Odontological Society. He is also an honorary member of the American Dental Society of 
Europe, Der Central Verein Deutscher Zahnarzte, and the Svenska Tandlakave Sallskapt. Dr. 
Bodecker has written much upon the subject of dentistry, contributing many valuable papers to 
dental periodicals, and publishing several pamphlets. He is also the author of The Anatomy 
and Pathology of the Teeth, a work that has been accepted by the profession as an authorita- 
tive treatise, and which has been quoted with high commendation by the leading authorities 
upon dentistry, both here and abroad, as one of the most advanced works of its kind of the 
present age. 

In 1874, Dr. Bodecker was married to Wilhelmina Himbeck, who came from a German 
family distinguished in the annals of the State. Her grandfather was the Count Von Himbeck, and 
her father was in the direct line of inheritance to the title, which is an ancient one, descending 
from a line of eminent ancestors. He married Doris Konig, who did not belong to the nobility, 
and for that reason forfeited his right to the title, which passed to collateral heirs. Dr. and 
Mrs. Bodecker have two sons. Charles F. Bodecker is a minor. Dr. Henry W. C. Bodecker 
is a practicing dentist, who has taken his degrees of B.S. and D.D.S., and is associated with his 
father in the practice of his profession and gives promise of sustaining the paternal reputation for 
original scientific investigation. 

Dr. Bodecker resides at 60 East Fifty-eighth Street, and has a country residence at Centre 
Moriches, L. I. He is interested in gentlemanly outdoor life, but especially in yachting and 
riding. He is not much of a club man, finding recreation from his professional life only in the 
German Liederkranz. He has traveled extensively throughout Europe, and has had entrance to 
the most aristocratic society. He has been presented at court in the Old World. At home he is a 
generous entertainer and has had, from time to time, as his guests, many distinguished foreign 
visitors. 

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JOHN BOGART 

FOR centuries the name of Bogart has been borne by many Hollanders of distinction. Some- 
times it has been spelled Bogart, and again Bogert, and different branches of the family 
have at times used the prefixes, van den or van der. A Bogart was Minister of Remon- 
strants in the sixteenth century. Another was Recorder General of the Dutch Provinces in the 
seventeenth century, and his portrait appears in one of Rembrandt's famous paintings. William 
Jans Boo<mert was a kirk-meister in Amsterdam in 1590, Jan Willem Boogaert was a commissioner 
in the same city in 1611, and Johan Bogaert was a deputy sheriff. Some members of the family 
Latinized the name, and thus, in this country, we have Everhardus Bogardus, who was one of the 
earliest Dutch clergymen in New Amsterdam. Several pioneers of the name settled in New Jersey, 
and on the Hudson, and one influential branch went to Beverwyck, now Albany. 

Teunis (Anthony) Bogaert was the Dutch ancestor in the old country of that branch of the 
family which settled in Beverwyck. He was a resident of Schoenderwoert, a small village near 
Leerdam, in the southern part of Holland. His son, Cornelis Bogaert, of Schoenderwoert, was the 
father of' Cornelis Bogaert, who was buried in Albany in 1665. The second Cornelis Bogaert 
came from Holland in 1640 to Rensselaerwyck, where he held land under the Patroon Van Rensse- 
laer in 1641. He also owned land in Beverwyck. His descendants married and intermarried with 
the leading Dutch families of Albany and vicinity. His son, Jacob, who died in 1725, married 
Jannetje, daughter of Pieter Quackenbush, and his grandson, Isaac, who died in 1770, married 
Hendricke, daughter of Hendrick Jants Oothout. His great-grandson, Hendrick I., who was born 
in 1729 and died 1821, married Barbara, daughter of Johannes Marselis. 

During the Revolutionary War, Hendrick I. Bogart was Assistant Deputy Quartermaster- 
General under Colonel Morgan Lewis, and a member of the Committee of Safety, was appointed 
by Congress Commissioner of Stores and Provisions in 1775, and by General Washington Inspector 
of Revenues of the Port of Albany in 1791. He was an alderman in 1767 and city surveyor. 

Johannes Bogart, who was the son of Hendrick I. Bogart, was born in 1761, married Chris- 
tiana, daughter of Captain John Vought, of Duanesburgh, and died in 1853, aged ninety-two. At 
the time of his death he was the oldest mariner of the Hudson River, having commanded a vessel 
in 1776, and was an intimate friend of General Phillip Schuyler, of the old Patroon Stephen Van 
Rennse'lear and of other leading men of that period. He was the father of John Henry Bogart, 
who, born in Albany in 1809 and educated in the Albany Academy, was a prominent merchant 
of Albany and New York, and who married Eliza Hermans, daughter of John Hermans, of Albany. 
Mr. John Bogart, civil engineer, was the oldest son of John Henry Bogart and his wife Eliza. 
He was born in Albany, February 8th, 1826. His early education was secured in the Albany 
Academy, and he then attended Rutgers College, in New Brunswick, N. J., graduating therefrom 
in 1853. Immediately after completing his education he entered upon the practical work of civil 
engineering. His first employment was in the location and construction of several railroads and 
upon the enlargement of the Erie Canal. For a short time he was an instructor in the Albany 
Academy, and was then engaged upon the original construction of Central Park. During the Civil 
War he was in the Engineer Service of the Union Army, stationed most of the time at Fortress 
Monroe. In the years immediately following the war he was engaged largely upon public parks, 
his work being principally in laying out Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the West Chicago Parks, the 
State Capitol Grounds of Nashville, Tenn., and the Albany Park, the construction of which he 
designed and supervised. He was engineer-in-chief of the Brooklyn Park Commission, chief engi- 
neer of the Department of Public Parks of New York, and director and secretary of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers. He is a member of the Century Association, the University, A4>, 
Lawyers' and Engineers' clubs, the Essex Club of Newark and the Essex County Country Club, the 
Holland Society and the St. Nicholas Society. His wife was Emma Clara Jeffries, daughter 01 
Professor William J. Jeffries, of Westchester, Pa. 



FRANK STUART BOND 

WILLIAM BOND, who was baptized in St. James Church, Bury St. Edmonds, September 
8th, 1625, the ancestor of Mr. Frank S. Bond's family in this country, came from 
England in 1630, with Deacon Ephraim Child, whose wife was his father's sister. They 
settled in Watertown, Mass., of which town he became a prominent citizen. He was of the 
Council of Safety in 1689, and speaker of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1691. He 
was also the first speaker elected under the new Royal Charter, that united the Colonies of 
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay into one Colony in 1692, which office he held in 1695, when 
he died. He married, February 7th, 1649, Sarah, the daughter of Nathaniel Biscoe, an original 
settler of Watertown. William Bond was the third son of Thomas Bond, of Bury St. Edmonds, 
Suffolk, England, and grandson of Jonas Bond of the same place. 

A son of William Bond was Colonel Jonas Bond, of Watertown, 1664-1727, who was 
Lieutenant-Colonel in the expedition to Canada under Sir William Phipps, in 1690, and was a 
representative of Watertown to the General Court. The great-great-grandson of Colonel Jonas 
Bond was the Reverend Dr. Alvan Bond, a distinguished Congregational minister of Massachusetts 
and Connecticut. He was born in 1793, graduated from Brown University in 181 5, and from 
Andover Theological Seminary in 1818. He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Stur- 
bridge, Mass., from 1819 to 1831, and Professor of Sacred Literature in Bangor Theological 
Seminary from 1831 to 1835. In 1835 he went to Norwich, Conn., as pastor of the Second Con- 
gregational Church, and remained there until he died, in 1876. His first wife, the mother of Major 
Frank S. Bond, was Sarah Richardson. She was the daughter of Ezra Richardson, of Medway, 
Mass., and granddaughter of Captain Joseph Lovell, of the Massachusetts Militia, in the Revolu- 
tionary War. A recent volume, entitled Alvan Bond, Life and Ancestry, 1896, contains sketches 
of forty-two early settlers, ancestors of Mr. Frank S. Bond. 

Born in Sturbridge, Mass., in 1830, the seventh in descent from William Bond, Mr. Frank 
S. Bond began his business career before he was twenty years of age. In 1849 ne entered the 
office of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad Company ; removed to Cincinnati in 1850, and became 
secretary of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company ; came to New York in 1857, 
and until 1861 was an officer of other roads. 

When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Bond gave up his business and went into the service of 
his country. In 1862, he was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut 
Volunteers, and assigned as aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Daniel Tyler, then serving in General 
Pope's command in the Department of Mississippi, and who took an active part in the operations 
that led to the capture of Corinth. After that he served as Captain and aide-de-camp on the staff of 
Major General W. S. Rosecrans, at Stone River, Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, Chicka- 
mauga and in other engagements. After the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Garaseche, Chief of Staff 
to General Rosecrans at the Battle of Stone River, Captain Bond was appointed by the President, 
Major and aide-de-camp, and assigned as senior aide-de-camp on staff of Major-General Rosecrans. 

At the end of the war, Major Bond again entered the railroad service and became vice-presi- 
dent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, 1868-73 ! vice-president of the Texas & Pacific, 
1873-81 ; president of the Philadelphia & Reading, 1881-82 ; president of the five associated roads, 
the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific ; the Alabama Great Southern ; New Orleans & 
Northeastern ; Vicksburg & Meridian, and Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific, 1884-86. Since 1886 
he has been first vice-president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, with 
headquarters in New York City. He belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution (Connecticut 
Society) ; the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; the Metropolitan, Century, 
Union League, and Union clubs, the New England Society, the New York Historical Society, the 
American Geographical Society, and is a life member of the National Academy of Design, the 
American Fine Arts Society, and the New York Zoological Society. 



ROBERT BONNER 

SPRUNG from sturdy Scotch-Irish stock, this eminent citizen ot New York was born in 
Ramelton, Ireland, in 1824. Several members of his maternal grandfather's family had 
emigrated to this country early in the present century, one of his uncles being a 
landowner near Hartford, Conn. Crossing the ocean in 1839, Mr. Robert Bonner came to this 
uncle and began life as an apprentice in the composing room of The Hartford Courant. Here he 
was thoroughly grounded, not only in the details of the printing trade, but in those of publishing 
and in editorial work. In 1844, he came to New York and formed a connection with The New 
York Evening Mirror, then conducted by Nathaniel Parker Willis. He also became the New York 
correspondent of The Hartford Courant, and acted in the same capacity for newspapers in 
Washington, Boston and Albany. In 1850, when he had been six years in New York, he undertook 
the publication of The Merchants' Ledger, an insignificant commercial paper. In a short time, he 
became its owner, and gradually abandoning the commercial features in favor of fiction, he 
changed its name in 1855 to The New York Ledger, a publication which revolutionized the business 
of weekly periodicals in this country. Mr. Bonner's remarkable success was due to the combina- 
tion of features which he originated and employed in this connection. He made the tone of the 
paper healthy and pure, his advertising was conducted upon a phenomenal scale, and he engaged 
a notable array of writers, including such eminent names in American literature as Fanny Fern, 
John G. Saxe, N. P. Willis, Edward Everett, Henry Ward Beecher and Horace Greeley. Mr. 
Bonner continued in active business and editorial charge of his paper until 1887, when he per- 
manently retired from journalism and was succeeded by his sons. 

For many years Mr. Bonner has been identified with the development of the American 
trotting horse. His interest in driving was originally due to his physician, who advised him to 
thus obtain exercise and healthful recreation. He has never been interested in the turf, and is 
unalterably opposed to betting and gambling, nor have any of the horses he owns ever been 
entered on the race track. Peerless, Rarus, Dexter, Maud S. and Sunol, the most celebrated 
trotting horses in the world, have been inmates of Mr. Bonner's stable, being used simply for his 
own pleasure. His liberality has raised the value of horses throughout the country, and his 
example has done much to cultivate the taste of Americans for highly-bred horses. His stock 
farm, near Tarrytown, N. Y., is one of the most famous establishments of its kind in the world. 
Religious and educational objects have been largely benefited by Mr. Bonner's generosity. He 
contributed a considerable amount toward the building of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church 
and has made numerous gifts to Princeton University, contributing half the expense of its new 
gymnasium. In Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, a beautiful marble monument which he erected 
marks the last resting place of the authoress, Fanny Fern. Mr. Bonner has been president of the 
Scotch-Irish Society of America from its foundation to the present time, and is a member of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. His city residence is in West Fifty-sixth Street. 

Since 1887, the three sons of Mr. Bonner have conducted the journal which he established. 
The eldest, Andrew Allen Bonner, married Jeanette Fitch, daughter of George B. Fitch, of 
Lawrenceburg, Ind. He inherits his father's tastes for horses, and owns, among others, the 
celebrated Alcantara and King Rene, Jr. 

Robert Edwin Bonner, the second son, born in New York in 1854, graduated from Princeton 
University in 1876. In 1880, he married Kate Helena Griffith, daughter of Edward Griffith, of this 
city. They have four children, Griffith, Hampton, Kenneth and Kate d'Anterroches Bonner. He 
is a member of the Metropolitan, University, Princeton, Press and Fulton clubs and the Princeton 
Alumni Association, and takes an active part in social life. 

Frederick Bonner, the youngest of the family, is also a graduate of Princeton University. 
He married Marie Louise Clifford, daughter of Robert H. Clifford. He is a connoisseur of art and 
a writer of marked ability. 

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ROBERT ELMER BOORAEM 

WILLIAM JACOBSE van BOERUM, who came to the New Netherland in 1649, sprang 
from a family that ranks among the nobility of the Low Country. The name was 
changed in spelling several times by its American bearers and was finally trans- 
formed to Booraem early in the eighteenth century. It is derived from the town of Burum or 
Boerum, near Dokkum, in the Dutch province of Friesland. Its first representative in this country 
was a magistrate at Flatbush, L. I., in 1657, 1662 and 1663, and represented the same place in a 
convention held by the Dutch government of the Province in February in 1664, as recorded in The 
Early Settlers of Kings County, by Tunis Bergen. Among his descendants was the patriot Simon 
Boerum, whom death alone deprived of the honor of signing the Declaration of Independence. 

About 1718 the family established their seat at New Brunswick, and it is in this line that 
Mr. Robert Elmer Booraem traces his descent. New Brunswick was noted in early days for its 
cultivated society and at the era of the Revolution the great leaders were entertained there when 
passing between New York and Philadelphia. Representing, as he does, one of the most ancient 
Dutch names in New York's history, he is also related to such New York, New Jersey and New 
England families as Rutgers, Brinckerhof, Morrell, Van Vechten, de Mott, de Genereux, Van Home, 
Rolfe, Gale, Van Wagenen, Potter, Petit, as well as Van Vorst, Vacher and Elmer. Hendrick 
Booraem, his grandfather, mentioned in The Old Merchants of New York, was noted for the 
elegance of his manners. He was Colonel of one of the New York City militia regiments. The 
business place of the large importing house of which he was the head was in Pearl Street, near 
Wall, and in 181 5 his residence was at No. 16 Dey Street. About 1826 he removed to No. 24 
Warren Street, and when, some years later, he built a house at No. 481 Broadway, he was thought 
to have moved out of town. He was warden of Christ Church when it was in Anthony Street, and 
was a trustee and incorporator of the Marble Cemetery, where the family vault is situated. The 
wife of Hendrick Booraem was Hannah Radley Morrell, of the old New York family of that name. 

His son, Henry A. Booraem, and the father of Mr. Robert Elmer Booraem, was born in Dey 
Street, New York, September 3d, 181 5. He entered his father's business house and later on 
became prominent in the importing trade as a partner in the firm of L. & B. Curtis and Company. 
He retired some thirty years ago, and died, at his residence in Jersey City, in 1889. Respected in 
both business and social life as a man of the highest character, he was a member of the Board of 
Trade and of the Committee of One Hundred in Jersey City. 

Cornelia (Van Vorst) Booraem, his wife, was a daughter of John Van Vorst. Cornelius 
Van Vorst, from whom she was descended in the seventh generation, came over in June, 1636, as 
Commander and Superintendent of Pauw's Colony of Pavonia, now in part Jersey City. His son, 
Ide Van Vorst, is mentioned by the historians of the New Netherland as the first white male child 
born and married within its limits. The same authorities also make many references to him, as 
for instance when he saluted Governor Wouter Van Twiller and when he entertained the latter, 
Domine Bogardus, Captain de Vries and other dignitaries representing church and State with 
princely hospitality from his cellar newly filled with the wine of Bordeaux. His family was of 
importance, one of his relatives being John Van Vorst, a Professor at the University of Leyden. 

The large landed possessions acquired by Cornelius Van Vorst included the tract which 
became Van Vorst Township, fronting on the Hudson River, Hudson County, N. J., and which 
later was united with Jersey City. A large part of this estate continued in the possession of 
his descendants through all the succeeding eight generations, and Mr. Robert E. Booraem owns 
a portion of this ancestral property. The members of the family presented the Jersey City 
municipality with the land for Van Vorst Square; and Grace Church, Van Vorst, in that city, was 
organized by the efforts of Mr. Booraem's father, the late Henry A. Booraem, and owed much to 
the generosity and support of his mother-in-law, Sarah (Vacher) Van Vorst, and others of her family. 

Mr. Booraem's maternal grandmother was born Sarah Vacher, and was the daughter of the 

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Revolutionary hero and famous New York surgeon, Dr. John Francis Vacher. The latter was 
born in 175 1 at Soliers, a small town near Toulon, France. He received his medical degree in 1769 
from the College de Chirugie of Montpelier, in Lower Languedoc. Coming to New York City 
at the outbreak of the Revolution, he was made surgeon to the Fourth New York Regiment. 
His services among the starving troops at Valley Forge were particularly memorable. At the close 
of the war, under Act of Congress of October 21st, 1780, he was discharged after serving his 
adopted country faithfully in its time of need, and he was among the group of officers who 
originated the Society of the Cincinnati. Resuming the practice of his profession in New York 
City, he numbered among his patients members of leading families. His residence was in Fulton, 
then called Fair Street, and his country home at Bottle Hill, now Madison, N. J. 

On his father's side, Mr. Booraem also descends from an eminent New England family 
whose lineage is of the most ancient description, his own second name, Elmer, commemorating 
this connection. Aylmer, or Elmer, was an officer of State in the reign of Edward the Confessor, 
and his large estates in Essex are mentioned in Domesday Book. John Aylmer was tutor to the 
unfortunate Lady Jane Gray, and afterwards Lord Bishop of London under Elizabeth. His son 
was Sir Robert Aylmer, and his grandson, Edward Aylmer, came to America in 1632, settled in 
Cambridge, Mass., became one of the original proprietors of Hartford, Conn., and was slain in 
King Philip's War. The name was transformed in spelling to Elmer. One of its representatives 
was the Reverend Jonathan Elmer, who graduated in Yale in 1747, and subsequently became identi- 
fied with the town of Elizabeth, N. J., and was the editor of the first newspaper there. 

Born at Jersey City, March 28th, 1856, Mr. Robert Elmer Booraem was educated at schools 
in Germany and at the Anthon Grammar School in New York. He then entered the School of 
Mines of Columbia College, and after graduation took a post-graduate course for the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy, and in 1878 was given the degree of Engineer of Mines. Soon after he 
took up active work as assayer at the great mining camp at Leadville, Col., and finally became 
manager of the well-known Evening Star Mine. He afterwards successfully assumed a similar post 
with the Morning Star Mining Company, and had charge of the Farwell Gold Mine at Independence, 
Col., and after eight years in Colorado, became the executive head of the Blue Bird Mining Com- 
pany, of Montana, which under his administration produced several millions for its owners. He 
also acquired a number of silver mines at Aspen, Col. Mr. Booraem confesses to a fascination for 
the mining country, and after twelve years there returned to the East with regret. He is Director 
and Consulting Engineer of the properties with which he was identified, and though now making 
his home in New York at 2 East Fifteenth Street, takes frequent trips to the West in connection 
with his mining and other interests, the latter including real estate in Salt Lake City and a large 
ranch on Salina River, Kan. 

His immediate family includes four brothers living and two sisters, one of whom, Frances 
D. Booraem, is a member of the Colonial Dames, admitted through thirteen distinct lines of 
descent. She is also Treasurer of the Daughters of the Cincinnati, and is the first Directoress of 
the Home for Aged Women in Jersey City, an institution founded by one of her family. His other 
sister, Josephine, is Mrs. Augustus Zabriskie, her husband being the youngest son of the late 
Chancellor Zabriskie of New Jersey. 

Mr. Booraem owns a number of old family portraits and paintings of the Dutch School. He 
has musical tastes and is a member of a number of social organizations, including the Calumet, 
American Yacht and Badminton clubs, also of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the 
Revolution, the St. Nicholas Society and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He is active 
in the Alumni of the School of Mines, Columbia College, and in 1894 was appointed a member of 
the Alumni of the School in connection with the removal of Columbia University to Morningside 
Heights, and Class Treasurer of the Alumni Memorial Hall Fund. 

The arms of van Booraem are:— Gold, a Moor's head with silver head band accompanied 
by three green clover leaves, two above, one below, surmounted by a knight's helmet with 
necklace. The family is now represented in the nobility of the Netherlands. 



MRS. J. A. BOSTWICK 

EARLY in the seventeenth century, the name of Bostwick appeared among the English 
founders of the New England Colonies. The family, while not large, was, however, 
scattered during the succeeding generations, until its representatives are found in many por- 
tions of the country. The late Jabez Abel Bostwick belonged to the branch of his family which 
became established in Delaware County, N. Y., where he was born in the town of Delhi, Septem- 
ber 23rd, 1830. His parents removed to Ohio when he was quite young, and there he received his 
education and at an early age engaged in the business pursuits in which he was to be so successful. 
Beginning life with little beyond his education and natural ability, his progress was rapid and steady. 
He resided for a time in several Western cities, including Cleveland, O., Lexington, Ky., and 
Cincinnati, O. He was engaged both in banking and in mercantile business, and was noted for his 
comprehensive grasp of the largest and most involved affairs, and naturally became at a compara- 
tively early age possessed of considerable means. Although personally retiring and extremely 
modest by nature, he took a natural position of leadership in the situations in which he was placed 
by the mere force of talent, and by the unceasing industry which throughout his life was one of his 
marked characteristics. 

New York City, however, presented, as it always does, a wider field for one of Mr. Bostwick's 
capacity and energy in affairs, and in 1866 he removed here and founded a cotton brokerage firm 
under the title of Bostwick & Tilford, his partner being John H. Tilford, the son of one of the gen- 
tlemen with whom, in Lexington, Ky., his own first business experiences had been obtained. At 
that time, the discovery of mineral oil and its utilization for so many different purposes had only 
begun. Mr. Bostwick was one of the first in the country to appreciate the possibilities in that 
connection as a source of both individual and national wealth and a leading and useful industry. 
He entered into the business, in all its branches of production and manufacture, with characteristic 
energy and success and attained a commanding influence in the trade, so that when the great com- 
bination of such interests was formed which is now known as the Standard Oil Company, he was 
one of its leading members and took charge of its finances with the position of treasurer. Other 
large and varied interests also engaged his attention. He was prominent in railroad affairs and was 
at one time president of the New York & New England Railroad Company, and the largest owner 
of the Housatonic Railroad, while he was interested in innumerable enterprises of various kinds, 
many of them tending to increase the commercial and manufacturing importance of New York. 
He was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and of the Cotton Exchange and many other 
prominent commercial bodies. 

Although typically American in his devotion to the vast business interests of which he 
was the creator, Mr. Bostwick enjoyed the social side of life and was a member of the Union 
League, Manhattan, New York Yacht, Riding and other clubs, and was throughout his entire career 
noted for his generous and unostentatious gifts for charitable and philanthropic causes. Southern 
educational institutions were in particular the beneficiaries of his liberality, among them being the 
Wake Forest College, in North Carolina, and Richmond College, Virginia. He built and endowed 
the Emanuel Baptist Church, in Suffolk Street, New York, while he was a liberal supporter of many 
charitable objects. His death occurred in August, 1892. 

Mr. Bostwick married, in New York City, in 1866, Helen C. Ford, daughter of Smith R. Ford, 
a retired merchant. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick consisted of three children, Albert 
Bostwick and two daughters, the eldest of whom is the widow of the late Francis Lee Morrell, of 
this city, the younger being Mrs. Carstairs, wife of Captain Albert Carstairs, of the Royal Irish 
Rifles. Both Mrs. Morrell and Mrs. Carstairs before marriage were prominent figures in the 
hunting field and the social coterie devoted to such sports in Westchester County. The Bostwick 
town house, which Mrs. Bostwick occupies in upper Fifth Avenue, is one of the handsomest in 
that residential oortion of New York. 



FREDERICK GILBERT BOURNE 

OF English origin, the immediate ancestors of Mr. Frederick Gilbert Bourne were residents 
of Massachusetts and Maine. His paternal grandparents were Benjamin Bourne and 
Mary Hatch. His father was the Reverend George Washington Bourne, who was born 
in 1813 and married Harriet Gilbert in Portland, Me., in 1843, his death occurring in 1872. The 
Reverend George W. Bourne was the last of his immediate race, most of his family in his genera- 
tion having died young. Mrs. Bourne was born in 1817 and, surviving her husband, is now a 
resident of New York. Her father was an importer of iron and steel. He was born in Brookfield, 
Mass., in 1775 and for many years was engaged in shipping, in Portland. 

Mr. Frederick Gilbert Bourne was born in Boston, Mass., in 185 1. He was educated in 
the public schools of New York, and early in life entered upon a business career, his first position 
being with the Atlantic Submarine Wrecking Company, in 1865. Later he became secretary 
to Edward Clark, and upon his death, in 1882, Mr. Bourne was made manager of the Clark estate. 
In 1885, he was elected secretary of The Singer Manufacturing Company, and in a few years was 
advanced to the presidency of that corporation, which position he now holds. Mr. Bourne is a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a director in the Bank of the Manhattan Company, 
Knickerbocker Trust Company, Central Railroad of New Jersey and Long Island Railroad Company. 
A sister of Mr. Bourne is Clara (Bourne) Whitman, of Groton, Conn., widow of John Loring Whit- 
man, who was a son of the Reverend Alphonso Loring Whitman, of Norwich, Conn., of 
one of the oldest Colonial families of New England. Another sister, May Louise, married Charles 
A. Miller, of New York. Mr. Bourne's only brother is William Theodore Bourne, of California. 

Mr. Bourne married, February 9th, 187=5, Emma Keeler, who belongs to an old New York 
family. The father of Mrs. Bourne was James Rufus Keeler and her mother was Mary Louisa 
Davidson, daughter of J. E. Davidson, of Scotland. Her father was born in 1818, the youngest son 
of William and Deborah (Lounsbury) Keeler, of Norwalk and Stamford, Conn. William Keeler, 
1 782- 1 822, married, in 1804, Deborah Lounsbury, 1784- 1849, daughter of Amos and Elizabeth 
(Lockwood) Lounsbury; he was the eldest son of Isaac Keeler, of Norwalk, 1759-18 14, whose wife 
was Deborah Whitney, 1758-1838, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Hyatt) Whitney. David 
Whitney, 1721-1816, was a master mariner of Norwalk, and tradition says that he was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary War. His wife, 17 18- 1798, was a daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Hyatt, of 
Norwalk. He was the third son of Joseph and Hannah (Hoyt) Whitney. 

Joseph Whitney, 1678-1741, was the second son of John and Elizabeth (Smith) Whitney. 
He married, in 1704, Hannah Hoyt, daughter of Zerubbabel Hoyt, of Norwalk, whose father, 
Walter Hoyt, was born about 1618, was in Windsor in 1640 and an early settler of Norwalk, 
in 1653. The father of Walter Hoyt was Simon Hoyte, who, born in England about 1595, 
came to Salem, Mass., in 1628, was in Charlestown the following year and afterwards lived 
in Dorchester and Scituate, Mass., and Windsor, Fairfield and Stamford, Conn., in which latter place 
he died in 1657. John Whitney, the father of Joseph Whitney, was a son of Henry Whitney, the 
American pioneer, and his mother was a daughter of Richard Smith. Henry Whitney was a native 
of England, where he was born about 1620. He was settled on Long Island prior to 1649, being a 
citizen of Southold, Huntington and Jamaica, and afterwards of Norwalk, Conn. 

The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bourne is at the corner of Seventy-second Street 
and Central Park, West. Their country place is Indian Neck Hall, in Oakdale, Long Island. Their 
surviving children are Arthur Keeler, May Miller, Marion, Alfred Severin, Florence, George Gait, 
Marjorie, Kenneth and Howard Bourne. Frederick Gilbert, Jr., Louise and Helen Bourne, are 
deceased. Mr. Bourne belongs to the New York, Larchmont, Atlantic and Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Yacht clubs, and the Racquet, South Side Sportsmen's and Lawyers' clubs. Mrs. Bourne's 
sisters are Mrs. Frederick E. Ballard and Mrs. Harry Cowdrey, of this city. Her only brother, 
James Waterbury Keeler, and her eldest sister, Mrs. Harrv M. Dodge, are deceased. 

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GEORGE SULLIVAN BOWDOIN 

AS the name indicates, the family of which Mr. George Sullivan Bowdoin is the promi- 
nent representative in New York in the present generation, is of French origin. Its 
American ancestor was Pierre Baudouin, a Huguenot, who first emigrated to Ireland, 
thence to Portland, Me., in 1678, and finally came to Boston in 1690. The grandson of Pierre 
Baudouin was Governor James Bowdoin, of Massachusetts, one of the famous pre-Revolutionary 
statesmen, who was also renowned as a lover and patron of learning. The University of Edin- 
burgh gave him the degree of LL. D., and he was one of the founders and first president of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The son of Governor Bowdoin, James Bowdoin, was 
not less eminent. He studied at Oxford and was graduated from Harvard in 1 77 1 , was Minister 
to Spain in 1804, founded Bowdoin College, and was noted for his philanthropy. 

After the formation of the Federal Government, when New York City became a political, 
business and social centre, two of the conspicuous figures of this last decade and a half of the 
century were Sir John Temple and his wife, Lady Temple, who was a daughter of Governor James 
Bowdoin. Lady Elizabeth Temple, according to the writers of the day, was "very distinguished 
looking and agreeable and one of the popular ladies in New York. She received guests every 
Tuesday evening and gave dinners, noted for their costliness, nearly every week to twenty or more 
guests." Mr. George S. Bowdoin is a direct descendant of Sir John and Lady Elizabeth Temple 
in the fourth generation. Sir John Temple, 1730- 1798, was Lieutenant-Governor of New Hamp- 
shire, 1768-74; surveyor-general of the Northern District of America, 1761-77, and the first Consul- 
General of Great Britain to the United States, 1786-98. He was the son of Captain Robert 
Temple, of Charlestown, Mass., and Mehitable Nelson, who was the daughter of John Nelson, a 
member of the Committee of Safety in Boston, by his wife Elizabeth Tailer, daughter of William 
Tailer. John Nelson was a grandson of Sir John Temple, of Biddleson, who died in 1632, and a 
great-grandson of Sir Thomas Temple, of Stowe, who died in 1637, by his wife, Esther Sandys, 
daughter of Miles Sandys, of Latimers, Bucks. Sir Thomas Temple, 1542-1603, was the son of 
John and Susan (Spencer) Temple and descended in the eighth generation from Richard de Temple 
and Lady Agnes Stanley, daughter of Sir Ralph Stanley; and in the ninth generation from Nicholas 
de Temple and his wife, Lady Margery Corbet, daughter of Sir Robert Corbet. Thence the line of 
lineage runs back seven generations to Edwyn, Earl of Leicester and Coventry, the first of the family 
to assume the name of Temple. Edwyn Temple was descended from Algar, King of the East 
Saxons, who was the son of Leofric, King of Leicester, and his wife, Lady Godiva. 

The great-grandmother of Mr. Bowdoin was Elizabeth Temple, the third child of Sir John 
and Lady Temple. She married, in 1786, Thomas Lindall Winthrop, of Massachusetts, who was 
born in New London in 1760, graduated from Harvard College in 1780, and died in Boston in 1841. 
In his early life he was an active Federalist, but became a Republican in 1812. He was a State 
Senator, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, 1826-32, a Presidential elector, and president of the 
Massachusetts Agricultural Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Anti- 
quarian Society. He was the great-grandson of Governor John Winthrop, of Connecticut, who 
was born in Groton Manor, England, in 1606, and died in Boston in 1676. Educated in Trinity 
College, Dublin, he came to this country in 1631 and settled in Ipswich, Mass., being one of the 
first assistants of Massachusetts. In 1646, he settled the plantation of Pequot, now New London, 
Conn., and was Governor of Connecticut from 1646 until his death. He was twice married, his 
first wife being his cousin, Martha Fones, and his second wife Elizabeth Reade, daughter of Edmund 
Reade, of Wickford, Essex. The father of John Winthrop was John Winthrop, the celebrated first 
Governor of Massachusetts. The mother of Governor John Winthrop, of Connecticut, was Mary 
Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Essex, England, and his grandparents weie Adam Winthrop and 
Anne Browne, of Groton, Suffolk, England. The grandmother of Mr. Bowdoin was Sarah 
Winthrop, 1788- 1864, the eldest daughter of Thomas Lindall Winthrop and Elizabeth Temple. She 



was a sister of the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston. The grandfather of Mr. Bowdoin 
was George Sullivan, 1783-1866. He was the son of James Sullivan, 1744-1808, who married for 
his first wife, Hetty Odiorne, daughter of William Odiorne, and for his second wife Martha 
Langdon, sister of Governor John Langdon, of New Hampshire. James Sullivan was king's 
attorney in 1770, a member of the Provincial Congress in 1774, Judge of the Supreme Court in 
1776, delegate to Congress, 1784-85, a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, of the Governor's 
Council in 1787, Attorney-General, 1790- 1807, and Governor of Massachusetts, 1807-08. He was 
descended, through the O'Sullivan-Bease family of Ireland, from Louis VII., of France. His father 
was Master Sullivan, born in the County Kerry, Ireland, in 1690, who came to this country in 1723 
and settled in Berwick, Me. The father of Master Sullivan was Major Philip O'SuIlivan, of Ardea, 
County Kerry, son of Owen O'SuIlivan, who was descended from Daniel O'SuIlivan, Lord of 
Bearehaven, and Joan McCarthy, daughter of Dermod McCarthy, of Killoween. 

The father of Mr. Bowdoin was George R. J. Sullivan. Graduating from West Point, he 
took the name of Bowdoin, the family name of his great-grandmother, Lady Temple. He 
married Frances Hamilton, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler, 
daughter of General Philip Schuyler; and thus Mr. George Sullivan Bowdoin traces his lineage to 
the Hamiltons, Schuylers, Van Rensselaers, Morrises, and other great families of New York, as 
well as to the notable New England families that have already been referred to. The father of 
Frances Hamilton and the grandfather of Mr. Bowdoin was James Alexander Hamilton, 1788-1878. 
He was graduated from Columbia College in 1805, and during the War of 1812 was Brigade Major 
and Inspector of the New York State Militia. After the war, he engaged in the practice of law. 
During the first administration of President Andrew Jackson, he was Secretary of State, and in 1829 
became United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He received the 
degree of LL. D. from Hamilton College and published a volume of reminiscences of his distin- 
guished father. His wife was Mary Morris, daughter of Gouverneur Morris. 

Mr. George Sullivan Bowdoin was born in New York. He received his education in private 
schools and in the scientific department of Harvard College, where he studied for three years. 
Early manifesting a predilection for business, he entered the counting house of Aymar & Co., the 
great New York merchants, in South Street. He became a member of the firm of Morton, Bliss & 
Co., of New York, and of Morton, Rose & Co., of London, in 1871, and remained associated 
with them for thirteen years. He then connected himself with the banking house of Drexel, 
Morgan & Co., and its successor, J. P. Morgan & Co., in which he is a partner, taking a prominent 
and active part in the business. 

He has been largely interested in railroad enterprises, having been actively concerned in 
the financial affairs of the West Shore, the Philadelphia & Reading and many other railroad cor- 
porations. Other business enterprises have sought his services in their directorates, and he has 
had official connection with the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company, the Mutual Life 
Insurance Company, the Guarantee Trust Company, the Commercial Union Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, of London, the Bank for Savings, and is a governor of the New York Hospital. 

Interested in art, literature and science, Mr. Bowdoin is a member of the Century Associa- 
tion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History, and 
is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan, Union, Union League, Knicker- 
bocker, Tuxedo, Players, Manhattan and other clubs, belongs to the New England Society, the 
Sons of the American Revolution, and is treasurer of the Huguenot Society of America. Mr. 
Bowdoin married Julia Irving Grinnell, daughter of Moses H. Grinnell, the celebrated New York 
merchant, who on her mother's side is a great-niece of Washington Irving. They have one 
daughter, Edith Grinnell Bowdoin, their married daughter, Fanny Hamilton [Bowdoin, having died 
at the age of twenty-eight. Their son, Temple Bowdoin, is a graduate of Columbia University 
in the class of 1885, and is engaged in the banking business in his father's firm. He married 
Helen Parish Kingsford. Mr. Bowdoin's New York residence is 39 Park Avenue and his country 
seat is at New Hamburgh-on-Hudson. 



JOHN MYER BOWERS 

FOR several generations, the Bowers family, of whom this gentleman is the representative at 
this day, has been identified with Cooperstown, N. Y. Of English origin, the ancestors of 
its American branch came to Massachusetts early in the history of the Colony. Henry 
Bowers, of Somerset, Mass., who was a brother of Colonel Jerathmeel Bowers, descended from the 
earliest settlers in that section of the country. His son was Henry Bowers, 1747-1800, of Brighton, 
Mass., who married Mary Myer, of New York, a daughter of John Ray Myer and his wife, Ann 
Crommelin, daughter of Charles Crommelin. Mary (Myer) Bowers was the great-granddaughter 
of Adolph Myer, the American pioneer of that name. He came from Ulsen, in the parish of 
Bentheim, in Westphalia, and settled in Harlem in 1661. In 1671, he married Maria, daughter of 
Johannes Verveelen. He became the owner of a large estate, was assistant alderman in 1693, and 
died in 171 1. His son was Hendrick Myer, who was born in Holland in 1673, but removed to 
New York, married Wintie Ray, daughter of John Ray, and died in 1753. John Ray Myer, son of 
Hendrick Myer and Wintie Ray, was born in 1719, and became a wealthy merchant. After the 
death of his first wife, Ann Crommelin, he married Helena (Rutgers) Scott, widow of the Hon- 
orable John Morin Scott. 

John Myer Bowers, 1772-1846, first of the name, was the son of Henry and Mary (Myer) 
Bowers. He settled at Cooperstown, N. Y., and built the homestead there which for more than a 
century has been in the possession of the family. He married Margaret M. S. Wilson, 1776-1872, 
a daughter of Robert Wilson, 1751-1779, of Landsdowne, N. J., and his wife, Martha Stewart, 
1757-1852, whose father, Colonel Charles Stewart, of Landsdowne, came from Gortlee, County 
Donegal, Ireland, and was the founder of the prominent Stewart family of New York. 

Mr. John M. Bowers was born in Cooperstown, N. Y., November 27th, 1849. He received 
his education in private schools in Cooperstown and studied law in New York, where he was 
admitted to practice in 187 1 and has long been one of the leading members of the bar. Interested 
in public affairs, he has been prominent in the councils of the Democratic party. Mr. Bowers 
married Susan Dandridge, a native of Ohio. Her great-great-grandfather was Governor Alexander 
Spotswood, who was born in Tangiers in 1676 and served with distinction under the Duke of 
Marlborough, being wounded at the battle of Blenheim. He came to this country as Governor of 
Virginia, holding that office from 1710 until 1723. He brought with him a concession of the 
right of habeas corpus, which up to that time had been denied the Virginians. During his offi- 
cial career, he was active in resisting the encroachments of the French upon the Colony and in 
suppressing piracy. He also rebuilt the College of William and Mary, and was a pioneer in iron 
manufacturing in America. Governor Spotswood was a son of Robert Spotswood, who died in 
1688, and a grandson of Sir Robert Spotswood, who was appointed by Charles I. Lord Presi- 
dent of the College of Justice and Secretary for Scotland. He was descended from Robert 
Spottiswoode, of the barony of Spottiswoode, parish of Gordon, County of Berwick, Scotland. 
Tradition says that the family was descended from the house of Gordon. His wife, whom he 
married in 1724, was Ann Butler, daughter of Richard Bryan, of Westminster. Governor Spots- 
wood died in Maryland in 1740. His daughter, Dorothea, married Captain Nathaniel West 
Dandridge, of the British Navy, son of Captain William Dandridge of Elson Green. Captain 
Dandridge and his wife, Dorothea, were the ancestors of Mrs. Susan (Dandridge) Bowers. Mr. 
and Mrs. Bowers have five children, Spotswood Dandridge, Henry Myer, William Crain, Mary 
Stewart and Martha Dandridge Bowers. The city residence of the family is in West Twenty- 
first Street, and their country home is the old family mansion in Cooperstown. 

Mr. Bowers belongs to the Union, Metropolitan, Manhattan, Riding and Whist clubs, the 
Bar Association, the Downtown Association, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial 
Wars and the American Geographical Society. A brother of Mr. Bowers was Henry C. Bowers, 
who died in Cooperstown in 1896. 



JAMES LAWRENCE BREESE 

ONE of the old tombstones in Trinity Churchyard bears this quaint epitaph : 
"SIDNEY BREESE, JUNE 8, 1707. 
MADE BY HIMSELF. 
HA! SIDNEY, SIDNEY, 

LYST THOU HERE? 
I HERE LYE, 

TILL TIME HAS FLOWN, 
TO ITS EXTREMITY." 
Thus Sidney Breese, the old time merchant, proverbial for his honesty as well as for his wit, 
commemorated himself. He was a native of Shrewsbury, England, born in 1709. Having been a 
warm partisan of Charles the Pretender, on the failure of the movement in behalf of that Prince, 
he entered the British Navy as a purser. After a few years he gave up his commission and came 
•to New York and settled, being at one time master of the port here, as well as being a man of note 
in a commercial and social sense. 

A son of Sidney Breese was Samuel Breese, 1737- 1802, Colonel in the Continental Army 
and a Judge of the State of New Jersey. Judge Breese's first wife was Rebecca Finley, grand- 
daughter of the Reverend Dr. Samuel Finley, president of Princeton College, and one of his grand- 
sons S on of his eldest daughter, Elizabeth Ann, who married the Reverend Jedediah Morse, the 

celebrated divine and geographer— was Professor Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the 
electric telegraph system. 

Mr. James Lawrence Breese is a great-grandson of Judge Breese. His grandfather, Arthur 
Breese, of Utica, N. Y., 1770-1825, was a graduate of Yale College and a lawyer, who married 
Elizabeth Anderson, of Scotch- French descent, granddaughter of the Reverend James Anderson, first 
pastor of the Wall Street Presbyterian Church, in 17 18. Several sons of Arthur Breese became 
distinguished in National affairs. Rear Admiral Samuel Livingston Breese, 1794- 1870, was a brave 
officer of the United States Navy. He was a midshipman in 1810, an officer on the ship 
Cumberland in the battle of Lake Champlain, in service in the wars with Tripoli and with Mexico, 
Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1853-5, in command of the Mediterranean Squadron, 
1856-8, and Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1859-61. He married Rose Lee, daughter 
of Colonel Thomas Lee, of Baltimore, Md. Another son was Judge Sidney Breese, of Illinois, 
1 800- 1 878, a graduate from Union College in 18 18, Assistant Secretary of the State of Illinois, State 
Attorney in 1827, Lieutenant Colonel in the Black Hawk War, Circuit Judge 1835, Supreme Court 
Justice 1841, United States Senator 1843-9, Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives 1850, 
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court 1855, Justice of the Supreme Court 1857, and Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court 1873-1878. Lieutenant James Buchanan Breese of the United States Marine Corps, 
who married Josephine Ormsbury, daughter of Edward M. Yard, late Commander in the United 
States Navy, was another member of this family. 

J. Salisbury Breese, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1812, was a son of Arthur Breese. He died in 
1865. His wife was Augusta Eloise Lawrence, descended from John Lawrence, who came to 
Plymouth Plantation on the ship Planter in 1635, and also from Johannes Lowesen Bogert, who 
came from Haarlem, Holland, in 1671, and bought the Harlem Flats in New Netherlands. 

Mr. James Lawrence Breese, the son of J. Salisbury Breese, was born in New York City, 
December 21, 1854. He graduated as a civil engineer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of 
Troy, N. Y., in 1875, and afterwards studied architecture. Recently he has made photography his 
special pursuit, and is recognized as one of the leading artistic amateur photographers in the world, 
having received numerous medals from exhibitions in this country and abroad. He has a handsome 
studio in New York City, a cottage at Tuxedo Park, is prominent in society, and belongs to the 
Union and Racquet Clubs, the Players, and other social organizations. 

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CALVIN S. BRICE 

THE Brice family is of old and honorable extraction in Scotland. The first representatives 
of the name to come to the New World settled in Maryland, in the early part of the 
seventeenth century. They were a branch of the Bruces, of Airth, Scotland, who 
spelled their name Bryce, as is also the case with the members of another great northern house, 
Bruce, of Kinnaird. Edward Brice or Bryce, through whom the American Brices trace their 
descent to their Scottish progenitors, was a Presbyterian minister in Ireland, and is called Bryce 
in Scottish and Brice in the Irish records. He was the second son of Sir Alexander Bruce, of 
Airth, by Janet, his wife, the daughter of Alexander, fifth Lord Livingston, who died about 1553. 

The father of Mr. Calvin S. Brice was the Reverend William K. Brice, a Presbyterian 
clergyman of prominence in the church, who moved from Maryland to Ohio in 181 2. His wife 
was Elizabeth Stewart, of Carrollton, Md., a descendant of the famous Scottish house of Stuart. 
She has been described as " a woman of good mind, eminent for the graces and charms of her 
personal character." Mr. Calvin S. Brice, their son, was born in Denmark, O., September 17th, 
1845. He had all the advantages of the best instruction in his boyhood, his education being 
supervised by his father, until he entered Miami University in 1858. 

His patriotism led him to abandon college life at the opening of the Civil War in April, 
186 1, and he enlisted first in a company of three months' troops, and again in 1862 in the 
Eighty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Infantry. After serving in the Virginia campaign, he returned 
to college and was graduated in 1863, but went to the front again as Captain of an infantry 
company and was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 

When his military career ended, Colonel Brice entered the Law School of the University 
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and in the spring of 1866 was admitted to the bar. For ten or 
fifteen years he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession in Lima, O., as junior 
member of the firm of Irvine & Brice. He devoted himself largely to corporation law, and that 
naturally led to his becoming interested in the subject of railroad transportation, which, with 
politics, has mainly engrossed his mature powers. His first railroad experience was in the 
legal department of the Lake Erie & Louisville Railroad, a line of which, under the title of Lake 
Erie & Western, he is now president. He conceived and built the New York, Chicago & St. 
Louis Railroad, better known as the "Nickle Plate" road, which is now part of the Vanderbilt 
system, and has been a director, or officer, in many railroads and other corporations, a consider- 
able part of his attention having been devoted to the development of the South. 

Colonel Brice has been as successful and eminent in politics as in business. For 
many years he has been one of the leaders of the Democratic party. In 1876, he was on the 
Tilden Electoral ticket, and in 1884 was again an Elector when Mr. Cleveland was elected. 
His State sent him as a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention in 1888, and he 
was made a member of the National Committee. As chairman of the latter body he directed the 
Democratic National Campaign in that year. In 1890, he was elected United States Senator from 
Ohio, and served the full term of six years. In 1892, he was again delegate-at-large from Ohio 
to the Democratic National Convention and chairman of the Ohio delegation, and was re-elected 
a member of the Democratic National Committee. Colonel Brice was married in 1870 to 
Catherine Olivia Meily, and has a family of three sons and two daughters. 

While Colonel Brice is, and has always been, a citizen of Ohio, retaining a residence at Lima, 
in that State, his large and varied business interests oblige him to spend a considerable portion 
of his time in New York. The New York residence of the Brice family is at No. 695 Fifth 
Avenue, and they also have an establishment in Newport. At both places Mr. and Mrs. Brice 
entertain upon a large scale, and have become important factors in social life. Mr. Brice belongs 
to the Ohio Society, the Manhattan, Lawyers', Riding, and other clubs, and is a member of the 
American Geographical Society. Among his other cultured tastes is the collection of rare books. 

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CHARLES ASTOR BRISTED 

THREE noted American families unite in the person of Mr. Charles Astor Bristed, the 
Dwights and the Sedgwicks, of Massachusetts, and the Astors, of New York. The 
paternal grandfather of Mr. Bristed was the Reverend John Bristed, who was born in 
Dorsetshire, England, in 1778, and died in Bristol, R. I., in 18S5. Graduated from Winchester 
College, England, he studied medicine and law, and, coming to the United States in 1806, practiced 
law in New York. Subsequently he studied theology, and in 1828 was ordained to the Protestant 
Episcopal ministry. Until 1843, he was rector of the Church of St. Michael, Bristol, R. I., succeed- 
ing the Reverend Dr. Griswold. He conducted The Monthly Magazine in 1807. His wife, whom 
he married in 1819, was Magdalen (Astor) Bentzen, daughter of the first John Jacob Astor and 
his wife, Sarah Todd, and widow of Governor Bentzen, of the Island of Santa Cruz. 

Charles Astor Bristed, first of the name and father of the subject of this article, was the son 
of the Reverend John Bristed, born in New York in 1820 and died in Washington, D. C, in 1874. 
Graduated from Yale College in 1839, he studied in Trinity College, Cambridge, England, for five 
years, and upon graduating, in 1845, he studied for and was about to obtain a fellowship at 
Cambridge, but finally determined to return to his own country, making his home in New York and 
Lenox, Mass. He wrote much for newspapers and magazines, generally over the nom-de-guerre 
of Carl Benson, and published a number of books, among which were: Letters to Horace Mann, 
The Upper Ten Thousand, Five Years in an English University, The Interference Theory of 
Government, and Pieces of a Broken-Down Critic. He was one of the trustees of the Astor 
Library from the foundation of that institution. His first wife was Laura Whetten Brevoort, 
daughter of Henry Brevoort, the only child of this marriage being J. J. Astor Bristed, who died in 
1880. His second wife, the mother of Mr. Charles Astor Bristed, was Grace Ashburner Sedgwick, 
daughter of Charles Sedgwick, of Lenox, Mass., a son of the Honorable Theodore Sedgwick, 
Member of Congress, United States Senator and Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. 

The great-grandfather of Mrs. Bristed was Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick, 17 16-1 757, 
and she was descended in the seventh generation from Major-General Robert Sedgwick, 
who came to America in 1636 and was one of the most distinguished men of his time in Massa- 
chusetts. Through her mother, Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight, Mrs. Bristed was descended from 
John Dwight, who came to this country in 1634 and settled in Watertown, and afterwards in 
Dedham, Mass. The great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth B. Dwight was Captain Timothy 
Dwight, 1629-1717, who was ten years town clerk of Dedham and twenty-five years selectman 
and representative to the General Court. The descent to Mrs. Bristed was through the third 
wife of Captain Timothy Dwight, who was Anna Flint, the daughter of the Reverend Henry 
Flint by his wife, Margery Hoar. The son of Captain Timothy Dwight was Captain Henry 
Dwight, 1 676- 1 732, who married Lydia Hawley, daughter of Captain Joseph Hawley, of 
Northampton. His son, Colonel Josiah Dwight, born in 1715, was graduated from Yale College in 
1736, and was a Lieutenant Colonel and Judge and father of the Honorable Josiah Dwight, Jr., of 
Stockbridge, State Treasurer of Massachusetts. The latter, by his second wife, Rhoda Edwards, 
daughter of Timothy Edwards and Rhoda Ogden, a daughter of Robert Ogden, of New Jersey, 
became the father of Elizabeth Buckminster Dwight, wife of Charles Sedgwick. After the death 
of her husband, Mrs. Bristed resided abroad, principally in Rome, and died in Paris in 1897. 

Mr. Charles Astor Bristed was born in New York in 1869. He was educated at Stony hurst, 
and afterwards was matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and was graduated in 
1893. He studied law, and has been engaged in the practice of that profession. In 1894, 
Mr. Bristed married Mary Rosa Donnelly, daughter of Edward C. Donnelly, of Grove Mount, 
Manhattanville. They have two children, Mary Symphorosa and Katharine Elizabeth Grace Bristed. 
Mr. Bristed's residence is in Lenox, Mass., and he is a member of the Knickerbocker and 
Catholic clubs of this city. 

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M' 



FREDERIC BRONSON 

EMBERS of the Bronson family were early settled in the Connecticut Colony, being 
especially numerous and influential in Hartford, Farmington and Waterbury. On the 
old records of Hartford, the name is usually spelled Brownson, while the Farmington 
records have it as Brunson. But whatever the spelling, all these pioneers came from the same 
parent stock. From Richard Bronson and John Bronson most of the Bronsons, of Connecticut, and 
their descendants in New York have been derived. John Bronson is believed to have been a 
member of the company that settled Hartford under the Reverend Thomas Hooker in 1636. 
The following year he was engaged in the famous battle with the Pequot Indians, and in 164 1 
removed to Farmington. In 1651, he was a deputy to the General Court, in 1652, a constable, 
and in 1669 was made a freeman. Isaac Bronson, son of John Bronson, the pioneer, was one 
of the first settlers of the town of Waterbury. He was active in church affairs, a Corporal 
and Sergeant of the train band in 1689 and 1695, a deputy to the General Court in 1697 and 1701, 
and frequently held other public offices, such as town surveyor and school committeeman. 

In the four succeeding generations, the head of this interesting Colonial family was an 
Isaac Bronson. In the third generation, Captain Isaac Bronson married Mary Brockart, and 
their son, Isaac Bronson, who was born at Breackneck, now Middlebury, Conn., in 1760, became 
a distinguished physician, soldier and financier. His father was frequently a member of the 
General Assembly of Connecticut. The son studied medicine, and, although at the time of 
the Revolution he had not attained to his majority, he entered the Continental Army as junior 
surgeon. In 1779, he was in the Second Regiment of Light Dragoons of the Connecticut Line, 
serving under the immediate command of General Washington. After the war, he went abroad to 
travel, visiting all parts of Europe and India. Returning to the United States in 1789, he settled in 
Philadelphia, where he lived for several years, afterwards removing to New York and engaging 
in the banking business. Subsequently he established a banking house in Bridgeport, Conn. 
He died at his summer residence, Greenfield Hill, Conn., in 1839. 

Isaac Bronson married, about 1789, Anna Olcott, daughter of Thomas Olcott, of Stratford, 
Conn., of one of the oldest Colonial families of that State. He had a large family of children, 
of whom several attained to prominence. His daughter Maria married Colonel James B. Murray, 
of New York. His daughter Caroline married Dr. Marinus Coillet. His son, Oliver Bronson, 
married Joanna Donaldson. Another son, Arthur Bronson, who was born in New York, married 
Anna Eliza Bailey, daughter of General Theodorus Bailey. A third son, Frederick Bronson, who 
was born in 1802, in New York, married Charlotte Brinckerhoff, of the well-known Dutch family 
of that name, that has been prominent in New York and New Jersey. 

Mr. Frederic Bronson, the representative of this family in the present generation, was born 
in New York, educated in Columbia College, and graduated therefrom with the degree of B. A. 
in the class of 187 1. Pursuing his studies further in the Law School of Columbia, he was in due 
course admitted to the bar, and has been a lawyer in active practice for more than twenty years. 
He married Sarah Gracie King, daughter of Archibald Gracie King, and has one daughter. The 
history of the King and the Gracie families, to both of which Mrs. Bronson belongs, has been 
fully set forth on other pages in this volume. Mrs. Bronson includes in her ancestry such 
distinguished personages as Rufus King, James Gore King, Mary Alsop and Archibald Gracie. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Bronson is in Madison Avenue, and their country seat is at 
Greenfield Hill, Southport, Conn., the ancestral home of the Bronsons. Mr. Bronson belongs to 
the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Union, Racquet, Riding, City, New York Yacht, Coaching and 
A 4> clubs, the Country Club of Westchester County, the Downtown Association and the 
Columbia College Alumni Association. He is a famous whip, and has long been a leading spirit in 
the Coaching Club. For several years he was vice-president of the club, and in 1897 was elected 
to the presidency, succeeding Colonel William Jay in that position. 



JOHN CROSBY BROWN 

ALEXANDER BROWN, the head of a family that has made a marked impression upon the 
business and financial interests of this country during the present century, was a native 
of Ireland, born in Ballymena, County Antrim, November 17th, 1764. He was a linen 
merchant, a man of good family, business enterprise, strict integrity, and some means. He 
came to this country in 1798, and going to Baltimore, started a linen store, dealing in goods that 
he imported principally from Ireland. As his business grew, he turned his attention to financial 
affairs and established a bank. He died in Baltimore in 1834. Four sons of Alexander Brown, all 
of them born in Ballymena, became associated with their father under the firm name of Alexander 
Brown & Sons. Each of them attained to distinction in business and finance. The eldest, William 
Brown, returned to England in 1809 and established a branch house there, now the celebrated 
banking firm of Brown, Shipley & Co. The second son, George Brown, remained in Baltimore 
and became the head of the house there. The third son, John A. Brown, went to Philadelphia, 
and was the representative of the firm in that city. 

The youngest of the four sons, James Brown, born in 1791, came to New York in 1825 
and started the house known as Brown Brothers & Co. He became one of the representative 
bankers of New York, and was for fifty years a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In the 
panic of 1837, the English branch of the firm of which Mr. Brown was the representative was 
able to secure a loan of ten million dollars from the Bank of England to carry them over the 
crisis and the loan was repaid within six months. This achievement put the firm at once in 
the front ranks in the financial world, a position that it has maintained ever since. 

James Brown was deeply interested in religious, educational and philanthropic enterprises. 
For thirty years he was president of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and 
among his benefactions was a gift of three hundred thousand dollars to the Union Theological 
Seminary. At the time of his death, in 1877, he was, with two exceptions, the oldest living 
member of the Chamber of Commerce, his membership covering more than half a century. Mr. 
Brown was twice married. His first wife was Louisa Benedict, daughter of the Reverend Joel 
Benedict, of Plainfield, Conn. Two sons, James and William Brown, and three daughters were 
born of this union. One daughter became the wife of Alexander Brown, of Richmond Hill, 
England. The second daughter is the widow of the late Howard Potter, the well-known 
banker of New York and London. The third daughter married James Couper Lord. For his 
second wife, Mr. Brown married Eliza Maria Coe, an accomplished and devoted Christian woman, 
who was the daughter of the Reverend Dr. Jonas Coe, of Troy. 

Mr. John Crosby Brown was the second of the three sons of James Brown by his second 
wife. Born in New York, May 22d, 1838, he was graduated from Columbia College with the 
degree of B. A. and has since received the degree of M. A. During his entire business career, 
he has been connected with the banking house of Brown Brothers & Co. in New York, of which 
he is now the head. A gentleman of culture, deeply interested in art and literature, he has 
been a member of the Board of Education, a trustee of Columbia College, a trustee of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, vice-president of the board of trustees of the Union Theological 
Seminary, and a director in the Presbyterian Hospital. His clubs include the Metropolitan, 
City, University, Union, and Riding, the Century Association, the Downtown Association, and 
the Columbia College Alumni Association. He married, in 1864, Mary E. Adams, daughter of 
the Reverend Dr. William Adams, pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, and presi- 
dent of the Union Theological Seminary. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two daughters and two 
sons. Their eldest son, James Crosby Brown, is a graduate from Yale in the class of 1894. 
The youngest son, Thatcher M. Brown, is a graduate from Yale in the class of 1897. The 
city residence of the family is in East Thirty-seventh Street and their country seat is Brighthurst, 
in Orange, N. J. 

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JUSTUS LAWRENCE BULKLEY 

IN the reign of King John of England, in the twelfth century, Robert Bulkeley, Baron, was Lord 
of the Manor of Bulkeley in the County Palatine, of Chester. He was a nobleman of high 
standing and his descendants were allied in marriage to many of the first families of Great 
Britain. In the ninth generation from Robert Bulkeley came the Reverend Edward Bulkeley, who 
was the father of the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, the American emigrant, one of the most famous 
clergymen of New England in the first years of the Massachusetts Colony. The Reverend Peter 
Bulkeley was born in Woodhill, Bedfordshire, England, in 1583, was educated in St. John's College, 
Cambridge, and became a fellow there. Subsequently he took orders and succeeded to the living 
of his father in Odell, holding that place for twenty-one years. His independence brought him 
under the ban of Archbishop Laud, and he was removed from his living for non-conformity. 

With others of his faith, clergymen and laymen, the Reverend Mr. Bulkeley turned to the 
New World for freedom, and coming to this country in 1634, settled first in Cambridge, Mass., and 
afterwards was one of the founders of Concord. He was the first pastor of the Concord Church 
and held that pulpit until the time of his death, in 1659. The descendants of the Reverend Mr. 
Bulkeley, in both the male and the female line, have been especially famous in New England as 
clergymen. He wrote several books, among them The Gospel Covenant; or, The Covenant of 
Grace Opened. His first wife was Jane Allen, daughter of Thomas Allen, of Goldington, England. 
His second wife was Grace Chetwood. Mr. Justus Lawrence Bulkeley is a lineal descendant in 
the eighth generation from the Reverend Peter Bulkeley. 

In the second generation the Reverend Gershom Bulkeley was born in 1636 and, studying in 
Harvard College, was graduated in i6sv Called to be the second minister of the church in New 
London, Conn., in 1661, he remained there for six years and then in 1667 removed to Wethersfield. 
In 1675, he was surgeon of the Connecticut Colonial troops. His death occurred in 1713. His wife 
was Sarah Chauncy, daughter of President Charles Chauncy, of Harvard College, and through her 
his descendants trace their lineage to another great Colonial family and back to the nobility and 
royalty of England and France, the wife of the Reverend Charles Chauncy being Catharine Eyre, 
daughter of Robert Eyre and Ann Still, granddaughter of the Right Reverend John Still and Lady 
Jane Horner, and descended in the thirteenth generation, through the Spekes, Berkeleys and 
Staffords, from Edward I., King of England. 

In the subsequent generations, the ancestors of Mr. Justus L. Bulkley were Edward Bulkeley, 
who was born in 1673 in Wethersfield and died there in 1748, and his wife, Dorothy Prescott, 
daughter of Jonathan Prescott, of Concord; Peter Bulkeley, who was born in 1712 and died in 1776, 
and his wife, Abigail Curtis, who was born in 1741 and died in 1762; Joseph Bulkeley, who was 
born in 1742, and his wife, Mary Williams, daughter of Moses Williams; Edmund Bulkeley, who 
was born in 1787, and his wife, Nancy Robins; and Joseph Edmund Bulkley, who was born in 
1812, and his wife, Mary (Lawrence) Bicknell, daughter of John Lawrence, of Newtown, Long 
Island. Peter Bulkeley, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. Justus Lawrence Bulkley, was a justice 
of the peace for Hartford County, Conn., in 1775. His son, Joseph Bulkeley, was a merchant of 
Rocky Hill, Conn., a justice of the peace and a member of the State Legislature. Joseph Edmund 
Bulkley, the father of Mr. Bulkley of the present day, came to New York at an early age, and enter- 
ing upon mercantile life, soon became one of the leading leather merchants of the metropolis in the 
last generation. His wife was of the famous Lawrence family of Long Island. 

Mr. Justus Lawrence Bulkley was born in New York in 1840, and has been engaged in the 
leather importing business during his entire mercantile career. In 1871, he married Laura E. Cald- 
well and has three children, Josephine, Helen C. and Joseph E. Bulkley. His son is a student in 
Yale University in the class of 1899. The city residence of the family is in upper Madison Avenue 
and their summer home is Homestead, in Rocky Hill, Conn. Mr. Bulkley is a member of the 
Metropolitan and Riding clubs. 

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WILLIAM LANMAN BULL 

ON both his father's and his mother's side, Mr. William Lanman Bull is descended from several 
of the oldest and most distinguished families of New England. He can count among his 
ancestors the Bulls, the Lanmans, the Trumbulls, the Boylstons, the Coits and others 
who were prominent in the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. His remote paternal ancestor was 
Henry Bull, a native of South Wales, who came to America in 1635. After a short residence in 
the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he went to Rhode Island, being numbered among the followers of 
Ro^er Williams. With seventeen associates, he purchased land in 1638 and joined in the settle- 
ment of Newport, becoming at once one of the leading men in the new Colony. He held many 
positions of trust, and was a commissioner of Newport in 1655, a commissioner of Providence in 
1657, and Governor of Rhode Island in 1685-6, and 1689-90. Governor Henry Bull was born in 
1610 and died in 1693. His first wife was named Elizabeth, his second wife, whom he married in 
1676, was Esther Allen, and his third wife, whom he married in 1677, was Ann Clayton. Many 
of his descendants were prominent in the early history of Rhode Island. Henry Bull, his grand- 
son, 1 687-1 774, was Attorney-General of the Colony in 1727. 

The father of Mr. William Lanman Bull was Frederic Bull, a prominent business man 01 
New York and a descendant in direct line from Governor Henry Bull. He died at his country seat 
in Montclair, N. J., in 1871. Mr. Bull's mother was Mary Huntington Lanman, who married 
Frederic Bull in 1829, and died in 1880. Her family was of English origin. The arms of the 
branch founded in this country by Peter Lanman, and to which Mrs. Frederic Bull belonged are : 
a shield azure, three garbs or. Motto, Fortuna favet andace. 

James Lanman, a native of London, came to America about 1700 and settled in Boston. In 
1714, he married Joanna, daughter of Dr. Thomas Boylston, of Roxbury, of one of the oldest 
Colonial families of Massachusetts. James Lanman moved with his wife to Plymouth, and his 
descendants have lived in that part of Massachusetts ever since. Peter Lanman, son of James 
Lanman, 1725- 1804, married Sarah Spaulding Coit, daughter of Colonel Samuel Coit, of Preston, 
Mass., in 1764. His son was Peter Lanman, of Norwich, Conn., 1771-1854, the father of Mary 
Huntington (Lanman) Bull. The maternal great-great-grandfather of the subject of this article was 
a conspicuous figure in the Revolutionary period, his grandmother, the wife of Peter Lanman, Jr., 
of Norwich, Conn., having been a daughter of David Trumbull, whose father was Jonathan Trum- 
bull, Governor of Connecticut from 1769 until 1783, through the whole period of the American 
Revolution, a trusted supporter and confidential adviser of General Washington. Governor Trum- 
bull's wife was Faith Robinson, a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. 

Mr. William Lanman Bull is the seventh child and the youngest son of his father's family. 
He was born in New York City, August 2}, 1844. After a preparatory education, he completed his 
studies in the College of the City of New York. Then he began his business career by entering 
the banking house of Edward Sweet & Co., Mr. Sweet, the senior partner of this firm, having 
married a sister of Mr. Bull. In 1867 he became a partner in the firm, a relation that he has main- 
tained uninterruptedly down to the present time, a period of thirty years. Outside of his banking 
business, Mr. Bull has been otherwise prominent in business and in social life. Twice he has been 
President of the New York Stock Exchange, and his important railroad connections have included 
membership in the directorates of the Northern Pacific, the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia, 
the New York, Susquehanna & Western and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroads, and he is 
now President of the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Company, 

In 1870, Mr. Bull married Tasie M. Worthington, daughter of Henry R. Worthington. His 
children are Frederic Henry Worthington, and William Lanman Bull, Jr. The family residence is 
at 805 Fifth Avenue. Mr. Bull is a member of the Metropolitan, Century, University, Grolier, 
Union, Riding, Players, Church, and Mendelssohn Glee clubs, and belongs to the New England 
Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, and the Society of Mayflower descendants. 

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JAMES ABERCROMBIE BURDEN 

AMONG the most talented inventors and successful business men of his generation in the 
United States, was Henry Burden. One of his great-grandparents was of Feddal-Perth- 
shire and he was born in Dumblane, Scotland, April 20th, 1791. Displaying the bent of 
his genius at an early age, he took a course of engineering in Edinburgh, and came to the United 
States in 1819, settling in Albany, where he began the manufacture of agricultural implements. He 
was phenomenally successful and his inventions and improvements in labor-saving devices in many 
ways revolutionized the industry of the country. Among his inventions were improved agricul- 
tural implements, machines for making wrought-iron spikes, a machine for making horse shoes, 
and a suspension over-shot water wheel, sixty feet in diameter, of the design of bicycles of the 
present day. 

Mr. Burden was one of the organizers of the Hudson River Steamboat Company. The 
Hendrick Hudson, which in its time was one of the finest and fastest steamboats on the river, was 
built according to his models, and attained a speed of twenty miles an hour. Another boat that he 
designed was called the Helen; it had two cigar-shaped hulls and on the trial trip in December, 
1833, made eighteen miles an hour. Mr. Burden made a study of nautical architecture, and it is 
one of the curious and interesting things in his career that, in 1846, he anticipated nearly all that 
has been accomplished in fast ocean travel during the last decade or more. It was in that year he 
issued a prospectus of what he called Burden's Atlantic Steam Ferry Company, with himself as 
managing director, inviting subscriptions to the stock. In this prospectus he said, "All experience 
in steam navigation shows that increase in size and power has been invariably attended with 
increase of speed, economy and comfort;" and proceeding from those premises, he affirmed his 
confidence of being able "to establish boats of power, dimension and strength sufficient to make 
the passage from Liverpool to New York in eight days certain." He planned to build the first 
vessel six hundred feet long. The company was never organized, however, and it required more 
than half a century for the commercial world to come to a full appreciation of his ideas. 

Mr. James Abercrombie Burden is the eldest son of Henry Burden. He was born in Troy, 
N. Y., January 6th, 1833. Educated under the direction of private tutors, he also studied in the 
Yale Scientific School and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and then gained practical experience 
in manufacturing by an apprenticeship in his father's establishment in Troy. Ultimately he became 
president of the Burden Iron Company, of Troy, and in 1883 was president of the Hudson River 
Ore and Iron Company. He inherited mechanical ability and inventive genius, and has taken 
out eighteen important patents in connection with the iron manufacturing industry. 

Mr. Burden married Mary Irvin, daughter of Richard Irvin, the banker of New York. His 
city residence is at 908 Fifth Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Burden have four sons, James A., Jr., Richard 
Irvin, Williams Proudfit and Arthur Scott Burden. Mr. Burden is a member of the Civil Engineers, 
Mechanical Engineers and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He was president of the 
Society of New York Farmers, and belongs to the Metropolitan, Union, Union League and Riding 
clubs, and several scientific societies in Great Britain. He was the first president of the Engineers' 
Club. Although prominent socially, he has never taken an active part in public affairs, but has 
been three times a Presidential elector on the Republican State ticket. James A. Burden, Jr., 
graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1893. He married Florence Adele, daughter 
of William D. Sloane ; is a member of the University and Knickerbocker clubs and the 
Sons of the Revolution. His country place is Messina, Barrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y. 

Mr. I. Townsend Burden, the younger son of Henry Burden, married Evelyn Byrd Moale, of 
the Baltimore family of that name; her sister, Judith E. Moale, is the widow of Robert Livingston 
Cutting, second of the name. Mr. and Mrs. Burden live in East Twenty-sixth Street, Madison 
Square, and their summer residence is Fairlawn, in Bellevue Avenue, Newport. They have four 
children, William A. M. and I. Townsend Burden, Jr., and Evelyn B. and Gwendolyn Burden. 

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HENRY LAWRENCE BURNETT 

ONE of the most famous representatives of the ancestors of Burnett name was Gilbert Burnett, 
1643-1715, Bishop of Salisbury, who was the son of a lawyer of an ancient family 
of the County of Aberdeen, Scotland, and who, after the Restoration, was appointed 
one of the Lords of Session, with the title of Lord Crimond. Gilbert Burnett studied at Marischal 
College, Aberdeen, and at Oxford and Cambridge, becoming a clergyman of the Church of Eng- 
land, and was a prominent figure in the political struggles which led to the English revolution 
of 1688. When William III. ascended the throne of England, Burnet was advanced to the See 
of Salisbury, and retained that position until his death, in 171 5. His wife, Mary Scott, was a 
lady of considerable fortune. William Burnett, son of the Bishop, who was born at The Hague, 
Holland, in 1688, and died in Boston, Mass., in 1729, was intimately connected with the American 
Colonial governments. He was bred to the law in England, and in 1720 was appointed by George 
I. Governor of New York and New Jersey, and afterwards of Massachusetts, in 1728. His adminis- 
tration in the Province of New York was successful, and he did much to strengthen the Colony 
against the French, establishing the first English fort at Oswego. He was the ancestor of many 
of the Burnett family in this country. 

Thomas Burnett, the direct ancestor of the branch of the family to which General Henry 
Lawrence Burnett belongs, came to this country from England, and settled first in Lynn, Mass., 
afterward becoming a resident of Southampton, Long Island. Early in the seventeenth century, 
bearers of the name established themselves in New Jersey. William Burnett, of the New Jersey 
branch, was graduated from Princeton College in 1749, became one of the leading physicians of 
Newark, was an ardent patriot, a friend of Washington, and sacrificed his fortune in support of 
the cause. After the close of the Revolutionary War, he removed to Northern Ohio. His first 
wife was Mary Camp, daughter of Nathaniel Camp. His second wife was Gertrude Van Cort- 
landt, widow of Colonel Phillip Van Cortlandt, of Newark, and daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur. 
The grandfather of General Burnett was Samuel Burnett, who also went to Ohio in the first West- 
ward movement immediately after the close of the Revolution, and was the father of Henry 
Burnett. The latter married Nancy Jones, who was a member of a Virginia family. 

General Henry Lawrence Burnett, their son, was born in Youngstown, O., December 26th, 
1838. He attended school in the Chester Academy, where President James A. Garfield was also 
a student. In 1859, ne was graduated from the Ohio State and National Law School, and admitted 
to the bar. Two years after, at the beginning of the Civil War, he entered the army, becoming 
Captain in the Second Ohio Cavalry. His regiment saw service in Missouri and Arkansas, and he 
was advanced in rank until he became Brigadier-General. In 1863, General Ambrose E. Burnside 
appointed him Judge-Advocate of the Department of Ohio, his jurisdiction being extended later to 
include the Northern Department. In association with Judge Advocate-General Holt and the 
Honorable John A. Bingham, he was engaged in the prosecution of the assassins of President 
Abraham Lincoln. In 1865, General Burnett resigned from the army and engaged in the practice 
of law in Cincinnati. Removing to New York in 1872, he was for a time associate attorney and 
counsel for the New York & Erie Railroad, but later engaged in general practice, being first 
associated with Benjamin H. Bristow, William Peet, and William S. Opdyke, and afterwards with 
Edward B. Whitney. He has been connected with some of the most important litigation in the 
New York and United States Courts since he made New York his home. 

By his marriage with Agnes Suffern Tailer, General Burnett became allied to another family 
that has been distinguished in the social life of New York for several generations, his wife being a 
daughter of Edward N. and Agnes (Suffern) Tailer. General and Mrs. Burnett live in East Twelfth 
Street. Their summer home is Oak Spring Farm, Stoneboro, Pa. General Burnett belongs to the 
Metropolitan, Union and Republican clubs, the Ohio Society, of which he is president, and the 
Century Association, the Bar Association, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 

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MIDDLETON SHOOLBRED BURRILL 

ACCORDING to the History of Lynn, Mass., "The Burrill family was formerly called the 
royal family of Lynn, in view of the many famous persons connected with it." Its founder 
L in this country was George Burrill, who came from Seven Oaks, England, in 1630. He 
was among the large landowners of Lynn, having some two hundred acres of land, and was one of 
its most influential citizens. Both he and his wife, Mary, died in 1653. His son, Lieutenant John 
Burrill, was a representative in the General Court and married Lois Ivory, in 1656. In the third 
American generation came the Honorable Ebenezer Burrill, 1 678-1 761, son of Lieutenant John 
Burrill and ancestor in the sixth generation of Mr. Middleton Shoolbred Burrill. Ebenezer Burrill 
married Martha Farrington and settled in Swampscott. He was for many years a representative 
to the Massachusetts General Court and for nine years a member of the Governor's Council. His 
son, Ebenezer Burrill, Jr., who was born in 1702, was for seventeen years town clerk and a repre- 
sentative for twelve years. The wife of the second Ebenezer Burrill was a daughter of the famous 
General Mansfield. Their son was John Ebenezer Burrill, of Rhode Island and New York, who 
became a successful merchant. Duringthe Revolution, he was an officer in the Continental Army. 
His son, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was Ebenezer Burrill. 

In collateral lines, the present Mr. Burrill has had many distinguished relatives. Sarah 
Burrill, daughter of Lieutenant John Burrill and Lois Ivory, married John Pickering, of Salem, and 
became the grandmother of the celebrated Senator and Cabinet Minister, Timothy Pickering. 
Samuel Burrill, son of the second Ebenezer Burrill, was a representative to the General Court of 
Massachusetts during the War of the Revolution and a member of the Constitutional Convention. 
John Burrill, brother of the first Ebenezer Burrill, was a member of the Massachusetts General 
Court for twenty-two years and Speaker of that body for ten years. James Burrill, son of the 
second Ebenezer Burrill, was one of the leading citizens of Providence, R. I., in the closing years 
of the last century, and his son was the Honorable James Burrill, Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of Rhode Island and United States Senator from that State. The town of Burrillville, R. I., 
was established by him. He was a graduate from Brown University. 

The father of Mr. Middleton Shoolbred Burrill was John Ebenezer Burrill, who was born in 
Charleston, S. C, in 1822, and died in Lenox, Mass., in 1893. Prepared for college in private 
schools, he entered Columbia and was graduated with high honors in 1839. Taking up the study 
of law, he was admitted to practice in 1842, and for more than half a century was one of the most 
successful as well as ablest members of the New York bar. A staunch Democrat, he maintained a 
deep interest in public affairs, but had little inclination for political life. When he was a young 
man, he served for a short time as assistant district attorney of the city and was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention in 1867, but he was not otherwise conspicuous in public affairs. He 
was one of the founders and an officer of the Bar Association of the City of New York. In 1853, 
he married Louise M. Vermilye, daughter of William M. Vermilye, the well-known New York 
banker, who belonged to an old New York Huguenot family, dating back to the early Colonial 
period. Johannes Vermilye, her ancestor, was one of the leading citizens of New Amsterdam in 
the early years of this settlement, holding office in both church and municipality. 

Mr. Middleton Shoolbred Burrill was born in New York, October 16th, 1858. He was 
prepared for college in a private school and under the direction of a tutor, and then entering 
Harvard University, was graduated in 1879. He studied law in the Law School of Columbia 
University and 'in the office of a leading law firm, and was admitted to practice in 1881. Since 
1884, he has been a member of the firm of Burrill, Zabriskie & Burrill, of which his father was 
the head. In 1885, he married Emilie Neilson, daughter of William Hude and Caroline (Kane) 
Neilson. His city residence is 104 East Thirty-fifth Street, his country home being at Cedar- 
hurst, Long Island. He belongs to the Union, Knickerbocker and Rockaway Hunt clubs, the 
Sons of the Revolution, the Bar Association and the Downtown Association. 

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GEORGE HENRY BUTLER, M. D. 

ANCESTORS of Dr. George Henry Butler were among the early pioneers of New England. 
Thomas Butler, who settled in Kittery, Me., before 1695, was one of the ancient English 
house of Ormonde, and being a man of high character and superior intellectual attain- 
ments, took a leading part in the affairs of that part of the Massachusetts Colony for more than a 
quarter of a century. He was an accomplished scholar and one year taught Latin gratuitously in 
the schools, when it happened that the services of no other teacher "who had the Latin tongue " 
could be procured. At the same time, he was a selectman and a surveyor of public lands, fre- 
quently a moderator of the town meeting, and was elected more than thirty-five times to hold 
various other offices in the gift of his fellow townsmen. 

Thomas Butler, son of the first Thomas Butler, was also prominent in the affairs of the 
township. He was born in Berwick, Me., in 1698, and in the old records is described as a 
"gentleman." In 1725, he was a constable, and for many years a surveyor of lands. His brother, 
Moses Butler, held a commission as Captain in the Colonial Army and took part in the capture of 
Louisburg in 1745. He held many town offices, and in 1749 was representative to the General 
Court at Boston, the Maine plantation being at that time part of the Massachusetts Colony. Dr. 
George Henry Butler is a descendant in the fifth generation from the second Thomas Butler, of 
Berwick. The family has been prominent in the section where it was founded in 1697, and in 
many branches of it there have been those who have attained to distinction in Maine, Massachu- 
setts and elsewhere. Moses Butler, great-grandfather of Dr. Butler, was an officer in the 
Continental Army during the war for independence, and saw service about Machais and 
Frenchman's Bay, Me. His brother, Thomas Butler, was a Lieutenant in the Continental Line. In 
contemporaneous times, the Reverend Dr. John Butler, a Free Baptist clergyman, was the author 
of many books and at one time editor of the newspaper organ of the Baptist Church in New 
England. Another editor in the family was the Honorable J. E. Butler, and the Honorable Moses 
Butler was an eminent jurist and three times Mayor of the City of Portland, Me. 

Both the father and the grandfather, as well as other ancestors of Dr. George H. Butler, were 
natives and residents of Berwick, Me., and there he was born May 31st, 184 1. He was educated 
in the High School of Great Falls, N. H., Bowdoin College and the University of Pennsylvania, and 
finished his professional studies in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He has been a 
practicing physician and surgeon, principally in New York, for more than thirty years, but has 
found time to travel extensively throughout Europe. During the Civil War, for nearly five years, 
he was Passed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Navy. In club land he is known as a 
member of the Union League Club, and is also a member of the Sons of the Revolution, the Loyal 
Legion, the New England Society, and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 

The wife of Dr. Butler, to whom he was married in 1872, was Henrietta Louisa Lawrence, 
of the celebrated Lawrence family of Long Island, from which have come so many distinguished 
men and women. Mrs. Butler is seventh in descent from Thomas Lawrence, founder of the family 
in this country, who came to Long Island in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Her great- 
grandfather was Jonathan Lawrence, the wealthy merchant, 1737- 18 12, who was a Major in 
General Woodhull's Brigade of Long Island troops in 1777, a member of the Provincial Congress 
•775-76. and a State Senator in 1777. Her grandfather was the Honorable Samuel Lawrence, 
1773-1837, member of the State Assembly, Member of Congress and a Presidential elector in 1816; 
and her granduncle was the Honorable William T. Lawrence, Captain of Artillery in the War of 
18 1 2, County Judge in 1838 and Member of Congress, 1847-49. 

Dr. and Mrs. Butler live in Fifth Avenue. Their country residence is the Lawrence home- 
stead, in Odessa, N. Y. The Butler arms are: Or., a chief indented azure. The crest shows, out 
of a ducal coronet or., a plume of five ostrich feathers, argent, therefrom a falcon rising, argent. 
The Lawrence arms are: A cross, regular gules. Crest, a demi-tuibot argent. 

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PRESCOTT HALL BUTLER 

JUSTIN BUTLER, of New Haven, and his wife, Lucy Davis, were the great-grandparents of Mr. 
Prescott Hall Butler, whose grandparents were Henry Butler and Rebecca Green. Several 
sons of Henry Butler and Rebecca Green have occupied commanding positions in professional 
life in New York City. The eldest son, George B. Butler, who was born in New Haven in 1809 
and died in New York in 1886, is still remembered as one of the proprietors of The New York 
Journal of Commerce, and secretary and attorney of the Hudson River Railroad Company. His 
son, George Butler, is the distinguished artist, one of the foremost American painters of this gen- 
eration. 

A brother of George B. Butler was Charles E. Butler, who was born in Richmond, Va., in 

1818, and began the study of law in 1836 in the office of the late Jonathan Prescott Hall. When he 
was twenty-four years old, in association with William M. Evarts, he founded the law firm of 
Butler & Evarts, now Evarts, Choate & Beaman. Retiring from professional work in 1879, he 
spent most of his time, after that, upon his estate in Stockbridge, Mass. His first wife was Louisa 
Clinch, sister of Cornelia Clinch, who became the wife of Alexander T. Stewart, the great merchant 
prince. Mrs. Butler died in 1852. She was the mother of six children, Prescott Hall, Maxwell 
Evarts, Rosalie, Helen C, Virginia and Lilian, who is Mrs. John Swan. Rosalie Butler died in 
1897. The maternal grandmother of Mr. Prescott Hall Butler, Rebecca Green, who married Henry 
Butler in 1807, was born in New Haven in 1788, the daughter of Samuel Green, 1744- 1799, and his 
wife, Abigail Buell, who was born in Killingworth, Conn., in 1749 and died in Richmond, Va., in 

1819. Abigail Buell was descended in the fourth generation from William Buell, the American 
pioneer of the family. William Buell, or Bewelle, or Beville, was born in Chesterton, Huntingdon- 
shire, England, about 1610. Emigrating to America as early as 1630, he settled first in Dorchester, 
Mass., and then in 1635 joined the first company that went westward to found the town of 
Windsor. He died in Windsor in 1681. His son, Samuel Buell, was born in Windsor in 1641 and 
after 1664 lived in Killingworth, where he died in 1720. In the old records he is especially set 
down as a "gentleman," was an extensive landowner and was honored by his fellow citizens by 
election to many positions of trust and responsibility. 

By his marriage, in 1662, to Deborah Griswold, 1646-1719, Samuel Buell allied himself to 
another of the great Colonial families of Connecticut. His wife was a daughter of Edward 
Griswold, of Windsor, brother of Governor Matthew Griswold. The Griswold family is descended 
from Humphrey Griswold, of Greet, Lord of the Manor. Their ancestors came originally from 
Cambridgeshire, where they were established as early as 1135. The grandparents of Abigail Buell, 
and the ancestors in the sixth generation of Mr. Prescott Hall Butler, were Benjamin Buell, of 
Killingworth, 1686-172S, and Hannah Hutchinson, of Hebron, whom he married in 1710. Her 
parents were John Buell, who was born in Killingworth in 171 7 and died in 1752, and Abigail 
Chatfield, daughter of John Chatfield. 

Mr. Prescott Hall Butler was born in Richmond County, N. Y., March 8th, 1848, and 
educated in Harvard College, being graduated from that institution in the class of 1869. He is 
engaged in the practice of law in New York, is a member of the law firm of Evarts, Choate & 
Beaman, and belongs to the Bar Association. In 1874, he married Cornelia Stewart Smith, 
daughter of J. Lawrence Smith and Sarah Clinch and a descendant from Jacob Clinch, the father of 
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, Mrs. Butler being a grandniece of Mrs. Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Butler live in 
Park Avenue. Their summer home is Bytharbour, St. James, Long Island. They have one 
daughter, Susan L. Butler, and two sons, Lawrence and C. Stewart Butler, who are students in 
Harvard University. Mr. Butler belongs to the Century Association, the University, Racquet, 
Riding, Harvard, Players. Metropolitan, Adirondack League, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, New 
York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht and Jekyl Island clubs, and the Downtown Association, and is a 
patron of the American Museum of Natural History. 



DANIEL BUTTERFIELD 

JOHN BUTTERFIELD, the American ancestor of the family of which General Butterfield is a 
prominent representative in the present generation, came from England and settled in 
Virginia, but some of his descendants removed from Virginia to New England. The paternal 
grandfather of General Butterfield was Daniel Butterfield, and his maternal grandfather was 
Gamaliel Olmstead, a Connecticut soldier of the War of the Revolution. His father was John 
Butterfield, a substantial business man of Oneida, N. Y., his mother being Malvina H. Olmstead. 
General Daniel Butterfield was born in Oneida County, N. Y., October 31, 1831. He 
received a liberal education in local schools, was graduated from Union College in 1849, anc * nas 
since received the degree of LL. D. Completing his collegiate course, he came to New York, 
where he engaged in business until the Civil War began. He entered the National Guard of New 
York in 1850 and became Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventy-First and Colonel of the 
Twelfth Regiment. Holding the latter rank when the Civil War opened, he at once offered his 
command to President Lincoln, and went to Washington at the head of his regiment, April, 1861. 
In July, 1861, he led the advance into Virginia over the Long Bridge, and subsequently joined 
General Patterson on the Upper Potomac, where he was immediately placed in command of a 
brigade and actively engaged in service, overstaying the three months time of his enlistment and 
receiving commendatory orders therefor. When, as part of the plan for carrying on the war, the 
regular army was enlarged, Colonel Butterfield was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twelfth 
Regulars and was commissioned Brigadier-General of Volunteers. His next service was under 
General Fitz John Porter in the Peninsula Campaign, and he was engaged in the battles of 
Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill and Malvern Hill and other engagements. At Gaines' Mill he was 
wounded, and, while still suffering from his wounds, commanded a detachment of troops sent to 
the south side of the James River to cover the retreat of McClellan's Army. During the entire 
campaign of August and September, 1862, under Generals Pope and McClellan, he was constantly 
at the front and took part in all the battles. 

In 1862, General Butterfield was commissioned Major-General of Volunteers. The following 
year he was made Colonel of the Fifth Infantry Regiment in the regular army. At the battle of 
Fredericksburg he was in command of the Fifth Army Corps. During the summer of 1863, he was 
Chief of Staff of the Army of the Potomac, then commanded by General Hooker. At the battle 
of Gettysburg, where he was Chief of Staff of the Army of the Potomac, under General Meade, 
he was wounded. Later in the same year, he was detailed to reinforce the Army of the Cumber- 
land, and was Chief of Staff to General Hooker at Lookout Mountain, and in all the famous 
engagements around Chattanooga. In the celebrated Atlanta Campaign of one hundred days, 
which ended in the capture of Georgia's capital, General Butterfield commanded a division of the 
Twentieth Corps, and for gallant and meritorious conduct was brevetted Brigadier-General and 
Major-General in the regular army. After the close of the war, General Butterfield was assigned to 
superintend the recruiting service of the army. In 1869, he resigned from the army, and the same 
year President Grant appointed him Assistant United States Treasurer in New York. Retiring from 
that position, he became interested in the banking business and is now connected with many 
large corporations. 

In 1886, General Butterfield married Mrs. Julia L. James, of New York, a daughter of 
Captain Safford, who commanded privateers in the War of 1812. The ceremony was performed 
at St. Margaret's, Westminster, England, the Bishop of Bedford and Canon Farrar officiating. 
He lives in Fifth Avenue, his country residence being Cragside, Cold Spring, N. Y. He is a 
member of the Union, Military and 2 <1> clubs and belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, the Loyal 
Legion and the Union College Alumni Association. In 1891, he was president of the Society of 
the Army of the Potomac. He has the special distinction of holding the United States Medal of 
Honor for notable bravery upon the field of battle, at the action of Gaines' Mill. 



JOHN LAMBERT CADWALADER 

AMONG the distinguished citizens of Philadelphia in the early Colonial days, none was 
more highly esteemed than John Cadwalader, who came from England soon after William 
Penn's organization of the Colony of Pennsylvania. He was a freeman of Philadelphia in 
1705, a member of the Common Council, 1718-33, and a member of the Provincial Assembly from 
1729 to the time of his death, in 1734. His wife, whom he married in 1699, was Martha Jones, 
daughter of Dr. Edward Jones and maternal granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Wynne, of Phila- 
delphia. John Cadwalader could trace his descent through a notable line of ancestry. His family 
was Welsh and his mother, Ellen Evans, who was the daughter of Owen ap Evan, and grand- 
daughter of Evan ap Robert ap Lewis, of Rhiwlas and Vron Goch, married Cadwalader Thomas 
ap Hugh, of Kiltalgarth, Llanvawo, Merionetshire, Wales. Evan ap Robert ap Lewis was in the 
twenty-fifth generation from Rhodri Mawr, King of all Wales, who died in 876. 

The second child and the oldest son of John Cadwalader, the pioneer, was Dr. Thomas 
Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, a member of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania in 1755 and a 
medical director in the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. His wife was 
Hannah Lambert, daughter of Thomas Lambert, and his eldest son was General John Cadwalader, 
of Philadelphia, 1742-1786. General John Cadwalader married a daughter of Edward Lloyd, of Nye 
House, Talbot County, Md., and among his descendants were Dr. John C. A. Dumas, Captain 
George A. McCall, U. S. A., General Samuel Ringgold, U. S. A., Major Samuel Ringgold, 
U. S. A., and Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, U. S. N. 

Colonel Lambert Cadwalader, the second son and third child of Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, 
was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1743. He was Colonel of a New Jersey regiment at the out- 
break of the Revolution, was taken a prisoner by the British at the capture of Fort Washington 
in 1776, and being released on parole retired to his estate. From 1784 to 1787, he represented 
New Jersey in the Continental Congress, was a member of the Constitutional Convention and a 
Member of Congress from New Jersey, 178Q-9S. He died at his homestead, Greenwood, near 
Trenton, N. J., in 1823. He married Mary McCall, daughter of Archibald McCall, of Phila- 
delphia, in 1793. 

Among other distinguished members of this notable family have been Major-General 
George Cadwalader, who served in the Mexican and the Civil wars; John Cadwalader, 1742-1786, 
who was a Brigadier-General in command of the Pennsylvania military forces during the War 
of the Revolution ; Captain Samuel Dickinson, of the United States Army, who is descended from 
Dr. Thomas C. Cadwalader through his daughter, Mary; Judge J. Meredith Read, Chief Justice 
of Pennsylvania, and his son, John Meredith Read, Jr., United States Consul to Paris and United 
States Minister to Greece, who were respectively son and grandson of John Read, whose father, 
George Read, signed the Declaration of Independence, and of Martha Meredith Read, the daughter 
of General Samuel Meredith, the first Treasurer of the United States, and his wife, Margaret 
Cadwalader, who was the seventh child of Dr. Thomas C. Cadwalader. 

Mr. John L. Cadwalader is the grandson of Colonel Lambert Cadwalader. His father 
was Major-General Thomas Cadwalader, who was born in 1795 and died in 1873. His mother 
was Maria C. Gouverneur, daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur, of New York, and his wife, Hester 
Kortright, who was a daughter of Lawrence Kortright. Mr. Cadwalader was born November 
17th, 1836. He was graduated from Princeton College, educated for the law and entered upon 
the practice of his profession in New York. In 1874, he was Assistant Secretary of State of the 
United States. His club membership includes the Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Century, 
University, Riding, Lawyers', Commonwealth, New York Yacht and Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Yacht. He belongs also to the Tuxedo colony, is a member of the Bar Association, the Sons 
of the Revolution and the Downtown Association, and a patron of the American Museum of 
Natural History. 

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JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN 

AN Irish Presbyterian, James Calhoun, came from Donegal, Ireland, in 1733, and founded 
the Calhoun family in the United States. He first settled in Pennsylvania, subsequently 
removed to Kanawha, Va., and in 1756 went to South Carolina, where he established a 
settlement in the district of Abbeville. Patrick Calhoun, son of the pioneer, married Martha Cald- 
well, daughter of a Presbyterian emigrant from Ireland. Their third son was the Honorable John C. 
Calhoun of South Carolina, the great champion of the South in national politics. Born in 1782, 
he was graduated with honors from Yale College in 1804 and studied law in the Litchfield Law 
School. He began the practice of law in Abbeville and soon became actively engaged in politics. 
In 1807, he was in the State Legislature and, in 181 1, became a Member of Congress, where he 
was one of the prominent advocates of the war with England. For seven years after 1817, he 
was Secretary of War under President Monroe, in 1825 he became Vice-President of the United 
States, and in 1829 was reelected upon the ticket with President Jackson. After his term expired, 
he was a Member of the United States Senate until his death, in 1850. Calhoun never advocated 
slavery or nullification for their own sakes. He was ardently in favor of preserving the Union, 
as is shown in his biography by Von Hoist. He believed in the sovereignty of the States, and 
hence slavery was assailed ; it being a question for the States alone to decide, he incidentally 
defended that institution to protect the rights of the States in the Union. It was the same with 
nullification. He held it to be one of the reserved rights of the States under the Constitution, and 
that the exercise of it by the States did not necessarily dissolve the Union, but would strengthen 
it by preserving the autonomy of the States. He supported the annexation of Texas and cham- 
pioned the cause of peace when the war with England was threatened by the Oregon dispute. 
His wife was his cousin, Florida Calhoun, daughter of the Honorable John Ewing Calhoun, 
United States Senator from South Carolina. 

The father of Colonel John Caldwell Calhoun, Andrew Pickens Calhoun, was the eldest 
son of South Carolina's great statesman. His mother, Margaret N. Calhoun, was a remarkable 
woman and a famuos belle, related to Chief Justice John Marshall. Andrew Pickens Calhoun 
owned an extensive plantation near Demopolis.Ala., and was a large cotton planter. 

Colonel Calhoun has many distinguished ancestors. His maternal great-grandfather, William 
Green, was a soldier with Washington at Valley Forge, when only fifteen years old, and was with 
General Morgan at Cowpens in 1781. His maternal grandfather was General Duff Green, son of 
William Green. Duff Green was born in Kentucky about 1780 and died in Georgia in 1875. Ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1801, he was for several years publisher of a newspaper in Baltimore, entitled 
The Merchant, and from 1825 to 1829 edited a Washington newspaper in opposition to President 
John Quincy Adams. During the first term of President Jackson, he conducted The United States 
Telegram in Washington, in support of the administration, but in 1830 cast his lot with Calhoun 
upon the nullification question, and in 1836 supported South Carolina's great son for the presidency. 
General Duff Green's wife was Ann Willis, a daughter of Colonel Henry Willis and Mildred Wash- 
ington, cousin of George Washington. The maternal grandmother of Colonel Calhoun was 
Lucretia Edwards, daughter of the Honorable Ninian Edwards, 1775-1833, the distinguished jurist 
who was Chief Justice of Kentucky in 1808, Governor of the Territory of Illinois in 1809, and the 
first elected Governor of that commonwealth, in 1826. 

Mr. John Caldwell Calhoun was born upon his father's plantation in Alabama, July 9th, 1843. 
When he was eleven years old, his parents returned to South Carolina, and settled at Fort Hill, 
upon the old homestead of his illustrious grandfather. He entered the State University of South 
Carolina in 1859. When the Civil War opened, he enlisted in the company of cadets which was 
organized among the students of the University, and went with his command to Charleston, where 
he was present at the bombardment of Fort Sumter. After the hostilities had fully opened, his 
company joined the army in Virginia and was attached to General Wade Hampton's Legion, and 

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although he was not yet eighteen years old, he was elected Color-Sergeant of the Legion Cavalry. 
Having served upwards of a year, he was honorably discharged from the army on account of his 
extreme youth. Upon returning to his home in South Carolina, he was again influenced by the 
war spirit, organized a cavalry troop of one hundred and sixty men, of which he was placed in 
command, and with which he hastened back to the army in Virginia, and joined the Fourth South 
Carolina Cavalry, Donovan's Brigade of General M. C. Butler's Division. At that time he was said 
to be the youngest Captain in the Confederate service. At the battle of Trevellyn Station, he 
especially distinguished himself in a gallant charge against the brigade of General Custer. 

After the close of the war, Colonel Calhoun returned to the family homestead in South Caro- 
lina and entered energetically upon the task of recreating his fallen fortunes and reviving the pros- 
perity of the section of the country in which he resided. He took the position at that date that the 
conditions which caused the war had been settled by the arbitrament of the sword, and urged upon 
the people of his section to devote themselves to the restoration of prosperity and the reestablish- 
ment of their fortunes. His father was dead and the support of his mother, sister and three younger 
brothers devolved upon him. He soon became the second largest cotton planter in the South, and 
also engaged in other business enterprises of considerable importance. One of his plans contem- 
plated the establishment and development of extensive plantations in the Yazoo Valley of Missis- 
sippi. Disposing of his interests in this successful enterprise, he then carried out a similar under- 
taking upon a larger scale in Arkansas, where he was president of the Calhoun Land Company and 
the Florence Land Company, and president of the Levee Commission of Arkansas. He was the first 
to organize the emigration movement of negroes from various parts of the South to the Mississippi 
Valley, colonizing more than five thousand freedmen in that section. In 1883, he was a delegate 
from Arkansas to the Cotton Exposition in Louisville, and again a delegate to the Cotton Exposition 
in New Orleans the following year. In 1884, he was vice-president of the convention in Washing- 
ton which petitioned Congress for the improvement of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. 

Removing to New York some fifteen years ago, Colonel Calhoun soon became prominent in 
Wall Street circles and has been connected with many important railroad enterprises. His first 
conspicuous operation was the consolidation of the Southern Railway systems into the Richmond 
Terminal Company, and he had an active part in the operations connected with the control of the 
Central Railroad of Georgia, becoming a director and afterwards vice-president of that company 
under its new management, and chairman of the Finance Committee. He was elected to the 
directorate of the Richmond & West Point Terminal Company, and has been officially connected 
with many other railroads, chiefly in the Southern States. 

In December, 1870, Colonel Calhoun married Linnie Adams, only daughter of David Adams, 
of Lexington, Ky., and grandniece of the Honorable Richard M. Johnson, former Vice-President of 
the United States. Colonel and Mrs. Calhoun have four children, James Edward, David Adams, 
Julia Johnson and John Caldwell Calhoun. The eldest son, James Edwards Calhoun, who was born 
in 1878, is now being prepared for admission to Yale College. The city residence of the family is 
in West End Avenue, and their country places are in Chicot County, Ark., and at Abbeville, S. C. 
Colonel Calhoun belongs to the Manhattan, Lawyers', Reform and Democratic clubs, and the Sons 
of the American Revolution, of which he is senior member of the board of managers. He was 
appointed special ambassador of the Sons of the American Revolution, to invite the President and 
Ministry of the French Republic and the descendants of Lafayette, Rochambeau and DeGrasse and 
the representatives of art, science and literature to attend the banquet given by the society on 
February 6th, 1897, in celebration of the one hundred and nineteenth anniversary of the signing of 
the treaty between France and America. In recognition of his services, the society, in October, 
1897, made him an honorary life member and acknowledged his services, and the high esteem in 
which it held him, by formal resolutions, which were engrossed and presented to him. He is also 
a member of the Southern Society and the Gate City Club, of Atlanta, Ga. He has long been one of 
the most active supporters of the Southern Society, of which he was president in 1889, and it was 
mainly through his efforts that the society was incorporated and acquired a permanent home. 

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SIR RODERICK WILLIAM CAMERON 

CLAN CAMERON has from immemorial times been one of the great races of the Scottish 
Highlands. A tradition exists that it descends from a younger son of the Danish royal 
family who assisted King Fergus II. in regaining the Scotch throne in the fifth century. 
The more conservative historians of the family, however, consider, in view of all the evidence, 
direct or otherwise, that it is more probable that the Camerons sprang from the original inhabitants 
of the district of Lochaber, where their homes and possessions were found at the earliest times. 
There is, however, some ground for the theory that originally the Camerons and the Clan Chattan 
sprang from the same source, though the division, if there was one, took place in times so far 
remote that little or no importance was attached by either Clan to the alleged circumstance. 
Originally known in the Gaelic nomenclature of the Highlands as the Clan Maclaufhaig, or Servants 
of the Prophet, they were divided, as far back as any records on the subject extend, into several 
distinct septs or divisions, a circumstance not uncommon among the larger Scottish Clans. The 
most conspicuous of them were the Camerons of Lochiel, whose lairds became the Captains of the 
Clan Cameron, and were for many centuries famous in the history of the Highlands and of that of 
Scotland, the various chiefs, among whom was the noted Sir Ewen Dhu Cameron, taking 
prominent part in all the Jacobite risings. The prominence which the Lochiel branch of the 
Camerons has assumed with reference to the entire Clan has also been increased by the number of 
romantic incidents connected with the careers of some of its chiefs. Passing as their names and 
achievements have done into history and romance, they have in common acceptation become the 
representatives of an entire race of which they and their immediate followings were but a part. 
, Another branch of the ruling family of Cameron chiefs, however, one which is asserted by good 
authorities to be an elder one, was the Cameron of Glenevis, to whose family and followers the 
appellation of Clan Soirlie was applied, and which was not less prolific in Highland warriors and 
statesmen. As far as the records are to be found, the Glenevis Camerons had lands in Lochaber, 
and from the circumstance that they were often at feud with the Lochiel Camerons, it has been 
asserted that they were originally of another Clan. The chief of Glenevis at the time of the Jacobite 
rebellion of 1745 was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and his wife, a lady of the Cameron 
family of Lochiel, was cruelly persecuted by the English, about which a number of romantic 
traditions are still current in the Highlands, the silver plate which she preserved from the 
marauders being still preserved by the family. There was an offshoot of the Glenevis branch, 
which was known as the Camerons of Speyside, and from the same source came also the 
Camerons of Dawnie, both of them being families of importance in the Highlands. 

Sir Roderick William Cameron, of New York, is a descendant of the Lairds of Glenevis, 
his ancestor being Donald Cameron, a cadet of that family, who received the lands of 
Morsheirlich, from one of the chiefs of Lochiel, with whom it would seem that he was on 
friendly terms, but he was ousted from them by the successor, who thus manifested the 
traditional hostility of the Lochiel Camerons for those of the Glenevis family. He then removed 
to Glenmoriston, Inverness-shire, where his descendants were people of property and note in 
that section. One of them, Alexander Cameron, born at Glenmoriston, in 1729, married, about 
1760, Margaret Macdonell, of the same place, and came to the Province of New York, from 
which he removed to Canada about 1776, being one of the United Empire Loyalists, who have 
been a most important element in the development of the Canadian Provinces and the present 
Dominion. Alexander Cameron established himself in Williamstown, County of Glengarry, 
Canada, where he died in 1825. He was succeeded by his son, Duncan Cameron, born in 
Glenmoriston, Scotland, 1764, who became one of the founders of the Northwest Fur Company, 
of Canada, and passed a number of years in the far West, where he commanded Fort Garry, 
on the site of the City of Winnipeg. In 1818, he went to Great Britain, was presented at 
court and visited the Highlands, where he made the acquaintance of the lady, Margaret 

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Macleod, daughter of Captain William Macleod, of Hammer, who in 1820 became his wife, 
having accompanied her brother, Dr. Roderick Macleod, to Canada. Duncan Cameron 
represented the County of Glengarry in the Parliament of Upper Canada from 1820 to 1824, 
and resided on an estate which was called Glenevis House, after the home of his ancestors, in 
Scotland. He died in 1848, aged eighty-four years. 

Of his two sons, the eldest died in infancy. The second, Roderick William, was born 
July 25th, 1825. He was educated at local academies and at Kingston, Canada, and in his 
early youth hunted throughout the Canadian Northwest. He entered business life at an early 
age, and in 1852 came to the City of New York with the intention of going to Australia on a 
mercantile enterprise. Instead, however, of going permanently to Australia, he established a 
line of ships between that part of the world and New York, and thus laid the foundation of a 
commercial establishment of great importance to New York and to this country, and of which 
he remains the head. Successful from the outset, he not only sent many emigrants to 
Australia, but built up an export trade in American products there, which has been of much 
benefit to this country. Up to 1870, he did business alone, but in that year William A. Street 
was admitted and the style of the house was changed to R. W. Cameron & Co., the 
establishment having branches at Sydney, New South Wales, and London. 

Despite his long residence in America and his interest in social and public affairs, Sir 
Roderick Cameron has always retained his allegiance to the British crown, and in 1883 his 
services in the development of Australia were recognized, the honor of knighthood being 
conferred on him by the Queen. He, however, earnestly supported the Union cause during 
the Civil War here and organized the Seventy-Ninth New York Regiment. In 1876, he was 
the honorary commissioner of Australia to the Philadelphia International Exposition, and served 
in the same capacity at Paris in 1878. In 1880 and 1881, the Dominion of Canada made him 
honorary commissioner to the Exposition at Sydney and Melbourne. His report on these 
expositions was an exhaustive document, valuable for its treatment of interesting statistical and 
commercial matters, and was published as a blue book by the Dominion Government. In early 
life, he married Miss Cummings, of Quebec, who died in 1859. Some years after he contracted 
a second matrimonial alliance, with Anne Fleming Leavenworth, daughter of Nathan Leavenworth, 
of New York, whose wife, Alice Johnston, was the daughter of a Scottish gentleman who 
settled in New York in the last century. The Leavenworth family is descended from a noted 
Puritan divine in early New England days. Mrs. Cameron died in 1879. The children of this 
marriage are Margaret S. E., Duncan Ewen Charles, Roderick McLeod, Catherine N., Anne 
Fleming, who in 1895 married Belmont Tiffany, son of the late George Tiffany, and Isabella 
Dorothea Cameron. 

In many public and social capacities, Sir Roderick Cameron has shown his sympathy for 
the country of his residence. He is a member of the leading New York clubs, including the 
Metropolitan, Knickerbocker and New York, and the Downtown Association. In London, he 
belongs to the Junior Carleton, Turf, Hurlingham, Beefsteak and Wellington clubs, and is a 
member of various artistic and scientific bodies, including the American Geographical Society 
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been a member of the Highland Society of 
London since 1856, and spent some time in a prolonged visit to the Highland home of his 
ancestors. He long maintained an active interest in the turf and imported into this country 
Leamington, sire of Iroquois, the only American winner of the Epsom Derby. The city residence 
of Sir Roderick Cameron is 185 Madison Avenue, and he has a country house, Clifton Berley, 
on Staten Island, as well as a summer retreat at Tadousac, at the mouth of the Sagenany 
River, in Quebec, the latter place being formerly the property of the Earl of Dufferin, when 
Governor of Canada. Duncan E. C. Cameron, his elder son, is a member of the Knickerbocker 
Club, of New York, and the Bachelors and Junior Carleton, in London. His younger son, 
Roderick McL. Cameron, is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker and Racquet clubs, of New 
York, and of the Junior Carleton Club, in London. 



HUGH NESBITT CAMP 

PROMINENT among the New York merchants and men of affairs of the last generation was 
Hugh Nesbitt Camp. His parents were Isaac Brookfield Camp and Jeanette Ely, who 
were members of families that have been settled in New Jersey for many generations, and 
that have been distinguished from time to time in public affairs. His maternal grandfather was 
Calvin Ely, who lived in the town of Livingston, N. J., a small place about ten miles from Newark. 
Mr. Camp's parents were residents of New York, but he was born in the house of his grandfather 
in Livingston, October 14th, 1827. Brought to his parents' New York home a month later, he lived 
in New York from that time on throughout his long life. Educated in schools here, he began to 
work when he was fourteen years of age, finding employment in subordinate positions until 1843, 
when he entered the counting house of James A. Edgar, with which firm, and with the firm of 
Booth & Edgar, its successors as commission merchants, he remained for many years, gaining 
a large experience and becoming a successful man of business. 

In 1854, Mr. Camp became interested in sugar refining. At that time, he organized a firm 
under the name of Camp, Brunsen & Sherry, and with a small capital, advanced by gentlemen who 
believed in his ability and integrity, established a plant in Bristol, R. I. Within a year the new 
firm was so successful that it was able to discharge its obligations in full, and thenceforward con- 
tinued a profitable business. The relations of the partners continued undisturbed for fourteen 
years, when the firm was dissolved. Mr. Camp bought out the interests of his associates and 
formed a new partnership under the name of Hugh N. Camp & Co., with George Robert- 
son and William McKay Chapman as partners. The over-stimulation in business brought about 
by the commercial inflation of the war period and the intense competition that ensued, proved 
disastrous to the firm, which, in 1870, was forced to relinquish business. 

After his affairs were readjusted, Mr. Camp, however, went into the real estate business as a 
broker and auctioneer and met with instantaneous and gratifying success. In a few years he 
became a large real estate investor on his own account, and was particularly interested in real 
property in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards of the city, north of the Harlem. He was 
also heavily engaged in lead mining in Missouri and in the cement business in Pennsylvania. 
In 1880, Mayor Franklin Edson appointed him one of a committee of seven to investigate and 
report upon the necessity of an additional water supply for the city, and in that position he 
rendered important service to the municipality. 

During his lifetime, he was a trustee of the National Life Insurance Company, a director of 
the Mechanics' National Bank, the Continental Trust Company, the Twenty-third Ward Bank, the 
Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of which he was vice-president ; a trustee of the Clinton Hall 
Association, of which he was secretary for thirty years ; and a trustee of the Skin and Cancer 
Hospital and the House of Rest for Consumptives. He was secretary and treasurer of the St. 
Joseph Lead Company, the Doe Run Lead Company, and the Mississippi River and Bonne-Terre 
Railroad. Mr. Camp died September 20th, 1895. For many years he was a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, belonged to the Century, Union League, Grolier and other clubs, and was 
a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 

In 1854, Mr. Camp married Elizabeth Dorothea McKesson, daughter of John McKesson. 
There were eight children of this alliance, six of whom survived their father. Edward B. Camp 
is a broker, residing in New Jersey. Maria Lefferts Camp became the wife of Perry P. 
Williams. John McKesson Camp is a broker. Frederick Edgar Camp is a merchant and 
treasurer of several of the corporations in which his father had interests. The present Hugh 
Nesbitt Camp is the youngest son and was associated with his father in the management of the 
real estate business for a number of years. He resides at Morris Heights, in the old homestead, 
Fairlawn, which was built by his father in 1863. He belongs to the Union League and Seventh 
Regiment Veteran clubs, having been a member of the Seventh Regiment for several years. 

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HENRY WHITE CANNON 

ONE of the facts which explains New York's preeminence as the real centre of the Western 
Hemisphere is its capacity to attract and incorporate in its citizenship the ablest and most 
prominent men that all other sections of the country develop. Mr. Cannon, though his 
career commenced in the West, is of a New England and New York family. His grandfather, 
Benjamin Persis Cannon, a native of Hebron, Tolland County, Conn., was born in 1776, while his 
wife was born at Fairfield, in the same State, in 1799. Removing to New York in 1810, Benjamin 
P. Cannon settled in Tompkins, the name of which was changed to Cannonsville in his honor. He 
was noted as a sagacious business man and had a deserved reputation for integrity. His son, 
George Bliss Cannon, the father of the subject of this article, was born in Cannonsville, N. Y., in 
1820. In 1849, he removed to Delhi and was prominent in both business and politics, being a 
close personal friend of Horace Greeley. He made New York City his residence in his later years 
and died in 1890, survived by his widow, who was Ann Eliza White, daughter of Elijah and 
Marietta White, of Franklin, N. Y., where she was born in 1825. On his mother's side Mr. Cannon 
descends from Peregrine White, who was born on the Mayflower as she lay in Cape Cod Harbor 
in 1620, and was the first European child to see the light in New England. His maternal grand- 
mother, Marietta Jennings, was a descendant of William Jennings, of Suffolk, England, and his 
maternal great-grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, who died, while a prisoner of war, in 
the old Sugar House of New York. 

Mr. Henry W. Cannon was born in Delhi, Delaware County, in i8so. He was educated in 
private schools, and before attaining his majority became an official of a bank. He soon removed 
to the West and entered the banking business in St. Paul. When barely twenty-one years of age, 
he successfully organized a National Bank in Stillwater, Minn., and became its president. Recog- 
nized as one of the foremost bankers of the Northwest, Mr. Cannon was appointed in 1884, by 
President Arthur, Comptroller of the Currency of the United States as the successor to the late Hon- 
orable John Jay Knox. He had no sooner taken office than the panic of 1884 swept over the 
country. His practical experience was of the greatest benefit at this crisis, not the smallest of his 
services being to avert contemplated interference by Congress with the efforts of the banks, and 
particularly those of New York, to allay the panic. President Cleveland, in 1885, requested Mr. 
Cannon to continue as Comptroller, but he resigned in 1886. 

Making New York his home from that time, Mr. Cannon became vice-president of the 
National Bank of the Republic, but soon after accepted the post of president of the Chase National 
Bank, which, under his management, has become one of the foremost financial institutions of the 
city. He has been a leader in the Clearing House Association, being chairman of the Clearing 
House committee, and is one of the men to whom the financial interests of New York instinctively 
turn, in moments of difficulty, for counsel and assistance. Positions of a public character have 
continued to seek Mr. Cannon since he became a New Yorker. He was appointed by Mayor 
Grant as a member of the Aqueduct Commission, and in 1892 was one of the American represen- 
tatives to the International Monetary Conference held at Brussels, Belgium. 

In 1879, Mr. Cannon married Jennie O. Curtis, daughter of Gould J. Curtis, a prominent 
member of the Minnesota bar and a native of Madison County, N. Y. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War, Mr. Curtis raised a company, which he commanded, in the Fifth Minnesota Volunteer Infan- 
try, and died in the service in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Cannon have two sons, George C. Cannon, born 
in 1882, and Henry White Cannon, Jr., born in 1887. Mr. Cannon's only brother, James G. 
Cannon, is also a prominent banker in New York, being vice-president of the Fourth National 
Bank. Mr. Cannon resides in Madison Avenue and is a member of many of the city's prominent 
social organizations, including the Metropolitan and Union League clubs, the Century Association, 
the Sons of the Revolution, the New England Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and 
numerous political, patriotic and benevolent institutions. 



HENRY T. CAREY 

MARRIAGES between members of distinguished New York families and representatives of 
European aristocracy have been of frequent occurrence both in the past and in recent 
times. Instances in which such alliances have been followed by the residence of the 
contracting parties in this country, and the founding of a new American house of patrician 
standing, are, however, somewhat rare. The name of Carey is one of these few exceptional cases 
in New York's social history. The original seat of its possessors was in the County of Surrey, 
England, where several landed families of Careys, or Carews, have been established for centuries, 
one of which, the Carews of Beddington, have held a baronetcy since 171 5. In England the 
Carey family is connected by ties of descent and marriage with a large number of other families 
of prominence in the peerage or among the landed gentry of the oldest type throughout the 
kingdom. 

Samuel Carey, the grandfather of Mr. Henry T. Carey, held an estate in Surrey. His 
son, Samuel Thomas Carey, having changed his residence to the United States, became an 
adopted citizen of New York, through his marriage with Marion de Peyster, daughter of George 
de Peyster. Mr. Henry T. Carey was born of this alliance in 1845. The de Peysters are one 
of the oldest families in the State or City of New York. In every generation since the original 
Dutch settlement, it has produced men of prominence in public and social life, while the 
marriages of its members has allied it with nearly all the families of real distinction, in either 
the Colonial or post-Revolutionary history of the metropolis. The race is of Huguenot origin 
and noble descent, and its progenitor in America, Jan or Johannes de Peyster, came hither from 
Holland in the early days of the settlement, his marriage in 1649 with Cornelia Lubberts being 
one of the first recorded in the annals of the New Netherland. His descendants included a 
succession of individuals distinguished in Colonial and Revolutionary times. Perhaps the 
most prominent of them was Colonel Abraham de Peyster, his son, Mayor of the city, Chief 
Justice and acting Governor of the Province, though in every generation this typical New York 
family has possessed representatives who have been prominent in the affairs of the city and 
State, or who have been conspicuous in social life. 

Colonel de Peyster owned the land extending along the north side of the present Wall 
Street, and presented to the city the ground on which the old City Hall was erected, the same 
site being afterwards used for the Federal Hall in which President Washington was inaugurated, 
and which has been succeeded by the present Sub-Treasury Building. The numerous 
descendants of the de Peysters, direct or through female lines, have always been an important 
element in the city's social organization, and frequent mention of its various branches and 
relationships will be found throughout this volume. There are indeed few of the older families 
of the city who do not prize a relationship to the race in question. 

On his paternal side, Mr. Carey is also connected with a family of the highest position 
in New York. His cousin John Carey married Alida Astor, a daughter of William B. Astor, 
and was the founder of a branch of the name which includes a number of the prominent 
members of the highest circles of metropolitan society. 

Mr. Henry T. Carey is engaged in the banking profession, having been a member of the 
New York Stock Exchange since 1868. He resides at No. 41 West Forty-sixth Street, and 
among other clubs belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, Tuxedo and South Side. 

Of the other children of Samuel and Marion (de Peyster) Carey, Samuel Carey, second 
of the name and brother of Mr. Henry T. Carey, is a merchant in New York. He married 
Laura Silliman Taylor. Another brother, George Carey, who was also in the banking business, 
died some years ago. He married Clara Foster, and left two children, a son, Frederick Foster 
Carey, who married A. Madeleine Lewis, and a daughter. Marion de Peyster Carey, who is 
now the wife of William B. Dinsmore, Jr., of this city. 

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GEORGE W. CARLETON 

ALONG line of distinguished ancestry is the family inheritance of Mr. George W. Carleton, 
who bears an old and honored name. The family dates from the time of the Norman 
Conquest in 1066. The name was originally a title of nobility, and its first bearer was 
a Carleton-Baldwin de Carleton, of Carleton Hall, near Penrith, Cumberland County, England. 

In the sixth generation from Baldwin de Carleton came Adam de Carleton, head of the 
Cumberland family, from whom was descended Sir Guy Carleton, Commander-in-Chief of the 
British Army in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War. In later time came 
John Carleton, of Sutton and Walton-upon-Thames, the ancestor in the sixth generation of 
the American pioneer of the family. His grandson, John Carleton, of Walton-upon-Thames and 
Baldwin Brightwell, married Joyce, daughter and coheir of John Welbeck, of Oxonheath, 
Kent, and his wife, Margaret Culpepper, whose sister, Joyce Culpepper, was mother of Queen 
Catharine. Edward Carleton, Lord of the Manor of East Cloud-on-Surrey, a son of this union, 
married Mary, daughter of George Bigley, of Cobham, Surrey, and became the father of Erasmus 
Carleton, merchant of London and father of Edward Carleton, the American pioneer. 

Edward Carleton, of London, came to this country in 1639 and settled in the town of 
Rowley, Mass. There he was a freeman in 1643, and for several years a member of the General 
Court. He returned to England before 1656, but his children remained in the New World. 
Lieutenant John Carleton, of Haverhill, Mass., who was born in England about 1630, settled in 
Haverhill, Mass., about 1661, and died there in 1668. His wife was Hannah Jewett, daughter 
of Joseph Jewett; Joseph Carleton, of Newbury, Mass., their second son, was born in 1662, 
and married Abigail, daughter of Christopher Osgood, of Andover, Mass. In the next generation, 
Jeremiah Carleton, of Lyndeborough, N. H., born in 1715, married Eunice Taylor, of Notting- 
ham. Jeremiah Trent Carleton, born in 1743, was a soldier in General Wolfe's army, was 
wounded at the capture of Louisburg, and marched in defense of Ticonderoga. 

Several of Mr. Carleton's ancestors performed distinguished service during the War of the 
Revolution. Moses Carleton, of Boxford, Mass., his paternal great-grandfather, was a private in 
a Lexington Alarm Company of the Massachusetts minute men; Noadiah Leonard, of Sunderland, 
Mass., his maternal great-grandfather, being Captain of the same company. Noadiah Carleton 
was at the battle of Bunker Hill, participated in the siege of Boston, and also acted as a member 
of the Committee of Safety. Henry Hodge, of Wiscassett, Me., then Massachusetts, another 
great-grandfather, was a private in the Massachusetts militia. The parents of Mr. Carleton 
were Cyrus Carleton, of Alma, Me., and Maria Leonard Arms, of Deerfield, Mass. His paternal 
grandparents were Joseph Carleton, of Newton, N. H., and Margaret Hodge, who was born in 
Wiscassett, Me. The parents of his mother were Eliakim Arms, Jr., who was born in Deerfield, 
Mass., and Tabitha Leonard, of Sunderland, Mass. 

Mr. George W. Carleton was born in New York, January 16th, 1832, was educated in Dr. 
Hawk's Classical Seminary, Flushing, Long Island, and has been a resident of this city during 
his business life, having been one of the leading American book publishers in the last genera- 
tion. He retired from business in 1886. Mr. Carleton married Elizabeth H. Baldwin, daughter 
of Moses G. Baldwin and Elizabeth Bolles, of Newark, N. J. They have two daughters, Ida B. 
and Louise Carleton. The residence of the family is in West Thirty-seventh Street. Mr. Carleton 
belongs to the Union League and Lotus clubs, and the Sons of the Revolution, and is a patron 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. His 
brother, Cyrus Carleton, is engaged in machinery manufacturing, in Providence, R. I. The arms 
of the Carleton family are those borne by the Carletons of Lincoln and Oxfordshire, England: 
Argent, on a bend sable, three mascles of the field. The crest shows: Out of a ducal coronet 
or., a unicorn's head sable, the horn twisted on the first and second. The motto: Non ad 
perniciem, may be rendered in English, injury to none. 



ANDREW CARNEGIE 

IN 1848, the family of a respectable Scotch artisan emigrated from Dumferline, in what was 
once termed the Kingdom of Fife, and settled in Pittsburg, Pa. William Carnegie, its head, 
had been a master weaver employing the labor of others, but was forced to emigrate by 
the introduction of steam power and of the factory system. He was a man of intelligence, a 
radical in politics and had attained reputation as a public speaker. His wife possessed in a 
remarkable degree that union of a strong character and resolute will with a fine temperament 
that is found in the best representatives of the Scottish race. These traits she transmitted to 
the eldest of her two sons, Andrew, who, at the time of the family migration, was eleven years 
old, having been born in Dumferline, November 25th, 1837. 

In Dumferline, young Andrew Carnegie had attended a private school, but in Pittsburg it 
was necessary for him to contribute his childish efforts toward the support of the family. This 
he commenced to do at twelve years of age, first as a boy in factories, running a steam engine 
and acting as clerk for one employer. When two years older he obtained the place of mes- 
senger in a telegraph office. This opened a new world to the ambitious lad, who improved his 
opportunities and soon became an expert telegraph operator, the death of his father throwing 
on him the duty of supporting his mother with his small salary. Attracting the attention of 
Thomas A. Scott, who was then superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Western division, 
he became secretary to that gentleman. He remained in the railroad service thirteen years, 
and finally assumed the place of superintendent on Mr. Scott's promotion to the company's 
vice-presidency. The latter, when Assistant Secretary of War during the Civil War, called Mr. 
Carnegie to Washington and put him in charge of the Government's military railroads and tele- 
graphs. While with Mr. Scott, he made his initial step toward becoming a capitalist, and was 
instrumental in introducing the first sleeping cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Appreciating the fact that iron bridges must supersede those of wood, he left the railroad 
service and organized the Keystone Bridge works, in Pittsburg, the nucleus around which he 
developed the largest group of iron and steel manufacturing establishments in the world. Com- 
prising as they now do the Homestead, Edgar Thomson, Duquesne and Union Mills and allied 
establishments in and around Pittsburg, they represent an enormous aggregate of capital and of 
employees, while they also constitute the most perfect example of modern invention applied to 
such purposes. 

As success has crowned Mr. Carnegie's enterprises, he has left the details of his business 
to associates and has given a large share of his attention to travel, to literature and to eminently 
practical efforts to benefit and elevate others. Of his many gifts, it is only possible to speak of 
the magnificent library, concert hall and gallery he presented to Pittsburg or the free library 
given by him to Allegheny City, or the aid he extended to the Edinburgh library and that in 
his native town of Dumferline. The Carnegie Music Hall, in New York, is only one of the 
benefits he has conferred on the metropolis since he made this city his residence. 

In 1879, Mr.Carnegie published Around the World, a record of his travels. An American 
Four-in-Hand in Britain was made public in 1884, and in 1886 appeared his best known book, 
Triumphant Democracy, which has been translated into many foreign languages. This work, 
which is the most graphic illustration of the progress of the United States ever written, was 
issued in 1893 in a revised form based on the Government Census of 1890, and has had a 
wide circulation in both Europe and America. He has also written many noteworthy articles 
in reviews. Mr. Carnegie married Miss Whitfield, daughter of John Whitfield, of New York, in 
1887. They have one child, an infant daughter. During a part of each year, Mr. and Mrs. 
Carnegie reside on his Scotch estate, Cluny Castle, in the Highlands of his native country, for 
which he maintains an attachment second only to that he feels for the great Republic of which 
he is such an eminent and useful citizen. 



GOUVERNEUR MORRIS CARNOCHAN 

GALLOWAY, the ancestral home 01 the Carnochan family, in Scotland, borders upon 
Ayrshire, the land of the poet Burns, who was a friend of William Carnochan, 
great-uncle of Mr. Gouverneur Morris Carnochan. Early in the present century, William 
Carnochan, with his two brothers, Richard and John, came to America. William became a planter 
in Georgia; Richard settled in Charleston, S. C. ; John went to the Island of Nassau, where he 
married Harriet Frances Putnam, daughter of Henry Putnam and Frances Frazer, whose father, 
Major James Frazer, was an officer of the British Army. Subsequently, John Carnochan came to 
Georgia, where he was a large landed proprietor. His wife was the great-granddaughter of Henry 
Putnam, of Salem, who was killed at the battle of Lexington, and a grandniece of General Putnam. 
Dr. John Murray Carnochan, their son, became a famous surgeon. He was born in 
Savannah, Ga., July 4th, 1817, and died in New York, October 28th, 1887. When a boy, he was 
taken to Edinburgh, where he was educated in the High School and the University. Returning to 
the United States at the age of seventeen, he entered the office of Dr. Valentine Mott and took his 
degree of M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Devoting himself 
with ardor to the study of anatomy, he acquired special distinction in that branch of his profession, 
and gave lectures to private classes. In 184 1, he again visited Europe, where he passed several 
years in attendance upon the clinical lectures of the principal hospitals of Paris, London and 
Edinburgh, under such men as Liston, Brodie, Roux and others. Returning home in 1847, he 
practiced in New York and soon had an established position among American surgeons. In 1851, 
he was appointed surgeon and subsequently surgeon-in-chief of the State Emigrant Hospital, which 
position he held for over a quarter of a century. 

His services to the cause of science were no less conspicuous than those he rendered to 
humanity. Many of his operations were of the most original and brilliant character, and 
established him as one of the foremost surgeons of the day. For twelve years he was professor of 
the principles and operations of surgery in the New York Medical College, and for two years was 
Health Officer of New York. He published numerous papers in medical journals, and was the 
author of important books upon surgical practice, and of several volumes of lectures. His 
professional activity continued almost to the day of his death. In September, 1887, a month before 
he died, he attended the International Medical Congress at Washington and read two papers. 
Dr. Carnochan married Estelle Morris, a daughter of Brevet Major-General William Walton 
Morris, U. S. A., a distinguished officer, who came of a long line of soldiers. The father of 
General Morris was Lieutenant William Walton Morrris, of the Second Artillery, Continental Line, 
aide-de-camp to General Anthony Wayne in the Revolution. His grandfather was General Lewis 
Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his great-grandfather was the Honorable 
Lewis Morris, Lord of the Manor of Morrisania. His great-great-grandparents were Lewis Morris 
and Isabella Graham, daughter of the Honorable James Graham. 

Mr. Gouverneur Morris Carnochan, the youngest and only surviving son of Dr. John Murray 
Carnochan, was born in New York. He was educated at Harvard University and was matriculated 
at the Ecole de Medicine in Paris, his father intending him for the medical profession. After 
completing his studies at Harvard, he followed his own inclination and entered the banking 
business, being now a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He lives in Fifth Avenue and 
at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson. His club membership includes the Calumet, Military, New York 
Athletic, A <£, the Country Club of Westchester County and the Society of Colonial Wars. He is 
a member of the Seventh Regiment, being inspector of rifle practice, with the rank of First 
Lieutenant. In 1888, he married Matilda Grosvenor Goodridge, daughter of the late Frederic 
Goodridge, and has had three sons, two of whom are still living. His youngest son, Gouverneur 
Morris Carnochan, Jr., is in the fifth generation of Gouverneurs, bearing the name of their relative 
and eminent statesman, Gouverneur Morris, the first United States Minister to France. 



HERBERT SANFORD CARPENTER 

WESTERN New York was peopled largely by New Englanders, but, though that strain 
is the dominant one, it has been transformed by the local environments. When this 
section in question was thrown open to civilization, after the close of the Revolution, 
its fertile plains and valleys proved especially attractive to the inhabitants of the Eastern States, 
who found there that ease of life that was denied in the rugged localities in which the Puritans 
at first established themselves. The consequence has been a modification of the New England 
character, which, under such circumstances, became changed into something softer, while 
preserving all of its original energy and activity, both mental and physical, and has been an 
element of importance in the development of the entire country. 

Mr. Carpenter, on both the paternal and maternal sides, represents this happy modification 
of the pure New England type of Americans. His grandfather, Asaph H. Carpenter, and his 
grandmother, Elmira Clark Carpenter, were of families which established themselves early in the 
present century in Western New York, and which have furnished many distinguished individuals 
to professional and other pursuits. His father, the famous artist, Francis B. Carpenter, however, 
illustrates the tendencies to which we have referred in the preceding sentences, and is a 
striking instance of this modification of the New England race. 

Francis B. Carpenter was born at Homer, N. Y., and adopted art as his profession, 
making portrait-painting his specialty, a branch of the profession in which it is safe to say he 
has for years past been one of the foremost exponents in this country. Few artists of his day 
have enjoyed sittings from so many of the most celebrated men of the times; a list of his works 
would indeed include a long line of our leading statesmen, generals, and other celebrities. 
Among his most renowned productions is the Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which 
now hangs in the Capitol of the United States, at Washington, and for which he made original 
studies of President Lincoln and his Cabinet. Another work which attracted great attention 
had for its subject Arbitration, commemorating the signing, in 1871, of the Treaty of Washington, 
by which the Alabama claims were settled, and cause for international difficulties between 
England and the United States was obviated. This painting was presented to Queen Victoria, 
and holds a place of honor among the historical works of art belonging to the British Crown. 
Mr. Carpenter, Sr., enjoyed the confidence and regard of President Lincoln to an unusual degree, 
and has embodied his experiences in a volume— Six Months at the White House; or, The Inner 
Life of President Lincoln— which is one of the most valuable and authentic records of the 
character and conversation of the nation's martyred dead. His wife, Augusta (Prentice) Carpenter, 
was a native of Ithaca, N. Y., a member of a family of prominence in that portion of the State, 
descended from a line of Revolutionary ancestors; some of its members also taking high 
positions in public life in other parts of the United States, among them being statesmen, 
lawyers and editors of national reputation. 

Mr. Herbert Sanford Carpenter was born in Brooklyn, in 1862, and was educated in this 
city, and has adopted the profession of banking. In 1890, he became a member of the firm of 
Charles Head & Co., and in 1895 retired from that firm and became a member of the firm of 
Thomas L. Manson, Jr., & Co., in the same line of business. In 1883, he married Cora Anderson, 
of Louisville, Ky., a lady belonging to one of the oldest families of that city. Mrs. Carpenter's 
father was distinguished during the war between the States by his adherence to the cause of 
the Union, though among his immediate relatives were some who adopted a contrary course 
and lent their efforts in support of the South. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, while old New Yorkers, 
now live at Flushing, L. I. They have one daughter, Cora Carpenter. 

Mr. Carpenter naturally inherits artistic tastes, and is the owner of a number of carefully 
selected pictures, while in sport he is a devoted bicyclist and golf player. He is a member of 
the Oakland Golf Club, New York Athletic Club, and the Colonial Club of New York. 



ROYAL PHELPS CARROLL 

IN ancient Ireland, one of the most powerful families was that of Carroll, descended from the 
Kings of Munster and the Lords of the Barony of Ely in Leicester. Such was the ancestry 
of the first Charles Carroll, founder of the representative Maryland family of his name. He 
came to America in 1688 and settled in Annapolis, being the agent for Lord Baltimore's 
Maryland estates; he also obtained large grants of land for himself. His son, Charles, was born in 
1702 and married Elizabeth Brooke. Their son was the famous Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, 
1745-1832. His territorial designation was taken from his estate in Frederick County, Md. He 
was educated in France and London, and, returning, married Mary Darnell in 1768. He warmly 
espoused the patriot cause in the Revolution, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 
at the time of his death was the last survivor of the signers. He filled many important offices, includ- 
ing the United States Senatorship for Maryland. He was the foremost Catholic layman in America 
and his cousin, the Reverend Dr. John Carroll, 1735-1815, was the first Archbishop of Baltimore 
and primate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The only son of Charles 
Carroll, of Carrollton, was Charles Carroll, who married Harriet Chew, daughter of Chief Justice 
Benjamin Chew, of Pennsylvania. The four Caton sisters, granddaughters of Charles Carroll, of 
Carrollton, were famous beauties. Three of them married English noblemen, the oldest becoming 
the wife of the Marquis of Wellesley, and sister-in-law of the Duke of Wellington. 

The Honorable John Lee Carroll is the great-grandson of the patriot, Charles Carroll. He 
studied law and resided in New York for some years, was a State Senator of Maryland in 1867 and 
1 87 1 and was elected Governor of Maryland in 1875. Governor Carroll's wife was Miss Phelps, 
daughter of Royal Phelps, the famous New York merchant and banker. 

The Phelps family was of Welsh origin, the name being abbreviated from Phyllyppes, an 
ancient Staffordshire cognomen. Their name is mentioned in Rymers Foedera. Sir Edward 
Phelps was Master of the Rolls and Speaker of the Commons in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 
George and William Phelps, of Devonshire, came to America in 1630 and settled first in Dorchester, 
Mass., and, in 1635, formed part of the company that founded Connecticut. George Phelps lived 
in Windsor, Conn., but in 1668 joined in the settlement of Westfield, Mass. His son, Captain 
Isaac Phelps, and his grandson, Lieutenant John Phelps, took active part in the wars with the 
Indians. A son of Lieutenant Phelps, the Honorable John Phelps, 1734-1802, graduated from Yale 
in 1759 and became a leading lawyer and prominent public man in Western Massachusetts. The 
Reverend Royal Phelps, his youngest son, was a respected Congregational minister in the western 
part of New York State. Mr. Carroll is also descended from Colonel John Spofford, of Tinmouth, 
Vt, an officer in the Revolutionary Army. His great-grandmother was the daughter of Colonel 
Spofford and sister of Horatio Gates Spofford, the author. 

The grandfather of Mr. Carroll, Royal Phelps, 1809-1884, began a commercial life in New 
York City when he was only fifteen years old, and spent some fifteen years in the West Indies and 
in Venezuela. In 1840 he established a business house for himself, and the rest of his active career 
was devoted to the West Indian and South American trade. He married a lady of Spanish family 
in 1831, and his only daughter became the wife of Governor John Lee Carroll. 

Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll, their son, fifth in descent from Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, was 
born in New York, October 29th, 1862. He attended schools in France and England and was 
graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1885. In 1891, he married Marion Langdon, 
daughter of Eugene and Harriet (Lowndes) Langdon, and has one daughter, Marion Dorothea 
Carroll. Mr. Carroll has residences in New York and Newport, and is a member of the Union, 
Knickerbocker, Racquet and other clubs. He is a skillful and enthusiastic yachtsman, and owns 
the Navahoe, which, in 1894, he sailed in the principal European regattas, beating the Prince of 
Wales' Britannia in the race for the Brenton Reef Cup. Mr. Carroll flies the pennants of the 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian, Larchmont and Eastern Yacht clubs. 



COLIN SMITH CARTER, D. D. S. 

MR COLIN SMITH CARTER was born in Middletown, Conn., April 13th, 1857. His 
ancestry is mainly English and Welsh, a single line extending into France. His earliest 
American ancestor was Elder William Brewster, of the Mayflower, from whom he is 
ninth in lineal descent. He is also descended from Thomas Gardner, overseer of the first 
emigrants that landed at Cape Ann (now Gloucester), Mass., in 1624. Others of his ancestors 
were of the distinguished companies that came to that Colony with Governor Winthrop, in 
1630, and to New Haven, with Governor Eaton, in 1637. Of his English ancestors, he is ninth 
in descent from Thomas Morton, who was graduated from Cambridge, became Bishop of Chester 
161 s Litchfield 1618, Durham 1632, and whose daughter Ann married first David Yale, and 
second Governor Eaton, of the New Haven Colony. A daughter of David and Ann (Morton) 
Yale married Governor Edward Hopkins, of the Connecticut Colony; their son, Thomas, married 
Mary, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Turner, they being the parents of Elihu Yale, after whom 
Yale University was named, and also the great-grandparents of Ann Yale, who, May 8th, 1733, 
married William Carter, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Dr. Carter is 
also seventh in descent from Thomas Roberts, the last Colonial Governor of New Hampshire, 
and eighth in descent from Governor Thomas Prince, of the Plymouth Colony. One of his 
ancestors owned Breed's Hill, on which the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought; others were 
among the courageous protectors of the regicides, while more than a score served in the Pequot 
and King Philip's wars, and in the General Courts of the Colonies of Plymouth, Mass., 
Connecticut, New Haven and New Hampshire. Three of them were among the thirteen 
members of the convention which met in 1639 to frame for the Colony of Connecticut a written 
constitution, the first ever adopted by any people, and the leading features of which have since 
been incorporated in both the Federal and most of our State constitutions. He is a great- 
grandson of Sergeant William Taylor, who enlisted in the Lexington alarm, from Simsbury, 
Conn., when only seventeen years of age, was at Bunker Hill, Monmouth and Stony Point, 
served until the close of the war and was awarded a pension. He is also fourth and fifth in 
descent respectively from Private Joseph Gaylord and Captain Nathaniel Bunnell, likewise 
Connecticut soldiers of the Revolution. His grandfather Carter held the offices of assessor, 
collector and postmaster, and his father, Walter S. Carter, is a well-known New York lawyer, 
noted as an art collector and for his interest in hereditary-patriotic societies. His maternal 
grandfather was the late John Cotton Smith, of New Hartford, Conn., a leading manufacturer, 
whose wife, Ellen (Fox) Smith, was descended from one of the best-known families in the 
central portion of the State. 

Dr. Carter was educated in the public schools, at the Wilbraham Academy, and the 
Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn. He entered the Dental Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, in 1881, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery two 
years later. Upon his graduation he was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Operative 
Dentistry, which position he filled until the following year, when he commenced practice in 
New York, in which he has achieved distinguished success. 

In 1892, Dr. Carter married Rose Esterbrook, daughter of the late Richard and Antoinette 
(Rose) Esterbrook, of Bridgehampton, L. I. The latter was a daughter of Judge Rose, who 
was of an ancient Long Island family, a graduate of Yale, and noted as the author of a valuable 
and learned commentary on constitutional law. 

Dr. Carter is a member of the Union League, Republican and American Yacht clubs, the 
New England Society, Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of 
Mayflower Descendants, Founders and Patriots of America, America's Founders and Defenders, 
and other patriotic, political and social organizations. In religion he is a Methodist, being a 
member of St. Paul's Church, in this city. 



JAMES C. CARTER 

AMONG the Puritan clergy whose influence was so marked in the early history of Massa- 
chusetts was the Reverend Thomas Carter, who came of an excellent English family in 
Hertfordshire, and received his education at St. John's College, Cambridge, taking his 
degrees there in 1629 and 1633. The date of his birth was 1610, and he was a young man of 
only twenty-five years when he joined the movement of the Puritians to the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony, coming over in 1635 on the ship Planter, with the Reverend Thomas Hooker and others 
who attained prominence in the Colony at that time. He resided at first in Dedham and afterwards 
in Watertown. He was ordained a minister of the gospel in 1642, and his first pastorate, which he 
entered upon in November of that year, was over the church in Woburn, Mass. There he remained 
for some forty years, until his death, in 1684. His wife, Mary, survived him less than three years, 
dying in Woburn in 1687. 

Several of the children of the Reverend Thomas Carter became clergymen. One of them, 
the Reverend Samuel Carter, who was graduated at Harvard College, in 1660, bought land in the 
town of Lancaster, Worcester County, in the central part of Massachusetts. From him have 
descended numerous families, which have been located for generations in Lancaster, Leominster 
and other towns in that section. To one of these families the subject of this article belongs, his 
father and mother being Solomon and Elizabeth (White) Carter. 

Mr. James C. Carter was born in Lancaster, Mass., October 14th, 1827. He received his 
preparatory education at the Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass., and entering Harvard College, at the 
age of eighteen, was graduated from that institution in the class of 1850. During his college course, 
he took a high rank and won prizes for essays and for a dissertation in Latin. After completing his 
studies, he came to New York and was for a year in the office of Kent & Davies, the senior 
partner of which was Judge William Kent, son of Chancellor Kent, and the junior the well-known 
Judge Henry E. Davies. Then he entered the law department of Harvard and was graduated 
therefrom with the degree of LL. B. in 1853. Returning to New York in 1853, he went into the 
office of Davies & Scudder, where he remained for a year, when that firm was dissolved and was 
succeeded by the firm of Scudder & Carter, in which Mr. Carter was the junior partner. On the 
death of Henry J. Scudder the present firm of Carter & Ledyard was formed, of which Mr. Carter 
is the senior member. 

For more than forty years, Mr. Carter has been one of the foremost advocates at the bar in 
New York City. He has been identified with scores of leading cases in this city and State, as well 
as before the Supreme Court of the United States. One of his most notable professional engage-, 
ments was as counsel for the United States before the Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris in 1893 in 
connection with the Alaska Seal Controversy, and another was as one of the counsel who argued 
in favor of the constitutionality of the Income Tax Law before the United States Supreme Court in 
1894. He was counsel and a close friend of the Honorable Samuel J. Tilden during the greater 
part of that eminent statesman's life, and defended his will against the legal attacks that were 
made upon it by Mr. Tilden's heirs. 

Mr. Carter has written much for publication, principally upon legal subjects, and has made 
many public addresses. His works include The Attempted Codification of the Common Law; The 
Province of the Written and the Unwritten Law, an address before the Virginia State Bar Associ- 
ation in 1882; and The Ideal and the Actual in the Law, an address delivered before the Ameri- 
can Bar Association, in 1890. In 1885, he received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard University. 
He was for years president of the Harvard Law Association, and is now president of the Bar 
Association of the City of New York. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Harvard, City, 
Century, Union League, University and A A 4> clubs, the Downtown Association, the New England 
Society, the National Academy of Design, and other public bodies. His city residence is 277 
Lexington Avenue. 

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HAMILTON WILKES CARY 

IN England, the family of Cary is old as well as illustrious. In 1 198, Adam de Kari was Lord of 
Karey, in Somersetshire. Red Castle, an Irish estate in the County of Donegal, and also 
White Castle were granted to him. His arms were: Argent on a bend sable, three roses of 
the first. Crest, a swan argent. William Cary, of Bristol, Somersetshire, was born in 1500, and 
during the reign of King Henry VIII., in 1532, was sheriff of the City of Bristol and Mayor in 1546. 
He left two sons, one of whom, Richard, born in Bristol in 1525, succeeded him and died in 1570. 
William Cary, 1 550-1632, the son of Richard Cary, also succeeded to the family estate. He was 
sheriff of Bristol in 1599 and Mayor in 161 1. His son, James Cary, who was born in Bristol in 
1600, was the American ancestor of the family. 

James Cary emigrated from England in one of the first companies that came to Massachu- 
setts. He was in Charlestown, Mass., in 1639, was town clerk and held other offices. He died in 
1 68 1. His wife, whom he married in England, was Eleanor Hawkins. In the second American 
generation, Jonathan Cary, of Charlestown, 1647-1738, was a deacon of the church of Charlestown, 
and married in 1675 Hannah Windsor. In the next two generations came Samuel Cary, 1683-1741, 
and his wife, Mary Foster, daughter of Richard Foster, and Captain Samuel Cary, 17 13- 1769, and 
his wife, Margaret Graves, daughter of the Honorable Thomas Graves. Captain Samuel Cary com- 
manded a ship in the London trade and married his wife there in 1741. The great-grandfather 
of Mr. Hamilton Wilkes Cary was their son, Samuel Cary, 1742-1812, who was born in Charles- 
town, Mass. When a young man, he went abroad and was successfully engaged in mercantile 
life in the West Indies in 1762-72. In the latter year, he returned to his native place and married 
a daughter of the Reverend Ellis Gray. Taking his bride with him, he returned to the Island of 
Grenada in the West Indies, where he had large business interests, and remained there for several 
years thereafter; eventually, however, returning to Massachusetts, living in the old family mansion 
in Chelsea, where he died. 

His son, William Ferdinand Cary, was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1795. In 1815, he came 
to New York and established himself in business. Here he remained for more than fifty years and 
became a successful merchant. In old age, he returned to Boston in 1876 and lived there the rest 
of his life. His wife was Nancy Cushing Perkins, a daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, one of 
Boston's famous merchants. Her grandfather was also a Boston merchant and her paternal grand- 
mother was Elizabeth Peck, one of the founders and earnest supporters of the Boston Female 
Asylum and of other philanthropic institutions. Her mother, whom her father married in 1778, was 
Sarah Elliot, daughter of Simon Elliot, of a well-known Boston family, whose ancestry goes back 
to the foundation of the Colony. 

Thomas Handasyd Perkins, the great-grandfather of Mr. Hamilton Wilkes Cary, was born 
in Boston in 1764 and died in Brookline, Mass., in 1854. His brother was at the head of a 
mercantile house in the Island of San Domingo, and thither he went in 1785 to engage in business. 
A few years after, he returned to Boston, and from 1789 onward made several mercantile voyages 
to the East. Afterwards he formed a partnership with his brother James, but having accumulated 
a fortune retired from business in 1822. In 180s, he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate 
and for eighteen years thereafter was in either the upper or lower branch of the Legislature and was 
Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia. He gave a house and grounds in Boston for a Blind Asylum, 
was a large contributor to the Boston Atheneum and was active in the erection of the Bunker 
Hill Monument. 

William F. Cary, son of William Ferdinand and Nancy Cushing (Perkins) Cary, was born in 
New York in 1832. He lived at Irvington-on-the Hudson, and in i860 married Lena Haight, who 
survives him, residing in Park Avenue. Mr. Hamilton Wilkes Cary is their son and was born in 
New York in 1862. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union and Knickerbocker clubs. His 
only sister is Catharine Caroline Cary. 

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CHARLES FREDERICK CHANDLER 

ONE of the distinguished American scientists of this generation, Professor Charles Frederick 
Chandler, Ph. D., M. D., LL. D., has for over thirty years been prominent in the social, 
scientific and literary life of New York. His parents were Charles Chandler, of Petersham, 
Mass., and Sarah Whitney, of Boston. He is descended from William and Annis Chandler, who 
settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1637. Three of his ancestors bore the name of John Chandler, and 
filled, in succession, the positions of Judge in Worcester County., Mass., and Colonel in the 
Colonial Army. One of them married Hannah Gardiner, of Gardiner's Island. Professor Chand- 
ler's paternal grandmother was Dollie Greene, a descendant of Thomas Greene, of Stone Castle, 
Old Warwick, R. I. 

Mr. Charles Frederick Chandler was born in Lancaster, Mass., December 6th, 1836, and was 
educated in the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College and the Universities of Gottingen 
and Berlin. In 1856, he received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Gottingen. For eight 
years he was instructor and lecturer on chemistry, mineralogy and geology in Union College, and 
in 1864, in association with Professor Thomas Egleston and General Francis Vinton, he founded the 
School of Mines of Columbia College, becoming dean of the Faculty and professor of chemistry and 
lecturer on geology. For thirty-three years he was at the head of this school, resigning the position 
of dean in 1897, in order to devote himself to his work in chemistry and allied branches. In 1872, 
he became connected with the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and on the death of 
Professor St. John, who held the chair of chemistry and medical jurisprudence, succeeded to the 
vacancy. He was one of the founders of the American Chemical Society and has been the vice- 
president and president of that association. With his brother, Professor Chandler, of Lehigh 
University, he founded The American Chemist, and in recent years has edited The Photographic 
Bulletin. For nearly thirty years, he has been professor of chemistry in the New York College of 
Pharmacy. His connection with the New York Board of Health began in 1866. In 1873, he was 
appointed president of the Board, and in 1877 reappointed for a full term of six years. 

In 1873, the University of New York conferred upon him the degree of M. D., and the same 
year he received the degree of LL. D. from Union College. He is a member of the National Academy 
of Sciences, the Sociedad Humboldt of Mexico, the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science, the American Philosophical Society, the New York Academy of Science, chairman of the 
American Section of the English Society of Chemical Industry, and a life member of the London, 
Berlin, Paris and American Chemical Societies. He lives at 51 East Fifty-fourth Street and has a 
summer home, The Cherries, in West Hampton, Long Island. His clubs include the Metropolitan, 
University and Grolier, and the Century Association. He is also a member of the New England 
Society and the New York Farmers' Club. He was for many years a member of the Union League 
and the Tuxedo clubs. 

In 1861, Professor Chandler married Anna Maria Craig, of Schenectady, N. Y., a daughter of 
James R. Craig and Margaret Walton. She was a descendant, on her father's side, of Anneke Jans, 
and on her mother's side, of William Hyde, of Hartford, Conn., 1636; Elisha Sill, of Lyme, Conn., 
1730; Thomas Russell Gold, of Goshen, Conn., and General Robert Sedgwick, who came from 
London to Charlestown, Mass., in 1636. The only child of Professor Chandler is Margaret Chand- 
ler, wife of Charles Ernest Pellew, adjunct professor of chemistry in Columbia University. Mr. 
Pellew comes of a distinguished English family. His father was Henry Edward Pellew, of Katonah 
Wood, Westchester County, N. Y. His mother was a granddaughter of the celebrated Chief Jus- 
tice John Jay and daughter of Judge William Jay. His grandparents were the Reverend George 
Pellew, D. D., dean of Norwich, and Frances Addington, daughter of Henry Addington, Viscount 
Sidmouth and Prime Minister of England. The great-grandfather of Charles E. Pellew was Admiral 
Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, 1757-1833, who married Sarah Frowde, daughter of James 
Frowde, of Wiltshire. Mr. and Mrs. Pellew have one child, Anna Craig Pellew. 



WINTHROP CHANLER 

CIVIC distinction attaches to the family name of Mr. Winthrop Chanler. His great-grandfather 
was Dr. Isaac Chanler, a prominent physician in Charleston, S. C, surgeon in the 
Continental Army in the Revolution, and first president of the Medical Society of 
South Carolina. A son of Dr. Chanler was the Reverend John White Chanler, a prominent 
clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, who married Elizabeth Sheriffe Winthrop, a 
descendant of Governor John Winthrop. The Honorable John Winthrop Chanler, their only son 
and father of Mr. Winthrop Chanler, was born in New York in 1826. Graduated from Columbia 
College, he became one of the leading lawyers of his day, and active and influential in public 
affairs. For many years he was a prominent member of the Tammany Hall organization. Elected 
a member of the Assembly in 1857, he declined a renomination, but was elected a member of the 
Thirty-eighth Congress in 1862, and was returned to the National House in 1864 and 1866. 
Failing health led to his retirement in 1875, and he died at his country residence in Rhinebeck, 
in 1877. His wife was Margaret Astor Ward, only daughter of Samuel Ward, Jr. 

Mr. Winthrop Chanler is descended from two of the most distinguished soldiers of the 
Colonial and Revolutionary period. His great-great-grandfather was General John Armstrong, of 
the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, son of General John Armstrong, of the French 
War and the War of the Revolution. The elder John Armstrong, 1720-1795, was a native of 
Ireland, came to America in 1745 and founded Carlisle, Pa., in 1750. As a Colonel of Pennsyl- 
vania troops, he took part in the expedition against the Indians in 1756, where he was brilliantly 
successful, and received a medal from the Provincial authorities, and was in the advance upon Fort 
Duquesne. In 1776, he became Brigadier-General in the Continental Army and saw service at 
Fort Moultrie, Charleston, Brandywine and Germantown. After the war, he was a member 
of Congress in 1787. 

The second General John Armstrong, 1758-1843, graduated from Princeton College in 1775, 
and enlisted in the Continental Army. He served on the staff of General Hugh Mercer, and 
afterwards on that of General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, and in 1780 was Adjutant-General of the 
Southern Army. After the war, he was Secretary of State and Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania 
for several years. Removing to New York, he became a member of Congress in 1787, was a 
United States Senator in 1800 and United States Minister to France and Spain in 1804-1810. In the 
War of 1812 he was a Brigadier-General, and in 1813 was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of 
President James Madison, resigning in 1814. His wife was Alida Livingston, daughter of Judge 
Robert R. Livingston and a sister of Chancellor Livingston. Margaret Armstrong, daughter of 
General John Armstrong, became the wife of William B. Astor, and her eldest daughter, Emily 
Astor, born in 18 19, was the mother of Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler. Through the Astor 
connection, Mr. Chanler is descended from Adam Todd, whose granddaughter, Sarah Todd, 
was the wife of the first John Jacob Astor. 

Through his grandfather, Samuel Ward, Mr. Chanler is descended from another Colonial 
family. John Ward was an officer in Cromwell's Army, and came to America after the accession 
of Charles II. His son, Thomas Ward, was treasurer of the Rhode Island Colony ; his grandson, 
Richard Ward, was its secretary and Governor of Rhode Island in 1740; and his great-grandson, 
Samuel Ward, was also Governor of Rhode Island, in 1762-63 and 1765-67, and a member of the 
Continental Congress in 1774. His great-great-grandson, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Ward, 
married a daughter of Governor William Greene, of Rhode Island; their son, Henry Ward, was 
the father of Samuel Ward, and grandfather of Samuel Ward, Jr., who married Emily Astor. 

Mr. Winthrop Chanler is the second son of the Honorable John Winthrop Chanler. He was 
born in New York and married Margaret Terry, daughter of John Terry. He belongs to the 
Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, Union, Racquet and City clubs of New York, and the Metropolitan Club 
of Washington. He makes his home in Tuxedo Park. 



ALFRED CLARK CHAPIN 

DEACON SAMUEL CHAPIN, of Springfield, Mass., from whom have descended many men 
prominent in professional and public life in the United States during the last two hun- 
dred and fifty years, was the ancestor of the Honorable Alfred Clark Chapin. The 
latter's grandparents were Atlas Chapin and his wife, Mary, and his father was Ephraim A. 
Chapin. Through his mother, Josephine Clark, Mr. Chapin is also descended from another great 
Colonial family of New England, his mother's ancestor being Lieutenant William Clark, who 
came from England in 1630, and settled in Northampton, Mass., in 1657. 

Mr. Chapin was born in South Hadley, Mass., March 8th, 1848. When an infant, he was 
taken to Springfield by his parents, who, in 1852, removed to Keene, N. H., and when he was 
fourteen years old to Rutland, Vt. His early education was secured in Keene and Rutland, and 
in 1865 he entered Williams College, being graduated from that institution in the class of 1869, 
with the degree of A. B. Afterwards he attended the Harvard Law School, receiving his degree 
of LL. B. in 187 1, and then came to New York. For a year he continued his studies and in 1872 
was admitted to the bar of New York State. He has since been engaged in the active practice of 
his profession in New York and Brooklyn. Making his residence in Brooklyn soon after he had 
entered upon professional life, he became interested in public affairs, and took an active and 
intelligent part in politics in that city. An adherent of the Democratic party, he was elected the 
first president of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Brooklyn in 1880, and was at once recog- 
nized as a leader of the younger element of his party. In 1881, he was elected Assemblyman 
from the Eleventh District of Kings County. 

His career in the Assembly was especially distinguished by an unswerving opposition to 
corrupt legislation of all kinds, and he soon became a leader there. Home rule for the city of 
Brooklyn and a constitutional amendment restricting the debt-making power of cities were 
measures that were advanced and advocated by him, and that brought him forward into special 
public prominence throughout the State. He also secured the passage of the Chapin Primary Law, 
which was the first step toward securing the purity of primary elections. He was also chairman 
of a special committee to investigate receiverships of insolvent insurance companies. In 1882, 
he was reelected to the Assembly by a greatly increased majority, and upon taking his seat the 
following year was chosen Speaker. In that position, he was again successful in meeting the 
highest expectations of his supporters, by his integrity and devotion to public interests. The State 
Convention of his party in 1883 nominated him for State Comptroller and he was elected to that 
office. Reelected for a second term, his administration was characterized by honesty of purpose, 
fearlessness and admirable business judgment. By his influence, a bill was passed by which a 
large amount of delinquent taxes due by corporations to the State were recovered. Upon the 
expiration of his second term of service as State Comptroller, Mr. Chapin received the Democratic 
nomination for Mayor of Brooklyn and was elected. In 1889, he was reelected by the largest 
majority ever given for a Mayor of the city up to that time. His administration of the municipal 
affairs was eminently successful, and under his direction the city prospered in every way. He 
gave especial attention to street improvements, to the cause of education and to the enlargement 
of the police force, and inaugurated the erection of the Brooklyn Memorial Arch to the memory of 
the soldiers killed in the Civil War. Further political honors were bestowed upon him after the 
expiration of his Mayoralty term, and he was elected a Member of the National House of Repre- 
sentatives. He also served as a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of New York. 

Mr. Chapin married Grace Stebbins in 1884. Mrs. Chapin was the daughter of Russell and 
Alice (Schieffelin) Stebbins. The children of this marriage are two daughters, Grace and Beatrice 
Chapin. Mr. Chapin is now a resident of New York, his home being in East Fifty-sixth Street, 
near Fifth Avenue. His country place is at Pointe-a-Pic, Province of Quebec, Canada. His clubs 
are the Metropolitan and the Union. 

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WILLIAM VIALL CHAPIN 

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., originally Agawam, was settled in 1636 by a band of stout-hearted 
Puritans, who traversed the wilderness between the coast and the fertile valley of the 
Connecticut under the leadership of William Pynchon and Samuel Chapin. The latter, 
in fact, was the practical founder of the town, and attained a deservedly high place among the 
early worthies of the Bay Colony, all of which is fittingly commemorated by the statue of him 
that has in later days been erected at Springfield. He became also the progenitor of a family 
which from that time forth has been notable in various parts of New England, and which, 
besides furnishing a Colonial Governor, has been fertile in distinguished clergymen, scholars, 
and men of note in all stations of life. 

Mr. William Viall Chapin comes of the Rhode Island branch of the family, Royal Chapin, 
his paternal grandfather, having been its Governor, and his father being General Walter B. 
Chapin. His mother, who was born Ann Frances Low Viall, was also a member of a dis- 
tinguished family. Her ancestor was William Viall, a French refugee, who, about 1790, settled 
at Seekonk, now a suburb of Providence, and whose descendants have been prominent in the 
State, and have intermarried with its foremost families of the original Puritan stock. One of 
his great-granddaughters is the wife of General Elisha Dyer, the present Governor of Rhode 
Island, and whose father, Elisha Dyer, Sr., also occupied the same position in 1857. Mr. 
Chapin's maternal grandmother was born Eliza Bowen, a daughter of Ezra Bowen, another 
Governor of Rhode Island, and a man famous in its political and social annals. 

Born at Providence, R. I., January 1st, 1855, and educated at the famous St. Paul's School, 
Concord, N. H., Mr. Chapin entered Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., from which he graduated 
with the degree of B. A., that of A. M. being conferred upon him in due course. In his college 
years he became a member of the $BK. He made New York his residence after graduation, 
and elected to follow a business career, joining the New York Stock Exchange in 1880, with 
which body he remained connected for the ten succeeding years. 

By his marriage, which occurred in 1890, Mr. Chapin became allied with a prominent 
New York family, notable in a historical sense not only in Colonial and Revolutionary days, 
but in the later history of the country as well. His wife was Mary Worth White, daughter of 
Loomis L. White, of the city, a banker and prominent member of the New York Stock 
Exchange. Mrs. Chapin is a direct descendant of Peregrine White, who was one of the band 
of Pilgrim Fathers who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower. Her great-great-grandfather was 
the first Chancellor of the University of the State of New York, and also a State Senator. Her 
great-granduncle, Lebeas Loomis, was private secretary to General Washington, his portrait and 
that of his wife being in Mrs. Chapin's possession. Her mother, born Emma Worth, belonged 
to an old New York and New England family, and a great-uncle on the maternal side was 
Major-General William Worth, of the United States Army, who was a prominent figure in the 
war with Mexico, his monument opposite Madison Square in this city having been erected by 
the municipality as a tribute to this distinguished son of New York. He took part in all the 
engagements of the Mexican War, commanding a division of the American Army under 
Generals Taylor and Winfield Scott. The City of Fort Worth, Tex., and Lake Worth, Fla., 
were named after him. 

Among other social organizations, Mr. Chapin is a member of the Knickerbocker Club, 
of New York, and of the Hope Club, the leading one of his native city, Providence, R. I. His 
town residence is No. 5 East Sixty-sixth Street, and his country place is Dunworth, at Pomfret, 
Conn., while he has a winter residence, Dunworth Lodge, at St. Augustine, Fla. The Chapin 
arms, as well as the family name, are of French origin. The shield is parti-colored, blue and 
gold, bearing three dragons' heads. The crest is a naked sword piercing a cavalier's hat. 
Motto : Tiens d ta fqy avant le Roy. 



ELIHU CHAUNCEY 

THE Chauncey family is of ancient renown in England. Its progenitors were among those 
who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and through the alliances of their 
ancestors with members of noble and royal families the American Chaunceys can trace 
their descent to the most aristocratic races of England and Europe. In the United States, the 
lineage goes back to the Reverend Charles Chauncey, the Puritan clergyman, a graduate from 
Trinity College, Cambridge, who came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony among the first emi- 
grants. He was the second president of Harvard College. The line of descent in the following 
generation is through the Reverend Nathaniel Chauncey, 1639-1685, of Hatfield, Mass., son of the 
Reverend Charles Chauncey, and in the next generation through the Reverend Nathaniel Chauncey, 
1681-1756, of Durham, Conn., and his wife, Abigail Sarah Judson, daughter of Captain James 
Judson, of Stratford. 

In the fourth American generation came Elihu Chauncey, the son of the Reverend Nathaniel 
Chauncey, of Durham. Elihu Chauncey was born in 1710 and died in 1791. He was a 
representative of the town of Durham in the Legislature continuously for thirty-nine successive 
terms, except when in the army. During the French and Indian War, he was a Colonel of one 
of the Connecticut regiments and was engaged in active service on the northern frontier. He 
displayed great ability as a military officer and was a valued adviser in the councils of the 
officers of the regular army. He was also Chief Justice of the County Court, was a large 
landed proprietor, and in the latter years of his life had important mercantile interests in Boston, 
where he established a store and carried on a general trading business between Connecticut and 
the Massachusetts capital. His wife was Mary Griswold, daughter of Samuel Griswold, of 
Killingworth, Conn. 

The grandfather of Mr. Elihu Chauncey was Charles Chauncey, LL. D., of New Haven, 
1 747—1823. He was King's Attorney in 1776 and Judge of the Superior Court in 1789. Resigning 
from the bench in 1793, he retired from public life. He was a graduate from Yale College and received 
the degree of LL. D. from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 181 1. The wife of Charles Chauncey 
was Abigail Darling, 1 746-181 8, daughter of Thomas and Abigail Darling, of New Haven. The 
eldest daughter of the family, Sarah Chauncey, born in 1780, married William W. Woolsey, the 
eminent merchant of New York and treasurer of the American Bible Society. She was his 
second wife, his first wife having been Elizabeth Dwight, sister of President Dwight of Yale 
College and mother of President Woolsey, of Yale. A son of Charles Chauncey and his wife, 
Abigail Darling, was Charles Chauncey, LL. D., 1777- 1849, a graduate from Yale College in the 
class of 1792 and an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia. He was for several years a member of 
the Common Council of Philadelphia and a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1827-28. 
Another son, Elihu Chauncey, one of the leading citizens of Philadelphia, was president of the 
Reading Railroad, editor of The North American Gazette, and prominent in connection with the 
Bank of the United States and the Bank of Pennsylvania. Nathaniel Chauncey, another son, 
was born in 1789, and was the father of Mr. Elihu Chauncey. He was graduated from Yale 
College in 1806 and became a member of the Philadelphia bar. His wife, whom he married in 
1836, was Elizabeth Sewall Salisbury, daughter of Samuel and Nancy Salisbury, of Boston. 

Mr. Elihu Chauncey was born in Philadelphia, August 17th, 1840, and was educated in 
Harvard College, receiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M. Settling in New York, he married 
in 1871 Mary Jane Potter, daughter of the Right Reverend Horatio Potter, Bishop of New York. 
The residence of the family is in East Twenty-second Street. Mr. Chauncey is a member of 
the University, Grolier and Harvard clubs, the Century Association, the Society of Colonial 
Wars, the New York Historical Society and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey have one daughter, Nathalie Elisa- 
beth Chauncey. 



ROBERT A. CHESEBROUGH 

PROMINENT among New Yorkers of the Colonial period were the Maxwells. The family 
was of Scottish descent, from the earldoms of Nithsdale and barons of Herries, and one of 
its members, General Maxwell, did valiant service for the Colonies in the Revolution. 
William Maxwell was vice-president of the Bank of New York, the first financial institution 
established in the State. His son, James Homer Maxwell, was an intimate friend of Washington, 
and married Catharine Van Zandt, daughter of Jacobus Van Zandt, who was a surgeon in 
Washington's army at Trenton and Valley Forge and a member of the first Provincial Congress that 
met in New York, May 23d, 1775. Miss Van Zandt was a very beautiful woman and a leading 
belle of the city. She opened the first inauguration ball as the partner of President Washington. 
The grandson of James Homer Maxwell was William H. Maxwell, who, at the time of his death, 
in 1856, was the titular earl of Nithsdale. A granddaughter was daughter of Richard M. Woodhull, 
grandniece of General Woodhull, of the Continental Army, who met his death in the battle of Long 
Island, and mother of Mr. Robert A. Chesebrough. 

On his father's side, Mr. Chesebrough is descended from Robert Chesebrough, founder and 
president of the Fulton Bank. His father was Henry A. Chesebrough, an old-time dry goods mer- 
chant of New York. The ancestor of the family, William Chesebrough, accompanied Governor 
John Winthrop from Cowes, in March, 1630, and settled in Boston. He was one of the leading 
citizens of the community, and in 1634 was High Sheriff. In 165 1, he settled upon a grant of land 
made to him by the General Court of Connecticut and built a homestead. The City of Stonington 
now stands upon the grant that he then occupied. In this new commonwealth, William Chese- 
brough was the first Commissioner or magistrate, and in 1664 was chosen as the first representative 
to the General Court in Hartford. Robert Chesebrough, the grandfather of the subject of this 
sketch, was the fifth son of Nathaniel Chesebrough, who was the grandson of this William Chese- 
brough. 

Mr. Robert A. Chesebrough was born in London, England, January 9th, 1837. He was 
educated abroad, applying himself specially to the study of chemistry, and then traveled two years 
in Europe. Returning to New York City in 1858, he established himself as a manufacturer of 
petroleum and coal oil products, and in 1870 discovered and patented the product known as vase- 
line. In 1876, he organized the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, which now has branches 
in all the principal cities of Europe. He was one of the prime movers in the proposition to estab- 
lish the New York Real Estate Exchange and was the second vice-president and one of the building 
committee of the Consolidated Exchange. He is a member of the Union League, Riding, Manhattan 
and other clubs and societies and is also interested in many charitable organizations. In 1890, he 
was president of the Downtown Republican Club. His literary taste has been shown in occasional 
public addresses and in a volume entitled A Reverie and Other Poems. Mr. Chesebrough maintains 
a deep interest in public affairs, although he has never aspired to public office. Frequently urged 
to accept nominations by the Republican party, to which he belongs, he yielded on one occasion 
and made the campaign for Congress in the Twelfth District, but was not successful, although he 
largely reduced the normal Democratic majority in the district. 

In the Senate House in Kingston, N. Y., among the Revolutionary relics there preserved, are 
two large oil paintings of the father and mother of William Maxwell. These portraits hung in the 
old Maxwell mansion in Wall Street during the British occupation of the city, and they still show 
the holes made by the bayonet thrusts of the British soldiers. The portraits were presented to the 
Senate House by Mr. Chesebrough. Among other interesting heirlooms of the family are the Bibles 
of the Maxwells and the Van Zandts. In 1864, Mr. Chesebrough married Margaret McCredy, sister 
of the wife of Frederic R. Coudert. Mrs. Chesebrough died in 1887, leaving three sons and one 
daughter, Robert M., William H., Frederick W. and Marion M. Chesebrough. The residence of 
the family is in East Forty-fifth Street. 



BEVERLY CHEW 

FIRST of his name to appear in America was John Chew, a cadet member of the family of 
Chew, of Chewton, Somersetshire, England, He came to Virginia in the ship Charitie 
before 1620, and his wife Sarah followed two years after. In 1623, he was a member of 
the Virginia House of Assembly, afterwards a Burgess, and was in the Assembly until 1642. He 
had five sons, Samuel, Joseph and three others. Samuel Chew, the eldest son, went to Maryland 
before 1655, and took up land in Herring Bay, Calvert County. His grandson, Dr. Samuel Chew, 
was a well-known physician and jurist of a later time. Judge Benjamin Chew, 1722- 18 10, the 
son of Dr. Samuel Chew, was one of the most famous Judges of his generation. 

Mr. Beverly Chew is a descendant in the seventh generation from John Chew, the pioneer. 
His line of descent is from Joseph Chew, the second son of John Chew. Joseph Chew died in 
Maryland in 1716. His second wife was a Miss Larkin, of Annapolis, and his son, Larkin Chew, 
who settled in Virginia in the latter part of the seventeenth century, married Hannah Roy, daughter 
of John Roy, of Port Royal, Va. John Chew, son of Larkin Chew, married Margaret Beverly, 
daughter of Colonel Robert Beverly. 

Colonel Robert Beverly, who was born in 1675 and died in 1716, was a prominent man in 
the Colonial affairs of Virginia. He was a son of Major Robert Beverly, who was clerk of the 
Virginia Council for many years, and succeeded his father in that position in 1697. He was 
best known as one of the earliest American historians. His History of the Present State of Vir- 
ginia, an exhaustive work, was published in London in 1705, and reprinted in 1722. The second 
John Chew, son of John Chew and Margaret Beverly, was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and 
married Anna Fox, daughter of Thomas Fox. He died in 1799 and his wife survived until 1820. 
Beverly Chew, their son and the grandfather of Mr. Beverly Chew, of New York, was born in 
1773. Soon after he became of age, he removed to New Orleans from Virginia, and from 1817 to 
1829 was Collector of the Port in that city. He became a prominent business man, and was 
president of the Branch Bank of the United States, and Russian Vice-Consul. 

The wife of Beverly Chew, the elder, whom he married in 1810, was Maria Theodora 
Duer, daughter of Colonel William Duer, of New York, and granddaughter of Major-General Lord 
Sterling, of the Revolutionary Army. She died in 1831. Lord Sterling was one of the most 
prominent and faithful patriots of the Revolutionary War. He was the son of the famous New 
York Colonial lawyer, James Alexander, and through his mother a descendant of the de Peysters. 
He owned estates in New York and New Jersey, and his county seat, near Morristown, was one of 
the handsomest in the colonies. The mother of Maria Theodora Duer was Lady Catherine Alexander, 
the youngest of the two daughters of Lord Sterling, the elder being the wife of Robert Watts. 
Alexander La Fayette Chew, son of Beverly and Maria Theodora (Duer) Chew, married in 1849 
Sarah Augustus Prouty, daughter of Phinehas Prouty, of Geneva, N. Y. His children were: Beverly; 
Harriet Hillhouse, who was born in 1852 and married in 1874; Ernest Cleveland Coxe, son of the 
Right Reverend A. Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of Western New York; Phinehas Prouty, who was born 
in 1854; Thomas Hillhouse, born in 1856; Alexander Duer, born in 1858; Kate Adelaide; Theodora 
Augusta, and Lillian Chew. The second daughter died in 1874. 

Mr. Beverly Chew, the eldest son, was born in Geneva, N. Y., March 5th, 1850. He was 
educated at the Peekskill Military Academy, and at Hobart College, from which he was graduated 
in 1869. He has been engaged in financial pursuits in New York during most of his lifetime, and 
at the present time is secretary of the Metropolitan Trust Company. A man of pronounced literary 
tastes, he is a member of the Century, University, Players and Grolier clubs, having been president 
of the latter for four years, and is also a member of the £ 4> and Church clubs. In 1872, he 
married Clarissa Taintor Pierson, daughter of the Reverend Job Pierson, of Ionia, Mich. Mrs. 
Chew died May 30th, 1889. Mr. Chew's brother, Alexander Duer Chew, is also a resident of New 
York, and a member of the Players, St. Nicholas and other clubs. 



DANIEL BREWER CHILDS 

WHEN the ship Arabella came to Massachusetts in 1630, it brought several members 
of the Child family, who were natives of Suffolk, England. One of these, Deacon 
Ephraim Child, the personal friend of Governor John Winthrop, settled in Watertown, 
where he was a freeman in 1631, and in after years a representative, selectman and town clerk, as 
well as one of the wealthiest men in the community. Benjamin Child, his nephew, was also in 
this company and settled in Watertown, but removed to Roxbury and died in 1678. His son, 
Ephraim Child, a soldier, was killed in 1675 by the Indians at Northfield during King Philip's War. 
The wife of Benjamin Child was Mary Bowen and their son, Benjamin Child, 1656-1724, was 
baptized by the Apostle Eliot. He married in 1683 Grace Morris, daughter of Lieutenant Edward 
Morris, a proprietor of Woodstock, Conn. 

In the next generation, Ephraim Child, 1683-1759, was born in Roxbury, but removed to 
New Roxbury, afterwards Woodstock, Conn., and in 1735 erected the Child mansion, still pre- 
served there. He married Priscilla Harris, 1 684- 1 780. Their son, Ephraim Child, Jr., 1711-1775, 
was an ensign in 1750 and married Mary Lyon. His son, Captain Increase Child, 1740-1810, served 
seven years, from 1755 onward, under Israel Putnam in the French war. When the Revolution 
began he raised a company in Dutchess County, N. Y., and served under Generals Schuyler and 
Gates in the Saratoga Campaign. He married Olive Pease, 1738- 1822, one of their sons being Judge 
Salmon Child, of the Saratoga County Court, and another, Dr. Ephraim Child, 1773-1830, the 
grandfather of Mr. Daniel Brewer Childs. Dr. Child was a distinguished physician, residing in 
Stillwater, Saratoga County, and was a founder of the medical society of that county. He was 
also a Surgeon in the War of 1812. He married Mary Woodworth, 1781-1843, daughter of Captain 
Ephraim and Anna (Moore) Woodworth and cousin of Judge Ambrose Spencer. 

Noadiah Moody Childs, father of Mr. Daniel Brewer Childs, was born in Stillwater in 1806, 
and died in 1896. During part of his life he was a civil engineer, associated with his brother, 
Colonel Orville W. Childs, formerly State engineer, and was engaged on many important works, 
particularly in connection with the New York canal system. In 1841, he became a manufacturer 
of salt, and was president of the Syracuse Salt Company. He was frequently honored by public 
office. His first wife was Martha Brewer, daughter of Simeon and Eunice (Macy) Brewer, of 
Providence, R. I., and a descendant from Governor John Carver, of the Mayflower. His second 
wife was Sarah Elizabeth Dawes, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Dawes. 

Mr. Daniel Brewer Childs was born in Syracuse, N. Y., May 5th, 1843. On the maternal 
side he is descended from Daniel Brewer, who settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1632, and from the 
Reverend Daniel Brewer, D. D., pastor of the first church in Springfield, Mass., for forty years, 
who died in 1733, and whose wife, Catharine Chauncy, was a granddaughter of the Reverend 
Charles Chauncy, the second president of Harvard College, whose lineage has been traced else- 
where in this volume to Alfred the Great and Charlemagne. Mr. Childs studied at Oberlin College, 
and spent a year at Yale, graduating therefrom in 1863. He then entered the Albany Law Univer- 
sity and graduated in 1864. Being admitted to the bar, he entered the office of Charles 
Andrews, of Syracuse, now Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, and in 1867 came to New York 
and engaged in practice for over twenty-five years in the firm of Childs & Hull. He has devoted 
himself principally to civil and commercial branches of law, to practice in bankruptcy and real 
estate cases, and to the charge of large trust estates. 

Mr. Childs married Kathryn B. Cass, daughter of Dr. Jonathan and Mary (Peet) Cass. Dr. 
Cass was a Surgeon in the United States Army, 1861-65, was cme f of sta ff of tne Alexandria 
Hospital, served throughout the Civil War, and died in New York in 1886. The residence of Mr. 
and Mrs. Childs is in East Seventy-seventh Street, near Fifth Avenue, and their summer home is in 
Great Barrington, Mass. Mr. Childs was an early member of the University and Lawyers' clubs, 
having been one of the founders of the former. 

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JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE 

T OHN CHOATE, the ancestor 01 the Choate family in this country, settled at Chebacca, 
Ipswich, now Essex, Mass. According to the court files at Salem, he was about forty 
I years old in 1664. His descendants for several generations continued to live upon the 
ancestral estate, and ever since they have been one of the most noted and influential families 
of that part of the Old Bay State. Many 01 them have achieved distinction in various fields of 
activity, but more especially in the legal and other learned professions. Rufus Choate, the 
great lawyer and United States Senator for Massachusetts, was a direct descendant from John 
Choate in the fifth generation. Of this distinguished family came Mr. Joseph Hodges Choate, 
who takes rank as one of the leaders of the New York bar, and who was born in Salem, Mass., 
January 24th, 1832. He was in early boyhood prepared for Harvard College, which he entered 
when he was sixteen years of age and from which he was graduated in 1852, in a class which 
included many men subsequently of high distinction. Fixing upon law for his life pursuit, he 
entered the Dane Law School of Harvard, whence he was graduated in 1854. A year later he 
was admitted to practice at the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1856, he came 
to New York and was admitted to practice in the courts of this city, and promptly advanced 
to the front rank as one of the most brilliant young advocates of that time. 

During the four decades that Mr. Choate has practiced at the New York bar he has borne a 
leading part and has achieved fame for his learning and for his forensic ability, second to no other 
lawyer in this country. He has been engaged in many of the most famous cases that have been 
before the courts of the State or the National tribunals. One of his most notable causes was that 
of General Fitz-John Porter. The latter had been deprived of his military rank by sentence of a 
court martial on a charge of disobedience of orders at the second battle of Bull Run. After sixteen 
years a board of inquiry was appointed by the President to review the action of the court 
martial; and the injustice of its decision being demonstrated, Mr. Choate's client, General 
Porter, was at last reinstated in his commission and rank in the army. To review all the 
litigation in which Mr. Choate has been engaged would be to write a history of the New 
York bar of the present era. Excelling as an advocate before a jury, he is also a constitutional 
lawyer of the first rank, and has been engaged in many of the most important causes of that 
class that have been argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. His successful 
argument against the constitutionality of the income tax law before the latter tribunal in 1896, 
will be regarded as one of the greatest victories ever won by an American lawyer. 

Politically Mr. Choate is a Republican and one of the conspicuously active members of 
his party. He has never held public office, although frequently mentioned for political honors. 
He takes a prominent part in National, State and municipal affairs and exercises a wide and 
strong influence upon public matters generally. He was one of the original Committee of 
Seventy which was organized to overthrow the Tweed ring, and in conjunction with his friend 
and associate, Charles O'Conor, contributed very substantially to the success that was 
achieved in that movement for reform. In 1894, he was president of the Constitutional 
Convention that formulated the new constitution for the State of New York. 

As an orator, Mr. Choate has a widespread reputation, and whether at the bar, upon the 
political platform or at dinners or other social gatherings, he has few recognized rivals. He 
married Caroline D. Sterling, of Salem, Mass., the children of this union being Mabel Choate 
and Joseph Hodges Choate, Jr., an undergraduate at Harvard. Mr. Choate is a member of 
many clubs of the city, among them the Metropolitan, the Century, the Union League, 
the University, the New York Athletic and the Harvard. He has been president of the Union 
League Club and also of the New England Society of New York. His brother, the Honorable 
William G. Choate, has also been prominent at the New York bar, and was Judge of the United 
States Court. He married Mary Lyman Atwater. 



BENJAMIN SILLIMAN CHURCH 

EXCEPTIONAL interest attaches to the career of John Barker Church, ancestor of the 
subject of this sketch. Born in 1739, of a family of wealth and influence, at Great 
Yarmouth, England, his liberal opinions caused him to take active service on behalf of 
the Colonies. He became Commissary General to the French forces, and being one of the few 
American officers who understood French, was the means of communication between 
Washington and Rochambeau. In 1777, he married Angelica, daughter of General Philip 
Schuyler, and became a brother-in-law to Alexander Hamilton. His wife accompanied him 
throughout the war, and in 1778, their son, Philip Church, was born; and as an infant, with 
his mother, was at General Schuyler's house when the attempt was made to capture the 
General by the British, the child receiving a wound, the scar of which remained for life. 

At the end of the war the family returned to England, and in 1788, John B. Church 
was elected member of Parliament for Wendover. Down House, his London residence, was 
noted for its hospitality and for the gatherings of notabilities, including Fox, Pitt, Burke, Lord 
Grenville and even the Prince of Wales, afterward George IV. Mr. Church also aided 
Talleyrand and other emigres, and in his house the plan of releasing Lafayette from Olmutz 
was matured and by his aid carried into effect. In 1797, John B. Church returned to New 
York and was considered one of the richest men of the country, but as an underwriter suffered 
heavy losses from the French spoliations. He was prominent in the first efforts to supply 
New York with water, and was president of the company. In 1799, he fought a duel with 
Aaron Burr, at Weehawken, in which neither party was injured. The pistols used in the fatal 
encounter in 1804 between Hamilton and Burr belonged to Church, and are still in the 
possession of the family. 

Philip Church, his son, had graduated with credit at Eton College and begun the study 
of law at the Temple, in London. He returned to America, entered the office of Nathaniel 
Pendleton, and was admitted to the bar in 1804. In 1801, he was second to Philip Hamilton 
in the duel with Eckhard, in which young Hamilton fell fatally wounded. While pursuing his 
legal studies, Philip Church, then nineteen years old, was appointed in 1798 a Captain in the 
Provincial Army, formed in anticipation of war with France, and became aide and private 
secretary to Alexander Hamilton. Bearing despatches to General Washington, he won the latter's 
esteem, and letters from Washington, inviting him to Mount Vernon, are among the most 
treasured heirlooms of the family. In 1799, Captain Church visited Canandaigua, N. Y., to 
attend the foreclosure of a tract of one hundred thousand acres in Ontario, now Allegheny 
County, belonging to Robert Morris, on which his father owned a mortgage. He bid the 
property in and finally abandoned the law to make the development of this domain his labor. 
The site selected for a village is now the town of Angelica, named after his mother, and two 
miles from it he chose two thousand acres of land for his own residence, calling it Belvidere. 
Here he erected a wooden house, afterwards replaced by a mansion long famous as the only 
stone house in Western New York. In 1805, he brought to Belvidere his bride, Anna Matilda, 
daughter of General Walter Stewart, the Revolutionary hero. Her mother was the famous 
beauty, Deborah McClanaghan, daughter of Blair McClanaghan, a wealthy Philadelphian, whose 
residence was the Chew House at Germantown. At their marriage in 1781, Washington 
presented them with his own miniature, now a treasured family possession, and also a cabinet 
containing one hundred volumes of poetry, which is owned by Colonel Benjamin S. Church. 
Captain Church visited England in 1812 to import fine live stock. While abroad, he was 
entertained by the Duke of Bedford and other noblemen, and given a public banquet at Great 
Yarmouth. Returning to America, he continued his efforts to improve his estate and devoted 
great attention to plans of internal improvement. The only office he ever accepted was that 
of Judge of the County Court, which he filled from 1807 to 1821. He zealously aided the 

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construction of the canal system. At an early date, Judge Church advocated railroads, and ere 
his death, in 1 86 1 , he had witnessed the completion of the Erie Railroad. 

John B. Church, Judge Church's eldest son, graduated at Yale in 1829 and was admitted 
to the bar. He never practiced and resided chiefly at Belvidere. He interested himself in public 
enterprises, notably the early plans for rapid transit in New York City. He married a daughter 
of Professor Benjamin Silliman, Sr., of Yale, and his son traces his maternal ancestry to John 
Robinson, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims, to John and Priscilla Alden, to Governor Jonathan 
Trumbull and to General Gold Silliman. Mr. Benjamin Silliman Church, their son, was born at 
Belvidere, April 17, 1836. When a child, he was sent to be educated by his grandfather, 
Professor Silliman, at New Haven, and attended the famous Russell School there. He entered 
the Chandler Engineering Department of Dartmouth College, graduating in 1856. He was then 
engaged as engineer on the surveys of Central Park, of the Croton River and of the new 
Central Park reservoir, and in i860 became principal assistant on the Croton aqueduct. At the 
outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Church went to the front as Captain of Engineers in the Twelfth 
Regiment. In 1863, he again entered the service as Captain of Engineers on General Yates's 
staff, and after the war was Colonel of Engineers on the staff of Generals Shaler and Louis 
Fitzgerald. Colonel Church's professional life has been identified with New York's water supply. 
His studies convinced him that the city was outgrowing the existing facilities, and in 1875 he 
prepared the plans for conserving the entire Croton watershed. In 1883, the new Aqueduct 
Commission was constituted, and Colonel Church made Chief Engineer. His plans for the 
work, one of the great achievements of modern engineering, were accepted, including the tunnel 
thirty miles long through solid rock and under the Harlem River, and were carried to completion on 
the exact lines he had designated. In 1889, he retired from the aqueduct, but that great work 
remains a testimonial of his services to the metropolis. Since the year mentioned, he has 
practiced his profession as engineer chiefly in its hydraulic and mining branches. 

In 1875, Colonel Church married Mary Van Wyck, daughter of Abraham Van Wyck, 
whose grandfather was the Revolutionary patriot, Theodore Van Wyck, member of the 
Committee of Safety. Mrs. Church is related to a large number of old New York Dutch 
families, among her ancestors being Pieterse Schuyler, Robert Livingston, Abraham de Peyster, 
Pierre Van Cortlandt, Cornells Mellyn, the patroon of Staten Island, David Prevoost, Wilhelmus 
Beekman and other founders of the New Netherland. She is also great-granddaughter of Samuel 
Howell, of Pennsylvania, member of the Revolutionary Committee of Safety, and also descends 
from Peter Stretch, who served in the Philadelphia City Council from 1708 to 1746, and from 
his son, Thomas Stretch, who in 1732, on the formation of the famous Philadelphia Colony of 
Schuylkill, better known as the Fish House (now the oldest social organization in the world), 
was elected its Governor and held the office till his death, in 1765. Peter Stretch, his son, 
was in 1776 and 1778 chosen by Congress to sign the Continental bills of credit. Mrs. Church's 
maternal ancestry connects her with prominent Southern families. Her mother was Elizabeth 
Searcy Cantrell, daughter of Stephen Cantrell, of Davidson County, Tenn., and niece of Judge 
Granville Searcy. Stephen Cantrell, Sr., received a large tract of land near Nashville for 
distinguished services in the Indian wars of North Carolina, and was one of the early settlers 
of Tennessee. Stephen Cantrell, Jr., in 1806, married a famous beauty, Juliet Wendell, niece of 
George Michael Deadrick, an opulent citizen of Nashville, the courtship and marriage taking 
place in the stately Deadrick mansion, near Nashville, still in possession of the family. Mrs. 
Church is also related to the Polk, Frentress and other leading Southern families. 

Mrs. Church was a founder of the original Society of Colonial Dames and of the 
New York Society of that order, being vice-president of the latter. She is also vice-regent 
of the Mary Washington Colonial Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
Colonel and Mrs. Church reside at No. 36 West Twelfth Street. They have one daughter, 
Angelica Schuyler Church. Colonel Church belongs to the Manhattan, Union League, and 
Engineers and Century clubs, the New York Historical Society, and the Loyal Legion. 

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JOHN CLAFLIN 

FOR more than a century and a half, the Claflin family in Massachusetts has contributed to 
the welfare of that Commonwealth. The original Claflins, of Scotch descent, were 
among the pioneers who settled the town of Hopkinton early in the eighteenth cen- 
tury Their descendants for many generations owned land in Hopkinton, Sherburne, Sudbury 
and other towns in the central and eastern portions of the old Bay State. Ebenezer Claflin. 
the ancestor of Mr John Claflin, removed from Hopkinton to Milford some time previous to 
the Revolutionary period. His wife, whom he married in 1759, was Hannah Smith. His son, 
lohn Claflin of Milford, who was born in 1750, married, in 1770, Mary Sheffield, daughter of 
Isaac Sheffield. John Claflin, Jr., 1775-1848, was the son of John and Mary Claflin. He was 
a justice of the peace for thirty years, and a Major of artillery, a substantial citizen, who was 
frequently honored with public office at the hands of his fellow citizens. His wife was Lydia 
Mellen, daughter of Henry Mellen. 

Horace B Claflin, son of John Claflin, of Milford, was born December 18th, 181 1, received 
a good education and in 1832, with his brother and his brother-in-law, entered upon mercantile 
life in his native town. In a year or more, the young men were able to open a branch store 
in Worcester, that soon became the largest and most prosperous store in New England outside 
of Boston. Mr. Claflin had long been intent upon coming to New York, and in 1843, selling 
out his interest in the Worcester establishment, he started the firm of Bulkley & Claflin, to 
engage in the wholesale dry goods business in the metropolis. This firm was succeeded by 
Claflin, Miller & Co., and soon took a position in the front rank. In 1864, the firm name 
became H. B. Claflin & Co., and Mr. Claflin continued in active control until his death in 1885. 
He made a large fortune and was one of the most generous men of his time. 

The wife of Horace B. Claflin was Agnes Sanger. She was the daughter of Calvin 
Sanger, 1768-1835, by his wife Anna Phipps, daughter of Jedediah Phipps, who was a great- 
grandn'ephew of Sir William Phipps, and whose wife was Sarah Learned, daughter of Captain 
Edward Learned and Sarah Leland. Calvin Sanger was one of the leading citizens of Sher- 
burne, Mass. He was a lawyer, Captain and Colonel of cavalry, a representative to the 
Massachusetts General Court for thirty years, town clerk for twenty-five years, a State Senator 
and a magistrate from 1806 until the time of his death. He was the son of Captain Samuel 
Sanger, 1725-1822; grandson of Richard Sanger, 1706-1786, a successful merchant of Sherburne 
and Boston, and a member of the Committee of Safety in 1776. Richard Sanger was a 
grandson of Richard Sanger, the pioneer, who came to this country in 1638, settled in Water- 
town and was a soldier in King Philip's War. 

Mr. John Claflin, who succeeded his father as the head of the Claflin house, was born 
in Brooklyn, July 24th, 1850. The New England idea was adhered to in his education, and 
he was taught in the public schools and in the College of the City of New York, from which 
institution he graduated with honors in 1869. The following twelve months he traveled in 
Europe and the Orient and in September, 1870, entered the Claflin establishment. Three years 
later, he became a junior partner, and upon his father's death became the head of the concern. 
In 1890, he formed the corporation of The H. B. Claflin Company, of which he is president. 

Mr. Claflin is a member of the Metropolitan Club, but club and social life has little 
charm for him. He takes his recreation from business in travel and exploration, and has made 
long and often dangerous journeys in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and 
Asia. Few men, save professional explorers, have penetrated further into the wild places of 
the world, in desert lands and among savages. He married Elizabeth Stewart. His winter 
residence is in East Sixty-ninth Street, but the greater part of the year he spends in Kings- 
bridge, now the Twenty-fourth Ward of the city, where his father many years ago purchased 
a large estate. 



JOHN HERBERT CLAIBORNE, JR., M.D. 

ON the male side, the Claiborne family of Virginia commences with Br.rdolph, 1086, Lord 
of Ravensworth, the common ancestor of several noble North Country families. This 
Bardolph was brother to Alan Fargeant, who led the Breton auxiliaries at the Battle 
of Hastings. The name of Cleburne was first worn by Alan Fitz Hirvey dictus Cleburne, a 
grandson of Bardolph, who received as his portion a moiety of the manor of Cleburne, in the 
County of Westmoreland. On the "spindle" side, the lineage goes back to Malcom II., of 
Scotland, and to the Earls of Northumberland and Dunbar, and the Lords of Seton. 

Edmond Cliborne, Lord of the manors of Cliburne and Killerby, married in 1576 Grace 
Bellingham, daughter of Sir Alan Bellingham. Their son, Captain William Claiborne, seventeenth 
in line of descent from Bardolph, was born in 1587, and came to Virginia in 162 1. He was 
secretary, treasurer and surveyor-general of the Colony, and distinguished himself by his con- 
tention with Lord Baltimore for the possession of Kent Island. He resided at Romancock, King 
William County, and died in 1676. His wife, whom he married in England, was Jane Buller. 
Their son, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Claiborne, of Romancock, 1647-1683, was slain in battle 
with the Indians. His wife was a member of the Danbridge family. The next in line was 
Captain Thomas Claiborne, of Sweet Hall, King William County, 1680-1732, who married three 
times and had twenty-seven children. By his wife Anna Fox he had Colonel Augustine 
Claiborne, 1721-1787, of Windsor, whose wife was Mary Herbert, daughter of Buller Herbert, 
of Puddledock, Prince George County. The Herberts were an aristocratic Virginia family, and 
Mary Herbert inherited a large fortune from her uncle John Herbert, whose tombstone, with 
the Herbert arms, has been transported from Puddledock and set in the wall of the Blandford 
Church, at Petersburg. Their seventh child, John Herbert Claiborne, born 1763, was the great- 
grandfather of the gentleman now referred to. He was one of the volunteers who formed a 
troop of horse and rode with "Light Horse" Harry Lee in the Revolution. His wife was a 
daughter of Roger Gregory, of Chesterfield, and their son, the Reverend John Gregory Claiborne, 
became a prominent clergyman in Virginia, and married Mary E. Weldon, of Weldon, N. C. 

A son of this marriage is Dr. John Herbert Claiborne, of Petersburg, Va., father of Dr. 
Claiborne, of New York. The former holds a high professional rank in his native State, and 
before the Civil War took an interest in public affairs, being a member of the State Senate in 
1858. He was Surgeon and Major of the Twelfth Virginia Regiment in the war. Dr. Claiborne 
married twice, his first wife being Sarah Joseph Alston, of Halifax, N. C, and his second, 
Annie Leslie Watson, by whom he has a son and a daughter. 

Mr. John Herbert Claiborne, Jr., M. D., is the eldest son of his father's first marriage. 
He was born in Louisburg, N. C, 1861; was educated at Petersburg, and was graduated in 
belles lettres at the University of Virginia in 188 1. In 1883, he received his degree of M. D. at 
the same institution; and visiting Europe during the ensuing two years, pursued his studies in 
the Universities of Halle and Berlin, and at the clinics of Paris and London. Since 1886, he 
has practiced in his specialties of eye and ear diseases in New York. He now holds the position of 
instructor in ophthalmology in Columbia University. He has made many contributions to the 
medical literature of the times, and is the author of several standard works relating to his special 
field of practice. He is a member of many leading professional bodies. 

For five years he served as a National Guardsman in the New York Militia. He was a 
private in Troop A, N. G. N. Y., and afterwards held a warrant as Sergeant in Troop 1, when 
Troop A was converted into a squadron. He is a member of the Southern Society, and of the 
University, Calumet, Fencers and Military clubs. His residence is No. 39 West Thirty-sixth 
Street. The Claiborne arms are: quarterly first and fourth, argent three chevronels interlaced in 
base sable, a chief of the last. Second and third, argent a cross engrailed vert. Crest, a 
demi-wolf proper, rampant, regardant. Motto, Lofe clihhor na sceame. 

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JOHN MITCHELL CLARK 

ABOUT 1635, some of the principal inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass., becoming dissatisfied with 
church affairs in that town, petitioned the General Court of the Colony for permission to 
remove and establish themselves elsewhere. The Reverend Mr. Parker, a learned minister, 
who had been associated with the Reverend Mr. Ward, of Ipswich, headed the little band of 
Colonists who removed and settled the town of Newbury, Mass. Nathaniel Clark, the ancestor of 
Mr. John Mitchell Clark, was one of these settlers of Newbury and a strong supporter of the 
Reverend Mr. Parker in the religious controversies that distracted that town from 1665 to 1669. 
In 1667, he was town constable; in 1678, served on the jury; was a selectman, 1682-88, and 
frequently held other town offices. In 1684, he was appointed naval officer of the ports of New- 
bury and Salisbury, and the following year was an ensign in Captain Daniel Pierce's Company, of 
Rowley. His death occurred in 1690. The wife of Nathaniel Clark, whom he married in 1663, 
was Elizabeth Somerby, daughter of Henry and Judith Somerby, of Exeter, N. H. Henry Somerby 
was the second son of Richard Somerby, of Little Bytham, Lincolnshire, England. Judith Somerby 
was a daughter of Edmund Greenleaf, who was of Huguenot origin and one of the most prominent 
settlers of Newbury. He came from Ipswich, in Suffolk, England, in 1638, and belonged to 
a French family, the name of which was originally Feuillevert, afterwards anglicized into Greenleaf. 

In the second American generation, Henry Clark, who was born in Newbury in 1673, 
removed to Greenland, N. H., and died there in 1749. His wife was Elizabeth Greenleaf, daughter 
of Captain Stephen and Elizabeth (Gerrish) Greenleaf. Captain Greenleaf was a prominent citizen of 
Massachusetts and a representative to the General Court. His father, Captain Stephen Greenleaf, 
was the second son of Captain Edmund Greenleaf. His mother, Elizabeth Coffin, was a daughter 
of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, of Brixton, near Plymouth, England. His great-grand- 
parents were Peter and Joan (Thember) Coffin and Robert Stevens, of Brixton. Enoch Clark, 
1709-1759, son of Henry Clark, was a selectman of Greenland, N. H., 1744-50-53, a moderator in 
i 7 s6 and auditor in 1748 and 1755-57- His son, Enoch Clark, 1735-1774. was town clerk, 
selectman, auditor and moderator, and otherwise engaged in the town's service. 

Both the father and the grandfather of Mr. John Mitchell Clark were men of prominence. 
His grandfather, Captain Thomas March Clark, 1771-1850, of Newburyport, Mass., was graduated 
from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1786. During the War of 1812 he was engaged in the defense of 
Newburyport against the British, and was one of the committee to receive President James Monroe 
in 1817 and General Lafayette in 1824. His wife, whom he married in 181 1, was Rebecca Wheel- 
wright, 1782-1863, of Newbury. She was descended from the Reverend John Wheelwright, who 
was born in 1594, the son of Robert Wheelwright, of Saleby, Lincolnshire, England, a graduate 
of Sydney College, Cambridge, Vicar at Billsby, Lincolnshire and a settler of Salisbury, Mass. 

The Reverend Thomas March Clark, father of Mr. John Mitchell Clark, was born in New- 
buryport, in 1812, and graduated from Yale College in 1831. He was one of the most eminent 
clergymen in the country in the middle of the present century. First rector of Grace Church in 
Boston in 1836, he afterwards occupied the pulpit of St. Andrew's Church in Philadelphia, and of 
Grace Church in Providence, and was elected to the Bishopric of Rhode Island in 1854. He 
received the degree of D. D. from Union College and Brown University, and LL. D. from the 
University of Cambridge. His wife was Caroline, daughter of Benjamin Howard, of Boston. 

Mr. John Mitchell Clark was born in Boston, Mass., July 23d, 1847. He was educated at 
Brown University and received the degree of Ph. D. in 1865. Entering upon commercial life, he 
was engaged in the iron business with Naylor & Co., in Boston. For many years past he has 
been in the iron business in New York, where he is at the head of the house of Naylor & Co. His 
principal clubs include the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Union, and he belongs to the Downtown 
Association and the Brown University Alumni Association, and is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. 



RICHARD HENRY CLARKE 

IT is the glory of Maryland that religious toleration was the guiding principle in its 
establishment as a Colony. Among the cavalier pilgrims who aided in carrying out the 
broad views of Lord Baltimore was Robert Clarke, who came to Maryland in 1636, was a 
Privy Councilor and Surveyor-General of the Province, and a member of the Assembly of 1649, 
in which he took part in passing the act for establishing religious liberty in the Colony. 

Dr. Richard Henry Clarke, of New York, descends in a direct line from Robert Clarke, 
his grandfather being Captain William Clarke, an officer of the Maryland line during the 
American Revolution, who fought at Long Island and Trenton, at Staten Island, Monmouth, 
Brandywine, and endured the privations of Valley Forge. Dr. Clarke's father, Walter Clarke, 
was born in St. Mary's County, Md., and married Rachel Boone, of Prince George's County, 
whose brother, an uncle of Dr. Clarke's, Captain John Boone, was also an officer of the Revolution. 
Mr. Richard Henry Clarke was born at Washington, D. C, in 1827. He was educated at 
Georgetown University, which has added to his degree of A. B. those of Master of Arts and 
Doctor of Laws in recognition of his professional and literary eminence. He also holds the 
degree of LL.D. conferred by St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y., while Notre Dame University, 
Indiana, has awarded him a golden cross in recognition of his literary works. Dr. Clarke was 
called to the bar in Washington City, and engaged in active practice in that city till 1864, and 
since then in this city. He was associated with the celebrated Charles O'Connor in some of 
his prominent cases, and was retained with Mr. O'Connor in the defence of Jefferson Davis. 
Literary labors have occupied his attention in recent years in addition to his practice of the 
law. Dr. Clarke is regarded as a foremost lay writer on Catholic Church history. He is the 
author of The Lives of American Catholic Bishops, The History of the Catholic Church in the 
United States, and Old and New Lights on Columbus. He received a letter from Pope Pius IX. 
accepting and commending his Lives of the Bishops. He is the editor of The History of the 
Bench and Bar of New York, the associate editors being several Judges of the Supreme Court of 
the State of New York. 

In 1858, Dr. Clarke married Ada Semmes, of Georgetown, daughter of Raphael Semmes 
and Matilda Jenkins Semmes. The Semmes family also furnished several officers to the 
Revolutionary Army, while Mrs. Clarke's first cousin, Raphael Semmes, was the famous 
Confederate Admiral, who commanded the Sumter and the Alabama of the Confederate Navy. 

The issue of this marriage are Maude, a Dominican Sister of the Perpetual Adoration; 
Walter Semmes, a journalist; Mary Ada; Mary Agnes, wife of the Honorable Thomas C. T. 
Crain, lately Chamberlain of New York; Clara Agnes, wife of Captain Henry P. Birmingham, 
Surgeon U. S. A.; Richard Henry, Jr., of the New York bar, and Anna Cora Angela Clarke. 

Dr. Clarke possesses a notable collection of engravings and prints particularly rich in those 
relating to Columbus, a large library, and a number of examples and copies of paintings by old 
masters. He has entertained many distinguished clerical and lay guests, including Cardinals 
McCloskey and Gibbons, Cardinal Vaughn, now Primate of England, Archbishop Corrigan, 
Admiral de Couverville, and the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Active and 
eminent in all church and charitable works, Dr. Clarke has been President of the Alumni of 
Georgetown University, and of the New York Catholic Protectory, and a delegate to the 
American Convention of Charities and Correction, to the American Catholic Lay Congress and 
the Catholic Summer School. The cause of reformed politics has his earnest support; he is an 
earnest advocate of Civil Service reform, and he is also a member and officer of the Society of 
Sons of the American Revolution. He was selected to write the history of the Catholic Church 
in New York City in General James Grant Wilson's Memorial History of the City of New York, 
and has lately issued a paper on the aid rendered by France to America in the War of Inde- 
pendence, which is regarded as a most thorough monograph on that subject. 



JOHN VAN BOSKERCK CLARKSON 

IN 16S8, Matthew Clarkson was Secretary of the Province of New York, by appointment of 
William and Mary, and held that office for thirteen years. He was the son of the Reverend 
Daniel Clarkson, an English clergyman, who was born at Bradford, Eng., in 1622. His 
mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Holcroft, whose wife was the daughter of Francis, 
Lord Aungier, who descended from the sovereigns of England. He married, January 19th, 1692, 
Catherine, daughter of Goosen Gerriste Van Schaick, of Albany, connected with the Van 
Courtlandts, the Verplancks, the Barclays and the Schuylers. The oldest son of Matthew Clarkson, 
David Clarkson, 1694-1751, was at one time a merchant in London, but returned and settled in 
New York, was a member of the Assembly, 1739— 1751, and an uncompromising patriot. A grand- 
son of the original Clarkson was Gerardus Clarkson, one of the most distinguished physicians of 
Philadelphia; one of his great-grandsons was Matthew Clarkson, who served with distinction 
throughout the Revolutionary War; and among his other descendants were Matthew Clarkson, 
Mayor of Philadelphia and a Member of Congress; the Reverend Doctor Howard Crosby, Chancellor 
of the University of New York, and Bishop Robert Harper Clarkson, of Nebraska. 

A son of Doctor Gerardus Clarkson was William Clarkson, a physician of Philadelphia, 
and in after years a Presbyterian minister, who had pastorates at Bridgeton, N. J. ; Schenectady, 
N. Y. ; Savannah, Ga., and St. John's Island, S. C. He married Catharine, daughter of William 
Floyd, 1 734- 1 82 1. William Floyd was the son of Nicoll Floyd, and grandson of Richard Floyd, 
of Brookhaven, the ancestor of the Floyd and Floyd-Jones families in this country. He was an 
enthusiastic patriot during the Revolution, and served the Colonial cause well. He was a 
delegate from New York to the Philadelphia Congress in 1774, a member of every Continental 
Congress from 1775 to 1782 inclusive, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, State Senator 
of New York, 1777-1788, Presidential elector and Major-General of the militia. 

Samuel Floyd Clarkson, a son of William and Catharine Clarkson, and a lawyer of New 
York City, married Amelia A., daughter of William A. Baker, a New York merchant. Colonel 
Floyd Clarkson was the son of Samuel Floyd Clarkson. He was educated at private schools in 
New York City, and then engaged in the hardware business, in which he continued until the 
beginning of the Civil War. When President Lincoln called for troops in April, 1861, Floyd 
Clarkson was a private in the Seventh Regiment, and was in the famous march to Washington. 
In November, 1861, he became Major of the Sixth New York Cavalry, and served in the Peninsula 
and North Carolina campaigns, and was breveted Lieutenant-Colonel. 

Upon returning from the war, Colonel Clarkson entered business, first as cashier in a 
commission house, and then successively as secretary of the Equitable Savings Bank, secretary 
and agent for Woodbury G. Langdon, and finally as a real estate agent for himself. He was 
trustee of the Union Dime Savings Bank, president of the Riverside Bank, a prominent Free 
Mason in Kane Lodge, a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, Chancellor of the New York 
Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Commander of the New York 
Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, a member of the St. Nicholas Society, and 
vice-president of the Sons of the Revolution. In March, 1857, he married Harriet A. Van 
Boskerck, daughter of John Van Boskerck, a retired merchant of Holland descent. Ten children 
were born of this union, and five sons and two daughters grew to maturity. Colonel Clarkson 
died January 2d, 1894. 

Mr. John Van Boskerck Clarkson is the eldest surviving son of Colonel Floyd Clarkson. 
He is a prominent real estate operator, going into that business with his father in 1884, under 
the firm name of Floyd Clarkson & Son, which still remains unchanged. He lives in the family 
residence at 48 East Sixty-sixth Street, occupied by his father for many years. He is a member 
of the St. Nicholas Club and the Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Military 
Order of Loyal Legion, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a Director of the Riverside Bank. 



HENRY CLEWS 

BANKER and man of public affairs, Mr. Henry Clews has long held a preeminent position 
in the metropolis. For forty years he has been prominent in Wall Street, and during 
that entire time has also taken an active part in national and municipal affairs. Mr. 
Clews was born in Staffordshire, England, where his family ranks as one of the oldest and most 
substantial in that part of the country. His father was a man of high social and business standing, 
engaged in prosperous manufacturing enterprises, largely in connection with the American 
market. He prepared his son for admission to Cambridge University, with the intention of having 
him enter the ministry of the Established Church. 

Having occasion to visit the United States on a business trip, the senior Mr. Clews brought 
with him his son, who was then only fifteen years of age. Something in the bustling commercial 
life of the country caught the fancy of the boy, and he persuaded his father to allow a change in 
his plans and to permit him to enter upon a business, rather than a professional career. Remaining 
in New York, a position in the importing house of Wilson G. Hunt & Co. was secured for 
him, and since that time he has been wholly identified with the city of his adoption. He 
continued in the importing business for several years, but having an ambition to become a banker, 
in 1857, was admitted to membership in the Wall Street firm of Stout, Clews & Mason. From 
the outset he was successful in his new field of labor, and in the years since then has attained to a 
foremost place among financiers, and was prominent in all the patriotic work that engaged the 
attention of the community at that time. About 1861, he became a junior partner in the firm 
of Livermore, Clews & Co. His firm received its first impetus during the Civil War, 
through the loyalty of Mr. Clews to the National Government and his confidence in the 
ultimate triumph of the Union cause. Secretary of Treasury Chase appointed his firm fiscal agents 
for the sale of the five-twenty Government loan, and this trust was carried out with a success 
that called out the commendation of Mr. Chase for the patriotism and energy shown in the 
handling of the business. Mr. Clews was also foremost during the Civil War in organizing many 
of the large mass meetings that were held to stimulate patriotism and encourage the Government 
in Washington. In 1877, the firm of Henry Clews & Co., of which he is still actively at the 
head, was organized by him. 

As a public-spirited citizen of the metropolis, Mr. Clews has taken a deep interest in politics, 
but has always declined political preferment. He was an original member of the famous 
Committee of Seventy, and untiring in the work of that organization in overthrowing the 
Tweed Ring. He was offered the office of City Chamberlain as a bribe to withdraw his 
opposition; of course, the proposal was spurned. Other tenders of political positions have come 
to him at different times in his career. Twice the Secretaryship of the Treasury was offered to 
him, and twice the Republican nomination for Mayor of New York, and President Grant also 
desired to nominate him for the office of the Collector of the Port of New York in 1873. 

For many years, Mr. Clews was treasurer of the American Geographical Society, and also of 
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, when Henry Bergh was its president. He 
has been connected with other city institutions and has given generous support to many 
humanitarian enterprises. He was one of the founders of the Union League Club, and is also a 
member of the Union and other leading clubs. His interest in art subjects is shown by the fine 
gallery of paintings that he owns, and he is one of the thirty-five stockholders and owners of the 
Metropolitan Opera House. He is the author of Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street, a book that 
reviews the financial history of New York's great money centre during one of its most interesting 
periods. In 1847, he married Lucy Madison Worthington, of Kentucky, who comes of an old and 
aristocratic Southern family, being a grand-niece of President James Madison. His city residence 
is in West Thirty-fourth Street, and his summer home is The Rocks, in Newport. He has one 
son, Henry Clews, Jr., and one daughter, Elsie Clews. 

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CHARLES WILLIAM CLINTON 

PARTICULAR interest attaches to the present representatives of names which in Colonial 
New York or in the early history of the State were borne by the great families. 
Among them none occupied a higher position than the Clintons, who are an English 
family of ancient origin, and represented in England now by the Duke of Newcastle. The 
family was established in America by Charles Clinton, 1690- 1773, who was born in the 
County of Longford, Ireland, a descendant of Henry, the second Earl of Lincoln, and a man of 
property and influence. In 1731, he purchased a large tract of land at Little Britain, Ulster 
County, and became the most prominent man in that section. During the French and Indian 
war, he served as Lieutenant in Bradstreet's expedition of 1756 against Fort Frontenac, and 
was also Judge of the County Court. He was a relative of Admiral George Clinton, the Royal 
Governor of the Province from 1743 to 1753, and of the latter's son, Sir Henry Clinton. 

This relationship did not prevent the New York Clintons from warmly espousing the 
patriotic side in the struggle, and two of Charles Clinton's sons became leaders in the American 
cause. One of them, General George Clinton, 1739-1812, was a delegate to the Continental 
Congress of 1775 and voted for the Declaration of Independence, but did not sign it, having 
been recalled to New York to assume a military command. In 1776, he was made a Brigadier- 
General by Congress, and in 1777 was elected Governor of New York under the first State 
Constitution. He held this post by five successive elections till 1795. He was again elected 
Governor of New York in 1801, and became Vice-President of the United States in 1805, in 
the second administration of Jefferson, being re-elected in 1808 with Madison. 

His elder brother, General James Clinton, was born in 1756, distinguished himself in 
the French and Indian war, became a Colonel in the Army of the Revolution, and as such took 
part in General Montgomery's expedition against Quebec. Appointed Brigadier-General in 1776, 
he served under Putnam on the Hudson, defended Fort Clinton when it was stormed by the 
British in 1777, and after a gallant resistance escaped severely wounded. He was present at 
the siege and capitulation of Yorktown, was subsequently a member of the State Convention 
of 1788, which ratified the Federal Constitution, and a State Senator, dying in 1812. 

His wife was Mary, daughter of Egbert DeWitt, the most famous of his family being 
his son, DeWitt Clinton, 1 769-1 828, whose political career as Senator, Mayor of New York, 
Lieutenant-Governor, 1811-1813, and finally Governor, 1817-1822, and 1824-1828, are part of the 
history of the State and the county, while his advocacy and success in carrying through the 
completion of that great work, the Erie Canal, opened in 1825, was the groundwork of New 
York's financial and commercial supremacy. Charles Clinton, a brother of DeWitt Clinton, was 
Mr. Charles William Clinton's grandfather. His son, Alexander Clinton, was a physician of 
ability and reputation, and married Adeline Arden Hamilton, daughter of Alexander James 
Hamilton, an officer of the British Army and a representative of a distinguished Scottish family. 

Mr. Charles William Clinton is the offspring of this alliance. He was born in New York, 
received an academical education and studied architecture under the late Richard Upjohn. Mr. 
Clinton has been for many years engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has 
attained the foremost rank. Among the many creations with which he has adorned this city, 
such edifices as the Mutual Life Insurance Building and the Seventh Regiment Armory may be 
specially mentioned. He was one of the vice-presidents of the New York Chapter of the 
American Institute of Architects, which office he held for seven years. He served in the 
Seventh Regiment, volunteering three times when it was called into active service during the 
Civil War. Besides the various associations connected with his profession, such as the Institute 
of Architects and the Architectural League, Mr. Clinton also belongs to the Chamber of 
Commerce and several literary, artistic and social clubs, among which are included the Century 
Association, the Tuxedo Club and the Municipal Art Society. 



JOHN COCHRAN 

WHEN General Lafayette lay dangerously ill with a fever for many weeks in the Ver Planck 
mansion in Fishkill, in the autumn of 1778, he was closely attended by Dr. John 
Cochran, of Washington's army, of whom he became very fond, and to whom he was 
accustomed to apply the endearing soubriquet, "the Good Doctor Bones." Dr. Cochran rendered 
noble service to the Patriot cause. He was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1730. His father was 
a farmer, who had emigrated to the Colonies from the North of Ireland. He received a careful 
education and finished his medical studies in season to take part in the French and Indian War of 
1755, serving as a surgeon's mate and winning a reputation as a skillful practitioner. In 1776, he 
volunteered his services to the Patriots and was appointed Physician and Surgeon General by 
Washington. Congress made him Director General of Hospitals in 1781. When peace was 
declared, he made his home in New York City, and at one time held the office of Commissioner of 
Loans for the State, by appointment from Washington. Early in life, he married Gertrude, sister 
of his intimate friend, General Philip Schuyler, and lived in New Brunswick, N. J., where he prac- 
ticed his profession and was at one time president of the Medical Society of that State. Mrs. 
Cochran was the great-granddaughter of John Schuyler, who led an expedition to Canada against 
the French and the Indians in 1690, and who was the youngest son of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, the 
American ancestor of the family, and his wife, Margaret Van Schlichtenhorst. 

The son of Dr. John Cochran was Walter L. Cochran, who married Cornelia Smith, daughter 
of Judge Peter Smith, of Peterboro, N. Y. The ancestors of Judge Smith came from Holland, and 
he was a large land owner in Western New York, reputed at one time to be in possession of nearly 
one million acres. He was also a partner with John Jacob Astor in the fur business, and his son, 
Gerritt Smith, was the famous philanthropist and anti-slavery advocate and staunch friend of John 
Brown. Mrs. Cochran's mother was Elizabeth Livingston, oldest daughter of Colonel James Liv- 
ingston, of the Army of the Revolution, who drove the British sloop Vulture from the North River, 
thus bringing about the capture of Major Andre and the preservation of West Point from falling into 
the hands of the enemy. This James Livingston was the descendant of Robert, the nephew of 
Robert, the first Lord of the Manor, and the first American Livingston, and of his wife, Margaretta 
Schuyler, daughter of Colonel Peter (Queder) Schuyler, having been a son of John, the youngest 
son of Robert, the nephew, and of his wife, Catherine Ten Broeck. 

General John Cochran can thus trace his ancestry from the great families of the Colonial and 
Revolutionary period. The son of Walter L. Cochran, he was born in Palatine, Montgomery 
County, N. Y., August 27th, 1813. Graduated from Hamilton College in 1831, he was admitted 
to the bar three years later, removed to New York in 1846, and began a career that for more than a 
quarter of a century kept him actively engaged in the public service. In 1853, he was appointed 
United States Surveyor for the Port of New York, and from 1857 to 1861 was a Member of Con- 
gress. In 1864, he was made a Vice-Presidential candidate on the ticket with John C. Fremont, 
but withdrew before the election came on. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he recruited 
and took command of a regiment and served until 1863, when he resigned on account of disabili- 
ties. He was the first man to advise arming the slaves in the Civil War, urging that military 
measure in a speech in November, 1861. 

In civil life, since the war, he has borne a conspicuous part, having been Attorney-General 
of the State of New York, 1863-65, president of the Common Council of New York City in 1872, 
and a police justice in 1889. He was a delegate to the National Liberal Republican Convention in 
1872, and declined the Ministry to Uruguay and Paraguay in 1869. He is a member of the Society 
of the Cincinnati, in which he is the president of the New York Society; a member of the Loyal 
Legion, the Sons of the Revolution, the Tammany Society and other social, political and military 
organizations. He lives in East Sixty-second Street, and his summer home is in Brookside, 
Morris County, N. J. 

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DAVID VESEY SMITH CODDiNGTON 

LINCOLNSHIRE was the English home of William Coddington, who was born in 1601, 
came to this country in 1630 and settled in Salem, afterwards removing to Boston. He 
was a magistrate of Massachusetts, and owned valuable land. Sympathizing with the 
sectaries whom the Colonial authorities persecuted, he defended Ann Hutchinson and Mary 
Dyer, but was unable to save the latter, and, arousing bitter opposition, he withdrew to Rhode 
Island, where he was a Judge, and in 1640 Governor. When the Providence Plantations were 
incorporated, in 1647, he became assistant president, and succeeded to the presidency in 1648. 
In 1674-75 and 1678 he was elected Governor of the Colony. He built the first brick house in Boston. 
John Coddington, a gentleman of wealth for his day, married Margaret Edgar and removed 
to New Jersey. His son, James Coddington, 1 754-1816, was in the Revolutionary Army. He com- 
manded the body guard Washington gave to Lafayette at the Brandywine and was wounded there. 
He married Experience (Inslee) Randolph, widow of Captain Nathaniel Randolph. Their son, 
Jonathan I. Coddington, 1784- 1856, was born at Woodbridge, N. J., and was a prominent 
merchant in New York. He also had a notable political career, and was the friend of Presi- 
dents Jackson and Van Buren. In 1827, he was a member of the Assembly, and in 1836 was 
appointed postmaster at New York, then one of the most lucrative Federal offices. He held the 
place under Presidents Jackson, Van Buren and Harrison. The latter informed him that, though 
a political opponent, he would not be disturbed, and after General Harrison's death, Tyler's 
representative asked him to renew his bond. While debating whether to do so or not, he 
learned that John Lorimer Graham had been appointed in his place. He was a Presidential 
elector in 1844, and in the same year was the Democratic candidate for Mayor. He declined 
the Gubernatorial nomination of the Republican party in 1856 on account of failing health. 
At one time he served on the staff of Governor Tompkins. He married Matilda Palmer, 
daughter of William Palmer. 

The three sons of Jonathan I. and Matilda (Palmer) Coddington were David Vesey Smith. 
Gilbert Smith and Clifford Coddington, the first and last now deceased. Clifford Coddington 
entered the Civil War as Lieutenant in the Fifty-First New York Regiment. He took part in 
Burnside's North Carolina expedition, and in his first battle was mentioned for conspicuous 
gallantry. At Antietam, he showed great courage under fire, and was wounded. He subsequently 
was aide to Major-General Potter, and after the siege of Knoxville was retired for disability. 
Later, he became Colonel of the Twenty-First Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. David Vesey Smith 
Coddington was a distinguished lawyer and orator. Vice-President Dallas once said of him : 
"There is a young man whom I consider one of the great men of the country. He should 
be here in the Senate." 

Gilbert Smith Coddington was born in New York in 1835, and was educated here and 
in Geneva, Switzerland. He has traveled much, and spent twenty-five years in Europe. During 
the Civil War, he supported the Government with energy, and recruited many men at his own 
expense. In 1862, he was Captain of the Twentieth New York Battery. In 1880, Mr. Coddington 
married Amelia N. Stilwell, daughter of the Honorable Silas M. Stilwell, 1800-1881, an eminent 
lawyer of New York. Her great-uncle was the Revolutionary General Garret Stilwell. Early in 
life, her father was a member of the Tennessee Legislature and of the Virginia House of Burgesses. 
After 1828, he resided in New York and was a member of the Assembly, acting Mayor, United 
States Marshall and author of the Stilwell Act and the United States Banking law. Mrs. Coddington 
is descended from John Cook, the regicide, who came to America, changed his name to Stilwell 
and was the ancestor of many prominent families. 

Mr. Coddington is a member of the Metropolitan, Reform and St. Nicholas clubs, the New 
York Historical Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and American Geograph- 
ical Society, also of various clubs in Europe. 

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CULLEN VAN RENSSELAER COGSWELL 

AFTER a long and tempestuous passage across the Atlantic in 1635, the ship Angel Gabriel 
ended its voyage by dashing upon the rock-bound coast of Maine during a terrible storm. 
Most of the passengers were washed ashore and escaped with their lives, among them being 
John Cogswell and his wife, the American ancestors of the family to which Mr. Cullen Van Rensselaer 
Cogswell belongs. John Cogswell was the son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, of Westbury Leigh, 
Wiltshire, England, where he was born in 1592. His wife was Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of 
the Reverend William and Phyllis Thompson. He was a manufacturer and owned several large 
mills. Belonging to an English family, at the head of which, in 1447, was Lord Humphrey Cogs- 
well, to whom a coat of arms was granted, he was forty-three years of age when he came to this 
country and was summarily tossed ashore upon the rocks of Maine. He settled in Ipswich, Mass., 
of which place he was a freeman in 1636. 

In the second American generation was William Cogswell, who was born in England in 
1619 and accompanied his parents to this country. He was a resident of Ipswich, where he 
was a surveyor of the public ways and active in church and town affairs. His wife was Susannah 
Hawkes, daughter of Adam Hawkes and Anne Hutchinson. His death occurred in 1700. His son, 
Jonathan Cogswell, who was born in 1661 and died in 1717, was a merchant, justice of the peace 
and Captain of the train band. He married, in 1686, Elizabeth Wainwright, daughter of Francis 
Wainwright, who came from Chelmsford, England, and was a soldier in the Pequot War. 
Jonathan Cogswell, second of the name, grandson of William Cogswell, was born in Ipswich in 
1687 and died in 1752. He was a justice of the peace in 1733. His second wife, the ancestress of 
Mr. Cullen Van Rensselaer Cogswell, was Elizabeth Wade, daughter of Jonathan Wade. 

In the fifth generation, Nathaniel Cogswell, great-grandfather of Mr. Cullen Van Rensselaer 
Cogswell, was born in Ipswich in 1739 and died in 1822. His life covered the period of the Revo- 
lutionary War, and he was prominent in the events of that time, being a member of the Committee 
of Correspondence in 1775 and a member of the Committee of Safety in 1776. He was educated as 
a physician, but did not practice, preferring to devote himself to agriculture. He was twice 
married, his second wife, Lois Searle, daughter of William and Jane Searle, being the mother of the 
Reverend Jonathan Cogswell, grandfather of Mr. Cullen Van Rensselaer Cogswell. 

The Reverend Jonathan Cogswell was born in 1782 in Rowley, Mass. Graduated from 
Harvard College in 1806, he was a tutor in Bowdoin College for two years and was then graduated 
from the Andover Theological Seminary in 181 o, and ordained the same year, being settled over the 
Congregational Church in Saco, Me. There he remained until 1828, when he removed to New 
York, being subsequently settled in Berlin, Conn., and holding the chair of ecclesiastical history, 
and also that of church history in the Theological Institute of Connecticut, in East Windsor Hill'. 
The University of the City of New York conferred upon him the degree of S. T. D. He was a 
member of many religious societies and founded a scholarship in Rutgers College. His death 
occurred in 1864. His second wife, Jane Eudora Kirkpatrick, was a daughter of Andrew Kirkpat- 
rick, chief justice of New Jersey, and granddaughter of Colonel John Bayard, of Maryland. Andrew 
Kirkpatrick Cogswell, father of Mr. Cullen Van Rensselaer Cogswell, was born in 1839 in East 
Windsor, Conn., and married, in 1867, Mary Van Rensselaer, daughter of General J. Cullen Van 
Rensselaer, of Cazenovia, N. Y. He served for some years, before his death, as a Judge in the New 
Jersey Supreme Court. 

Mr. Cullen Van Rensselaer Cogswell was born in New Brunswick, N. J., September 5th, 
1869. He was educated in St. Pauls School, Concord, N. H. He married, in 1896, A. Eugenie 
Nickerson, of Riverdale, Dedham, Mass., daughter of Albert W. Nickerson, formerly prestdent 
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. His residence is in Fifth Avenue. He 
is a member of the Union, City and Seventh Regiment Veteran clubs, the Sons of the Revolution 
and the Society of Colonial Wars. 



HENRY RUTGERS REMSEN COLES 

THE ancestral record of Mr. Henry Rutgers Remsen Coles is a long list of names of those 
who for three centuries were prominent in the affairs of the Colonies, the States and 
New York City. In his name he carries remembrance of three families that have 
been distinguished in the business, social and political life of the metropolis of the new world, 
and the history of whose activities fill many pages in local annals of New York and New England. 
Mr. Coles's father was Isaac Underhill Coles, a descendant from Captain John Underhill, 
and his mother was Catherine S. Remsen, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Waldron (Phoenix) 
Remsen. His grandfather was Edward Coles, whose wife was Hester Bussing Moulton. 

Captain John Underhill, whose name Mr. Coles's father bore, was an Englishman who 
had fought in the Low Countries and who came to America with Governor John Winthrop. 
He was one of the most valiant and able soldiers in the early wars of the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony with the Indians, and after removing to New Netherland, in 1644, was equally successful 
in helping to protect this settlement from the hostile Indians. Other ancestors of Mr. Coles 
who were engaged in the Colonial wars that raged upon the borders of New Netherland were 
Captain John Seamen, Major Richard Smith, Captain Ebenezer Moulton, Captain Harman 
Rutgers, Henry Rutgers, William Hallett and Captain William Hallett. Mr. Coles is also able 
to trace his pedigree back to Johannes de Peyster, that courtly Huguenot of a noble French 
family who came from Holland about 1650 to New Amsterdam. Another ancestor of the 
same early period was Matthais Nicolls, 1621-1687, who came to New Netherland in 1664 
with Colonel Richard Nicolls, the Governor appointed by the Duke of York to take charge 
of the Colony in behalf of the English. Matthais Nicolls was the first secretary of the Province 
under Governor Nicolls, a member of the council under Governor Lovelace, Mayor of the city 
in 1671, Speaker of the first Colonial Assembly of New York in 1683, and the first Judge of 
the Court of Oyer and Terminer. 

In the War of the Revolution, ancestors of Mr. Coles were not less patriotic and active. 
Among them were Captain Henry Remsen, member of the Committee of One Hundred in 1775, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Moulton, and Daniel Phoenix, who lives in the memory of New 
Yorkers as one of the leading business men of his day, and as the City Treasurer or Chamberlain 
in 1789 and many years following, and came of a noble English family. 

The wife of Mr. Coles, whom he married in 1896 at Geneva, Switzerland, was Margaret 
Miller Davidson, born in Yokohama, Japan, September 24th, 1873. They have a son, H. R. 
R. Coles, Jr., born May 28th, 1897. Mrs. Coles, too, comes of a distinguished ancestry, being 
a descendant from a famous old Scotch family, the Davidsons of Dingwall, Scotland, who 
are now represented at the head of the family by Duncan Davidson, chief of the clan. Her 
grandfather was a physician of Plattsburg, N. Y. ; her grandmother was a writer of verse, and 
the Davidson sisters, the celebrated American poetesses of the early part of this century, were her 
aunts. Lucretia Maria Davidson, who died in 1825, at the age of seventeen, and Margaret Miller 
Davidson, who died in 1838, at the age of fifteen, were the precocious literary geniuses of their 
time. Mrs. Coles is descended from Captain John Underhill, Major Thomas Jones, Captain 
Ephenetus Piatt and others who were prominent in the Colonial Wars, and many of her 
ancestors were patriots in the War for Independence. 

Mr. Coles was born in Tarrytown, N. Y., July 15th, 1873. He was educated in private 
schools, has traveled abroad and now lives in Englewood, N. J. Interested in historical and 
genealogical subjects, he is a compiler and publisher of genealogies. His membership in social 
organizations includes the Union and the New York Athletic clubs; he is a life member of 
the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars, belongs to the New 
York Historical Society, the Geographical and Biographical Society, the Underhill Society of 
America, and is a member of Squadron A, New York State National Guard. 

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WALTER HENRY COLES 

FOR three hundred years the Coles family has been settled on the northern shores of 
Long Island, and its members have been connected by marriage with all the other 
old-time families of that section and of New York. Robert Coles, who was the first of 
the race to come to America, lived in Suffolk, England. He was a friend of John Winthrop, of 
whose expedition to New England he was a member, settling in Roxbury, or Ipswich, Mass., in 
1630. Being a relative of Roger Williams, he sympathized with that eminent divine in his 
controversies with the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies and went with him to Provi- 
dence, R. I., dying there in 1654. His son, Nathaniel Coles, came to Long Island, was one of the 
first settlers of the town of Oyster Bay, a merchant and many years justice of the peace. He 
died in 1707. 

The grandson of Nathaniel Coles, also named Nathaniel, succeeded to the family estates at 
Dosoris and Oyster Bay. He was a prominent man in the community, active in good works and 
public-spirited. An enthusiastic patriot, at the time of the Revolution, when hostilities between 
America and England were ended, in 1783, he celebrated the occasion by inviting the entire 
population of his town to feast upon a whole roasted ox. General Nathaniel Coles, 1763- 1824, the 
son of this Nathaniel Coles, was a land owner, an extensive mill proprietor owning several large 
mills, and one of the most celebrated breeders of fine horses in his generation. His most extensive 
mill property was at West Island. The grandfather of Walter H. Coles was Butler Coles, son 
of General Nathaniel Coles. He was born in 1797 at Dosoris and died in 1840. He, too, was one 
of the large mill owners in the neighborhood of New York in the first half of the present 
century, and also served on the military staff of General Floyd. 

In every generation, the wives of this family have come from the best Colonial stock. The 
first Nathaniel Coles married Martha Jackson, descended from Robert Whitehead, one of the first 
settlers of Hempstead, a large real estate proprietor, and owner of Dosoris. His son, Nathaniel, 
married a member of the Townsend family, granddaughter of Henry and Anne (Coles) Townsend 
and of Nicholas Wright, one of the founders of Oyster Bay. Other women of the family were 
descendants of William Butler, who was early settled in Oyster Bay, and of John Townsend, 
Benjamin Birdsall and Nathan Birdsall. The wife of the third Nathaniel Coles was Hannah Butler, 
daughter of John and Martha Butler, and the wife of General Nathaniel Coles was Elizabeth 
Townsend, daughter of James and Freelove Townsend. The grandmother of Walter H. Coles 
was a descendant of Francis Weeks, one of the first Colonists of Hempstead and Oyster Bay, 
and of the Reverend Francis Doughty, of Flushing. 

Edwin Sands Coles, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Dosoris in 1828, 
and died in 1896. Throughout his entire life, he was identified with financial affairs in New York, 
being a stock broker, and prominent in many positions of financial responsibility. For more than 
thirty years he was secretary of the Stock Exchange Building Company. He was a member of the 
St. Nicholas Society by virtue of his ancestry and belonged to the American Geographical Society 
and other organizations. The wife of Edwin Sands Coles is still living. She was Sarah Townsend, 
daughter of Dr. Charles De Kay Townsend and his wife, Maria Fonda, of Albany. She is a 
descendant of Henry and Anne (Coles) Townsend, and also of Captain Thomas de Kay, of the 
United States Navy, and his wife, Christianna Duncan, who was a granddaughter of the noted 
Anneke Jans, whose estate on Manhattan Island three centuries ago, which passed under the control 
of Trinity Church Corporation, still continues to be a cause of speculation and an object of 
popular interest. 

Mr. Walter Henry Coles, the second child and the only son of Edwin S. Coles, was born in 
Albany, N. Y., June 29th, 1865. His sisters are Sarah Townsend Coles and Julia Weekes Coles. 
He lives in West Fifty-ninth Street, with his mother and sisters. Their country home is in 
Northwood, Oyster Bay, Long Island, the ancestral estate of the family. 

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JAMES BOORMAN COLGATE 

NORWICH, England, furnishes the earliest records of the Colgate family, there being a 
Colgate Ward of the town, a Colgate Street, and an old church, St. George Colgate, 
dating from the eleventh century there. Later on the family was established near 
Sevenoaks, in Kent. In the middle of the last century, John Colgate, one of its members, was one 
of the few Englishmen who expressed sympathy with the American Colonists. His son Robert 
held similar views, and favored the liberal ideas of some of the leaders of the French Revolution 
to such an extent, that he was marked for prosecution. He was, however, a friend of the 
famous William Pitt, who advised him to leave England for America, where his views would 
be tolerated; and this he did, coming to Baltimore in May, 1795. 

Residing for a time in Maryland, and then for a few years in New York City, Robert 
Colgate moved to Delaware County, N. Y. William Colgate, his eldest son, came with his 
father to America, and in 1806 established a mercantile firm in New York, where he died in 
1857. He married an English lady, Mary Gilbert, and had nine children, of whom four sons, 
Robert, James B., Samuel and Joseph, and two daughters survived him. He was one of the 
incorporators of Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., which, under its present name of Colgate 
University, is one of the chief educational institutions of the Baptist churches. 

Mr. James B. Colgate was born in New York, March 4th, 18 18. He was educated in 
Connecticut and in this city; and preferring business to a collegiate course, served seven years 
as a clerk, four of them in the office of his relative, James Boorman, of the firm of Boorman, 
Johnson & Co. Mr. Boorman was the projector of the Hudson River Railroad. Ill-health 
necessitated a visit to Europe, in 1841, and on Mr. Colgate's return he engaged in the wholesale 
dry goods trade. In 1852, he entered into the stock business with the late John B. Trevor, 
founding the firm of Trevor & Colgate, and a bullion department being added five years 
afterwards, the concern became the largest dealers in stocks and the precious metals in this 
country, their transactions, especially in the time of the war, being enormous. Soon after the 
death of Mr. Trevor, in 1890, Mr. Colgate associated his son, James Colby Colgate, in the 
partnership, still maintaining the firm name of James B. Colgate & Co. During the war, Mr. 
Colgate was for several years president of the New York Gold Exchange, and he has long been 
vice-president of the Bank of the State of New York. He has made finance his lifelong study, 
and has been one of the most influential advocates of the remonetization of silver, having 
written much of great value on the subject and on the currency problem. Throughout the Civil 
War, Mr. Colgate manifested his loyalty to the Union cause in many ways. 

Mr. Colgate's first wife, Ellen Hoyt, of Utica, lived only two years after their marriage, 
and left one son, William Hoyt Colgate. In 1851, Mr. Colgate married his present wife, Susan 
F. Colby, daughter of Governor Anthony Colby, of New Hampshire. They have two children, 
James Colby Colgate and Mary Colgate. 

Religion and education have been the chosen objects of Mr. Colgate's attention. He is a 
member of the Baptist denomination, and has given munificent aid to various church works, 
Rochester University, the Columbia University, Washington; Colby Academy, New London, 
N. H., and Rochester Theological Seminary are among the recipients of his bounty, and for 
Madison, now Colgate, University he has always shown a strong attachment. Becoming a 
trustee in 1861, he has been president of the board since 1864, while the sum of his gifts to 
the institution has been some $1,250,000. He also founded and endowed Colgate Academy. 

Mr. Colgate throughout life has been noted for decision of character and the courage with 
which he upholds his convictions. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Stock 
Exchange, the New England Society, many benevolent, artistic and scientific bodies; and a 
patron of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 
He is interested in floriculture, and the greenhouses at his Yonkers residence are famous. 



JAMES MANSELL CONSTABLE 

A NATIVE of England, the gentleman to whom this article is devoted has been for more 
than half a century a citizen of New York and has attained high rank, not only in the 
commercial world with which he has been identified, but as one of the public-spirited 
business men of the metropolis in the present period. He was born in the County of Surrey in 
1812. His first definite knowledge of the United States was gained when, as a very young man, he 
made a journey for pleasure to this country with one of the older members of his family. Attracted 
by the opportunities for successful business life, and by other advantages for a capable and enter- 
prising youth which seemed to open before him in the United States, he formed a determination to 
establish himself here, and accordingly returned to New York in 1840 to make it his residence. He 
was not without some influential acquaintance in the New World. One of his friends was Aaron 
Arnold, who was then a member of the firm of Arnold, Hearn & Co., of this city, and with him he 
soon became interested in business. Two years after he had arrived in New York, he entered into 
a partnership with Aaron Arnold under the firm name of A. Arnold & Co. Subsequently the name 
of the establishment was changed to Arnold, Constable & Co., Mr. Constable being now at the head 
of the house, all his early associates in the business having passed away. The style of the firm has, 
however, remained unchanged for nearly forty-five years, while in the face of all the vicissitudes of 
that period, it has been uniformly successful and stable in its operations, holding its place in the 
foremost rank of business establishments of its character, and having a reputation that extends far 
beyond the limits of New York. 

In 1844, Mr. Constable married Henrietta Arnold, the only daughter of Aaron Arnold. Mrs. 
Constable's father was a native of the Isle of Wight, having been born there in 1794. In 182s, 
looking to the New World for opportunities in business of a more advantageous nature than were 
then afforded by his native land, he came to this country with his wife and daughter. Settling first 
in Philadelphia, he remained there only a short time and removed to New York, where he estab- 
lished himself, in 1827, in the dry goods business under the name of Arnold & Hearn, the junior 
partner of the establishment being his nephew, George A. Hearn, Sr. This was the beginning of the 
house now known as Arnold, Constable & Co. The death of Aaron Arnold occurred in 1876, after 
he had attained to the ripe age of eighty-two. 

Richard Arnold, the only son of Aaron Arnold, was born in New York in 1825 and died here 
in 1886. He was identified throughout his life with the business house which his father had estab- 
lished, being a partner in the concern from 1853 until the time of his death. His first wife was 
Pauline Bicar, daughter of Noel J. Bicar; his second wife being Georgiana E. Bolmer, daughter of 
M. S. Bolmer. He left four children, only one of whom at present survives. Mrs. James M. Con- 
stable died in 1884. Her husband and children have since built as a memorial to her a handsome 
Protestant Episcopal Church at Mamaroneck, N. Y. 

Mr. Constable is a member of the Reform Club, belongs to the American Geographical 
Society and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural 
History and the National Academy of Design. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Constable are a son 
and two daughters. The only son of the family, Frederick A. Constable, lives in East Eighty-third 
Street, near Fifth Avenue. He is a member of the New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, American 
Yacht and Riding clubs. The eldest daughter, Harriet M. Constable, married Hicks Arnold, who 
is a member of the firm of Arnold, Constable & Co. Hicks Arnold is a cousin of the late Richard 
Arnold and nephew of Aaron Arnold. He was born in England and, coming to this country, went 
into business with the house of which he is now a partner. He is a director of the Bank of the 
Metropolis and has other important business connections with corporations of a financial character. 
Amy H. Constable, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Constable, married Edwin H. 
Weatherbee, an account of whose family appears in another part of this volume. The city resi- 
dence of Mr. Constable is at 240 Madison Avenue, and his country home is in Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



SAMUEL VICTOR CONSTANT 

EXHIBITING a deep interest in the patriotic societies that have come into existence during 
the last few years, Mr. Samuel Victor Constant bases his connection with these 
associations on many lines of descent from distinguished ancestors. He traces his 
descent to John Tuttle, who came to this country, in the ship Planter, in 1635. He was a 
native of St. Albans, England, and settled at Ipswich, Mass. He represented his town 
in 1644 in the General Assembly. At the same date, he became a member of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. After a time he returned to England, but his sons 
remained in America. Another of Mr. Constant's ancestors was Nicholas Noyes. He belonged 
to Choulderton, England, and came over on the ship Mary and John in 1634, with his 
brother, the Reverend James Noyes. Mr. Constant's descent is traced from both of these 
brothers. Nicholas Noyes became Representative in 1660, 1679 and 1680. Another ancestor 
was Lieutenant James Smith, born at Newbury, Mass., 1645, who served in the expedition 
against Quebec under Sir William Phipps. Another ancestor was Lieutenant Tristram Coffin, 
Deputy Governor of Massachusetts Bay in 1695, 1700-2, Mr. Constant can also trace his descent 
from a large number of individuals distinguished in the early history of New England, including 
the Reverend Michael Wigglesworth, the celebrated divine, author of The Day of Doom, 
who was the grandfather of Lydia Tappan, great-great-grandmother of the subject of this 
sketch. Among them are also Sergeant Abraham Adams, of Newbury; Daniel Pierce, of 
Newbury, Captain and Representative 1632-3, a member of the Council of Safety in 1689, 
Colonel of Essex Regiment and Representative in 1692; and Major Charles Frost, 1 632-1 679, 
Representative in 1658-60-61, a member of the Provincial Council of New Hampshire in 1681, 
and prominent in the early Indian wars. Besides whom may be mentioned Richard Smith, who 
was captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, and confined on the Jersey prison 
ship, as well as Jedediah Tuttle, a soldier in the Continental Army. 

Samuel S. Constant, the father of Mr. Constant, was a prominent manufacturer of this 
city. Mr. Samuel Victor Constant was born in New York City. He was educated at the 
Charlier Institute, at Professor Anthon's Grammar School and by private tutors, graduating 
from Columbia College in 1880, and from its law school in 1882. Admitted to the bar in the 
latter year, he has since been in active practice. 

He has given much attention to literature and scientific investigation, and is a member 
of the American Oriental Society, and of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, the Amer- 
ican Academy of Sciences, and the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Great Britain, 
incorporated under special act of Parliament to conserve the interests of the British mercantile 
marine, and is also solicitor of the association in the United States. He is a member of the 
American Historical Association, the New York Historical Society, the New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society, and the Virginia Historical Society. He enjoys the distinction of 
having first proposed the organization of a society composed of the descendants of those who 
participated in the Colonial Wars, from the time of the Pequod War of 1639 down to the 
beginning of the Revolution. As a result of this suggestion, he, with others, founded the 
Society of Colonial Wars, which has now a large membership. 

In 1876, he joined the First Company, Seventh Regiment, and also belongs to the 
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association. He is one of the board of directors of the Young 
Men's Christian Association and a member of its International Committee. Mr. Constant is 
thoroughly American in his ideas and belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, is school 
inspector of the Thirteenth District, is a member of the ^ T Club, St. David's Society, the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, the New York State Society of the Founders and 
Patriots of America, and is also a member of the Founders and Defenders of America. He has 
also retained an active interest in Columbia College, and is a member of its building committee. 

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EDMUND COGSWELL CONVERSE 

RECORDS of the Converse family extend back to Roger de Coigneries of France, and after- 
wards of Durham, England. In the third generation, the head of the family was Roger 
de Coniers. In the sixth generation came Sir Humphrey Conyers, of Sockburn, England, 
and thence the line is through eleven generations of the Conyers, of Sockburn, Hornby and 
Wakerly to Edward Convers, the first American emigrant, who was born in Wakerly, Northamp- 
tonshire, in 1590, and arrived in Salem, Mass., in 1630. Soon after he settled in Charlestown, where 
he was a selectman, 163^-40. He established the first ferry between Charlestown and Boston, 
paying to the city forty pounds a year for the franchise. He was one of the seven first settlers of 
the town of Woburn in 1642, and was its first selectman, and a deputy to the General Court in 
1660. He built the first house in Woburn, and died there in 1663. Lieutenant James Converse, 
son of Deacon Edward Convers, was born in 1620, and died in Woburn in 171 5. He was a 
Sergeant in 1658, ensign in 1672, and Lieutenant in 1688, serving in King Philip's War. From 
1679 to 1689, he was a deputy to the General Court. His first wife was Anna Long, daughter of 
Robert Long. Major James Converse, 1645-1706, their son, commanded the troops at the defense 
of Storer's Garrison, 1691-92, and was promoted to be Major, and placed in charge of the military 
forces of Massachusetts. He was deputy to the General Court, 1679-92, and Speaker of the House 
of Representatives in 1699 and in 1702-03. In 1668, he married Hannah Carter, 1650-1691. 

In the ensuing three generations, the ancestors of Mr. Edmund Cogswell Converse were 
John Converse, of Woburn, 1673-1708, and his wife, Abigail Sawyer, daughter of Joshua Sawyer; 
Joshua Converse, of Woburn and Litchfield, N. H., 1704-1744, and his wife, Rachael Blanchard, 
daughter of Joseph and Abiah (Hassel) Blanchard, and Joseph Converse, of Litchfield and Chester- 
field, N. H., 1739-1828, and his wife, Elizabeth Davis. Joshua Converse was a selectman of Litch- 
field in 1741, and a representative to the General Court the same year. His son, Joseph Converse, 
who lived in Bedford, Mass., at the beginning of the Revolution, was a member of the Lexington 
alarm company in 1775. 

The Reverend James Converse, son of Joseph Converse, and grandfather of Mr. Edmund 
Cogswell Converse, was born in Bedford, Mass., in 1772, and died in Wethersfield, Vt., in 1839. 
He was graduated from Harvard College in 1799, and ordained a minister of the Church of Christ 
in Wethersfield, Vt., in 1802. He was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1819, and was 
elected State Chaplain. His first wife, Mehitable Cogswell, was a daughter of William and Abigail 
Cogswell, of Marlborough, Mass. She was a descendant in the sixth generation of John Cogswell, 
of Wiltshire, England, who settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1635. Their son, William Cogswell, 
married Susanna Hawkes; their grandson, Jonathan Cogswell, married Elizabeth Wainwright; 
their great-grandson, Francis Cogswell, married Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of the Reverend John 
Rogers, and was the grandfather of Mehitable (Cogswell) Converse. James Cogswell Converse, 
father of Mr. Edmund Cogswell Converse, was born in 1807, and died in 1891. He received an 
academic education, and engaged in business in Vermont and afterwards in Boston. He was one 
of the founders of the Boston Board of Trade, of which he was president. In 1869, he became 
president of the National Tube Works of McKeesport, Pa. He married Sarah Ann Peabody. 

Mr. Edmund Cogswell Converse was born in Boston, November 7th, 1849. He was 
educated in the Boston Latin School, entered into active business, and has been connected for 
twenty-five years with the National Tube Works Company, of which he is president and 
general manager. He has made New York his residence for a number of years. In 1879, he 
married Jessie Macdonough Green, who is related to the Macdonough and Van Nyce family, of 
Long Island. They have three children, Antoinette Macdonough, Edmund Cogswell, and 
Katherine Peabody Converse. The winter residence of the family is 8 East Sixty-seventh Street. 
Mr. Converse belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, Lawyers', New York Athletic and other 
clubs, and to the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the American Revolution. 



HENRY HARVEY COOK 

OF Norman origin, the Cook family was settled in Leeds, England, before the middle of 
the twelfth century. A hundred years later one branch of it was well established in 
Ireland. Edward Cook, who was born in 1450, and was Mayor of Doncaster, 
Yorkshire, England, in 1 504, was the ancestor of the English family as it exists to-day. In the sixth 
generation from Edward Cook, George Cook, the head of the family, was made a baronet in 1661, 
and in the next generation, Sir George Cook, who succeeded to the estate and title of his uncle as 
third baronet, married Catherine Copley, daughter of Sir Godfrey Copley, of a family which 
descends from William the Conqueror, and which through collateral lines is represented in the 
peerage of the mother country. 

Captain Thomas Cook, of Earle's Colne, Essex County, who founded the family fortunes in 
America, was born in England in 1603, and came across the Atlantic in 1635, when he was thirty- 
two years of age. Settling first in Boston, he afterwards removed to Taunton, Mass., in 1637, 
becoming one of the original proprietors of that place. Subsequently he was a founder of 
Portsmouth, R. I., and lived there the rest of his life, being at one time deputy to the General 
Assembly of Rhode Island. John Cook, the second son of Captain Thomas Cook, was born in 
England in 163 1. In 1665, he married a sister of Matthew Borden, who was the first white person 
born in the Colony of Rhode Island. He had a family of four sons and thirteen daughters, and 
died in 1691. 

The second son of John Cook was Joseph Cook, who was born in 1662, and was a deputy 
to the General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1704. Constant Cook, grandson of Joseph Cook, was 
born in 1724 and died in 1800. He lived in Portsmouth and Newport, but before the War of the 
Revolution removed to Springfield, N. Y. He was the head of the New York branch of the 
family. His wife was Isabel Duell, daughter of Joseph Duell, of Dartmouth, Mass. The grandson 
of Constant Cook and the father of the subject of this sketch, was Judge Constant Cook, lawyer, 
banker and contractor of Warren, N. Y. He was born in Warren in 1797. In early life he was a 
farmer, and also owned and managed several passenger and mail routes in that section of the State. 
In 1843, he removed to Bath, N. Y., and took a contract for building part of the Erie Railroad. 
Subsequently he built the Buffalo, New York & Corning road, and as a contractor in other 
enterprises accumulated a fortune. He established a private banking house in Bath, which 
afterwards became the First National Bank. He was a generous man, and gave abundantly to the 
support of religious and educational institutions. In 1840, he was made a county Judge of the 
community in which he lived. 

Mr. Henry Harvey Cook, the oldest surviving son of Judge Constant Cook, was one of a 
family of eight children. He was born in Cohocton, Steuben County, N. Y., May 13th, 1822. 
Educated at first in local schools, he then attended an academy in Canandaigua, after which he 
was for two years in business houses in Auburn and Bath. From 1844 to 1854 he was engaged in 
mercantile pursuits in Bath, and was highly successful. For a few years he was connected with 
the Bank of Bath, serving first as cashier and then as president. In 1875, he removed to New York 
City. Becoming interested in railroad enterprises, he has been active in the management of some 
of the largest railroads of the country, having been a director of the Union Pacific, the New York, 
Lake Erie & Western and the Buffalo, New York & Erie companies. He is also a director of the 
American Surety Company, the State Trust Company, and the National Bank of North America, 
in this city. 

Mr. Cook married Mary McCay, daughter of William W. McCay, of Bath, N. Y. Their 
children are, Mrs. Clinton D. McDougal, Mrs. M. Rumsey Miller, Mrs. C. F. Gansen and Mrs. C. 
de Heredia. Mr. Cook is a member of the Metropolitan and Union League clubs, is a patron 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and belongs to the New York Historical and the New York 
Geographical societies. 



EDWARD COOPER 

NO New Yorker is more gratefully remembered by his fellow-citizens for his manifold good 
deeds, or held in higher esteem for his integrity, than Peter Cooper, the distinguished 
philanthropist, who was the father of the Honorable Edward Cooper. His ancestors were 
citizens of New York from about the middle of the seventeenth century. On his father's side, his 
mother was the daughter of John Campbell, who was a successful business man and by his 
industry and business ability accumulated a considerable fortune before the Revolutionary period. 
He was an unflinching patriot in the stirring times that preceded the Revolution, and when the 
war finally broke out, he entered the Continental Army and served as Deputy-Quartermaster. 
His patriotism impelled him not only to give his services, but also to devote his means gener- 
ously to the cause of the struggling Colonies, and he was a large contributor to the Continental 
treasury, sacrificing the greater part of his ample fortune to the needs of his country. After the 
war, he was an alderman of New York. The father and the grandfather of Peter Cooper were 
of English origin. Both served in the Continental Army and the former held a commission as 
Lieutenant. 

When peace had been declared between Great Britain and the United States, Lieutenant 
Cooper resumed his business, which was that of hatter, and resided in a house near Coenties Slip. 
There his son, Peter Cooper, was born, February 12th, 1791. The school education of Peter 
Cooper was limited. Most of his time he was employed in assisting his father in business. He 
learned the carriage making trade as an apprentice, but upon coming of age began the manufacture 
of machines for shearing cloth, and in a few years succeeded in laying the foundations for the great 
fortune that he subsequently acquired. He was engaged in other business enterprises until 1828, 
when he established the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore, Md., where he built, from his own 
designs, the first locomotive engine constructed on this continent. After that, he built other iron 
factories, rolling mills and blast-furnaces in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Mr. Cooper 
established the famous Cooper Union and liberally endowed it both during his life time and by his 
will, and the institution has ever since been the special care of the Cooper family. He was an 
earnest student of political economy, and in 1876 was a candidate of the National Independent 
Party for the Presidency of the United States. He died April 4th, 1883. 

Six children were born to Peter Cooper and his wife, Sarah Bedel, whom he married in 
181 3. Two only survived. Sarah A. is the wife of Abram S. Hewitt. The son, Mr. Edward 
Cooper, was born in New York, October 26th, 1824. He was educated in the public schools and 
in Columbia College. After a short time spent in traveling in Europe, he returned to associate 
himself with his father in business. He organized the firm of Cooper, Hewitt & Co., with his 
college classmate and friend, Abram S. Hewitt, and in the course of time the new concern 
succeeded to the vast interests of the Peter Cooper iron business. As an iron master and a 
practical and scientific metallurgical engineer, he stands at the head of his profession. 

Politically, Mr. Cooper is a Democrat and has taken a prominent part in the councils of 
the party locally and nationally. About his first appearance in public affairs was as a member of the 
Committee of Seventy, through whose efforts the Tweed ring was overthrown, and there his 
labors were energetic and capable. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 
Charleston in 1860, and since then has been a delegate to nearly all the National Conventions of his 
party. He was Mayor of New York, 1879-81, and has been mentioned for the Democratic nomi- 
nation for Governor of the State. He has been identified with many corporations, including 
the United States Trust Company. As one of the trustees of the Cooper Union, he has been 
active in fostering and developing the institution that his father founded. Mr. Cooper resides at 12 
Washington Square, North, and is a member of many social and benevolent organizations. His 
club membership includes the Union, Metropolitan, University and Knickerbocker clubs and the 
Century Association. 

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AUSTIN CORBIN 

THE Corbin family is of sturdy New England stock. New Hampshire was the residence 
and birthplace of the ancestors of the subject of this article for many generations, and 
in that State the family has always been well known and of high standing. The 
present Mr. Corbin's grandfather on his father's side was one of the substantial landowners of 
the Granite State, and for several years sat in the Senate of New Hampshire. 

The father of Mr. Austin Corbin brought the family name into high prominence in the 
business world during the last generation. The senior Austin Corbin, financier and railroad 
manager, was a native of Newport, N. H., where he was born July nth, 1827. His father's 
circumstances afforded him every opportunity for a liberal education, and he was sent to an 
acadejny and to Harvard College, graduating finally from the Harvard Law School. Having been 
admitted to the bar, he practiced law for two years or more in New Hampshire, his partner at that 
time being Ralph Metcalf, who afterwards became Governor of the State. 

In 1 85 1, Mr. Corbin went West, and, taking up his residence in Davenport, la., soon met 
with an even greater degree of success in his profession than he had achieved in New Hampshire. 
Gradually he became interested in the banking business, and established a private bank in Daven- 
port, an institution that weathered the financial storms of i8s7 and wa s reorganized in 1863 as the 
First National Bank of Davenport, being the first banking establishment in the United States to 
begin business under the Federal Banking Law that had then just been passed. 

In 1865, Mr. Corbin removed to New York and devoted himself especially to banking and 
negotiating mortgage loans on farms in Iowa and other Western States, a business that was then 
beginning to attract considerable attention in financial circles. In 1873, he established the Corbin 
Banking Company, of which he was the head. He undertook the reorganization of the Indiana, 
Bloomino-ton & Western Railroad, and in 1880 became receiver of the Long Island Railroad, being 
made president of the corporation a year later. 

His success in reorganizing the Long Island road and in developing the attractions of the 
summer resorts on Long Island in the interest of increased travel over the road are so well known 
that they need not be dwelt upon here. He was also prominently identified with the reorgan- 
ization of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, of which he was first a receiver and 
afterwards president. He was also president of the New York & New England, and the Elmira, 
Cortlandt & Northern Railroad, of the Manhattan Beach Company, and the New York & 
Rockaway Beach Railway, and a director of the American Exchange National Bank, the Western 
Union Telegraph Company, the Nassau Fire Insurance Company, and the Mercantile Trust 
Company. He was a member of the Manhattan, Players, Lawyers', Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Yacht, Meadowbrook Hunt and Southside Sportsmen's clubs, and the New England Society of 
New York, and of the Somerset Club in Boston. 

The mother of Austin Corbin, Jr., whom his father married in 1853, was Hannah M. 
Wheeler, daughter of Simeon Wheeler, a prominent citizen of Newport, N. H. Isabella, a 
daughter of this union, married George S. Edgell, and another daughter, Anna, was married in 
1896 to Hallet Alsop Borrowe, son of the late Samuel Borrowe. Mary, the eldest daughter, 
married Rene Cherennot Champollion, grandson of Jean Francois Champollion, one of the first 
and most distinguished of French Egyptologists. Both M. Champollion and his wife are dead, 
her death occurring in Paris, in 1892. Their only son, Andre, the sole male descendant of 
the illustrious Champollion family, is being educated in America. Mr. Austin Corbin, Sr., died 
in 1896, as the result of an accident, being thrown from his carriage at his country estate in 
Newport, N. H. 

Mr. Austin Corbin, Jr., who succeeds to his father's name and to the care of the family 
estate, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1873. He graduated at Harvard in the class of 1896, and 
is a member of the Somerset Club, of Boston. His residence is at 763 Fifth Avenue. 

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JOHN CORNELL 

THOMAS CORNELL, who came to Boston in 1636 from Essex, England, was born in 
1595, of a family which is numbered among the nobility and gentry of England, the name 
being originally Cornewall. The founder of the American branch of the family and 
ancestor of the subject of this article probably accompanied the celebrated Ann Hutchinson 
when she and her followers left Massachusetts in 1640. In 1646, he received a grant of about 160 
acres from the local authorities at Portsmouth, R. I., which is still in the possession of the family. 
Later in the same year, he was in the New Netherland and received from Director General Kieft a 
grant of 700 acres on the East River, in Westchester County, which is still known as Cornell's 
Neck. Driven from this place by the Indians, he returned to Portsmouth, R. I., where he died in 
1655, and was interred in the family burial ground upon the Cornell homestead, which has ever 
since been used for that purpose by the family. The Cornell's Neck tract passed to the Willett 
family through Sarah Cornell, daughter of Thomas, who married Thomas Willett. 

Before leaving England, Thomas Cornell had married Rebecca Briggs and had five sons and 
four daughters. It is to Richard, the second son, that the Reverend Mr. Cornell traces his ancestry. 
Richard Cornell became the grantee of Rockaway, Long Island, and had a numerous family, his 
second son, William, 1 670-1 743, being the father of John Cornell, who married Abigail Whitehead. 
Their son, Whitehead Cornell, married Margaret Sebring and was father of John Cornell, of 
Brooklyn, 1753-1820, whose wife was Sarah Cortilyou, of New Utrecht. The Cortilyou property 
was acquired from the Najak Indians by Jacques Cortilyou, a learned Huguenot refugee, who was 
both a physician and sworn land surveyor to the Dutch Colony. 

The family connection is a large one, and its representatives were found throughout the 
New England and Middle Colonies, whence branches have now reached all parts of the United 
States, the family name being in some instances changed or modified. Among its noteworthy 
members in early days were, John Cornell, a son of Richard, of Rockaway, who in 1741 was 
Colonel of the Queens County Militia. Ezekiel Cornell, a Rhode Island Revolutionary patriot, was 
Lieutenant-Colonel of Hitchcock's Regiment, became Deputy Adjutant-General of the Continental 
Army in 1776, and afterwards commanded a brigade of State troops. In 1780-83 he was delegate 
to Congress. In the last generation the name was rendered famous by the munificence of Ezra 
Cornell, who founded Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y. 

Isaac Russell Cornell, the father of the subject of this article, was the son of John and Sarah 
Cortilyou Cornell. He was born in Brooklyn in 1805 and married Elizabeth Mary Duyckinck, of 
New Brunswick, N. J., their son, Mr. John Cornell, being born in New York in 1839. He was 
educated at the Churchill School at Sing Sing, and was graduated at Princeton College in 1859 with 
the degree of B. A., receiving that of M. A. three years later. Adopting the clerical profession, he 
studied theology at the General Theological Seminary and was ordained to the ministry of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in 1863. In 1878 Mr. Cornell married Margaret Kathrine Osterberg, of 
Stockholm, Sweden. 

A large portion of Mr. Cornell's life has been spent in foreign travel and residence. For 
nearly eighteen years he was Rector of the American Episcopal Church at Nice, France. He has 
visited all the chief cities and countries of Europe, and also traveled through the Holy Land and the 
Levant. Since his return to America, a few years since, Mr. Cornell has not taken a parish and has 
resided in the main at Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Cornell owns the homestead of his first American ancestor, at Portsmouth, R. I., as well 
as the family burial ground, the whole comprising eighty acres of the original one hundred and 
sixty. The original Colonial house, parts of which dated back over two hundred years, was burned 
in 1889, but he has restored it upon the old foundation and substantially upon the old plan. The 
Cornell arms, borne by the family both in England and America and as given in Bolton's History of 
Westchester County, are : five castles in a cross, sable. Motto, Dens Noster Salus. 

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JOHN M. CORNELL 

FIRST of the Cornell name to appear in the New World was Thomas Cornell, a son of Richard 
Cornell, of London. Arriving in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, he removed to 
Rhode Island after a year or two, and thence to New Netherland, settling in Flushing, Long 
Island, where, in 1643, he received a grant of land from Governor Kieft. He also acquired real 
estate on the main land, afterwards called Cornell's Neck, now known as Willet's Neck or Point. 
From Thomas Cornell have come many distinguished descendants. Ezra Cornell, the founder of 
Cornell University, Alonzo B. Cornell, former Governor of the State of New York, Thomas Cor- 
nell, of Rondout, one of the first steamboat men of the Hudson River and a Member of Congress, 
ex-President Theodore Woolsey of Yale College, and Colonel Marinus Willett, the eminent Revolu- 
tionary patriot, and other noted Americans, are among those who have pointed to him as their 
common ancestor. 

The eldest son of Thomas Cornell was Richard Cornell, one of the most influential citizens 
of Flushing during the latter years of the Dutch regime. He was a deputy to the convention 
called by Governor Richard Nicolls in 1665, and under the English rule held the office of justice of 
the peace. He acquired considerable land by purchase from the Indians and other owners, 
and much of this property has remained in the hands of the family down to the present genera- 
tion. Richard Cornell left five sons, and his grandson, Thomas Cornell, became one of the wealth- 
iest and most influential residents of Long Island, serving continuously, save for one term, as a 
member of the Colonial Assembly, from 1739 until his death, in 1764. Three of the grandsons of 
Thomas Cornell remained loyal to the mother country in Revolutionary times, and two of them 
were Captains in the British Army, removing to Nova Scotia, with other royalists, at the close of 
the war. The third brother of this family was Whitehead Cornell, grandfather of the celebrated 
iron merchants who, in the last generation, made the name famous the world over. Whitehead 
Cornell held himself neutral during the Revolution, and afterwards was several times elected to the 
General Assembly of the State. He married Abigail Hicks, a descendant of John Hicks, one of the 
first settlers in Flushing. 

Six of the grandchildren of Whitehead Cornell, children of his son Thomas, were boys, and 
born mechanics, and all of them were possessed of remarkable mechanical ability. One of the 
youngest, John B. Cornell, born in Far Rockaway in 1821, entered the iron business in 1836 with a 
firm of which his elder brother was the head, and which was the pioneer in its line in the United 
States. In 1847, he founded a new firm, and in 1848, when the elder brother died, the business that 
he had built up fell largely to the younger members of the family. The business prospered 
and soon became one of the largest and most important of its kind in this country. Mr. 
Cornell, who died in 1887, had completed fifty years of active business and accumulated a fortune, 
and was one of the most public-spirited and benevolent men of his generation. He was a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a staunch abolitionist and a devoted temperance 
man. Much of his time and much of his wealth was given to educational, religious and philan- 
thropic enterprises. He was a working member of the boards of trustees of many of the benevolent 
and other societies of the Methodist Church, president for fourteen years of the New York City 
Church Extension and Missionary Society, president of the board of trustees of the Drew Theolog- 
ical Seminary, and a member of the board of trustees of several of the leading charitable 
institutions of New York. 

Mr. John M. Cornell, who succeeded his father at the head of the concern that still retains 
the name of J. B. & J. M. Cornell, is the eldest of a family of seven. He was born in New York, 
August 27th, 1846. After his education in Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, he entered his 
father's establishment to learn the business. It was not long before he was taken into the concern 
as a partner of which he is now the sole owner. He married, in 1873, Sarah Keen, lives in Easl 
Thirty-Seventh Street, and has a summer residence in Seabright, N. J. 

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CHARLES HENRY COSTER 

SINCE the latter part of the last century, the name of Coster has been prominent in both the 
business and the social world of New York. Its first representatives were two brothers, 
Henry A. and John Gerard Coster, natives of the City of Harlem, in the Netherlands, who 
came hither about the end of the last century. John G. Coster, the younger brother, had been 
educated as a physician, and had served in the Dutch Navy, but after the independence of America 
had been secured, and New York became the seat of 'an active and increasing commerce, he joined 
his brother in founding a mercantile house which in time became, under their guidance, one of the 
most important in the city. Having connections with their native Holland, their business was at 
first mainly in the products of that country; but as their operations extended, they became the 
owners of numerous vessels and traded with the East and West Indies, and exported American 
commodities to Europe. At the same time that the brothers Coster were conspicuous for their 
success and enterprise, they were noted for their integrity and personal standing at a period when 
the merchants of New York were the most influential class in the community, and both were 
directors in many of the financial corporations of that date. 

John Gerard Coster, the grandfather of Mr. Charles Henry Coster, among other positions of 
prominence, was a director of the Manhattan Company's Bank in 1813, and in 1826, on the death 
of Henry Remsen, became president of that institution, holding the office until 1830. He was also 
a director for many years of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and was a generous friend to various 
philanthropic institutions. He died in 1846, having resided from about 1833 in a house which he 
built on Broadway, north of Canal Street, and which was considered in its day one of the finest 
residences in New York. His brother, Henry A. Coster, lived in Chambers Street. 

The wife of John Gerard Coster was Catharine Margaret Holsmann, and their sons were John 
H., Gerard H., Daniel J. and George Washington Coster, all of whom married representatives of 
prominent New York families. John H. Coster, the eldest son, married a daughter of Daniel 
Boardman. The wife of Gerard H. Coster was a daughter of Nathaniel Prime, the famous banker. 
Daniel Coster became a member of the firm of Hone & Coster and married a daughter of Oliver de 
Lancey, and George Washington Coster, the youngest son, married Elizabeth, a daughter of the 
eminent New York merchant, Daniel Oakey. 

Mr. Charles Henry Coster, a prominent representative of his family in the present day 
and a son of George W. Coster, was born at Newport, R. I., July 24th, 1852. He was educated 
in private schools and began business life in 1867, in the counting room of the firm of Aymar & 
Co., importing merchants. In 1872, the business of that house was taken over by Fabbri & 
Chauncey, which was one of the largest firms engaged in the shipping and South American 
trade, and remained with them until the latter part of 1883. In the following year, Mr. Coster 
became a partner in the banking house of Drexel, Morgan & Co., and is now a member of its 
successor, J. P. Morgan & Co. He is also a partner of Drexel & Co., of Philadelphia, and 
Morgan, Harjes & Co., of Paris, France. He has taken a conspicuous part in the large transactions 
with which the name of these establishments is identified, more particularly in connection with 
railroad corporations. Mr. Coster is a director of many large organizations of this nature and takes 
an active part in their management. 

In June, 1886, Mr. Coster married Emily Pell, daughter of Clarence and Anne (Claiborne) 
Pell. She is a descendant of Thomas Pell, proprietor of Pelham Manor, Westchester County, and 
of General Ferdinand L. Claiborne, of Mississippi, and of William Claiborne, 1587-1676, Secretary 
of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Coster have three daughters, Emily, Helen and Maud Coster, and one 
son, Charles Henry Coster, Jr. Their residence is 27 West Nineteenth Street, while they spend 
the greater part of the year at their Tuxedo home. He is a member of the Metropolitan, City, 
Racquet, Reform, St. Nicholas, New York Yacht and Tuxedo clubs, and a life member of the 
Academy of Sciences. 



FREDERIC RENE COUDERT 

NO soldier more faithful than Charles Coudert fought in the battalions of the first Napoleon. 
He was a young man, born in Bordeaux in 1795, and came of a good and ancient family. 
He received his baptism of fire before he was out of his teens, and when barely eighteen 
years of age, was wounded in the famous three days' battle before Leipsic. As an officer in the 
Guard of Honor attached to the Imperial Guard, he was in the front of every fiercely-fought contest, 
took part in the battles of Montereau and Montmirial, and served actively in the desperate engage- 
ments that were fought prior to the entry of the allies into Paris. The overthrow of Napoleon did 
not weaken his enthusiasm for the Napoleonic dynasty, and after the Bourbon restoration he entered 
with energy and devotion into all the plans of the Bonapartists to make the Duke of Reichstadt the 
Emperor of France, as Napoleon II. As the world knows, these plans did not succeed, and, with 
others of his associates, the loyal young soldier was apprehended, tried and condemned to be 
executed as a traitor to the ruling House of France. Before sentence could be executed, he escaped 
to England. Two years later he returned to France in disguise, was detected and put under 
arrest, but again escaped and sailed for the United States in 1824. 

His devotion to the fortunes of the Bonapartes brought Charles Coudert two medals, one 
of the Legion of Honor and the other that of St. Helena, that in fulfilment of the request of the 
dying Napoleon I., Louis Napoleon awarded to every surviving officer and soldier of the First 
Empire. Mr. Coudert, thus exiled from his native land, settled in New York and began life 
here by establishing a private school. He became one of the leading and influential members of 
the little colony of French exiles in New York. He was a man of much culture and refinement, 
and an unswerving Bonapartist to the day of his death, entertaining Louis and Joseph Bonaparte at 
his home during their visit to the United States. 

Mr. Frederic Rene Coudert, son of Charles Coudert, was born in New York in 1832. His 
early education was secured in his father's school, and at the age of fourteen he entered Columbia 
College, being graduated in 1850 with high honors. He engaged in newspaper work and teaching 
for a short time, meantime entering upon the study of law, and in 1853 was admitted to the bar. 
Soon after, with his brothers Louis and Charles Coudert, Jr., he organized the firm of Coudert 
Brothers, which became one of the most successful legal firms in the city. He has built up a large 
practice and has been the legal representative of nearly all the great governments of Europe in this 
country. For his services, he has received the decoration of the Legion of Honor from the French 
Government and similar distinction from the Italian Government. He has achieved renown as an 
orator and has delivered addresses on many public occasions, such as the Columbia College Centen- 
nial in 1887, the reception of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty and the dedication of the Lafayette and 
Bolivar statues. 

A Democrat, with independent proclivities, Mr. Coudert was a supporter of Samuel J. 
Tilden in 1876, and was a member of the Democratic Committee appointed to go to New Orleans 
and watch the electoral count in that year. A strong supporter of Cleveland, he made many 
speeches for the Democratic ticket in the campaign of 1892. He has steadfastly refused all offers of 
political preferment, and has even declined a nomination for the Supreme Court of the United States. 
He represented the United States before the international tribunal that considered the Bering Sea 
question, and also served as a member of the commission appointed by President Cleveland to 
investigate the Venezuelan boundary question. He is a member of many leading clubs and has been 
president of the Manhattan Club. He married Elizabeth McCredy and lives in West Fifty-eighth 
Street, having a summer home, Robinvale, in Metuchen, N. J. His son, Frederic R. Coudert, 
Jr., was graduated from Columbia University in 1890 and married Alice T. Wilmerding, daughter 
of the late Ferdinand Wilmerding and granddaughter of the Honorable Benjamin F. Tracy. His 
daughter, Renee M. Coudert, is unmarried. His brother, Charles Coudert, died in July, 1897, 
leaving a widow, Marie M. Coudert, six daughters and one son. 



JOHN ELLIOT COWDIN 

ORIGINALLY from Scotland, the family to which Mr. John Elliot Cowdin belongs has for 
many generations been conspicuous in the annals of New England. Its members have 
been particularly identified with business interests and public affairs in Massachusetts. 
Captain Thomas Cowdin, the great-grandfather of Mr. John E. Cowdin, was a resident of Fitch- 
burg, Mass., in the early part of the last century. He was prominent in the Massachusetts militia, 
and gave valiant service to the patriot cause in the American Revolution. He was frequently 
elected to office by his townspeople, and was several times a member of the General Court. His 
son, Angier Cowdin, was a large landowner in Vermont, and a man of influence. Several sons of 
Angier Cowdin attained to pre-eminence in public life. General Robert Cowdin was one of the 
bravest and most distinguished officers in the Union Army during the Civil War. The Honorable 
John Cowdin took a leading part in public affairs in Massachusetts in the last generation, being 
several times a member of the House of Representatives of that State. 

Elliot Christopher Cowdin, another son of Angier Cowdin, was a noted importing merchant 
of Boston and New York. Born in Jamaica, Vt., in 1819, he died in New York in 1880. His early 
years were spent in Boston, where, before he had attained to his majority, he entered upon business 
life. In 1853, he came to New York and established the firm of Elliot C. Cowdin & Co., engaged 
in the importation of silks and silk ribbons. Eminently successful in his new undertaking, despite 
occasional reverses, he was able to retire from active business in 1877. During the latter'years of 
his life, Mr. Cowdin spent much of his time in foreign lands. He crossed the Atlantic more than 
eighty times, and was in Paris at the time of the Franco-Prussian War. 

Mr. Cowdin was notable no less for his intellectual than for his purely business activity, and 
also for his labors in many enterprises of a public character. He was one of the active members of 
the Mercantile Library Association, of Boston, in early life, being its president in 1843. He was 
also a member and an officer of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and instrumental in found- 
ing the New England Society of New York, of which he was the second president. He was a 
vice-president of the Union League Club, a valued member of the Century Association, and 
belonged to many other leading clubs and social organizations of the metropolis. In 1867, he was 
United States Commissioner to the Exposition in Paris. In 1876, he was elected a member of the 
State Assembly. He was often called upon to preside at public gatherings, and upon many of 
these occasions made addresses which were of a notable character. Several of his papers, speeches 
and addresses upon public questions of the day have been printed. The wife of Mr.' Cowdin, 
whom he married in 1853, was Sarah Katharine Waldron, daughter of Samuel Wallis Waldron, of 
Boston. Mr. Cowdin died in New York in 1880, leaving six children, Katharine W., John Elliot 
Martha W., Winthrop, Alice and Elliot C. Cowdin. Katharine W. Cowdin became the wife of 
Gaspar Griswold. Martha W. Cowdin married Robert Bacon and Alice Cowdin married Hamilton 
L. Hoppin. 

Mr. John Elliot Cowdin, the eldest son of the family, was born in Boston in 1858. Educated 
in Harvard University, he was graduated from that institution in 1879, and has since been engaged 
in mercantile life. He married Gertrude Cheever, daughter of John H. Cheever, and lives in 
Gramercy Park, having a summer residence in Far Rockaway, Long Island. His children are 
Elliot C, Ethel and John Cheever Cowdin. He is a member of the Union, Harvard, University 
Racquet, Rockaway Hunt and Players clubs. Winthrop Cowdin, the second son, was grad- 
uated from Harvard University in the class of 1885, and married Lena T. Potter. He lives in West 
Eleventh Street, and has a summer home, Newcastle House, in Mt. Kisco, N. Y. He belongs to 
the Union and University clubs. The youngest son, Elliot Channing Cowdin, was graduated from 
Harvard University in the class of 1896, and is a member of the Union and Racquet clubs. He lives 
with his widowed mother in West Twenty-first Street, and spends the summer upon the family 
estate, Maplehurst Farms, at Newcastle, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 



W1LM0T TOWNSEND COX 

FOR two and a half centuries the Cox family has been identified with Long Island. James 
Cock, as the name was spelled for several generations, came to Setauket, Long Island, 
before 1659 and within three years settled in Oyster Bay. He acquired land from the Indians 
at Killingworth, now Matinecock, where he died in 1698. Part of his estate is still held by bearers 
of his name. Members of this pioneer family have married with many other prominent families of 
Long Island and the State at large. 

Among Mr. Cox's distinguished ancestors is Henry Wisner, signer of the Declaration of 
Independence, member of the State Assembly for Orange County and of the Constitutional Con- 
vention in 1788, State Senator, 1777-82, and one of the first Board of Regents of the University of 
New York, in 1784. On both paternal and maternal lines, Mr. Cox descends from John Townsend, 
one of the early settlers of Long Island, and traces back through three distinct lines to Lieutenant 
Robert Feke, who in 1 63 1 assisted in organizing the first military force of Massachusetts, fought in 
the Indian Wars and in 1634-39 represented Watertown in the General Court, and whose wife, 
Elizabeth, was a niece of Governor Winthrop. Other Colonial worthies whose blood he inherits 
are Robert Coles, who came to Massachusetts with John Winthrop and followed Roger Williams 
to Rhode Island, and Nathaniel Coles, Judge of Queens County in 1689. A direct ancestor, Daniel 
Cock, of Matinecock, was Captain of the militia of Oyster Bay, Long Island, in the Revolution. 

Daniel Townsend Cox, 1800-1891, grandfather of Mr. Wilmot Townsend Cox, married 
Hannah Wilmot Coles, daughter of General Nathaniel Coles. Their son, Townsend Cox, formerly 
of Dosoris, now of Mill Neck, Oyster Bay, was born in Matinecock in 1828, and throughout his 
life has been identified with leading business interests in New York. He was a prominent member 
of the Stock Exchange from 1865 to 1885 and president of the Gold Exchange in 1869. From 1874 
to 1882, he was a Commissioner of Charities and Correction of New York City, and from 1885 to 
1892, president of the State Forest Commission. He was a founder and president of the Mendelssohn 
Glee Club and a governor of the Manhattan Club. He married Anne Helme Townsend, daughter 
of Walter Wilmot Townsend, and Anne Helme, a descendant of Christopher Helme, who settled 
in Warwick, R. I., in 1650. The children of this marriage are Wilmot Townsend, Charlotte 
Townsend, Townsend, Irving and Daniel Cox. 

Mr. Wilmot Townsend Cox, the eldest son, was born in New York in 1857, educated in St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and graduated from Harvard in 1879 and from the Columbia College 
Law School in 188 1. He commenced the practice of his profession in the Corporation Counsel's 
Office of New York, and is now a member of the law firm of Scudder, Tappan, Seaman & Cox. 

In December, 1896, Mr. Cox married Maria Duane Bleecker Miller, daughter of the late 
John Bleecker Miller, and his wife, Cornelia Jones. Mrs. Cox is one of the five incorporators of 
the Colonial Dames of New York, and is descended on both paternal and maternal lines from 
families renowned in the Colonial, Revolutionary and later history of this State. Among her 
ancestors are Jan Jansen Bleecker, Mayor of Albany in 1700; Rutger Bleecker, Mayor of Albany 
1726-29; Major Abraham Staats; Abraham Ver Planck; John Miller, one of the patentees of East 
Hampton in 1640; Major Thomas Jones, who came to America in 1692, having fought for King 
James in the battle of the Boyne and at Limerick; Samuel Jones, Recorder of New York during the 
Revolution; James Duane, member of the Continental Congress of 1774, first Judge of the United 
States District Court in New York and first Mayor of New York after the Revolution; Rip Van 
Dam, member of the council and Lieutenant-Governor of the Province in 1731-32, and the famous 
Robert Livingston, founder of a great New York family and first Lord of Livingston Manor. 
Among her more immediate ancestors is Judge Morris S. Miller, one of the founders of the City of 
Utica, N. Y., and Judge of Oneida County in 1810-24. Through a joint descent from Lieutenant 
Robert Feke and John Townsend, first of the names, Mr. and Mrs. Cox are related to each other. 
Mr. Cox's city residence is 58 West Ninth Street. 



FREDERIC CROMWELL 

SEVERAL families in this country trace their descent to the same stock as that from which 
Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, came, and which is believed to have been originally of 
Welsh extraction, as the name itself would perhaps indicate. Colonel John Cromwell, 
Oliver's cousin, and like him a cadet of the great house of the Cromwells, of Hinchinbrook, was 
the ancestor of the American Cromwells. John Cromwell, son of Colonel John Cromwell, came to 
New York about 1686 and took up his abode at Long Neck, Westchester County, on the shore 
of Long Island Sound, afterwards called Cromwell's Point. From him has descended a branch of 
the family that has been particularly identified with New York City and Westchester County 
for upwards of two hundred years. 

David Cromwell, who traced his lineage direct to John Cromwell, of Cromwell's Neck, was 
a business man of New York City some sixty years ago. When he retired from business, he 
established his home in the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, was one of its most respected residents, 
and died there in 1857. His wife, the mother of Mr. Frederic Cromwell, was Rebecca Bowman, 
who was descended from John Bowman, an English emigrant to the Colonies in 1661. Henry 
Bowman, son of John Bowman, joined the Society of Friends in 1667, and his descendants for 
many generations thereafter held to the faith of their fathers and were steadfast in their adher- 
ence to the tenets of that religious body. 

Mr. Frederic Cromwell was born at Cornwall-on-Hudson, February 16th, 1843. After 
receiving his early education in preparatory schools, he entered Harvard College and took his 
degree of A. B. there in 1863. He then applied himself to the study of law, in which he was 
engaged for a year, and followed that by a year of travel in Europe. When he returned to America, 
he established a cloth importing firm, but remained in that business only three years. 

He then became a resident of Brooklyn, and turned his attention to the problems of gas 
manufacturing and supply, which at that date were still treated in an elementary way. In 1870, he 
was one of the founders and president of the People's Gas Light Company, of Brooklyn. He was 
also interested in the gas companies of Baltimore, Md. In 1871, Mr. Cromwell removed to St. 
Louis, Mo., where he resided four years, and constructed the works and organized the business of 
the Laclede Gas Light Company, of that city. Then followed another year of travel in Europe, 
after which he returned to Brooklyn and associated himself with Colonel William H. Husted, his 
brother-in-law, in the purchase of a controlling interest in one of the local street railway 
companies. In 1880, he was elected a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, 
and in 1884 became its treasurer, an office he now holds. He has been connected with other 
corporations as a director, including the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Company, the 
National Union Bank, the Brooklyn Trust Company, the Bank of New Amsterdam and the New 
York & East River Gas Company. 

Interested in public affairs, Mr. Cromwell was one of the original members of the Civil 
Service Reform Association, of Brooklyn, and was elected its first president. He was also a 
member of the first civil service commission of that city, and did intelligent and effective work in 
elevating the standard of the civil service in the municipality. He has been president of the 
Brooklyn Art Association and vice-president of the Philharmonic Society. In 1868, Mr. Cromwell 
married Esther Whitmore Husted, daughter of Seymour L. Husted and Mary J. Kendall. The father 
of Mrs. Cromwell was a well-known business man and street railroad president of Brooklyn. Mr. 
and Mrs. Cromwell have three daughters, Mary R., Gladys H., and Dorothea H. Cromwell, and one 
son, Seymour Le Grand Cromwell, who is a graduate from Harvard, in the class of 1892, and a 
member of the University, Racquet and Metropolitan clubs. The city residence of the family is in 
West Fifty-sixth Street, and their country home is Ellis Court, Bernardsville, N. J. Mr. Cromwell 
belongs to the Century, Metropolitan, University and Harvard clubs and the Downtown 
Association, as well as to the Hamilton Club, of Brooklyn. 



OLIVER EATON CROMWELL 

IN the genealogy of the Cromwell family are found some of the most illustrious names in 
English history. Thomas Cromwell, the Cromwell of Shakespeare, Earl of Essex, friend 
of Cardinal Wolsey and Vicar General of Henry VIII., beheaded in 1540, was of this 
family He was the uncle of Sir Richard Cromwell, who was knighted by Henry VII., and 
whose son Sir Henry Cromwell, of Hinchinbrook, surnamed the Golden Knight, was the 
grandfather 'of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Sir Henry's wife, Elizabeth Stewart, was a 
relation of the royal family of Stuart. 

Sir Oliver Cromwell, of Hinchinbrook, eldest son of Sir Henry and uncle of the Great 
Protector had several children, of whom Colonel John Cromwell was the second son. 
Although' in general a supporter of his distinguished cousin, the Protector, Colonel Cromwell 
was opposed to the execution of King Charles. Noble, the historian of the Cromwell family, 
savs that by his wife, Abigail, he had children, one of whom, it is now fully understood, was 
lohn Cromwell who emigrated from Holland to the New Netherland in the latter part of the 
seventeenth century and went to Long Neck, Westchester County, afterwards called Cromwell's 
Neck From the two sons of this John Cromwell, John and James, have descended the 
Cromwells of New York, who, during the Revolution, were active in the patriot cause. 

The grandfather of Mr. Oliver E. Cromwell was John Cromwell, of New York, who 
married Elizabeth Thorn, of Glen Cove, Long Island. He was a merchant, but abandoned business 
when the War of 1812 began and entered the army as Lieutenant of Artillery, commanded a 
company at Plattsburg, and was brevetted and mentioned in general orders for bravery. After 
the war he retired and lived in Glen Cove until his death in 1824. Charles T. Cromwell, the 
father of Mr Oliver E. Cromwell, was a prominent lawyer of New York more than fifty years 
a*o He was born in this city in 1808. While a student at Union College, from which he 
graduated in' 1829, he was one of the founders of the 2 3> Society. After studying law he traveled 
in Europe and, returning home, attained a large practice. He had a summer residence on 
Manursing' Island, in Long Island Sound, off Portchester, one of the handsomest country homes 
of his time. Mr. Oliver E. Cromwell traces his lineage to the English Cromwells through a 
maternal line as well as through his father. His mother was Henrietta Amelia Brooks, daughter 
of Benjamin Brooks, of Bridgeport, Conn., and descended from the celebrated Colonel William 
Jones, who was born in England in 1624 and came to New Haven in 1660. The mother of 
Colonel Jones was Catherine Henrietta, sister of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, cousin of John 
Hampden and Edward Whalley, the regicide, and aunt by marriage to William Goffe, the 
regicide, and General lreton. The father of Colonel William Jones was her second husband. 
Colonel'jones, who was Deputy Governor of the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies from 
1683 to 1698,' married Hannah Eaton, daughter of Theophilus Eaton, the first Governor of the 
New Haven Colony. The honorable Anson Jones, President of the Republic of Texas, 1844-6, 
was a descendant of Colonel Jones. 

The representative of this historic and distinguished family in the present generation is 
Mr. Oliver Eaton Cromwell, who is a broker in New York and occupies the ancient family 
mansion on Manursing Island. He was born in New York, October 6th, 1848. Graduating from 
Columbia College with the degree of M. E., he has since been engaged in active business. He 
was a County Commissioner of Bernalillo County, Territory of New Mexico, in 1891. He is a 
member of the Union, Metropolitan and A <I> clubs and the St. Nicholas Society, and also 
belongs to the New York, American and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs. 

The wife of Mr. Cromwell, whom he married in 1890, was Lucretia B. Roberts, 
daughter of James H. Roberts, of Chicago. Their children are Henrietta Louise, Oliver Eaton 
and James Roberts Cromwell. The Cromwell arms are: sable, a lion rampant, argent, with a 
crest showing a demi-lion rampant, argent, in his dexter gamb a gem ring, or. 



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ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY 

ORIGINALLY of Massachusetts, the early Crosbys were active in public affairs in that 
Colony. Joseph Crosby, of Braintree, was a Judge, and his son, Ebenezer, 1753-88, 
was a graduate from Harvard College in 1777, a surgeon in Washington's Life Guard, 
and a professor in Columbia College. William Bedlow Crosby, son of Ebenezer Crosby, was born 
in New York City in 1786. His mother was Catherine Bedlow, daughter of William Bedlow, and 
a favorite niece of Colonel Henry Rutgers, one of the most public-spirited New Yorkers of his 
day. Colonel Rutgers donated land 'for churches and other public institutions, and gave the site 
for the first free school of the city, erected in 1809. He was a member of the first Assembly of the 
State. William Bedlow Crosby was the heir of Colonel Rutgers. His property included nearly all 
of the Seventh Ward, and before the Astors became real estate investors, he was one of the largest 
owners of real estate in the United States. He spent his life in caring for his property and in 
benevolent work, and is still remembered for his philanthropy. 

The Reverend Howard Crosby, the father of Mr. Ernest H. Crosby, was the son of William 
B. Crosby, and was born in New York City February 27th, 1826. Graduated from the University 
of the City of New York at eighteen years of age, he entered upon educational work, and at the 
age of twenty-five was professor of Greek in his alma mater. In 1852, he was elected president ot 
the Young Men's Christian Association, and in 1859 became professor of Greek in Rutgers College, 
New Brunswick, N. J. While holding the latter place, he studied theology and was ordained 
pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of New Brunswick. In 1863, he resigned his pastorate and 
professorship to become the pastor of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of New York City, 
and for nearly thirty years was one of the most prominent figures in the religious, educational and 
reform movements of the metropolis. From 1870 to 1881, he was chancellor of the University of 
the City of New York. He was a member of the American Committee for the Revision of the 
Bible, and later one of the commissioners appointed to revise the New Testament. In 1873, he 
was moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and in 1877, a delegate to the 
Pan-Presbyterian Council at Edinburgh. 

The activity of the Reverend Dr. Crosby in reform and benevolent enterprises kept him 
much before the public. In 1877, he was one of the founders of the Society for the Prevention of 
Crime, and was its first president. He was a strong advocate of the license system for restricting 
the liquor traffic in the interests of temperance, and in 1888 was a member of the State Committee 
to revise the liquor laws. His literary work was abundant and learned, and included commentaries 
on several books of the Bible, a volume of lectures, Lands of the Moslem, the CEdipus Tyrannus 
of Sophocles, with notes, a Life of Jesus, Social Hints, and numerous review articles, tracts and 
pamphlets. He received the degree of D. D. from Harvard in 1859 and the degree of LL. D. 
from Columbia in 1871. 

In addition to the illustrious ancestors already noted, Mr. Ernest Howard Crosby has descent 
from William Floyd, signer of the Declaration of Independence, who was his great-grandfather. 
His uncle was William Henry Crosby, professor of Latin and Greek in Rutgers College, vice- 
president of the New York Bible Society, and long engaged in literary pursuits. His cousin is 
Colonel John Schuyler Crosby, soldier of the Civil War and on the frontier, United States Consul to 
Florence, Governor of Montana and First Assistant Postmaster-General. 

Mr. Crosby devotes much time to philanthropic and reform work, following in the 
footsteps of his distinguished father. He is a lawyer, served in the New York Legislature, 
1886-89, and was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison Judge of the International Court in 
Alexandria, Egypt, in 1889. That position he resigned in 1894, and he then returned to the United 
States. Mr. Crosby married Fanny Kendall Schieffelin, daughter of the late Henry Maunsell 
Schieffelin, of New York. The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Crosby is in Fifth Avenue, and their 
country place is Grassmere, in Rhinebeck-on-Hudson. 



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JOHN SCHUYLER CROSBY 

ESCENDED on his mother's side from the Schuylers, a family which came from Holland in 
1645, having extensive grants of land in what is now Albany, Rensselaer and Schenectady 
counties, where their influence with the Indians of the Six Nations, and the leading part 
they took in the French and Indian Wars, as well as in the Revolution, made them prominent in 
the early history of America, on his father's side Colonel Crosby's family were among the earliest 
of New England settlers. His great-grandfather, Ebenezer Crosby, was surgeon of Washington's 
Life Guards. His son, William Bedloe Crosby, the New York philanthropist, married Harriet 
Clarkson, granddaughter of William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Clarkson 
Floyd Crosby, Colonel Crosby's father, their son, served in both branches of the Legislature, and 
married Angelica Schuyler, daughter of Colonel John Schuyler and Maria Miller. 

Colonel John Schuyler Crosby was born September 19th, 1839, at Quedar Knoll, near 
Albany, N. Y., the country seat of five generations of Schuylers, and was educated at the 
University of the City of New York. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he received the 
commission of Second Lieutenant in the First Artillery. He was in the Army of the Potomac 
under McCIellan, served on the staffs of Banks, Canby and Sheridan, and was brevetted four 
times for distinguished gallantry, being wounded once. His services in carrying despatches 
through the enemy's country to Admiral Farragut, secured special mention by President Lincoln. 
After the War he was Adjutant-General under Sheridan and Custer, and he resigned in 1871. 

In 1863, he married Harriet Van Rensselaer at the old Van Rensselaer Manor House, near 
Albany, Mrs. Crosby being the youngest daughter of General Stephen Van Rensselear, the last 
patroon of Rensselaerwyck, and a great-granddaughter of General Philip Schuyler and Alexander 
Hamilton. Colonel and Mrs. Crosby have two children, a son, Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, a 
Harvard graduate, an all-around athlete and well-known football player, who married Henrietta 
Grew, of Boston, and a daughter, Angelica Schuyler Crosby. 

Since Colonel Crosby left the army, he has occupied several important positions in civil life, 
among them, Governor of Montana, Assistant Postmaster-General in the administration of 
President Arthur, Consul at Florence and School Commissioner of New York City. For some 
years Colonel Crosby's residence has been divided between New York and Washington, and 
cruising all over the world. The Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Tuxedo, St. Nicholas in 
New York, and the Metropolitan and Country clubs in Washington, are a few of his many clubs. 
His travels have been more than usually varied. In 1859, he crossed South America from Valparaiso 
to Montevideo. Colonel Crosby has been presented at the courts of St. James, Constantinople and 
Rome. King Victor Emmanuel gave him the order of the Crown of Italy, with rank of Chevalier. 

Among the patriotic American orders of which he is a member are the Loyal Legion, the 
G.and Army and Sons of the Revolution. He was an originator of polo playing in America and 
an early member of the famous Westchester Club. As Governor of Montana, he was interested in 
protecting the Yellowstone Park from trespassers and preserving the large game of the Northwest, 
and took part in hunting trips with Generals Sheridan and Custer, and President Arthur. 
Prominent in yachting, and one of the oldest members of the New York Yacht Club, he was an 
actor in one of the saddest events in the history of American sport. The official letter of June 30th, 
1877, in which Secretary John Sherman transmitted to Colonel Crosby a gold medal of the first 
class for life saving, recounts the disaster to Commodore William A. Garner's yacht Mohawk, 
which foundered off Staten Island on July 20th, 1876. Colonel Crosby was a guest aboard, and 
after rescuing Edith May he returned to the cabin of the sinking yacht and attempted to rescue 
Mrs. Garner and Miss Hunter, who with Commodore Garner and several others were drowned. 
He escaped when the vessel was under water. Secretary Sherman said : "In sending you this 
medal, the highest recognition of your conduct the Government can give, it is felt that no words 
can add distinction to the splendid gallantry which the token seeks to commemorate and honor." 

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STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER CRUGER 

INVESTIGATION has shown that the name of Cruger probably originated as Cruciger or Cross- 
bearer, and that the ancestors of the family were settled in Germany, Holland, Denmark and 
England. Sir Philip de Cruciger, from whom the English branches trace descent, accompa- 
nied Richard I. on his crusade. In England the name was long connected with the City of Bristol, 
many of the family holding important offices there from the time of Henry VIII. 

John Cruger came to America in 1700 and was an alderman of New York from 17 12 to 
1733, becoming Mayor in 1739, and holding that office until his death, in 1744. In 1703, he married 
Maria Cuyler, 1678-1724, daughter of Major Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany. Henry Cruger, 1707- 
1780, their second son, was a member of the Assembly from 1745 to 1759, and subsequently a 
member of the Council of the Province. He went to England in 1775 and died there. His brother, 
John Cruger, second of that name, 1710-1791, was Mayor of New York from 1756 to 1765, and 
from his pen came the Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. 
He also organized and was first president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. 

Henry Cruger married first, Hannah Slauter and second, Elizabeth Harris, of Jamaica, West 
Indies. One of his sons by his second wife was Henry Cruger, 1739- 1827, second of the name, 
who was educated in Kings College, New York, and in 1757 engaged in business in Bristol! 
England, being Mayor of that city in 178 1. In 1774, he was chosen to represent Bristol in the 
British Parliament, as a colleague of Edmund Burke, and was again elected in 1784. About 1790, 
he returned to his native city, and in 1792 was a member of the New York Senate. He married 
three times and has numerous descendants. Nicholas Cruger, 1743- 1800, the fourth son of Henry 
and Elizabeth (Harris) Cruger, was the great-grandfather of the subject of this article. Born in 
New York, he was a merchant here and in St. Croix, West Indies. His estate in New York, 
known as Rose Hill, then in the suburbs, is now in the centre of the city. He was the patron of 
Alexander Hamilton, who served in his counting house and came to New York at his instance, and 
he was also a friend of Washington. In 1772, he married Anna de Nully, 1747- 1784, daughter of 
Bertram Pierre de Nully, of St. Croix, and his wife, Catharine Heyliger, daughter of General Pierre 
Heyliger, Governor of the Danish West Indies. Bertram Pierre Cruger, 1774- 1854, the eldest son 
of this marriage, was born in St. Croix and married Catharine Church, daughter of John B. Church, 
of New York, and his wife, Angelica Schuyler, daughter of General Philip Schuyler. 

John Church Cruger, 1807- 1879, the eldest surviving son of Bertram Pierre and Catharine 
(Church) Cruger, was the father of Colonel Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger. His residence was 
Cruger's Island, in the Hudson River, and he married first, Frances A. Jones and second Euphemia 
White Van Rensselaer, daughter of General Stephen Van Rensselaer, the last patroon of Rensselaer- 
wyck. The only child of John Church Cruger's first marriage was Eugene Cruger, 1832-1867, who 
married Jane Marie Jauncey, and had three sons, William Jauncey, Eugene G. and James Pendleton 
Cruger. 

Colonel Stephen Van Rensselaer Cruger is the eldest child and only son of John Church and 
Euphemia White (Van Rensselaer) Cruger. He was born in New York, May 9th, 1844, and was 
educated here and in Europe. At the beginning of the Civil War, he entered the army as First 
Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Fiftieth New York Volunteers. He took part in the Gettysburg 
and Atlanta campaigns, was severely wounded at the battle of Resaca, and retired from the army 
with the brevets of Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. After the war, he was for several years Colonel 
of the Twelfth Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. Colonel Cruger has been engaged in the real estate 
business and is connected as a director or officer with many large corporations. He is the senior 
warden of the Trinity Church Corporation and a trustee of the New York Public Library. He 
married Julie Grinnell Storrow. His residence is in East Thirty-fifth Street, and his country place 
in Bayville, Long Island. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, Union 
League, Union and other clubs. 



MRS. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS 

HENRY CURTIS was the Puritan ancestor of the family of which the late George 
William Curtis was the best known modern representative. The original emigrant 
of the name arrived in Massachusetts in 1635 and settled in Watertown, removing 
later to Sudbury. He married Mary Guy, daughter of Nicholas Guy, who came from Upton 
Gray near Southampton, England. Their son, Ephraim Curtis, who was born in Sudbury, in 
1642, was one of the first settlers of Worcester, Mass., and for gallantry in an Indian fight in 1675 
was made Lieutenant of the militia of that town. John Curtis, one of his descendants, born in 
Worcester in 1707, was a Captain in the French and Indian War, and George Curtis, the father of 
the late George William Curtis, was a great-grandson of Captain John Curtis. George Curtis was 
born in Worcester, Mass., in 1796, and became a prominent business man in Providence, R. I. 
In 1839, he removed to New York, and was president of the Continental Bank. He married 
Mary Elizabeth Burrill, daughter of James Burrill, Chief Justice of Rhode Island and a United 
States Senator for that State. 

George William Curtis, the second son of this marriage, was born in Providence, R. I., 
February 24th, 1824. He was educated at schools in Massachusetts, removed with his family to 
New York, and spent a year in mercantile life. In 1842, he joined the Brook Farm Association 
in West Roxbury, Mass. In 1846, he went to Europe, studied in the University of Berlin and 
traveled in the East. In 1850, he returned home and published his first book, Nile Notes of a 
Howadji. He joined the staff of The New York Tribune and published other works. From 1853 
to 1857, he was the editor of Putnam's Magazine, and after the latter date was connected with 
Harper's Monthly Magazine and originated the famous Editor's Easy Chair in that periodical, which 
he contributed to it from 1858 until his death; from 1861 onward he was political editor of 
Harper's Weekly. During some years, Mr. Curtis also appeared in public as a lecturer. He took 
an active and brilliant part in politics and was a delegate to many Republican National Conventions 
from i860 to 1884. He frequently refused public offices, including the English and German 
Missions offered him by President Hayes, but accepted that of a Regent of the University of New 
York in 1864. In 1871, he was appointed, by President Grant, a member of the Civil Service 
Commission, and became chairman of that body, with which civil service reform originated, a 
cause to which he gave his unfaltering support. He died in August, 1892, having exercised a 
greater influence upon American public opinion than any man of letters of this period. 

Mrs. George William Curtis, who was born Anna Shaw, married her distinguished husband 
in 1857. She is the daughter of Francis George Shaw and his wife, Sarah Blake Sturgis. Her 
grandparents were Robert Gould Shaw, who married Susan Parkman, and, on the maternal side, 
Nathan Russell Sturgis, whose wife was Elizabeth Parkman. In the two preceding generations, 
her paternal ancestors were Francis Shaw, a merchant of Boston, who, in 1770, with Robert 
Gould, founded the town of Gouldsboro, Me., and his son, Francis Shaw. Robert Gould Shaw, 
1776-185?, was born in Gouldsboro and was a merchant in Boston after 1789. His eldest son, 
Francis George Shaw, 1809- 1882, was a student in Harvard in 1825, but entered business life 
before he graduated, and retired in 1841. After 1855, he resided on Staten Island, was dis- 
tinguished by his philanthropy and published translations of a number of French works. The 
only son of Francis G. Shaw was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who was killed in the Civil War 
while leading the Fifty-Second Massachusetts Regiment at Fort Wagner, S. C. He married Anna 
Haggerty, daughter of Ogden Haggerty, of New York. The other daughters of Francis G. Shaw 
are Susannah, who married Robert B. Minturn, Jr., Josephine (Shaw) Lowell, widow of General 
Charles Russell Lowell, and Ellen, widow of General Francis C. Barlow. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are Elizabeth Burrill Curtis and Frank George Curtis, 
M. D., a practicing physician in Newton, Mass., who married Ruth W. Davison. Mrs. Curtis 
resides in Bard Avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island, and has a country place in Ashfield, Mass. 

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E. HOLBROOK CUSHMAN 

ONE of the energetic promoters of the exodus of the Pilgrims from Holland to America 
in the seventeenth century was Robert Cushman, who was born in Kent, England, about 
1580. With John Carver, he was active in bringing about the emigration of the Pilgrims 
to Holland, whom he afterwards joined at Leyden, and was one of the first to engage in negotia- 
tions with the English authorities for the transfer of his coreligionists to the New World. In 1617, 
he went to London with Carver to arrange with the Virginia Company for such a settlement in that 
part of the New World. The plans came to naught, however, because the King would not grant 
that liberty of conscience demanded by the proposed Colonists. In 1619, Robert Cushman and 
Elder Brewster renewed the negotiations, this time with success, and Cushman and Carver 
arranged the details for the voyage. 

Robert Cushman was the business man of the enterprise. He chartered the Mayflower, was 
assistant governor of the company, and when the Mayflower sailed remained behind in England to 
take charge of the financial interests of the Pilgrims. In 1621, he visited Plymouth, but returned 
again to England, where he died in 1625. Thomas Cushman, the only son of Robert Cushman, 
was born in England in 1608, and died in Plymouth, Mass., in 1692, in the eighty-fourth year of 
his age. He married Mary, daughter of Isaac Allerton, was a close friend of Governor William 
Bradford, and ruling elder of the church on the death of Elder Brewster in 1649. His wife died in 
1699 at the age of ninety-nine years, one of the last surviving members of the Mayflower company. 
A monument to the memory of Robert Cushman, his son Thomas and other early members 
of this pioneer family was erected several years ago, on Burial Hill, in Plymouth, by their 
descendants. 

Thomas Cushman and his wife, Mary, were the American ancestors of the Cushmans in this 
country who trace their family line to the pre-Revolutionary period. One of the descendants was a 
pioneer settler of Otsego County, N. Y. His fifth son, Don Alonzo Cushman, was born in Coving- 
ton, Ky., October 1st, 1792, and died in New York City, May 1st, 1875. Brought up on his 
father's place, and educated in the local school, in 1805 he entered business in Cooperstown, 
N. Y. After several years he came to New York, where in 18 10 he secured a position in a store. 
Five years after he became senior partner of the firm of Cushman & Falconer, which afterward 
became D. A. Cushman & Co., and so remained until Mr. Cushman's retirement, in 1855. 

Early in life, Don A. Cushman became interested in real estate investments in New York 
City, and was a pioneer in the development of Chelsea Village as an urban residential district. He 
acquired considerable property there, built many houses, established his own dwelling-place on 
Ninth Avenue opposite the Episcopal Theological Seminary, and was more instrumental than any 
other single individual in making that section of the city one of the fashionable residential localities 
of half a century ago. In 181 5, Mr. Cushman married Matilda C. S. Ritter, daughter of Peter Ritter, 
of New York. He had a family of thirteen children. Of his daughters, Mary Matilda Falconer 
became the wife of Philip F. Pistor; Catharine Patter married N. B. Smith, of New Orleans; Caro- 
line E. married James Talman Waters, and Angelica B. married George Wilcoxson, of Nyack. 
Three daughters died while young. 

Mr. E. Holbrook Cushman, son of Don Alonzo Cushman, was born in New York in 1832. 
He has retired from business and is principally engaged in caring for the large real estate holdings 
of the family. He lives in West Twenty-second Street and is a member of the New York Athletic 
and the Mendelssohn Glee clubs. Archibald Falconer Cushman, his brother, is a Columbia 
College graduate, a practicing lawyer, and a member of the Columbia Alumni Association 
and the Church Club. Another brother, William F. Cushman, is also a graduate of Columbia 
College, and engaged in the practice of medicine. James Stewart Cushman, who was the 
fifth of the six sons of the family, died in 1894. He was a well-known stock broker and one 
of the original members of the Gold Exchange. 



WILLIAM BAYARD CUTTING 

SEVERAL generations of the Cutting family have been eminent citizens of New York. Their 
ancestor, the Reverend Leonard Cutting, who was of English birth, took orders in the 
Church of England and, coming to America, had parishes at New Brunswick, N. J., Hemp- 
stead and Oyster Bay, Long Island, and in 1765 was a tutor and professor in Kings, afterwards 
Columbia College. In 1766, he established a school at Hempstead, which became a noted 
institution. His wife was a daughter of John Pintard, an alderman of New York in 1738, and a 
representative of a family of Huguenot descent which had settled at New Rochelle. 

William Cutting, their only son, graduated from Columbia College in 1793 and became an 
eminently successful lawyer, being associated in practice with F. R. Tillou. He was Sheriff of 
New York County in 1807-08. He was also closely identified with his brother-in-law, Robert 
Fulton, in successful experiments in steam navigation, and secured the franchise for a term of years 
of the' ferry between New York and Brooklyn at the foot of the present Fulton Street. He died 
in 1820. Gertrude Livingston, his wife, whose sister married Robert Fulton, was the daughter 
of Walter Livingston and Cornelia Schuyler, daughter of Peter Schuyler, and a niece of 
Chancellor Livingston. Walter Livingston was the son of Robert Livingston, of Livingston 
Manor, the head of that notable family, and was a member of the Assembly and its Speaker, 
a Regent of the University, County Judge and a trustee of Columbia College. His father was the 
eldest son of Philip Livingston, who, in turn, was the eldest son of the first Robert Livingston. 

The descendants of William and Gertrude (Livingston) Cutting have been prominent pro- 
fessionally and socially in New York and have intermarried with many other distinguished 
families. Fulton Cutting, their fifth son, was the father of Mr. William Bayard Cutting. 
Fulton Cutting's wife was Justine Bayard, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (McEvers) Bayard. 
Her paternal grandfather, William Bayard, who married Eliza Cornell, was of a race which 
had occupied a conspicuous position in New York since the days of the Dutch settlement, 
while her maternal grandfather, James McEvers, whose wife was Ruth Hunter, bore the name of a 
family also of great social importance. 

Mr. William Bayard Cutting, born in New York January 12th, 1850, is a conspicuous 
representative of his family in this generation. He is a graduate of Columbia College and also took 
the degree of LL. B. in the law school of that institution. While engaged in the practice of the 
legal profession, he has devoted considerable time to the cause of reform in the city's adminis- 
tration, taking a leading part in movements to that end. He has also been a Civil Service 
Commissioner of New York City. He resides in Fifth Avenue, with a country place, Westbrook, 
Oakdale, Long Island. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, University, Century, Church, 
A * and Riding clubs, and the Downtown Association. He married Olivia Murray, daughter of 
Bronson Murray and his wife, Anne E. Peyton, her grandparents being James B. Murray and Maria 
Bronson. His children are William Bayard, Jr., Justine Bayard, Bronson Murray and Olivia Cutting. 

Among other sons of William Cutting, the Honorable Francis Brockholst Cutting attained 
particular prominence in the last generation, being a lawyer of high reputation and a Member of 
Congress 1853-55. He died in l8 7°> his sons being Heyward Cutting, who died in 1876, General 
William Cutting, who died in 1897, and Brockholst Cutting, who died before his father. The 
sons of Brockholst Cutting were William Cutting, Jr., who resides in Madison Avenue, and 
Francis Brockholst Cutting, second of the name, who died in 1896. Another brother of Fulton 
Cutting, was Robert Livingston Cutting, an eminent banker and socially distinguished, who 
married Juliana De Wolfe, daughter of James De Wolfe, of Bristol, R. I. His sons were Robert 
Livingston Cutting, second of the name, who married Judith E. Moale, and left two sons, James 
De Wolfe Cutting and Robert Livingston Cutting, the third of that name; and Walter Cutting, 
who married Madeline C. Pomeroy and has three children, Walter Livingston, Juliana and 
Madeline Cutting. 

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THOMAS DE WITT CUYLER 

NO American family has a more honorable record than that derived from Hendrick Cuyler, 
who was born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1637, came to Beverwyck, near Albany, in 
1664, with his wife, Annetje Schepmoes, and was Major of cavalry in the French War. 
His eldest son, Johannes Cuyler, married Elsje, daughter of Dirk Wessels Ten Broeck, in 1684. 
The second son, Abraham Cuyler, married Caatje Bleecker, of New York, and had numerous 
descendants. Maria, the eldest daughter of Hendrick Cuyler, married John Cruger, Mayor of 
New York. Rachel Cuyler, the next daughter, married Myndert Schuyler, and from them many of 
the Schuylers and de Peysters are descended. Johannes Cuyler was the ancestor of the branch 
of the family now under consideration. He was a merchant and Mayor of Albany. He had 
twelve children, who were the ancestors of families living in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, 
Virginia and Georgia. Cornelius Cuyler, his eldest son, married Cathalyra Schuyler, and their son, 
born in 1740, was a loyalist in the Revolution, removed to England and was made a baronet. 

One of the prominent representatives of the family in the last generation was the Reverend 
Dr. Cornelius C. Cuyler, who was born in Albany in 1783 and died in 1850. Graduated from 
Union College in 1806, he studied theology, and in 1809 became pastor of the Reformed Dutch 
Church in Poughkeepsie, and occupied that pulpit for more than twenty-five years. He then 
became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and remained in that charge 
until his death. He received the degree of D. D. from Union College in 1838. 

Theodore Cuyler, the only son of the Reverend Cornelius C. Cuyler, was for many years a 
distinguished member of the bar of Philadelphia. He married the eldest daughter of the Reverend 
Thomas De Witt, for forty years pastor of the Collegiate Dutch Church of New York. Thomas 
De Witt Cuyler, the eldest son of Theodore Cuyler, is a graduate from Yale College and a member 
of the Philadelphia bar. He is, however, well known in New York and has many interests here, 
both business and social. He is a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and of several 
railroad and other corporations, and is a member of the Lawyers', University and other clubs, 
the Holland Society and the Society of the Cincinnati. Mr. Cuyler married Frances Lewis. 
Their country place is Edgewood, Haverford, Pa. Cornelius Cuyler Cuyler, second son of 
Theodore Cuyler, was graduated from Princeton University in 1879. He entered the banking 
profession, and is now head of the firm of Cuyler, Morgan & Co., of this city. He is a member of 
the Union, Princeton, City, University, Manhattan, Calumet and University Athletic clubs, 
and also belongs to the Holland Society and the Downtown Association. 

The Georgia and Virginia branch of the family descends from Henry and Katherine (Cruger) 
Cuyler, of New York, whose son, Captain Teleman Cruger Cuyler, removed to Savannah, Ga., 
in 1768. He married Jeanne de la Touche and died in 1772. One of his daughters married 
Captain George Bunner, the ancestor of Henry Cuyler Bunner, the author. The eldest son, Captain 
Henry Cuyler, was killed at the siege of Savannah. The third son, Jeremiah La Touche Cuyler, 
was the first Federal Judge in Georgia. His eldest son, Richard Randolph Cuyler, was presi- 
dent of the Central Railroad of Georgia. Another son, Dr. John M. Cuyler, 1810-1884, was 
Surgeon and Brevet Brigadier-General, United States Army, and married Mary Wayne. Their son, 
James M. Cuyler, married Alice Holden; the only child of this marriage, Caroline Campbell 
Cuyler, married Sir Philip Egerton, Baronet, of England. The youngest daughter of Judge 
Jeremiah La T. Cuyler, Estelle Cuyler, married Captain Henry Hunter Smith, their son being 
Teleman Cuyler Smith, a lawyer of Atlanta, Ga. 

The Reverend Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, son of B. Ledyard Cuyler, has added to the 
distinction of the family. Born in Aurora, N. Y., in 1822, he was graduated from the Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1846, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1848. His early 
pastorates were in Trenton, N. J., and New York, and since i860 he has been minister of the 
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn. 



ERIC B. DAHLGREN 

JOHAN ADOLF DAHLGREN, 1744-1797, the great-grandfather of the present generation of 
the American bearers of his name, was an eminent Swedish scientist and physician. A 
graduate of the University of Upsala, his scientific writings were honored at that seat of 
learning, and he also held professional positions in the service of his native country. His son, 
Bernhard Ullrik Dahlgren, born in 1784, was also a graduate of Upsala. Espousing liberal 
opinions, he became involved in a republican movement in 1804, and was obliged to flee from 
Sweden. After a time, the Swedish government took him once more into favor, and he became its 
consul at Oporto, Portugal, and afterwards at Philadelphia, where he was a merchant, and where 
he died in 1824. He married an American lady, Martha Rowan, daughter of James Rowan, who 
during the Revolution served with General Lacy's Brigade of the Pennsylvania Line. 

Their famous son, Admiral John Adolf Dahlgren, U. S. N., was born in Philadelphia in 1809. 
Entering the navy as a midshipman in 1826, his subsequent life was part of the country's history. 
He created the ordnance department of the navy, and by his scientific labors fairly revolution- 
ized the prevalent ideas of ordnance, while his active service in the defense of Washington, at 
the beginning of the Civil War, in the South Atlantic blockade squadron, and in the naval opera- 
tions against Charleston, S. C, made his part in the conflict successful and conspicuous. He was 
one of the five Admirals created by special Act of Congress with the thanks of the nation. He 
died in Washington, while commandant of the Navy Yard there. Admiral Dahlgren wrote a num- 
ber of scientific works relating to gunnery and ordnance. He married Madeline Vinton, only 
daughter of the Honorable Samuel Finley Vinton, of Ohio, a distinguished lawyer and states- 
man, who was a Member of Congress for twenty-two years, and was author of the Act of 1849, 
which established the Department of the Interior. Vinton County and the town of Vinton, O., 
were both named after him. His wife was Romaine Madeline Bureau, whose father, the son of a 
Revolutionary soldier, emigrated to Ohio in 1792, and was one of its early State Senators. Mrs. 
Madeline (Vinton) Dahlgren survives her husband, and is well known in the literary world. She 
has written a Memoir of Admiral Dahlgren and other works. 

Several of Admiral Dahlgren's sons were conspicuous in the public service. The eldest 
son, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, 1842-64, had a heroic career in the army during the Civil War, and 
was killed while engaged in a cavalry raid designed to liberate Federal prisoners confined in 
Richmond. In 1872, a memoir of his life was published by his father. Another son, Captain 
Charles Dahlgren, served with distinction in the navy under Admiral Porter and under his father. 
Lieutenant Paul Dahlgren served in the army, and afterwards was United States Consul-General 
at Rome, where he died in 1874. He married Annie Rutherford Morgan, who survives him, their 
daughter being Romola Dahlgren. 

Eric B. Dahlgren is the fourth and eldest surviving son of Admiral John Adolf and 
Madeline (Vinton) Dahlgren. He was born in Washington, D. C, September 15th, 1866, and 
was graduated from Harvard College with the degree of A. B. in 1889. He married Lucy Drexel, 
daughter of the late Joseph W. Drexel, of this city, a member of the banking firm of Drexel, 
Morgan & Co. Her mother, Lucy (Wharton) Drexel, is a lineal descendant of the Revolutionary 
patriot and first Governor of Pennsylvania, Thomas Wharton. 

John Vinton Dahlgren, the youngest son of Admiral Dahlgren, was born in Valparaiso, 
Chili, April 22d, 1868. He was graduated from the University of Georgetown, D. C, in 1889, and 
from the law school of the same institution in 189 1. In 1892, he was admitted to the bar, and, 
removing to New York, entered the law office of Lord, Day & Lord. In 1895-96, he was 
attorney to the Building Department of this city, and compiled the Dahlgren Building Law 
Manual. He married Elizabeth Drexel, sister of the wife of his brother, Eric B. Dahlgren. His 
residence is in West Fifty-sixth Street, and he is a member of the Catholic, Republican and 
New York Athletic clubs, and of many literary and historical associations. 



CHARLES P. DALY 

AS far back as Irish history extends, the O'Dalys, of County Galway, are mentioned, and 
have given to their country scholars, soldiers, legislators and others prominent in the 
public eye. Ex-Chief Justice Daly, of our own Court of Common Pleas, descends from this 
ancient race, his father having come from the North of Ireland in the earlier part of this century and 
settled in New York. 

Judge Daly was born in this city October 31st, 1816. He received a sound education in a 
private school, with the object of fitting him for one of the learned professions. Among his 
schoolmates were the late Cardinal-Archbishop of New York McCloskey and the eminent advocate, 
James T. Brady. The death of his father, while he was still a lad, clouded his prospects; but filled 
with a determination to make his own way, he went to Savannah, Ga., and found occupation as 
a clerk. Dissatisfied with his occupation, he went to sea as a sailor before the mast. In this 
rude employment, he visited many distant parts of the world, but from his seafaring life he gained 
the love of geographical research, which was to play a part in his subsequent life second only to 
his professional career. Forsaking the sea after an experience of three years, he returned to New 
York and apprenticed himself in a mechanical trade. 

His intellectual qualities now, however, asserted themselves. He devoted his spare hours to 
study, and joined a debating society, in which he soon distinguished himself by his ability and 
eloquence. One of his fellow members was William Soule, a lawyer, who, struck with the young 
mechanic's ability, advised him to study law, and offered him the means for a course at Union 
College. He, however, not only declined this, but on the death of his master, which released him 
from all obligation, voluntarily remained and worked for his employer's widow till his indentures 
had expired. Hardships were disregarded in his intense application to his studies, and such was 
his progress that in 1839 Chief Justice Nelson relaxed all rules in his behalf on the score of his 
fitness and admitted him to the bar. He then formed a professional partnership with Mr. 
McElrath, who was afterwards associated with Horace Greeley in founding The Tribune. He 
subsequently formed other partnerships, and soon came into notice at the bar for the soundness 
of his legal attainments. In 1843, he served in the Legislature of the State and refused a 
nomination, equivalent to an election, to Congress, preferring his profession to politics. In 1844, 
however, promotion came in the form of an appointment to the bench of the Court of Common 
Pleas of New York City by Governor Bouck. That position he held for forty-two years, till 
1885, when he retired under the age provision of the State Constitution. When Judge Daly 
assumed his office it was appointive. When, however, the Constitution of 1846 made it elective, 
he was promptly elected to succeed himself, and was four times reelected, being chosen in 1858 
as Chief Justice of the Court to succeed Judge Ingraham. In 1871, when the end of one of his 
terms was expiring, the so-called Tweed Ring, having no favor for a magistrate of Judge Daly's 
integrity, were determined to defeat his renomination. The overthrow of the ring prior to the 
election, however, checked this plan, and Judge Daly received evidence of the approval of his 
fellow citizens in the form of a nomination from all political parties, so that the votes at the 
election were cast unanimously for him. 

During his judicial career, Judge Daly sat in many important cases. One of the most 
noted incidents was when he presided at the trial of the Astor Place rioters, in 1849. On this 
occasion, he gave ample evidence of his firmness and impartiality as a judge, defining the law 
of riots so that, while the result was the conviction of the guilty persons, he fixed the legal 
principles involved for all time in New York. On leaving the bench, in 1885, Chief Justice 
Daly received the exceptional honor, on December 30th of that year, of a general meeting 
of the bar, presided over by ex-President Arthur and attended by the leaders of the legal 
profession, at which resolutions expressing profound respect and admiration for the retiring 
judge were feelingly adopted. On the evening of the same day, Judge Daly was offered a further 



tribute in the form of a complimentary dinner at Delmonico's, given by all the judges of the 
courts of New York City and county. Since that time, he has retained full interest in the 
profession to which he devoted his early life, and which in his judicial capacity he did so much 
to dignify. 

Judge Daly's services to the public were not, however, confined to his duties on the bench. 
A Democrat always, he nevertheless gave his unswerving support to the Union in the Civil 
War, and was frequently consulted during the struggle by President Lincoln, Secretary William 
H. Seward, Chief Justice Chase, and the other leaders of the national cause. Upon the expression 
of Judge Daly's opinion, that, although the seizure of Mason and Slidell would be justified by 
the English interpretation of the law, it was contrary to the law of nations and the decisions of 
our own Supreme Court, Secretary Seward unwillingly consented to surrender them, though 
previously strongly opposed to doing so; by which a war with England was averted. In 1867, 
Judge Daly was a member of the State Constitutional Convention. 

Outside of his profession, Judge Daly has won fame as a man of letters and scientist. 
In 1 85 1, he visited Europe and made the intimate acquaintance, among other famous men, of 
Lord Brougham, Freiherr Von Bunsen and Baron Von Humboldt. In his published corre- 
spondence, Humboldt writes to Bunsen: "Few men have left upon me such an impression of 
high intelligence on subjects of universal interest, and in the judgment of apparently opposite 
directions of character among the nations that inhabit the ever-narrowing Atlantic basin. Add 
to this, what is very uncommon in an American, and still more uncommon in the practical 
life of a greatly occupied magistrate, that this man of high character and intellect is not wanting 
in a lively interest for the fine arts, and even for poetry. I have led him from conversations on 
slavery, Mormonism and Canadian feudalism to the question so important to me — whether 
anything can be expected from the elegant literature of a nation of which the noblest productions 
have their root in a foreign country ? " He was one of the earliest members of the American 
Geographical Society, and has been its president for thirty-four years, making it one of the most 
useful scientific institutions of the metropolis. The annual addresses he has delivered before the 
society have taken rank among the most valuable contributions to geographical literature. 
Foreign men of science have paid him many tributes, and he is an honorary member of the 
Geographical Societies of England, Germany, Russia, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Brazil and Portugal, 
and a member of the National Geographical Society of Washington, and the Geographical Club 
of Philadelphia. In i860, Columbia College conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., in 
recognition of his professional and literary services. 

Judge Daly is a lover of books, and has collected one of the choicest private libraries in 
New York. He has written much, among his published works being an Historical Sketch of 
the Tribunals of New York, 1625-1846, The Nature, Extent and History of the Surrogate's Court 
of the State of New York, Comparisons Between Ancient and Modern Banking Systems, and a 
History of the Settlement of the Jews in North America, besides addresses, essays and articles 
upon many subjects, legal, scientific and literary, including poetry and the drama, upon both of 
which he is an authority. 

While an honored member of many leading social organizations, there is no notable literary, 
artistic or scientific body in the metropolis with which he is not connected. He is a life member of 
the National Academy of Design, of the New York Historical Society, and of a number of 
Historical Societies throughout the United States. Besides that, he is an honorary member of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the Mercantile Library Association, a member of the American 
Museum of Natural History, as well as of the American Philosophical Society. For many years 
he was president of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and is a member of the Century, Union, 
Authors', City and Players clubs. 

In 1856, Judge Daly married Maria Lydig, a lady belonging to an old and eminent New 
York family. His residence in Clinton Place is noted for its cultured hospitality, and there Judge 
Daly is rounding out the evening of a laborious, useful, successful and happy life. 



JOSEPH F. DALY 

ONE of the most conspicuous New Yorkers of Southern birth is the Honorable Joseph F. 
Daly, of the Supreme Court, and Presiding Judge of the Appellate Term. Judge Daly is 
a New Yorker by education and life-long association. Born in Plymouth, N. C, in 1840, 
his family removed to New York before he was nine years old. Here he received his schooling ; 
began the study of law in the office of S. W. & R. B. Roosevelt ; in May, 1862, was admitted to 
the bar, and in 1865, upon the dissolution of the firm, succeeded to their business, entering at once 
upon an extensive general practice, and quickly took high rank as one of the most promising 
young attorneys of that time. 

One of the first things to bring him notably to the attention of the public was the part which 
he took in the citizens' movement against municipal corruption during the years between 1864 and 
1870. He was one of the most active counsel of the reform movement, and gave valuable legal 
assistance in the work of securing better government for the city, under the leadership of Peter 
Cooper and such eminent lawyers as Charles O'Conor, Benjamin D. Silliman, Alexander Hamilton, 
Jr., Benjamin W. Bonney, Charles Tracy, James R. Whiting, William Curtis Noyes, and others. 
His duties embraced the prosecution of charges of official malfeasance before the Governor, 
making arguments upon the tax levies and reform bills before legislative committees, and the 
bringing of injunction suits to prevent the misappropriation of public funds. 

Judge Daly was elected first to the Court of Common Pleas in May, 1870, when he was 
twenty-nine years of age, and in 1884 he was re-elected, he and his associate, Judge Larremore, 
being the only candidates elected on their ticket. Judge Daly's popularity was attested by the fact 
that he led the list of nine candidates in the field. He is now serving his second term, to which 
he was chosen by votes from all political parties, and which expires in 1898. He was chosen by 
his associates in 1890 to be Chief Justice, and was the last Chief Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas, which was abolished by the Constitution of 1896, the judges being transferred to the 
Supreme Court. He has long been recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in the city or in New 
York State, and is one of the most upright members of the judiciary that the bench of this city has 
ever known, being noted for his high judicial attainment and his profound legal knowledge. 

Outside of his professional life, Judge Daly is deeply interested in art, literature and science. 
He is a man of high culture, thoroughly well informed in general literature, and especially 
interested in the drama. He was one of the founders of the Players Club, with Edwin Booth, 
Lawrence Barrett and his brother, Augustin Daly, the eminent dramatist and manager, who has 
done probably more than any man in the annals of the American stage to uphold the dignity of the 
profession and bring the theatre up to the highest standard of literary and dramatic excellence. 
Justice Daly belongs to the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Democratic, Players and Catholic clubs (of 
the latter he is president for the fourth term), the Bar Association, the Southern Society, the 
Dunlap Society, the New York Law Institute, the Geographical Society, and the Board of St. 
Vincent's Hospital, and has been for many years a manager of the Roman Catholic Orphan 
Asylum. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1883, from St. John's College. His city residence is 
19 East Sixty-second Street. 

Justice Daly is the son of Captain Denis Daly, who was born in Limerick, about 1797, and 
who, after serving as purser's clerk in the British Navy, resigned and came to America, where he 
built and sailed his own vessels, finally settling in Plymouth, N. C, in 1838, as wharfinger and 
merchant. He married, in 1834, Elizabeth Therese Duffey, born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, W. I., 
in 1812, the daughter of Lieutenant John Duffey, of the One Hundred and First Regiment, and of 
Margaret Moriarty, of Tralee, Ireland. Justice Daly married, in 1873, Emma Robinson Barker, 
step-daughter of the late Judge Hamilton W. Robinson, by whom he has two sons, Edward 
Hamilton and Wilfrid Augustin, and a daughter, Elizabeth Theresa. His wife dying in 1886, he 
married, in 1890, Mary Louise, daughter of Edgar M. Smith, of this city. 



CHARLES ANDERSON DANA 

MANY distinguished men in the United States have borne the name of the family whose first 
American representative was Richard Dana, who came from France to Boston about 1640. 
From him have descended the Danas of Massachusetts and other parts of the country, 
who have been famed in law, statesmanship and literature, or men of mark in other pursuits. 
Among them the names of Chief-Justice Francis Dana, of Massachusetts, and Richard Henry Dana, 
father and son, lawyers and authors, will naturally suggest themselves. 

One branch of the family settled in Pennsylvania, Anderson Dana, who came to the Wyom- 
ing Valley in 1772, being a grandson of Jacob, who was a son of the original Richard Dana of 
Massachusetts. He was a volunteer aide to Colonel Zebulon Butler when the settlement was 
attacked by the Indians, and perished in the Wyoming Valley massacre. One of the great-grand- 
sons of Anderson Dana was General Edmund L. Dana, of Pennsylvania. 

The late Charles Anderson Dana was a great-grandson of Anderson Dana, the first of the name, 
being the son of Anderson Dana and his wife, Ann Dennison, and the grandson of Daniel and 
Dollie (Kibbee) Dana. He was born in Hinsdale, N. H., August 8th, 1819. His father, Anderson 
Dana, was a merchant in Hinsdale, but was not successful, and his son, when a boy of only ten 
years of age, went to Buffalo, where he was employed in his uncle's business house for several years, 
but in 1839 began a college course in Harvard. Failing eyesight compelled him to leave college 
after two years study, but later in life Harvard conferred on him the degree of A. M. In 1842, he 
joined the Brook Farm community, where he was associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, George 
Ripley, John S. Dwight, Minott Pratt and others. For several years he had been writing for The 
Harbinger, a Brook Farm periodical, and at the age of twenty-seven began to work regularly on 
The Boston Chronotype, where he earned his first money in the newspaper profession. 

In 1847, Mr. Dana came to New York and joined the staff of The Tribune, and in 1848 spent 
eight months in Europe as a correspondent of The Tribune, Chronotype, Commercial Advertiser 
and other papers. Returning in 1849, he became managing editor of The Tribune and held that 
place for fifteen years. Differences with Horace Greeley regarding its attitude on the Civil War led 
him to leave The Tribune in 1862. Secretary Stanton then employed him in the War Depart- 
ment and finally appointed him Assistant Secretary of War. He held the position until hostilities 
were over, and while in office rendered invaluable service to the Union cause, spending much of his 
time at the front in confidential and perilous missions. After the war he was engaged for a short 
period on The Chicago Tribune, but in 1867 came to New York and in partnership with several 
friends bought The Sun. From that time until his death in October, 1897, the history of The Sun 
was Mr. Dana's, and he was regarded as the dean of American journalists. 

His country residence on Dosoris Island, near Glen Cove, Long Island, is a magnificent 
garden and he was an authority upon horticulture. He was also an art connoisseur, and his city 
house, 25 East Sixtieth Street, contains a large and valuable art collection, while he was also an 
authority on pictures and an expert upon the subject of porcelains. 

Despite the exactions of daily newspaper work, Mr. Dana found time for extensive travels 
abroad as well as to cultivate literature. He was a remarkable linguist, having command of nearly 
all modern and ancient languages. He compiled The Household Book of Poetry, Fifty Perfect 
Poems, and other anthologies, wrote a Life of General Grant in collaboration with General James 
H. Wilson, and with George Ripley planned and edited The New American Cyclopedia. He was 
a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the New England Society, and a supporter 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1846, Mr. Dana married Eunice McDaniel, of Maryland, 
who survives him. They had three daughters, Ruth, who married William H. Draper, M. D.; 
Eunice, who married Dr. John W. Brannan, and Zoe, who married Walter M. Underhill. Their 
only son, Paul Dana, born in 1852, married Mary Duncan. He was at one time president of the 
Board of Park Commissioners of New York, and has succeeded his father as editor of The Sun. 

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RICHARD STARR DANA 

ICHARD DANA was the progenitor of a family that has been illustrious in many walks 
of life in this country during the last two centuries and a half. He left his native 
country, England, in 1640, and coming to America, settled in Cambridge, Mass. He 
was a man of education and means, and his Cambridge property is still in the family. The third 
son of Richard Dana was Benjamin Dana, the great-grandfather of the Reverend Samuel Dana, 
of Marblehead, Mass., who was the grandfather of Mr. Richard Starr Dana. The great-grandfather 
of Mr. Dana was Joseph Dana, who was born in Pomfret, Conn., in 1742, and died in Ipswich, 
Mass., in 1827. Graduated from Yale College in 1760, he studied theology, and in 1765 was 
ordained minister of the South Congregational Church of Ipswich, retaining that pulpit during the 
greater part of his life. His son, the Reverend Samuel Dana, followed in the footsteps of his 
father, and became one of the most eminent clergymen of Eastern Massachusetts. 

The Reverend Samuel Dana had many distinguished descendants. His eldest son was 
Richard Perkins Dana, the father of Mr. Richard Starr Dana. Another son was Israel Thorndike 
Dana, who was born in Marblehead, Mass., in 1827. and graduated from the Medical School of 
Harvard College in 1850, with the degree of M. D. He was one of the founders of the Portland 
School of Medical Instruction and of the Maine General Hospital. He was also professor of materia 
medica and professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Medical School of Maine. The 
Reverend Samuel Dana, of Groton, Mass., was another distinguished member of this family. Born in 
Cambridge, Mass., in 1739, he was graduated from Harvard College in 175s, and in 1761 settled as 
a minister over the church in Groton. Afterwards he turned his attention to the study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar. Removing to Amherst, N. H., he was Judge of Probate for Hillsborough 
County, in 1789, and in 1793 was elected a member of the State Senate. James Freeman Dana, 
grandson of the Reverend Samuel Dana, of Marblehead, was born in 1793 and died in 1827. 
Graduated from Harvard College in 1813, he was assistant professor of chemistry in that institution, 
the first professor of chemistry and mineralogy in Dartmouth College, in 1820, and professor of 
chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1825. Samuel Luther Dana, 
brother of James Freeman Dana, was born in 1795, graduated from Harvard College in 1813, and 
became a famous chemist. During the War of 18 12, he was an officer in the artillery service, and 
after the war was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1818. 

Richard Perkins Dana, the father of Mr. Richard Starr Dana, was born in 1810 and died in 
1894. A collegiate career was planned for him, but before he had completed his studies for 
college, he relinquished that purpose and entered the counting house of his uncle, Israel 
Thorndike, in Boston. While thus engaged, he made several voyages as supercargo of vessels, 
owned by his uncle, visiting different parts of the world. The literary tastes inherent in his family 
early manifested themselves, and he wrote valuable accounts of the places that he visited. During 
part of his lifetime he resided in China, principally in Canton and Hong Kong, being connected 
with business houses in those places. After his retirement from active business in the East, he 
settled in New York. For sixteen years he was a director of the New York Juvenile Asylum, and 
was one of the governors of the Woman's Hospital. His wife was Juliette H. Starr, of the old 
Connecticut family of that name. His son, William Starr Dana, now deceased, was a Commander 
in the United States Navy, and served with much distinction. His only daughter became the 
wife of General Egbert L. Viele. 

Mr. Richard Starr Dana is the eldest son of Richard Perkins Dana. He was born in New 
York in 1836. Educated in Columbia College, he was graduated from that institution in the 
class of 1857. On leaving college, he entered the banking and commission house of Russell & 
Co., China, merchants, becoming a partner in that firm in 1863. He married Florine Turner. He 
is a member of the Union Club, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars and 
the Colonial Society of the Acorn. He has two sons, Richard T. and David T. Dana. 



GEORGE TRIMBLE DAVIDSON 

THE clan McDavid, originally a part of the clan Chattan, derives its name from the 
marriage of a daughter of the Lord of the Isles with the second son of David I., King 
of Scotland. When the Scottish crown fell into abeyance, upon the death of Margaret 
of Norway, the representative of the Davidson family was one of the nine nobles of royal blood 
who competed for the throne. From his family came Malcolm Davidson, whose son Nicholas 
emigrated to Lynn, England, and established another branch there. 

In 1639, Mathew Craddock, the royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay, selected Nicholas 
Davidson to come to this country as his personal representative. He landed, in 1639, at 
Charlestown, Mass., where he took up his residence, and at the time of his death possessed 
one of the largest estates in the Colony, inventoried at the sum of .£1,869. 

His descendant, Mr. George Trimble Davidson, is a son of Colonel Mathias Oliver Davidson 
a distinguished civil engineer, who served upon the construction of the Croton aqueduct, and 
subsequently opened the coal regions of Western Maryland. In 1856, he took charge of the 
construction of the railroads in the island of Cuba; in 1865-70, built the New Haven & Derby 
Railroad, and in 1870-2 laid out the series of avenues which cross the upper portion of the 
City of New York. Colonel Davidson had relations with foreign governments, and the Emperor 
Maximilian of Mexico, where he was employed professionally upon important works, tendered 
him the title of Marquis, which, however, he did not assume. Mr. George Trimble Davidson's 
grandfather, Dr. Oliver Davidson, of Plattsburg, N. Y., was a descendant in the fifth generation 
of Nicholas Davidson, of Charlestown. Dr. Davidson married Margaret Miller, a daughter of 
Dr. Mathias Burnett Miller, of Utica, and a sister of Judge Morris S. Miller, Mrs. John Schuyler, 
of Albany, and Mrs. Charles Dudley. Their children, besides Mathias Oliver, were Lucretia 
Maria and Margaret Miller Davidson, whose precocious poetic genius astonished the literary 
world half a century ago, and Lieutenant Levi P. Davidson, a graduate of West Point. Dr. 
Oliver Davidson, after the death of his wife, who possessed great literary distinction, purchased 
the Sir William Johnson place in Amsterdam, N. Y., where he resided until his death, in 1847. 
Mr. Davidson's mother is also of distinguished descent. She is a daughter of the late Captain 
Mathew Miles Standish, of Plattsburg, and Catharine Phoebe Miller, who was a first cousin of 
Mr. Davidson's paternal grandmother, Mrs. Oliver Davidson. Her father, Captain Mathew Miles 
Standish, who served during the War of 18 12 in the battle of Plattsburg, was the direct 
descendant in line of primogeniture of Captain Miles Standish. Her second husband, also 
deceased, was Colonel James Woodruff Romayn, of Detroit. 

The paternal arms to which Mr. Davidson is entitled are : On a field azure three pheons 
argent; on a fess or., a stag attired with ten tines, couchant proper; crest, a falcon's head couped. 
Motto, Viget et cinere virtus. The Standish arms are: on a field azure, three standishes 
argent; crest, a cock proper. Motto, Constant en tout. Mr. George Trimble Davidson was 
born in Fordham, N. Y., October 21st, 1863. He was educated in St. Paul's School, Concord, 
N. H., and graduated from the Columbia Law School, being admitted to the bar at the head 
of his class in January, 1885. He is engaged in the practice of law and is a member of the 
Manhattan Club. He occupies a high social position, having been a frequent guest at prominent 
social functions, and active in the management of the important social affairs. In 1893, he 
was one of the organizers of the Committee of One Hundred, which received the foreign guests 
of the city at the Columbian celebration. He has entertained the Infanta Eulalia, Don Antonio 
of Spain, Prince Roland Bonaparte, the Due de Lerme, the Due de Veragua, the Grand Duke 
Alexander of Russia, Prince Charles de Hatzfeldt-Wildenberg, the Duke of Marlborough, the 
Due de Tamames, and other royal and noble foreigners. 

Mr. Davidson owns a collection of paintings, including canvases that formerly belonged 
to Joseph Bonaparte. He has written considerably in prose and verse. 

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WILLIAM GILBERT DAVIES 

FOR more than a century and a half the Davies family has been established in this country. 
In Britain, its lineage is traced to Robert Davies, of Gwysany Castle, high sheriff of 
Flintshire, who was descended from Cymric Efell, Lord of Eylwys Eyle, in the thirteenth 
century. The American ancestor, John Davies, 1680-1758, of Kinton, Hertfordshire, came to this 
country in 1735, settled in Litchfield, Conn., and married Catherine Spencer. He is especially 
remembered as one of the founders and benefactors of St. Michael's Church, Litchfield, a tablet in 
that church preserving his memory. His son, John Davies, Jr., married Elizabeth Brown, and had, 
with other children, Thomas Davies, 1737-1766, who graduated from Yale College, was ordained a 
clergyman in England, and returned to America as a missionary of the Society for Propagating the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts. 

The third John Davies, 1735- 1799, eldest son of John Davies, Jr., married Eunice Hotchkiss 
and was the father of Thomas John Davies, 1767-1845, who removed to St. Lawrence County, 
N. Y., in 1800, and was Sheriff and county Judge. The Honorable Henry E. Davies, 1805-1881, 
was the son of Thomas John Davies. Admitted to the bar in 1826, he removed to New York, 
and was long prominent in public life. In 1840, he was an alderman, in 1850 Corporation Counsel, 
in 1856 a Justice of the Supreme Court, in i860 a Judge, and afterwards Chief Justice of the Court 
of Appeals. In 1855, he married Rebecca Waldo Tappan, daughter of John Tappan, a Boston 
merchant, whose brothers, Arthur and Lewis Tappan, were prominent in the abolition movement. 
Her grandfathers, Benjamin Tappan and John Foote, were both Revolutionary soldiers. The 
Tappan family is descended from Abraham Tappan, who came to America in 1630. She was also 
descended from John Hull, the Master of the Mint and Treasurer of Massachusetts, who coined the 
pine tree shillings. Through his mother, the present Mr. Davies traces his descent to the Quincys, 
Salisburys, Wendells, and other great New England families, and to the famous Anneke Jans. 

Mr. William Gilbert Davies was born in New York, March 21st, 1842, graduated from Trinity 
College in i860, also studied at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and was admitted to the New 
York bar in 1863. During the Civil War, he was a member of the Twenty-Second New York 
Regiment. A considerable part of his professional life has been spent as counsel to one of the 
large insurance corporations. His practice now is mainly as chamber counsel. He is a member of 
the American, State and City Bar associations, and the Law Institute, and is a lecturer on the law of 
life insurance in the University of the City of New York. In 1870, Mr. Davies married Lucie C. 
Rice, daughter of the Honorable Alexander H. Rice, who was Mayor of Boston, a Member of 
Congress, and for three terms Governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Davies lives in East Forty-fifth 
Street. He is an active member of the New York and Virginia Historical societies, and the New 
York Genealogical and Biographical Society. He also belongs to the Union, University, Lawyers', 
Manhattan, Tuxedo, Grolier and St. Nicholas clubs, the Century Association, the Liederkranz, the 
<I> B K Alumni Association, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Society of Colonial Wars. 

Julien Tappan Davies, younger son of the Honorable Henry E. Davies, was born in New 
York, September 25th, 1845, was educated at Mt. Washington Collegiate Institute and at the 
Walnut Hill School, Geneva, N. Y., and was graduated from Columbia College in 1866, and from 
the Columbia Law School in 1868. He has made corporation law his specialty. Early in his 
career, he became a trustee and one of the counsel of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and in 
1884 succeeded David Dudley Field as general counsel of the Manhattan Railway Company. He 
is the senior member of the law firm of Davies, Stone & Auerbach. In 1869, he married Alice 
Martin, daughter of Henry Martin, of Albany, N. Y. They have three children, Ethel, Cornelia S. 
and Frederick Martin Davies. The city residence of the family is in West Ninth Street, and their 
summer home, Pinecroft, in Newport. Mr. Davies belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, 
University, Lawyers', City, Players, Church, Republican and New York Yacht clubs, the Society 
of Colonial Wars and the St. Nicholas Society, and is vice-president of the St. David's Society. 

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FELLOWES DAVIS 

AN old Tudor mansion, the manor house at Twickenham, England, now in ruins, was the 
original seat of the Davis family, which was transplanted to the New World by William 
Davis, 1617-1683. He settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1638, being among the first of the 
band of Puritan gentlemen and yeomen who escaped from the persecutions of Charles I. and 
Archbishop Laud and sought an asylum in New England, where they could find religious freedom. 
This pioneer's grandson, Colonel Aaron Davis, was a member of the Massachusetts Provincial 
Congress, Colonel of the Militia, a prominent local and State official, an active patriot during the 
Revolution, and a leading citizen of Massachusetts in that period. His two sons, Captain Aaron 
Davis, Jr., and Moses Davis, were also active patriots, the latter serving as a minute man at Lexing- 
ton and Concord, and the former as an officer of State troops. His house was destroyed by orders 
of Washington, as being in range of the American artillery trained on Boston at the siege of that 
city. The two branches of the family were, however, united when William Davis, Jr., grandson of 
Moses Davis, espoused Maria Davis, granddaughter of Aaron Davis, Jr., the issue of this marriage 
beino- Mr. Fellowes Davis, who thus represents both lines of descent from Colonel Aaron Davis. 

Mr. Davis's ancestry also includes some of the most famous names in the early history of the 
country. The wife of Moses Davis, Mr. Davis's great-grandmother, was Hannah Pierpont, 
daughter of Ebenezer Pierpont, a descendant of the "Founder of Massachusetts," John Winthrop, 
and of his colleague and successor as Governor of the Colony, Thomas Dudley. 

Second to Winthrop alone in his services, Dudley, who was of the blood of the Earl of 
Leicester, was one of the high born and bred Puritan gentlemen who formed the natural leaders of 
the Massachusetts settlement. In youth he had been a soldier on the Protestant side in France, and 
when, in 1630, he migrated to New England, held an important office under the Earl of Lincoln, 
one of the political supporters of the Puritan cause. He was four times Governor and several times 
Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, and, at sixty-eight years of age, was the commander of the 
troops of the Colony. He was noted even among the Puritans for his piety and the austerity of 
his life, while his devotion to the interests of New England knew no bounds. One of his sons, 
Joseph Dudley, was also a statesman and administrator in the early Colonial period, and rendered 
effective service to both Crown and Colonists. After acting as president of the Council of Massa- 
chusetts and Chief Justice of New York, he was appointed by Queen Anne Governor of his native 
Province, which office he held for seventeen years. 

Thomas Dudley's son, the Reverend Samuel Dudley, married Mary Winthrop, and their 
daughter, Ann, marrying Edward Hilton, was the grandmother of Ann Hilton, wife of Ebenezer 
Pierpont. Mr. Davis, indeed, can claim descent in two lines from Governor Dudley, whose 
daughter, Mary, married John Woodbridge, and was the ancestor of Sarah Smith, wife of his 
grandfather, William Davis, Sr. 

Mr. Davis married, in 1871, Marie Antoinette Baker, of Boston. Mrs. Davis is also directly 
descended from Governor Dudley, and from many pioneers of distinction, her ancestor, Robert 
Baker, having come over with the Endicott fleet and was granted a tract of land by the Crown, in 
Salem, Mass., 1637. Jonathan Baker served in the French and Indian War with distinction, and 
Benjamin Baker and Jesse Davidson, both great-grandfathers of Mrs. Davis, served in the 
Revolution, the former at Bunker Hill. The issue of this marriage are four children, Fellowes 
Davis, Jr., Marie Antoinette Davis, Pierpont Davis and Dudley Davis. The family residence is 57 
West Forty-eighth Street. Mr. Davis is one of the board of managers of the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution, a member of the Council of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Society of 
Colonial Wars, the Historical Society, and of the Union Club. The arms of the Davis family, of 
which one of the earliest examples is still found carved in the stone work of the old manor home at 
Twickenham, England, consist of a red shield bearing a gold griffin rampant, the crest being a 
barred helmet surrounded by a rampant griffin, and the motto is Deo Duce Ferro Comitante. 



CHARLES EVERETT DAVISON 

THE branch of the Davison family which is represented in New York City in the present 
generation by Mr. Charles Everett Davison, is of English extraction. That gentleman's 
descent is from ancestors who, from their first appearance in America, showed a 
patriotic devotion to it. His grandfather, Peter I. Davison, and his wife, a Miss Garrett, were 
both born in England, but came to this country soon after the Revolution, settling in Chenango 
County, N. Y. Peter I. Davison became a man of wealth and prominence in that section of 
the State, and warmly espoused the cause of his adopted country in the War of 1812 against 
Great Britain, in which conflict he served in the United States Army with the rank of Captain. 
His son, John Garrett Davison, was born at Sherburne, Chenango County, N. Y., and married 
Sarah Amelia Stanton, of Little Britain, Orange County, N. Y., a lady belonging to a family of 
Irish origin with New England connections, which has produced many distinguished ministers 
and lawyers, as well as men prominent in other pursuits, both in its early and more recent 
generations. Her grandfather was at one time Mayor of Dublin, Ireland. She was also a cousin 
of Secretary Stanton, President Lincoln's great Secretary of War. 

Mr. Charles Everett Davison, their son, was born in New York in 1857, and received 
his education here and at Heidelberg University, Germany, where he passed some years. Mr. 
Davison then took up his legal studies in this city. His professional preceptor was Vine 
Wright Kingsley, of the New York bar, one of the old Kingsley family and an eminent lawyer 
as well as a distinguished litterateur. Mr. Davison also followed the law course of the 
University of the City of New York, graduating in 1878, and in the same year was admitted 
to the bar of this city and has been an active and successful practitioner from that time to the 
present day. He has made a special study of medical jurisprudence, in which difficult branch 
of the law he is regarded as an expert, and is one of the founders and active supporters of 
the Medico-Legal Society, one of the leading bodies of its class, not only in New York but in 
the world at large. He has been associated as counsel in some of the most remarkable trials 
in the annals of the city, the special professional studies to which he has in a large measure 
devoted his attention, rendering him an authority upon such subjects and causing him to be 
called in consultation in differert causes involving questions of medical jurisprudence. 

In 1885, Mr. Davison married Mary Eva Travers, of New York. Mrs. Davison's father 
was James P. Travers, a native of New Orleans, La., having been born there in 1824. Removing 
to New York in 1844, he engaged in mercantile business in the metropolis, founding a large 
export trade, his offices being in a large building in Beekman Street, which he erected for his 
own use. Mr. Travers enjoyed the distinction of having first introduced blotting paper into 
general use throughout the United States. Mr. Travers was twice offered, but declined, a 
nomination for Member of Congress for the second district of Long Island. 

Though essentially of scholarly and literary tastes and devoted to his professional pursuits, 
Mr. Davison has taken a prominent part in society, and is not without interest, though not 
of an active nature, in yachting and other leading sports. He has, as already referred to, 
resided and traveled abroad, and is, as the result of his journeyings, unusually well acquainted 
with foreign countries and affairs, and at his residence, 13 Charles Street, in the old Ninth 
Ward, possesses a collection of choice paintings of American and European artists. He has 
taken a patriotic interest in national and local politics, and in 1891 was a candidate for the 
nomination to the State Senate for the first district, the opposing candidate being S. D. Townsend. 
The result was an exciting struggle in the convention, which lasted from ten o'clock in the 
morning to a late hour in the evening, though it eventually ended in the nomination of Mr. 
Townsend, who was finally elected by the constituency. 

Mr. Davison, in addition to his town residence, has two country seats, one at Manhanset, 
Long Island, and another at Monroe, Orange County, N. Y. 

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CLARENCE SHEPARD DAY 

ROBERT DAY, who emigrated from England to this country in 1634, was the first American 
ancestor of Mr. Clarence Shepard Day, He was a native of England, where he was born 
about 1604, and came from Ipswich, with his wife Mary, on the ship Elizabeth. When he 
landed in Massachusetts, he settled in Newtown, now Cambridge, becoming a freeman in 163s. 
When the Reverend Thomas Hooker headed the company which moved to Connecticut and 
founded Hartford, Robert Day and his family went with them. His first wife having died, he mar- 
ried, second, Editha Stebbins, of Hartford, and died there in 1648. 

In subsequent generations, the ancestors of Mr. Clarence Shepard Day were Thomas Day, 
who in 16S9 married Sarah Cooper, daughter of Lieutenant Thomas Cooper, and died in 1711, his 
wife dying in 1726; John Day, of West Springfield, Mass., who was born in 1673 and died in 1752, 
and his wife, Mary Smith, ofHadley, whom he married in 1697 and who died in 1742; Colonel 
Benjamin Day, of West Springfield, who was born in 17 10, and his wife, Eunice Morgan, whom he 
married in 1742 and who died in 1765; Benjamin Day, who was born in 1747, graduated from Yale 
College in 1768 and died in 1794, and his wife, Sarah Dwight, of Springfield, who was married in 
1772 and died in 1785; and Henry Day, who was born in 1773 and died in 1811, and his wife, Mary 
Ely, who was born in 1774, married in 1794 and died in 1859. 

The father of Mr. Clarence Shepard Day was Benjamin Henry Day, son of Henry and Mary 
(Ely) Day. He was born in West Springfield in 1810, and for many years was engaged in the pub- 
lishing business in New York. He is best remembered in connection with The New York Sun, 
which he founded in 1833 and which he subsequently sold, in 1837, to his brother-in-law, 
Moses Y. Beach. He afterwards established the paper known as The Brother Jonathan, which 
he edited and published for twenty years, and then, relinquishing active professional pursuits, 
lived in retirement and died in 1889. The mother of Mr. Clarence Shepard Day, whom Benjamin 
Henry Day married in 1831, was Eveline Shepard, who was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., in 1806, 
daughter of Mather Shepard and Harriet Day. 

Through his grandmother, Mary Ely, Mr. Clarence S. Day is descended from another notable 
Colonial family. His first American ancestor in that line was Nathaniel Ely, of Ipswich, England, 
who came to Massachusetts in 1634 and afterwards took part in the settlement of Hartford and Nor- 
walk, Conn., finally establishing his family in Springfield, Mass. Mary Ely was a descendant in the 
sixth generation from Nathaniel Ely, the pioneer. Her father was William Ely, of West Spring- 
field, 1743-1825, her mother being Drusilla Brewster, 1745-1828, daughter of William Brewster, of 
Windham, Conn., who was a direct descendant of William Brewster, of Plymouth. Her grand- 
mother was Mercy Bliss, daughter of Samuel Bliss, of the Bliss family of Springfield, and her great- 
grandmother was Mary Edwards, daughter of Deacon John Edwards, of the same family as the 
famous Jonathan Edwards. Her great-great-grandmother, Mary Day, was a daughter of Robert 
Day, the pioneer, and thus through two lines of descent, on both sides, the subject of this article 
traces his lineage to Robert Day. 

Mr. Clarence Shepard Day was born in New York, August 9th, 1844. Prepared for college 
in the public schools, he then studied in the College of the City of New York. During the Civil 
War, he served, in 1862, with the Seventh Regiment. For thirty years past, he has been 
occupied with financial affairs and is one of the best known bankers and stock brokers in Wall 
Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Lawyers' and Riding clubs and 
belongs to the New England Society and the Chamber of Commerce. In 1873, he married Lavinia 
Elizabeth Stockwell, who, through her mother, is descended from the Parmly family of New York. 
They have four children: Clarence S. Day, Jr., who graduated from Yale in 1896; George Parmly 
Day, who also graduated from Yale in 1897; Julian Day, now a Yale undergraduate, and Harold C. 
Day. The city residence of the family is in Madison Avenue, and they have a country home, 
Upland Farm, in Harrison, Westchester County, N. Y. 



GEORGE LORD DAY 

ACCORDING to tradition, the Day family was originally settled in Wales, and it is said 
that the name was derived from the Dee, a small river in the principality. In the 
course of time, its representatives moved into England, some of them becoming people 
of importance in the eastern counties and London. By the early records of the Massachusetts 
Bay and Plymouth Colonies, it appears that during the first quarter of a century of the New 
England settlement eight persons of the name came hither as Colonists. 

Robert Day, of Cambridge, who arrived in America in 1634, was the ancestor of the 
branch of the family to which attention is now directed. He was born in Ipswich, England, 
in 1604, and when he came to this country brought with him his wife, Mary. Settling first 
in Newtown, now Cambridge, he was a freeman of that place in 1635, and in 1639 removed 
to Hartford, in the company led by the Reverend Thomas Hooker. His second wife, whom 
he married after settling in Hartford, was Editha Stebbins, sister of Deacon Edward Stebbins, 
of Hartford. Robert Day died in 16487 In the next five generations the ancestors of Mr. 
George Lord Day were : John Day, of Hartford, and his wife, Sarah Maynard ; John Day, 
the second of the name, 1696-1752, of Colchester, Conn., and his wife, Grace Spencer, of 
Hartford; Abraham Day, 1712—1792, of Colchester, and his wife, Irene Foote; Ezra Day, 1743— 
1823, of South Hadley, Mass., and his wife, Hannah Kendall ; and Pliny Day, 1782-1846, of 
West Springfield, Mass., and his wife, Deborah Butts. Many members of this old New Eng- 
land family were soldiers of the patriot army during the War of the Revolution. 

Henry Day, the father of the subject of this sketch, was one of the most distinguished 
lawyers of New York in the last generation. He was born in South Hadley, Mass., in 1820, 
being a son of Pliny Day and Deborah Butts. His brother, the Reverend Pliny Day, was a 
prominent clergyman of western Massachusetts. Henry Day attended school in Derry, Conn., 
and then entered Yale College, graduating from that institution in 1845. For some time he 
was engaged in teaching at Fairfield, Conn., and then attended the law school at Harvard 
College, coming to New York after his graduation therefrom, and entering upon the practice 
of law. In 1849, he became a partner in the legal firm of Lord, Day & Lord, of which the 
distinguished Daniel Lord was the senior member. It was not long before Henry Day became 
one of the most eminent lawyers in New York and a prominent figure in the social life of 
the metropolis. Interested in the organization of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, he 
became attorney and a director of that institution, and was also a director of the Consolidated 
Gas Company, the Mercantile Trust Company, and the Lawyers' Title & Guarantee Company. 
The legal affairs of many large estates were entrusted to him, including those of Professor 
Samuel F. B. Morse, Edward Morgan and the Astors. A member of the Presbyterian Church, 
he was a director of the Union Theological Seminary, and gave much labor to the cause of 
philanthropy. He was the author of The Lawyer Abroad, and From the Pyrenees to the 
Pillars of Hercules. The Hill, in Morristown, N. J., was long his country residence. At the 
time of his death, in 1895, he was the sole survivor of the original members of Lord, Day & 
Lord, with which he had been connected for nearly forty-five years. The wife of Henry 
Day was Phebe Lucretia Lord, daughter of Daniel Lord. 

Mr. George Lord Day, son of Henry Day and Phebe Lord, was born in New York City. 
Educated at Princeton College and graduating with the Latin salutatory address, he studied 
law and became a member of the law firm with which his father and maternal grandfather 
had been connected. After a severe accident in the hunting field with the Meadow Brook 
hounds, in 1894, he retired from active professional life. His wife, whom he married in Eng- 
land, in 1896, was Adele Mittant. Mr. Day is a member of the Manhattan, Lawyers', 
University, Racquet, Princeton, Union, New York Athletic, Meadow Brook Hunt, and New 
York Yacht clubs, the Bar Association and the Downtown Association. 

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GEORGE B. DE FOREST 

AMONG the Huguenot refugees who established themselves on the free and hospitable 
soil of the New Netherland was Isaac De Forest, a native of Northeastern France. 
He was one of the earliest settlers of the Colony, and, dying in 1674, left ten children, 
who have perpetuated his name in modern New York, where it has ever been regarded as 
representative in the highest degree of the founders of our city. 

Lockwood De Forest, a descendant in the second or third generation of Isaac De Forest, 
the progenitor of the family, was born in 1775, and became one of the leading merchants of 
the city in the period succeeding the Revolutionary War. In 1824, he was a member of the 
committee composed of the most prominent men of New York, appointed to convey to De Witt 
Clinton the condemnation of the people of the metropolis of his removal from the position of 
Canal Commissioner by his political opponents. Lockwood De Forest was the father of five 
sons, among whom were William W. De Forest and George B. De Forest (the elder), both 
distinguished business men and eminent citizens of New York. William W. De Forest is 
remembered as one of the South Street merchants engaged in the South American trade. 

His brother, George B. De Forest, Sr., 1806-1865, was identified with the West India 
trade, and possessed remarkable ability and enterprise, as well as a noteworthy degree of public 
spirit. The merchants of old New York were a distinguished body of men, and in their galaxy 
no names were higher than those of the present Mr. De Forest's father and uncle. 

Mr. George B. De Forest is the son of the late George B. De Forest, Sr., and his wife, 
Margaret E. De Forest, and was born in this city in 1848. In 1882, Mr. De Forest married 
Anita, daughter of Louis S. Hargous. The latter played a distinguished part in the war between 
the United States and Mexico, having been United States Consul at the City of Mexico prior to 
the outbreak of hostilities. His local knowledge was of great assistance to the leaders of the 
American forces which invaded and conquered Mexico, and he served throughout the war on 
the staff of General Worth, becoming after the peace a prominent banker in the City of Mexico. 
Mr. and Mrs. De Forest have one son, Louis S. H. De Forest, born in 1884, and named after 
his maternal grandfather. 

A leading figure in New York society, Mr. De Forest is connected with the more prominent 
clubs, including the Metropolitan, Union, Union League, Knickerbocker, Century, Players, Racquet, 
Grolier, Westchester Country and Fencers. He is also a member of the Seventh Regiment 
Veterans and of the Sons of the American Revolution ; Mrs. De Forest being a member of the 
Daughters of the Revolution. Though not an active sportsman, Mr. De Forest, as may be 
noticed from some of his club affiliations, takes a decided interest in such pursuits, and is a 
member of the New York Yacht Club, while he is a patron of all the fashionable amusements 
both in this city and Newport. 

It is as a judicious patron of art and literature that Mr. De Forest finds his chief pleasure. 
His collection of rare books, particularly upon art subjects, is famous among American and 
European bibliophiles. It is particularly rich in the products of the French printers and binders 
of the period of Louis XV. and the Regency, and also in books with original drawings and 
water color illustrations. His knowledge and taste in all that relates to these subjects is well 
known, and his treasures bear the stamp of a discriminating personal selection. To these 
fascinating pursuits he has devoted not merely a lavish though judicious expenditure, but has 
made them the object of a lifelong study. In fact, the reputation of Mr. De Forest as a connoisseur 
of art is so well established that he ranks among the foremost authorities on such subjects in 
the United States. 

The De Forest residence is 14 East Fiftieth Street, but Mr. and Mrs. De Forest usually 
reside during the greater part of each season at Newport, being numbered among the most 
conspicuous members of the colony which makes the city in question a social centre. 

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MATURIN LIVINGSTON DELAFIELD 

JOHN DELAFIELD, who was born in 1748, and came to this country in 1783, was the 
eighth of his family to bear the name of John, and was the representative of a landed 
family in Bucks and Oxfordshire, England. He became one of the most successful 

merchants of New York, retiring from business in 1798, and was President of the United 
Insurance Company, and a director of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States. 
He died in 1824. His residence, on the Long Island shore of the East River, opposite Black- 
well's Island, was one of the finest mansions around New York. In 1784, he married Ann 
Hallett, who survived till 1839. She was the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hazard) Hallett, 
and a granddaughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Drummond) Hazard. Her father was one of the 
first Sons of Liberty in New York, a member of the Committee of Safety, and of the three first 
New York Provincial Congresses. 

Of the thirteen children of John and Ann (Hallett) Delafield, seven sons and four daughters 
survived. The eldest son, John Delafield, 1786- 1853, was president of the Phenix Bank, and of 
the New York State Agricultural Society. He married, first, his cousin Mary, only child of 
John Roberts, of Whitchurch, Bucks, England, and second, Harriet Wadsworth, daughter of 
Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, and had issue by both marriages. Henry and William, twin sons 
of John and Ann (Hallett) Delafield, were born in 1792. William died unmarried in 1853. 
Henry married Mary, daughter of Judge Monson, and died in 1875. He had one child, a 
daughter, who died young. Doctor Edward Delafield, 1794—1875, was a president of the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons. He married, first, Elinor E., daughter of Thomas Elwyn Langdon, 
and granddaughter of Governor Langdon, President of Congress; and second, Julia, daughter of 
Colonel Nicoll Floyd, and granddaughter of General William Floyd, of Mastic, Long Island, and 
left issue by this marriage. General Richard Delafield, 1798- 1873, became a Brigadier-General 
and Chief of Engineers, United States Army. He married, first, Helen, daughter of Andrew 
Summers, and, second, Harriet Baldwin, daughter of General E. M. Covington, by whom he 
left children. Rufus King Delafield, 1802-1874, was a merchant, and married Eliza, daughter of 
William Bard, by whom he had children. The only daughter of John Delafield who married, 
was Susan Maria, 1805-1861, the wife of Henry Parish, and had no children. 

Major Joseph Delafield, 1 790-1 875, the second son of John Delafield, was born in New 
York, graduated from Yale in 1808, and was admitted to the bar in 181 1. In 1812, he entered 
the United States Army as Captain, and became Major of the Forty-sixth Infantry. After the 
War, he resigned, and in 1821-28 was agent for the Government in fixing the northern boundary 
of the United States under the Treaty of Ghent. He was president of the New York Lyceum 
of Natural History from 1827 to 1866. In 1833, Major Delafield married Julia Livingston, 1801- 
1882, daughter of Judge Maturin Livingston, of Staatsburgh, and his wife, Margaret Lewis, 
daughter of General Morgan Lewis, and granddaughter of Francis Lewis, signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence. 

Mr. Maturin Livingston Delafield, the second son of Major Delafield, was born in New York 
in 1836. He graduated from Columbia College in 1856, and received his degree of A. M. in 
i860. In 1868, he married Mary Coleman Livingston, daughter of Eugene Augustus and Harriet 
(Coleman) Livingston, their children being five sons and three daughters. The family residence is 
in Fifth Avenue, and Mr. Delafield has a country-seat, Fieldston, Riverdale-on-Hudson. He is a 
member of the Metropolitan and Union clubs and the American Museum of Natural History, and 
is a Fellow of the American Geographical Society. 

Lewis Livingston Delafield, 1834-1883, Major Delafield's eldest son, graduated from 
Columbia in 1855, and was a member of the bar. He married Emily Prime, daughter of Frederick 
Prime and his wife, Lydia, daughter of Dr. Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, and had three sons and 
a daughter. The only sister of Mr. Delafield is Julia Livingston Delafield. 

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RICHARD DELAFIELD 

THE Counts De la Feld, whose castle still stands near Colmar, Alsace, were the ancestors of 
the Delafield family in England and America. Hubertus De la Feld accompanied William 
the Conqueror to England in 1066, received grants of land and had descendants who 
were numbered among the landed nobles in the reign of subsequent British sovereigns. John 
Delafield, who lived in the time of Henry III., married Elizabeth Fitzwarine, daughter of the Lord 
Warden of the North, and from him in direct line descended Sir Thomas Delafield (tempore Henry 
VI.), of Ailesbury, in England, and the Baronies of Fieldstone and Culdnuffe in Ireland. Ninth 
in descent from Sir Thomas Delafield, as set forth in Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary, 
was John Delafield, who was born in 1647 and entered the service of the Emperor of Germany. He 
fought against the Turks under the famous Prince Eugene of Savoy, and in 1697 was created a 
Count of the Holy Roman Empire for his distinguished gallantry at the victory of Zenta. This 
dignity is inherited by all his male descendants, and there is no American family of prominence 
possessing more distinct rights to a title of nobility than that of Delafield. The arms of the family 
are a black shield with a gold cross-patonce on the breast of the Imperial eagle of Germany. 
Their crest is a dove, proper, holding an olive branch in its beak. Mottoes, Insignce Fortune 
Paria and, Fest, signifying steadfastness and loyalty. 

The great-great-grandson of John, Count Delafield, also named John Delafield, came to the 
United States and married Anne, daughter of Joseph Hallett, of Hallett's Point, N. Y. He died in 
1824, having been one of the most eminent citizens of New York in the early part of the present 
century. One of his seven sons was Rufus King Delafield, who married Eliza Bard, a daughter 
of William Bard and his wife, Katherine Cruger, a member of the old and distinguished New York 
family of that name. A prominent representative of the Bard family was Dr. Bard, the noted 
physician of the latter part of the last century, who attended President Washington in a professional 
capacity when the seat of the Federal Government was in New York. Mr. Richard Delafield is 
the son of this marriage, and was born in 1853, at the country residence of his father, at New 
Brighton, Staten Island, his mother's family being also residents and large land owners on Staten 
Island. In 1880, Mr. Delafield married Clara (Foster) Carey, of New York, whose great-uncle 
was the celebrated Philip Hone, Mayor of New York in 1826, and a leader in the city's society 
at that time, his name being coupled prominently with the leading institutions of the city of 
that period. Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the famous Arctic explorer, was also a connection of 
Mrs. Delafield's family. 

Educated at the famous school of Dr. Charles Anthon, in New York, Mr. Delafield evinced 
from the outset remarkable talent as a man of affairs, and at an early age became an active and 
successful merchant. He is now the senior partner of the firm of Delafield & Co., of New York, 
Chicago and San Francisco, which house he founded. He is vice-president of the National Park 
Bank, a vestryman of Trinity Church and ex-president of the New York Mercantile Exchange. 
He has avoided political life, but has been active in forwarding the interests of the city, serving 
as president of the New York Commission for the World's Columbian Exposition, representing 
in that body the First District of New York, and as a member of the Committee of One Hundred 
which had charge of the New York Columbian Quadro-Centennial. 

Mr. Delafield has traveled extensively, both in Europe and this country. He is decidedly 
musical in his tastes, and has taken a prominent part in leading organizations to further that art, 
his connection with such bodies having included the presidency of the Staten Island Philharmonic 
Society, and the secretaryship of the New York Symphony Society. He is a member of the Sons 
of the Revolution and of the Merchants', Union League and New York Athletic clubs. Among the 
charitable organizations to which he has devoted his time and energy, are the Sea Side Home of 
Long Island, of which he is president, and the Varick Street Hospital, being a member of the 
executive committee of that institution. 



EDWARD FLOYD de LANCEY 

IT has been well said that "no American had greater influence in the Colonies than James de 
Lancey." He came from an ancient family of France, springing from Guy de Lancey Ecuyer, 
Vicomte De Laval et de Nouvion, who, in 1432, held of the Prince-Bishop of the Duchy of 
Laon the fiefs of Laval and of Nouvion. The Seigneur Jacques (James) de Lancey, second son of 
Charles, the fifth Vicomte de Laval, became a Huguenot, and his grandson, Etienne (Stephen) de 
Lancey, was forced to flee from persecution after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. 
Escaping to London, he became an English subject, and then came to New York. He amassed a 
fortune as a merchant, and became influential in Colonial affairs, serving as a representative in the 
Provincial Assembly for twenty-six years, 1702-08, 17 10- 15 and 1725-37. He married, in 1700, 
Anne Van Cortlandt, second daughter of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, of the Manor of Cortlandt. 

James de Lancey, the eldest son of Etienne (Stephen), was born in 1703, educated in New 
York and in the University of Cambridge, England, and studied law in the Inner Temple, London. 
He was a councilor of the Province in 1729 and Judge of the Supreme Court in 173 1. In 1730, he 
was the head of the commission which framed the charter of the City of New York. In 1733, he 
was commissioned Chief Justice of New York, and filled the office until his death, in 1760. In 
1747, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor, and served during the rest of his life. On the tragic 
death of Sir Danvers Osborne, in 1753, he succeeded as Governor-in-Chief, serving until Sir Charles 
Hardy arrived, in 1755. On Governor Hardy's resignation, June 3d, 1757, he again succeeded as 
Governor-in-Chief, and remained such until his death, a little over three years later. The wife of 
Governor de Lancey was Anne Heathcote, eldest daughter of Colonel Caleb Heathcote, of West- 
chester County, Lord of the Manor of Scarsdale, Judge of its Court of Common Pleas, and Mayor of 
New York. 

John Peter de Lancey, a younger son of Governor de Lancey, born in 1753, was educated in 
England, and was a Captain in the regular British Army. After the Revolution, he returned to 
America and settled upon the Heathcote estate, which he inherited from his mother. In 1785, he 
married Elizabeth Floyd, daughter of Colonel Richard Floyd, of Long Island. William Heathcote 
de Lancey, 1797- 1865, who became the first Bishop of Western New York, was their youngest and 
only surviving child. Graduated from Yale College in 181 7, Bishop de Lancey was connected with 
Trinity Church and Grace Church of New York and St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia; was provost 
of the University of Pennsylvania, 1828-33, ar| d Bishop of Western New York, 1839-65. 

Mr. Edward Floyd de Lancey, born October 2?d, 1821, at Mamaroneck, N. Y., the present 
representative of this historic family, is the eldest son of Bishop de Lancey. His mother was 
Frances Munro, second daughter of Peter Jay Munro. Her paternal grandfather was the Reverend 
Dr. Henry Munro, the last English rector of St. Peter's Church in Albany, and her paternal 
grandmother was a daughter of Peter Jay, a descendant of the Van Cortlandts of Yonkers, and the 
only sister of Chief Justice John Jay, while her maternal grandmother was Eve Van Cortlandt 
White also a Van Cortlandt of Yonkers. Mr. de Lancey was educated at Geneva, now Hobart, 
College and the Harvard Law School. He is a lawyer, and belongs to the Bar Association, the St. 
Nicholas Church and other clubs, and is a member of the American Geographical Society and 
chairman of the executive committee of the New York Historical Society. He is the owner of the 
old Heathcote estate, Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck. His wife was Josephine Matilda, eldest daughter 
of William S. de Zeng, of Geneva, N. Y., son of Baron Frederick A. de Zeng, Captain in a Saxon 
regiment in the British service, who married and remained in New York after the Revolution. He 
has one son living, Edward Etienne de Lancey, one of the engineers on the Croton Aqueduct. The 
arms of the de Lancey family are: Azure, a tilting lance, proper, point upward with a pennon 
argent, bearing a cross gules, fringed and floating to the right, debruised of a fess, or. Crest, a 
sinister arm in armor embowed, the hand grasping a tilting lance, pennon floating, both proper. 
Motto : Certum voto pete finetn. 

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HENRY CHAMPION DEMING 

JOHN DEMING, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., who often represented that 
town in the General Court between 1649 and 1661, was the first American ancestor of 
this family. His son was David Deming, and his grandson was the Reverend David 
Deming, who graduated from Harvard College in 1700, was minister of Med way, Mass., 
and Middletown, Conn., and married Martha Brigham, of Boston. His son, David Deming, 1709- 
178 1, lived in Lyme, Conn., and married in 1740, Mehitable Champion, 1720-18 17, of East 
Haddam, Conn. Jonathan Deming, their son, entered the Continental Army in 1777, served 
throughout the war and died in 1788. In 1767, he married, in Colchester, Conn., Alice 
Skinner, 1747-1824, daughter of the Reverend Thomas and Mary (Thompson) Skinner. Their 
son, David Deming, 1781-1827, the fourth of that name, was engaged in business in Colchester 
and represented his town in the Connecticut Assembly from 181 1 to 1823. In 1819, he was 
Brigadier-General of the State Artillery. He married his cousin, Abigail Champion, 1787-1835. 

The Honorable Henry Champion Deming, son of General David and Abigail (Champion) 
Deming, was the father of Mr. Henry Champion Deming, of New York. He was born in Col- 
chester in 1815, and died in Hartford in 1872. He was graduated from Yale College in the class 
of 1836, studied law in the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1839, and came to New York 
to practice. Literature, however, engaged his attention, and in association with Park Benjamin 
he started The New World. Removing to Hartford in 1847, he practiced law and took an 
active interest in politics. In 1849 and in 1859, he was a member of the Connecticut 
Assembly, and a State Senator in 1851. He was Mayor of Hartford from 1854 to 1858, 
and again in i860. In the Civil War, he became Colonel of the Twelfth Connecticut Volun- 
teers and accompanied the expedition to New Orleans. Upon the surrender of that city, he 
was appointed Provisional Mayor. In 1863, he resigned from the army and, returning to Hartford, 
was three times elected a Member of Congress, for three successive terms. In 1868, he wrote a 
life of General Grant, and many of his addresses were published. He married Sarah Clerc, 
daughter of Laurent and Eliza C. (Boardman) Clerc. Laurent Clerc was the founder of deaf 
mute instruction in America. In 18 16, he was invited and came from Paris to be the head 
of the first institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb in this country. 

On the female side, Mr. Henry C. Deming is descended in two lines from Henry 
Champion, who settled at Saybrook as early as 1647, and was one of the first proprietors of 
the town of Lyme. His grandson, Lieutenant Henry Champion, born in 1695, married Mehitable 
Rowley. One of their daughters was Mehitable Champion, who in 1740 married David 
Deming, of Lyme. Colonel Henry Champion, son of Lieutenant Henry Champion, born in 
1723, was a distinguished soldier of the Revolutionary War and Commissary-General of the 
Eastern Department of the Continental Army. His son, General Henry Champion, born in 
1 75 1, in Westchester, Conn., also had a brilliant military career. He was in the Continental 
service from the battle of Lexington until the close of the war. He fought at Bunker Hill, 
was Adjutant of the Twenty-Second Connecticut Regiment at Long Island, and Adjutant-Major 
of the First Battalion of the Light Brigade. In civil life, he was frequently a deputy to the 
General Court of Connecticut, and otherwise prominent in public affairs. His daughter, Abigail 
Champion, married General David Deming, grandfather of the present Mr. Deming. 

Mr. Henry C. Deming was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1850, and was graduated from 
Yale College in 1872. For several years he was secretary and is now vice-president of the 
Mercantile Trust Company. He lives in East Twenty-seventh Street and is a member of the 
University, Union, Lawyers', Manhattan and Players clubs. His brother, Charles Clerc Deming, 
is a lawyer and a member of the Union, University and Racquet clubs. Another brother, 
Laurent Clerc Deming, graduated from Yale College in 1883, is secretary of the Atchison, Topeka 
& Santa Fe Railway Company and a member of the University and other clubs. 

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CHAUNCEY MITCHELL DEPEW 

BORN in Peekskill, N. Y., April 23d, 1834, on an estate which his paternal ancestor 
purchased from the Indians over two hundred years ago, this eminent citizen of New 
York is of Huguenot descent. The family name, which occurs in the form of both 
Depew and De Puy, has been identified with the Province and State of New York since its 
first representatives settled in the town of New Rochelle, Westchester County. Isaac Depew, 
father of the Honorable Chauncey Mitchell Depew, was a respected citizen of Peekskill, and 
married Martha Mitchell, daughter of Chauncey R. Mitchell, a distinguished and eloquent lawyer. 
Her mother, Ann Johnston, was a daughter of Judge Robert Johnston, who was Senator and 
Judge of Putnam County, N. Y., for many years, and a large land owner. On the maternal side, 
Mr. Depew also descends from one of the most prominent New England Revolutionary families, 
his mother having been a granddaughter of the Reverend Josiah Sherman, brother of Roger 
Sherman, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Reverend Josiah Sherman was 
Chaplain of the Seventh Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Line, and three of his brothers 
were also in the Patriot Army. 

Entering Yale College, Chauncey Mitchell Depew graduated in 1856. His alma mater in 
1887 conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., and he has ever been prominent in promoting 
the interests of Yale. Immediately after graduation, he began the study of law with the 
Honorable William Nelson, in his native town, in 1858. He was an adherent of the Republican 
party, and early became noted as an effective political speaker. Taking an active part in the 
Lincoln presidential campaign of i860, he was elected to the New York State Legislature in 
1861, reelected in 1862, and in 1863 successfully headed the Republican State ticket as candidate 
for Secretary of State. He subsequently declined the post of Minister to Japan, to which he 
was appointed by President Johnson, and was an unwilling candidate for the Lieutenant- 
Governorship in 1872. Though prominent in the councils of his party, he has accepted no 
public office in late years. Indeed, in 1884, he declined a unanimous tender of the United States 
Senatorship by the Republican party in the Legislature, and also the position of Secretary of 
State of the United States, which was offered by President Benjamin Harrison. At the 
Republican National Convention of 1888 he received the unanimous support of the New York 
delegation for the Presidential nomination, and a flattering vote. 

Political ambition in Mr. Depew's case has been subordinated to his business responsi- 
bilities. In 1866, his friendship for Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and his son, William H. 
Vanderbilt, led to his becoming attorney for the New York & Harlem Railroad, and when 
Commodore Vanderbilt, in 1869, acquired control of the New York Central and consolidated it 
with the Hudson River Railroad, he was elected a director. In 1875, he became general counsel 
for all the Vanderbilt railroad companies. In 1882, when William H. Vanderbilt retired from 
the presidency, Mr. Depew became second vice-president of the New York Central, and in 1885, 
on the death of James H. Rutter, succeeded to the presidency, an office which he still holds, 
being at the same time president, vice-president, or a director, of all the railroads and other 
companies of the Vanderbilt system. In 1871, Mr. Depew married Elise Hegeman, of New 
York, who died in 1893. One son, Chauncey M. Depew, Jr., was the result of this union. 

As a public speaker Mr. Depew's reputation is established. He has been the orator on 
many public occasions, including the celebration of Washington's inauguration as the first 
President, the dedication of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, the centennial of the formation of the 
Government of the State of New York, and the opening of the World's Fair at Chicago. He 
was seven times president of the Union League Club, ten times of the Yale Alumni, twice of 
the St. Nicholas Society, and seven times of the Sons of the American Revolution, in which, as 
befits his Revolutionary lineage, he is deeply interested, while he is also prominent in the 
Holland Society and the Huguenot Society of America. 

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FREDERIC JAMES de PEYSTER 

DESCENDED through the eldest surviving male representatives in successive generations, 
Mr. Frederic James de Peyster is now at the head of that historic New York family 
whose name he bears. He is in the seventh generation from Johannes de Peyster, the 
founder of the family in New York, a gentleman of noble blood, who was distinguished among the 
original Colonists of New Netherland by his wealth and business ability. His ancestors fled from 
France to Holland, in the sixteenth century; he was born in the latter country, and came to New 
Amsterdam about 1645. Among other positions that he held was that of schepen in 1677, alder- 
man, 1666-69, ar, d burgomaster in 1675. 

Colonel Abraham de Peyster, 1698-1728, son of Johannes de Peyster, was a native of New 
Amsterdam, and one of its most public-spirited citizens, being a councilor, an alderman, Judge of 
the Supreme Court, Mayor of the city in 1691, Acting Governor in 1701, and treasurer in 1706. He 
was a strong advocate of public improvements, and among other benefactions presented to the 
city the plot of ground on which the old City Hall was built in Wall Street. He married a cousin, 
Catherine de Peyster. Abraham de Peyster, Jr., 1696-1767, the eldest son in his father's family, 
was a figure of prominence in Colonial affairs, being provincial treasurer from 1721 until the time of 
his death, a period of over forty-five years. His wife, whom he married in 1722, was Margaret 
Van Cortlandt, daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt and Eve Philipse. He had eleven children. 
James de Peyster, his eldest son, who was born in 1726, married, in 1748, Sarah Reade, daughter 
of the Honorable Joseph Reade, one of the king's councilors. The line of descent through the 
third Abraham de Peyster, eldest son of James and Sarah de Peyster, failed through the successive 
death of all the male members of his family without male issue. His brother, James de Peyster, left 
no children, The youngest son, Frederic de Peyster, married for his first wife, Helen Hake, 
daughter of Samuel Hake. After her death in 1801, he married Ann Beekman, only daughter of 
Gerard G. Beekman, and granddaughter of Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt. 

Captain James Ferguson de Peyster, eldest son of Frederic de Peyster and Helen Hake, 
became the head of the family. Frederic de Peyster, Jr., who was the first president of the New 
York Historical Society, and father of General John Watts de Peyster, was his brother. He 
entered the United States Army in 1814, at the age of twenty-one, being commissioned as First 
Lieutenant of the Forty-Second Infantry, and was shortly promoted to be Captain. In later years he 
was active in civil life in New York, being particularly identified with educational matters, as a 
member of the Board of Education, and as trustee of the College of the City of New York. 

Mr. Frederic J. de Peyster, son of Captain James F. de Peyster, and Frances Goodhue 
Ashton, was born in New York, February 5th, 1859, ar >d was graduated from the College of the 
City of New York in i860, and from the Columbia College Law School two years later. He has 
practiced his profession with success, most of his time, however, being fully occupied with the 
care of his family property. But he is more generally known from his connection with educational, 
charitable, and other public institutions. He is president of the Holland Society, a governor of the 
Society of Colonial Wars, president of the New York Dispensary, and of the St. Nicholas and 
Orpheus Societies, and chairman of the New York Society Library. He belongs to the University, 
St. Nicholas, City and Century clubs. 

In 1 87 1, Mr. de Peyster married Augusta McEvers Morris, daughter of William H. Morris, of 
Morrisania. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. de Peyster was James Morris, who married Helen 
Van Cortlandt, daughter of Augustus Van Cortlandt and Helen Barclay ; he was the fourth son of 
Lewis Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, by his wife, Mary Walton, 
daughter of Jacob Walton and Maria Beekman. Mr. and Mrs. de Peyster have three daughters, 
Helen Van Cortlandt, F. G. and M. A. de Peyster, and one son, Frederic Ashton de Peyster. The 
residence of the family is in East Forty-second Street, near Fifth Avenue, and their country home is 
at Lake Placid, N. Y. 

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JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER 

SIXTH in descent from Johannes de Peyster, the ancestor of one of the most distinguished fam- 
ilies that are recorded in the annals of New York, was Frederick de Peyster, Jr., father 
of General John Watts de Peyster. The line of descent from Johannes de Peyster to 
Frederick de Peyster, Jr., was through Abraham de Peyster, first of the name, 1657-1728; Abraham 
de Peyster, second, and his wife, Catharine; Abraham de Peyster, third, 1696- 1767, and his wife, 
Margaret Van Cortlandt; James de Peyster and his wife, Sarah Reade, and Frederick de Peyster, Sr. 
The youngest son of James de Peyster, Frederick de Peyster, Sr., was, with his elder brothers, the 
third Abraham de Peyster and James de Peyster, prominent in military affairs. Each was Captain 
of a company in the King's Regiment before they had scarcely attained their majority 

Frederick de Peyster, Jr., was born in New York in 1796 and died at the family homestead, 
Rose Hill, Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1872. Although the youngest son, he became the most 
distinguished member of his father's family. Graduated from Columbia College, he was active in 
public and private life, and was called upon by his fellow citizens to fill many positions of trust and 
responsibility. He is especially remembered as the first president of the New York Historical 
Society. In 1820, he married Mary Justina Watts, daughter of the Honorable John Watts. 

The founder of the Watts family in New York was Robert Watts, a Scotch gentleman of 
birth, whose family owned the estate of Rosehill, near Edinburgh. He came hither towards the 
close of the seventeenth century, was a member of the Council, married Mary, a daughter of 
William Nicholls and Anna Van Rensselaer, and was the father of the Honorable John Watts, Sr., 
also a Councilor of the Province and President of the King's Council, who married Ann de Lancey. 
John Watts, Jr., called The Recorder, to distinguish him from his father, the Councilor, was born 
in 1749 and died in 1836, having been the last Recorder of the city under the royal authority. He 
married Jane, daughter of Peter de Lancey and Elizabeth Colden. His special claim to remem- 
brance is firmly established by the foundation of the Leake and Watts Asylum, to which 
he bequeathed a large portion of his wealth. 

General John Watts de Peyster was born in New York in 182 1, and married Estelle, daugh- 
ter of John Swift Livingston. Possessed of wealth, he adopted no active profession, but has 
devoted his life to literature and to the interests of his native city and State. Military life had great 
attraction for him, and in 1845 he was commissioned a Colonel of the National Guard, becoming 
Brigadier-General in 1851, and in 1855 Adjutant-General of the State. In 1866, the brevet rank of 
Major-General was conferred on him by concurrent action of the State Legislature, for services to 
the State and United States prior to and during the Civil War. He has taken an active part in 
various municipal reforms, particularly the organization of the police force on its present basis and 
the establishment of a paid fire department. His literary activity also has been noteworthy, 
embracing frequent contributions to periodicals, as well as a number of historical and other works, 
among which may be mentioned The Life of Torstenson, 1855, The Dutch at the North Pole, 1857, 
and The Personal and Military History of General Philip Kearny, 1869, the latter being his cousin. 

The permanent residence of General de Peyster is Rose Hill, at Tivoli-on-Hudson. For 
fifty years he has been a prominent figure in metropolitan literary, social and philanthropic 
circles. He is a member of the Century Association, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
the St. Nicholas Society, the Holland Society, and other leading organizations of the city. Three 
sons of General de Peyster were in the Union Army during the Civil War, and two of them 
lost their lives. His eldest son, John Watts de Peyster, Jr., was a Major, and was breveted 
Colonel for distinguished services at Chancellorsville. Frederic de Peyster, Jr., was breveted 
Colonel for gallantry at the first battle of Bull Run. The third son, Johnston L. de Peyster, hoisted 
the first American flag r over the capitol in Richmond, Va., in 1865 and received the brevet of 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel in recognition of his bravery. He married Annie Toler and now 
lives in New York. 



MRS. NICHOLAS de PEYSTER 

UPON preceding pages of this volume the history of Johannes de Peyster, who came to New 
Amsterdam in the early part of the seventeenth century and founded a family that has 
been one of the most distinguished in the annals of New York City and State, in 
Colonial, Revolutionary and contemporaneous times, has been fully reviewed. His name and that 
of his son and grandson, Abraham de Peyster and Abraham de Peyster, Jr., will be always con- 
spicuously identified with the commencement of New York's civic life. The descendants of this 
Huguenot gentleman have had a large part in public affairs and in every generation have conspicu- 
ously adorned public and private life. In their several branches they have been connected in 
marriage with all the great Colonial families of New York, and those who bear the name to-day 
trace their lineage to the Van Cortlandts, Livingstons, Reades, Beekmans, Schuylers and others 
famous in the early history of New Netherland and New York. 

Nicholas de Peyster, the husband of the lady whose family is under consideration in this 
article, was one of the leading representatives of this historic house in the present generation. He 
was a native of New York, where he spent most of his life and where he died February 17th, 1889. 
His father was George de Peyster and his mother Lydia Jackson, of Long Island, his grandfather 
being Nicholas de Peyster and his grandmother Marion de Kay. He received a thorough education 
under private tutors, and inherited large means from the estates of his father and grandfather. He 
was among the pioneers to California in 1849 and was very successful there. After returning to the 
East he lived the life of a gentleman of leisure and cultivated tastes, being thoroughly identified 
with the social and material interests of the metropolis and spending much time in foreign travel. 
He was a member of the St. Nicholas, American Yacht and New York clubs and the Century 
Association. 

Before her marriage, in 1871 , Mrs. Nicholas de Peyster was Marianna Moore, daughter of 
William Stewart Moore, of New York. She was a relative of Clement C. Moore, the celebrated 
scholar and professor of Hebrew in the New York Theological Seminary for more than forty 
years, and who gave to the seminary the land upon which its buildings stand. He was a son 
of Bishop Benjamin Moore, compiled the earliest Hebrew and Greek lexicons published in America, 
and is known wherever the English language is spoken as the author of that popular household 
poem beginning, " 'Twas the night before Christmas." 

Mrs. de Peyster is also descended from Governor Thomas Dongan, who came to New York 
in 1682, under appointment of King James II., and gave to the city its famous charter of 1686, ever 
since known as the Dongan Charter, which, after the lapse of two hundred years, has continued to 
influence the destinies of the city. Governor Dongan was the youngest son of Sir John Dongan, an 
Irish Baronet, and nephew to Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnel. He was created Earl of Limerick 
by George I. 

Mrs. de Peyster still lives in West Fifteenth Street, in the family mansion that was occupied 
for sixty years by her maternal grandparents. The house is one of the old-time residences of the 
city, and contains one of the finest collections of rare antiques and paintings in New York. Among 
the pictures in Mrs. de Peyster's possession are, a Reubens, a Vanderlyn, a Sir David Wilkie and 
many other masterpieces, including the Hemicycle at Rome. Mrs. de Peyster has traveled much in 
Europe and has been entertained by members of the nobility in Great Britain and on the Continent. 
At her home in this city she has received many distinguished guests. She also has a summer 
home on the ocean front at Long Branch. The only son of Mr. and Mrs. de Peyster is William 
Moore Dongan de Peyster, who has already achieved reputation by his interest in sports. He rides 
to hounds, and his hunters are among the noted horses of their class in the vicinity of New York. 
Mr. de Peyster performed a notably heroic deed a few years ago in stopping a runaway team at 
Long Branch, thereby saving the lives of two ladies. He is a life member of the New York 
Historical Society, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History. 






HENRY DEXTER 

CHIEF JUSTICE of Ireland in 1307, Richard de Exeter was doubtless the ancestor of the 
Dexter family. His immediate descendants resided for many generations in County 
Meath, the family name in the course of time being changed to its present form of spell- 
ing. Richard Dexter, born in 1606, fled from Ireland, his native land, before the great Irish 
Rebellion and massacre in the time of the English Commonwealth and sought refuge in New 
England. He was admitted a freeman of Boston, Mass., and resided in both Maiden and Charles- 
town, dying at the latter town in 1680. John Dexter, his only son of whom there is any record, 
was born in Ireland in 1639 and died in Maiden in 1677. Richard Dexter, of Lynn and Maiden, 
Mass., was born in Maiden in 1676 and died there in 1747. He was the second son of John Dexter 
and married, in 1697, Sarah Bucknam, daughter of Joses and Judith (Worth) Bucknam. Land 
purchased by Richard Dexter in 1663 in Maiden has remained continuously in the hands of his 
descendants down to the present time. Richard Dexter, of the next generation, 1714-1773, mar- 
ried, in 1 74 1 , Rebecca, daughter of David and Sarah (Pope) Peabody, of a Massachusetts family 
that has been preeminently distinguished in subsequent generations both in the United States and 
Europe, and which, through the marriages of its members with other noteworthy families, is 
constantly referred to in these pages. 

David Dexter, son of the third Richard Dexter, was born in Maiden in 1745 and died in Bos- 
ton in 1821. He was at different times a resident of Haverhill and Woburn, Mass., and Pembroke, 
Hampstead and Atkinson, N. H. His wife was Lydia Marsh, daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth 
(Merrill) Marsh, and a descendant of the oldest families of Haverhill and Newbury. Dr. Aaron 
Dexter, of Boston, professor in Harvard College, 1783- 1829, was a younger brother of David 
Dexter. Jonathan Marsh Dexter, of Billerica and West Cambridge, Mass., and New York, who 
was born in Haverhill, Mass., March 24th, 1775, and died in New York March 26th, 1861, was the 
eldest son of David Dexter and the father of Mr. Henry Dexter. His wife, whom he married in 
1808, was Elizabeth Balch, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Audebert) Balch. Joseph Balch's 
mother was of the distinguished Cushing family, famous in the annals of Massachusetts, and her 
maternal grandmother was a Palfrey, belonging to another notable New England race which has 
produced many men and women of distinction. 

Mr. Henry Dexter was born in West Cambridge, Mass., March 14th, 1813. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native city and began his business career at an early age, being 
employed in several publishing houses in Boston and Cambridge. When he was twenty-three 
years of age, he removed to New York City and was for some time engaged in the hardware busi- 
ness with the Whittemores, the famous inventors of cotton card-making machines. His experience 
with publishing firms had fixed his mind upon that line of activity and he became convinced of the 
great possibilities in the wholesale trade in books, newspapers and periodicals. An elder brother 
had already been engaged in this business for some time in a small way. In 1842, Mr. Dexter 
joined his brother and in a short time conceived the original plans of the American News Com- 
pany, which, however, he was not able to realize fully until 1864, when the company was organ- 
ized with Mr. Dexter as its first president, a position which he still holds, while under his charge 
the concern has attained a marked success. 

In 1853, Mr. Dexter married Lucretia Marquand Perry, daughter of Orrando Perry, of Easton, 
Conn. ; he has one daughter and one son. His son, Orrando Perry Dexter, who was born in 1 854, 
was graduated from Oxford University, England, in 1878, taking the degree of A. M. in 1881, and 
subsequently pursuing a law course in this city at the Columbia College Law School, was 
graduated in 1880 with the degree of LL. B. He is a practicing lawyer and has written much, 
principally on genealogical and mathematical subjects. The Dexter family owns a large tract of 
land in the Adirondacks, where their summer residence is situated. The city residence of Mr. 
Dexter is in West Fifty-sixth Street. 



LOUIS PALMA DI CESNOLA 

AS early as 1094, the noble family of Palma di Monte San Giuliano, which originally 
came from Spain, resided in Sicily. The Counts of Palma di Cesnola, of Rivarolo in 
Piedmont, are an offshoot of this ancient race. Pietro Palma, a Captain in the Army of 
Manfred, King of Sicily, was sent in 1260 on a diplomatic mission to Piedmont. His royal 
master was slain at the battle of Benevento in 1263, and he remained in Piedmont, and in 1262 
was invested with feudal rights over the town of Rivarossa. The family of Palma removed in the 
fifteenth century from Salassa to Rivarolo, near Turin, where its representatives still live and are 
the proprietors of palaces and estates. Four generations ago the family divided into two branches, 
the Counts Palma di Cesnola, and a junior branch, the Counts Palma di Borgofranco. 

General Louis Palma di Cesnola was born at the house of his ancestors in Rivarolo, 
Piedmont, June 29th, 1832, and was the son of Count Victor Maurice Palma di Cesnola and his 
wife, Countess Eugenia Ricca di Castelvecchio, his grandparents being Count Emmanuele and 
Countess Irene Grassotti. Being destined for the priesthood, he was educated at Ivrea and the 
University of Turin, but when the war of 1848 broke out his patriotic ardor carried him into the 
Sardinian Army as a volunteer. He at once displayed soldierly qualities, and for bravery at the 
battle of Novara was promoted, in 1849, to the rank of Lieutenant, being at the time the youngest 
commissioned officer in the Sardinian service. After the war, he entered the military academy at 
Cherasco, graduating in 185 1. He served thereafter for several years in the army as aide-de-camp 
of General Ansaldi, and was in the Sardinian contingent sent to the Crimean War. 

In i860, he came to New York and in the following year was commissioned a Major and 
then Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eleventh New York Volunteer Cavalry ("Scott's Nine Hundred"), 
and in 1862, was appointed Colonel of the Fourth New York Cavalry. In 1863, he was wounded 
and taken prisoner at Aldie, Va., and was for nine months confined in Libby Prison, Richmond, 
but was exchanged. His bravery and efficiency as a cavalry officer were frequently recognized 
officially, and among other incidents of a like character, General Judson Kilpatrick, in 1863, in 
personally complimenting him on his conduct in the field after several brilliant cavalry charges, 
presented him with his own sword. During the Shenandoah Valley campaign, under General 
Sheridan, he was at the head of Devin's Brigade, seeing service which was not interrupted till the 
term of service of his regiment expired, at the end of 1864, and early in 1865, President Lincoln 
conferred on him the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General. 

General di Cesnola had married, on the nth ot June, 1861, Mary Isabel Jennings Reid, 
daughter of Captain Samuel C. Reid, of New York, and in due time became an American citizen. 
In 1865, having been appointed United States Consul to Cyprus, he became interested in archaeo- 
logical investigations. Armed with a firman from the Sultan, he instituted researches, identifying 
the remains of the ancient cities of Idalium, Salamis, Citium and Golgos, at the latter of which he 
uncovered the ruins of the Temple of Venus, and discovered hundreds of statues and other 
objects. In 1873, he returned to America, bringing a collection of many thousand objects, 
comprising statuary, bronzes, vases, gems and coins, the whole of which was acquired for the 
newly established Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. Going back to Cyprus, though 
hampered by the hostility of Turkish officials, General di Cesnola continued his researches, 
identified other cities, and, in 1875, explored the ruins of Paphos, Amathus and Curium, where 
he discovered further treasures, which were added to the collection at the Metropolitan Museum, 
raising it to forty thousand objects and making it an unrivaled presentation of ancient Cypriote 
civilization. In 1877, the United States Consulate to the island was abolished, and General di 
Cesnola occupied himself with the preparation of his great work, Cyprus, its Ancient Cities, 
Tombs and Temples, published in 1878. Universities and learned societies throughout the world 
recognized the value of his labors, and among other distinctions, both Columbia and Princeton 
Universities conferred upon him the degree of LL. D., while he was elected an honorary member 

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of the Royal Society of London, of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, and of many similar 
bodies. Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, and the King of Bavaria, bestowed knightly orders and 
decorations on him, and King Humbert, of Italy, caused a gold medal to be struck in honor 
of his labors. 

In 1878, having arranged the Cypriote collection at the Metropolitan Museum, the General 
was elected a trustee and secretary of the institution, and in 1879, he was also made its director. 
In this position during nearly twenty years General di Cesnola's executive ability, learning and 
artistic taste have been of incalculable service to the museum, the city and the cause of art and 
archaeology. 

Madame di Cesnola, whose marriage to the General, in 1861, has already been referred to, 
is of a parentage illustrious in our country's history. She was the second daughter of Captain 
Reid, the hero of the naval battle of Fayal. Her grandfather was Lieutenant John Reid, of the 
British Navy, a lineal descendant of Henry Reid, Earl of Orkney. While in command of a 
British expedition against New London, Conn., in 1778, Lieutenant Reid was captured by the 
Americans, and after a lengthy detention as a prisoner of war, resigned his commission, remained 
in this country, and in 1781, married Rebecca Chester, daughter of Colonel John Chester, of 
Norwich, Conn. The Chesters were descended from the ancient Earls of Chester. Sir Robert 
Chester, who was knighted by James I., in 1603, had a son, Captain Samuel Chester, who, in 
1662, emigrated to Connecticut and settled in New London. His grandson, John Chester, served 
at Lexington and Bunker Hill, and was an officer in the Army of the Revolution. 

Samuel Chester Reid was born at Norwich, Conn., in 1783. At eleven years of age he 
went to sea, and afterwards entered the United States Navy as a midshipman, and on the 
outbreak of the War of 18 12, took command of the American privateer brig, General Armstrong, 
of New York, which he made one of the efficient vessels of its class. So great was the exaspera- 
tion of the British Navy against the General Armstrong, that, finding her in the harbor of Fayal, in 
September, 1814, a British squadron endeavored to cut the Armstrong out. Captain Reid's crew 
was ninety men. Under his leadership they fought with superhuman valor, and the British only 
gained the deck to retire repulsed after one of the most desperate conflicts in naval history. 
Captain Reid then scuttled and abandoned his vessel rather than allow her to be captured, and on 
his return to New York, he was received with the distinction his heroism merited, among other 
marks of honor being the presentation by the city of a silver service, and a gold sword, in 
company with General Scott and General P. B. Porter. For some years afterwards he was an 
officer in the navy, but retiring, became Warden of the Port of New York. He organized the 
present pilot system, established a marine telegraph between Sandy Hook and New York City, 
and founded the Marine Society. Another of his notable services was the designing, in 1818, of 
the national flag in its present form, so as to symbolize the motto of the United States, 
"E Pluribus Unnm." Stripes and stars were then being added to it, on the admission of each 
new State, and the flag had become unwieldy in form. Captain Reid proposed that in future the 
stripes should be reduced to thirteen, commemorative of the original States, and the stars formed 
into one great star, Government flags to have stars in paralled lines. This design was adopted 
by an Act of Congress to Establish the Flag of the United States, approved 31st March, 
1818. The first flag of this design was made by the wife of Captain Reid, and was first raised 
over the capitol at Washington, on the 13th of April, 1818. Captain Reid died in 1861, after a 
useful and honored life. His wife was Mary, daughter of Captain Nathan Jennings, of 
Wilmington, Conn., who fought at Lexington, at the battle of Trenton, and other engagements of 
the Revolution. 

General and Madame di Cesnola have two daughters, Eugenie Gabrielle and Louise Irene 
di Cesnola. The family residence is 109 East Fifty-seventh Street. The General's country 
seat, La Favorita, is an estate of seventy-six acres, in the village of New Castle, Westchester 
County, N. Y. The arms of Palma di Cesnola are : a palm tree, proper ; crest, a count's coronet, 
supported by a lion and a crowned eagle, proper. Motto : Oppressa Resurgit. 



HORACE EDWARD DICKINSON 

THE Dickinsons are descended from an old English county family of Yorkshire. Through 
one of his ancestors in the sixteenth century, Mr. Horace E. Dickinson can trace his 
lineage direct to King Edward III., of England. The line of descent from this royal 
ancestor is through Joan of Beaufort, daughter of King Edward's son, John, of Gaunt, Duke of 
Lancaster. Joan of Beaufort married Ralph Nevill, the first Earl of Westmoreland, and her great- 
grandson, Richard Nevill, second Lord Latimer, had a daughter, Elizabeth Nevill. The husband 
of Elizabeth Nevill was Sir Christopher Danby, High Sheriff of Yorkshire, in 1545, and great- 
grandson of Sir Richard Danby, of Farnley, who was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 
1460-72. Elizabeth Danby, the daughter of Sir Christopher Danby and his wife, Elizabeth, 
married John Dickinson, of Leeds, one of the leading woolen merchants and cloth manufacturers 
of his day, and an alderman of the city from 1525 until the time of his death, in 1554. John 
Dickinson and his wife, Elizabeth, were the ancestors of Mr. Horace E. Dickinson. 

John Dickinson was in the ninth generation from the first of the family name in England, 
Johnne Dykonson, who was a freeholder of Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding, of Yorkshire, in 
the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. and II. His wife was Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas 
Lambert, of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, and of the Well Close, in Hull, an estate that came into 
her possession after her father's death. Well Close was originally an old Saxon monastery, dating 
from the time of St. Cuthbert and the Danes, and took its name from an old well in the close to 
whose waters peculiar curative powers were ascribed. Hugh Dykensonne, of Hull, a grandson 
of Johnne Dykonson, was a prominent merchant of that city, and one of the original Governors 
of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, now called Trinity House. His son, Anthoyne Dickensonne, of 
Hull, was a merchant and master-builder. He made some extensive repairs to York Minster, 
in 1385, and also erected the Priory and Hospital of St. Michael, founded by his father-in-law, 
Sir William de la Pole, who was First Gentleman of the Bed Chamber to Edward III., second 
Baron of the Exchequer, Collector of the Ports of Boston and Hull, 1338-56, and first Mayor of 
Hull from 1332-35, and again from 1338-56. 

The grandson of Anthoyne Dickensonne was Thomas Dickinson, of Hull, who was the 
first to spell his name as it is now most commonly used. He was an alderman in 1443, an d 
Mayor in 1444. He married his kinswoman, Margaret Lambert, daughter of Sir Thomas Lambert, 
of Oulton, County Durham, standard bearer to Richard II. The mother of Margaret Lambert 
was Joan Umfravill, daughter of Sir Thomas Umfravill, of Harbottle Castle, Northumberland 
County, and sister of Sir Robert Umfravill, Knight of the Garter and Lord High Admiral of England. 

Hugh Dickinson, of Hull, the son of Mayor Thomas Dickinson, and the seventh in descent 
from the first of the family name, sold the family homestead, Well Close, on the Humber, and 
bought Kenson Manor, on the Aire, near Leeds. His son, William Dickinson, of Kenson Manor, 
married Isabel Langton, of Ecclesfield, daughter of John Langton, of Ecclesfield, High Sheriff of 
Yorkshire in 1509, and his grandson was the John Dickinson who, in the sixteenth century, 
became the husband of a descendant from King Edward III. To this John Dickinson was granted 
the coat of arms to which the family has since been entitled : Azure, a fesse ermine between two 
lions passant, or. ; crest, a demi-lion rampant, per pale ermine and azure. Motto : Esse Quam 
Videri. 

William Dickinson, the son of John Dickinson and Elizabeth Danby, removed to the parish 
of Bradley, South Staffordshire, where his father erected for him a substantial mansion, the lower 
story of stone and the upper stories of timber. This he named Bradley Hall, and it has remained 
standing and in good preservation down to this generation, as one of the most substantial and 
picturesque of the old English manor houses. Thomas Dickinson, the grandson of William 
Dickinson, was connected with the Portsmouth Navy Yard from 1567 to 1587, and settled in 
Cambridge in 1587, where he married Judith Carey, daughter 01 William Carey, of Bristol. 

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Three grandsons of Thomas Dickinson, sons of William Dickinson, barrister at law, of 
Cambridge, came to America in the seventeenth century. The second son, John Dickinson, 
arrived in Boston, in 1630, and went to live, first at Barnstable, Mass., then at Salisbury, Mass , 
and finally at Oyster Bay, Long Island. He was a sea captain and became a Quaker. The third 
son, Thomas Dickinson, also came to Boston, in 1630, and settled at New Haven, in 1643, and 
Fairfield, Conn., in 1645, dying in the latter place in 1658. 

Nathaniel Dickinson, the elder of these three brothers, and from whom the subject of this 
sketch is descended, was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1600, the fourteenth in descent 
from the original Johanne Dykonson, of the thirteenth century. Educated at Cambridge, he 
became a non-conformist and joined the Cambridge Company that was formed in August, 1629, by 
Winthrop, Dudley and Saltonstall, and sailed from Southampton for Massachusetts in March of the 
next year. He first settled at Watertown, Mass., where he remained for five years, and then 
removed to Wethersfield, Conn. In 1637, he was a freeman of that town, recorder or town 
clerk, 1640-59, and a representative to the General Court and selectmen, 1646-56. With the 
Reverend Mr. Russell, he was appointed to lay out the town of Hadley, Mass., to which place he 
removed in 1659. There he was town clerk in 1660, rate maker, 1661-76 ; selectman, 1660 and 
1666; member of the Hampshire Troop of Horse, 1663; one of the committee to build the 
meeting house in 166 1, and school director, 1669-76. He was the progenitor of all the New 
England Dickinsons. 

The seventh son of Nathaniel Dickinson, the American pioneer, himself named Nathaniel 
Dickinson, lived in Wethersfield, Conn., and Hadley and Hatfield, Mass., being a selectman and 
surveyor of the latter town. He died in 17 10. His grandson, John Dickinson, 1707- 1799, was a 
Colonel and Revolutionary soldier, a Captain in the French-Indian Wars, and, in the War for 
Independence, Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Hampshire Regiment of Militia. 

General Lemuel Dickinson, son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Dickinson, was also a soldier of 
the Revolution. He was born in Hatfield, Mass., in 1753. In the Revolutionary War he was a 
private, in Captain Joseph Raymond's company, that formed a part of Colonel Hyde's Regiment of 
Massachusetts Militia. Afterwards he was commissioned Captain, and then a Colonel, in the 
Massachusetts Militia, and during Shay s Rebellion was Brigadier General of the troops. His 
wife, whom he married in 1770, was Molly Little, who was a descendant of Richard Warren, who 
came over in the Mayflower. Richard Warren was a descendant in the direct male line from 
William, first Earl de Warrenre, who married Gundred, daughter of William the Conqueror. Molly 
Little was also a descendant of three Colonial Governors, John Haynes, of Massachusetts and 
Connecticut, Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts, and George Wyllys, of Connecticut. General 
Dickinson died in 1835. His eldest son, Horace Dickinson, was born in Hatfield, Mass., in 1780. 
Horace Dickinson removed to Canada, when he was about thirty years of age, and became a 
prosperous merchant in Montreal, establishing a line of mail and passenger steamers and coaches 
from Montreal to Kingston. He married Amelia, daughter of Abijah Bigelow, of Waltham, Mass., 
who was a minute man at Lexington, fought at Bunker Hill, and in the Revolutionary War. 

Mr. Horace Edward Dickinson, the grandson of Horace Dickinson, of Montreal, Canada, 
is in the twenty-first generation of descent from Johanne Dykonson, of England, and in the seventh 
generation of descent from Nathaniel Dickinson, who came to America in 1630. He was born in 
New York City, in 1858, and is now engaged in the dry goods importing business. He lives at 85 
East Sixty-fifth Street, and belongs to the New York Athletic and Knickerbocker Riding clubs, 
and is a member of the Sons of the Revolution. 

In 1887, Mr. Dickinson married Nellie R. Poulet, daughter of Alexis Poulet and Rebecca 
Acton. Through her mother, Mrs. Dickinson is a lineal descendant of Captain Richard Acton, 
of the English Navy, the third son of Sir Edward Acton, Baronet of Aldenham Hall, County Salop. 
He fought under Admiral Blake against the Dutch in 1650-60, and came to Maryland with 
Governor Charles Calvert, about 1665, settling at Calverton, in Anne Arundel County, where he 
died. 



JOHN FORREST DILLON 

BORN in Northampton, Montgomery County, N. Y., December 25th, 1831, John Forrest 
Dillon was only seven years of age when his parents removed to Davenport, la., which at 
that time was a village far upon the frontier. There the family lived for many years, and 
there the future Judge Dillon was brought up and made his home for forty years. In early life he 
had an inclination to the study of medicine, and applied himself to that pursuit for about three 
years Eventually however, he determined to become a lawyer, but when he was about twenty 
years of age the death of his father led him to go into business life, in which he was engaged until 
1852 During this time, however, he continued his legal studies, and in 1852 was admitted to the 
bar, becoming a partner in the firm of Cook & Dillon, which was afterwards Cook, Dillon & 

Lindley. . 

The same year that he began to practice, he was elected State prosecuting attorney for 
Scott County, la. In 1858, he was elected Judge of the Seventh Judicial District of Iowa, and from 
that time on his judicial career was uninterrupted for about twenty years. He served two terms as 
incumbent of the judicial office to which he was first elected, and six years as a Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Iowa. Reelected to that position in 1869, he resigned to accept an appointment 
as United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, which embraced the States of Minne- 
sota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Colorado. As a Judge he had a reputation 
throughout the country for his uprightness, for the fullness of his legal knowledge and for the 
breadth, originality and soundness of his opinions. 

In 1879, Judge Dillon was offered the position of professor of real estate and equity jurispru- 
dence in the Law School of Columbia College. That position he accepted and removed to New 
York in September, 1879, returning to private practice in conjunction with his duties in the law 
school. He became general counsel for the Union Pacific Railroad Company and formed a law 
partnership with General Wager Swayne, which continued for several years. He is now the senior 
member of the firm of Dillon & Hubbard, is counsel for the Union Pacific Railroad, and also general 
counsel in New York for the Missouri Pacific Railway system and other railroad corporations. 

Judge Dillon is recognized as one of the greatest corporation lawyers of the United States, 
and also has a high reputation as an author of legal works. During his career in Iowa, he estab- 
lished and edited The Central Law Journal, the only law periodical published in the Mississippi 
Valley at that time. He also edited and published The Digest of Iowa Reports and a five-volume 
edition of United States Circuit Court Reports. He is the author of Dillon on Municipal Corpora- 
tions, a work which has passed through many editions and has been characterized as a legal classic. 
It is constantly cited as an authority by the courts, not only in the United States, but in all English- 
speaking countries. Another of his works is The Laws and Jurisprudence of England and America, 
which was originally a series of lectures delivered at the Yale Law School. He has also published 
many occasional addresses and lectures on legal subjects. In 1875, Judge Dillon made a tour of 
Europe and attended the third annual conference of the Association for the Reform and Codification 
of the Law of Nations, which met at The Hague, and of which he was a member. He made a 
second tour of Europe in 1883, and the following year was elected a member of L'Institut de Droit 
International. In 1896, he was a member of the commission appointed to draw up the charter for 
the Greater New York. 

In 1853, J ud ge Dillon married a daughter of the Honorable Hiram Price, of Davenport, la., 
and has had a family of two sons and two daughters. His elder son, Hiram Price Dillon, 
was graduated from the Law School of the University of Iowa, and is now a practicing lawyer in 
Kansas. The other son, John M. Dillon, is also a lawyer, and a graduate from the Columbia 
Law School. He married Lucy Downing. Judge Dillon is a member of the Bar Association of the 
City of New York and of the Union League, Lawyers' and University clubs, and is a patron of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. He resides at his country home, Knowlcroft, in Far Hills, N. J. 

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WILLIAM B. DINSMORE 

IN Ireland and Scotland, the names of Dunsmore, Dinsmuir and Dinsmore are frequently found, 
the different forms all pertaining to different branches of the same family. In Ireland, many 
Dinsmoors have been located from time immemorial in the vicinity of Ballymoney, County 
Antrim. They are probably descended from John Dinsmoor, who emigrated from Scotland to 
Ulster. Laird Dinsmoor, the progenitor of the family and the earliest known ancestor, was a 
Scotchman, who was born about 1600. John Dinsmore, the son of Laird Dinsmoor, who was born 
in Scotland about 1650, left the paternal home and removed to the Province of Ulster. 

John Dinsmore, who was born in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, as 
early as 1671, was the son of John Dinsmore and grandson of Laird Dinsmoor. He was the pro- 
genitor of nearly all the Dinsmoors or Dinsmores who have been distinguished in the history of 
New England. Coming to America about 1723, he was early taken prisoner by the Indians, but 
finally settled in the Scotch Colony of Londonderry, N. H. Afterwards he made his home in what 
is now Windham, Vt., where he prospered as a farmer and died in 1 741. Robert Dinsmore, son 
of the American pioneer, came to New Hampshire in 1730 with his wife, Margaret Orr, whom he 
had married in Ireland. He became prominent in town affairs and held many public offices. He 
died in 175 1 and his wife died the following year. From Robert Dinsmore and his wife, Margaret 
Orr, have come many distinguished descendants. One of his grandsons was Colonel Silas 
Dinsmore, who was born in Windham, N. H., in 1766 and died in Kentucky in 1847. Another 
distinguished descendant was Governor Samuel Dinsmore, who was born in 1766, graduated from 
Dartmouth College, was a member of the National House of Representatives and Governor of the 
State of New Hampshire. His son, Samuel Dinsmore, was also Governor of New Hampshire. 
Among other distinguished descendants from Robert Dinsmore, have been the Honorable Leonard 
Allison Morrison, member of the House and Senate of the New Hampshire Legislature, and the 
Reverend C. M. Dinsmore, the Methodist clergyman. 

A prominent representative of the family in the last generation, and in the eighth generation 
of descent from Laird Dinsmoor, was William B. Dinsmore, well known in the business world 
from his long-time connection with the Adams Express Company. He was born in Boston in 
1810 and spent his boyhood days upon a farm in New Hampshire. Returning to Boston when 
still a young man, Mr. Dinsmore became associated with Alvin Adams, who was then starting an 
express line between Boston and New York. Mr. Dinsmore came to New York in 1842 to take 
charge of the business here, while Mr. Adams was its manager in Boston. His success here 
from the outset was decided, and soon afterwards he became associated with John Hoey, who in 
the course of time became his partner. To Mr. Dinsmore and Mr. Hoey, after Alvin Adams, was 
entirely due the phenomenal success of the Adams Express Company. Upon the death of Alvin 
Adams, Mr. Dinsmore became president of the company. He was a director in the American 
Exchange Bank, the Pennsylvania Railroad and other corporations. He owned one of the largest 
herds of Alderney cattle in the United States, and made his home principally at Staatsburgh, N. Y. 
His wife was Augusta M. Snow, of Brewster, Mass., and when he died, in 1888, he left two sons, 
William B. and Clarence Gray Dinsmore. 

Mr. William B. Dinsmore, second of the name, was born in New York in 1844 and is secre- 
tary of the express company with which his father was so long identified. He married, in 1866, 
Helen F. Adams, daughter of Alvin Adams, his father's business associate. The home of the family 
is in East Forty-seventh Street. Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore have two daughters, Helen Gray, who 
married R. P. Huntington, and Madeleine I. Dinsmore. Their only son, William B. Dinsmore, Jr., 
graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1893 and married Marion de Peyster Carey. 
The senior Mr. Dinsmore is a member of the Union League, New York Athletic, Racquet and 
New York Yacht clubs. His brother,. Clarence Gray Dinsmore, married Kate Jerome and is a 
member of the Metropolitan and Tuxedo clubs and prominent in social life. 



CHARLES HEALY DITSON 

NO name is better known in the annals of music in the United States than that of 
Ditson. Oliver Ditson, who was the first of the family so prominently identified with 
it, was a native of Boston, where he was born in 1811. His family belonged to the 
old North' End, which a century ago and less was the aristocratic section of the city. Opposite 
to the home of his boyhood, was the residence of Paul Revere, of Revolutionary renown. The 
father of Oliver Ditson was a ship owner, and both his parents were of Scottish descent. 
Oliver Ditson attended school in Boston until prepared for a business life. At an early age, 
he entered the book store of Colonel Samuel H. Parker, and within a few years was a partner 
with his employer, under the firm name of Parker & Ditson. His musical tastes had already 
manifested themselves, and before he was out of his teens he was organist and choir leader 
in the Bulfinch Street Baptist Church, and had organized and led the Malibran Glee Club. In 
1840, he bought out his partner and became the sole proprietor of the establishment, entering 
upon a business that soon brought him both fame and fortune. 

Soon after acquiring possession of this business, he gave up bookselling entirely, and 
begar. to publish music, an employment for which his natural musical tastes, combined with 
a keen business sagacity, eminently qualified him. From that time on, he became exclusively 
a music publisher, and before many years had elapsed the house he had established was one 
of the foremost concerns in the world in that particular line. He absorbed several other 
music publishing houses and concentrated the entire business in Boston, investing a large 
amount of capital in so doing. In 1867, Mr. Ditson opened a branch house in New York 
City, under the direction of his son, with the firm name of Charles H. Ditson & Co. The 
Philadelphia house of J. E. Ditson & Co., with another son at its head, was established in 
1875 ; the Chicago branch, known as Lyon & Healy, became 'the largest of its kind in the 
Northwest, and there was another branch in Boston, known as John C. Haynes & Co. For 
twenty-one years, Oliver Ditson was president of the Continental National Bank of Boston, 
and a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank and of the Boston Safe Deposit Company. 

Apart from his services to music in his business, Mr. Ditson was one of the most 
active and generous supporters of all musical enterprises. He sent talented young people to 
Europe for study, promoted many orchestral and musical societies and saved the first Peace 
Jubilee in Boston from failure by subscribing some twenty-five thousand dollars to carry 
through the enterprise at a time when its discouraged promoters were about to abandon it. 

Mr. Charles Healy Ditson, who has been at the head of the New York branch of the 
Ditson publishing house for thirty years, is the eldest son of Oliver Ditson and was born in 
Boston, Mass., August nth, 1845, receiving his education in that city. His mother, whom 
his father married in 1840, was Catharine Delano, of Kingston, Mass., daughter of Benjamin 
Delano, who was a direct descendant of William Bradford, the second Governor of the Ply- 
mouth Colony. Mr. Ditson has one elder sister, the widow of Colonel Burr Porter. He had 
two brothers, James Edward Ditson, who died in 1881, and Frank Oliver Ditson, who died 
in 1885. For twelve years, Mr. Charles H. Ditson was secretary and treasurer of the Music 
Publishers' Association of the United States. He is now treasurer of the Oliver Ditson Co., 
of Boston, of Charles H. Ditson & Co., of New York, and of the Oliver Ditson Society for 
the Relief of Needy Musicians, and is also a trustee of his late father's estate. 

In 1890, Mr. Ditson married Alice Maud Tappin, daughter of John Tappin and his wife, 
Jane Lindsley, and a granddaughter of the Reverend Henry Tappin, all of Mrs. Ditson's 
ancestors being of English stock. Mr. Ditson's city residence is at 17 East Thirty-eighth 
Street, and he has a country home, the Boulders, in Jackson, N. H. He belongs to the 
Players Club, and is a member of the New England Society of this city and the Algonquin 
Club of Boston. 

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MORGAN DIX, D.D. 

THE Dix family were English Puritans, Anthony Dix being a resident of Plymouth, Mass., 
in 1623, while Edward Dix was a freeman of Watertown, Mass., in 1635, and Ralph 
Dix was one of the early settlers of Ipswich, Mass. His grandson, Jonathan, born in 
Reading, Mass., removed to Contocook, afterwards Boscawen, N. H., and was the father of 
Timothy Dix, a Lieutenant in the Revolution and postmaster at Boscawen under President 
Jefferson. Timothy Dix, Jr., was a member of the State Legislature, 180 1-4. In the War 
of 181 2, he held a commission in the regular army and at the time of his death, in 18 13, was 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fourteenth Infantry. His wife was Abigail Wilkins, of Amherst, 
N. H., whose father was a Captain in the Revolution and perished during Montgomery's 
expedition against Quebec. 

General John A. Dix, son of Timothy and Abigail Dix, was born in Boscawen, N. H., 
in 1798. He was entered in the college of the Sulpicians, in Montreal, but upon the opening 
of the War of 18 12 was appointed a cadet in the United States Army. In 1813, when he lacked 
four months of being fifteen years old, he received a commission as ensign and was assigned 
to the Fourteenth Infantry, stationed at Sackett's Harbor, under command of his father, being 
the youngest officer in the service. In 1814, he became a Third Lieutenant and was assigned to 
the artillery, and during the war rendered valuable service to his country. In 18 16, he became 
First Lieutenant, in 1819 was aide-de-camp to Major-General Jacob Brown, Commander-in-Chief 
of the army, while in 1825 he was Captain of the Third Artillery. After thirteen years of military 
service, he resigned from the army, married, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. Politics, 
however, engaged his attention, and in 1831 he was appointed Adjutant-General of the State; 
in 1833 he became Secretary of the State of New York, and in 1842 he was elected to the 
Legislature. In 1845, he was elected United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the 
resignation of Silas Wright, who had been chosen Governor, and served four years in that 
position. He was Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York City in 1853 and 
Postmaster of New York in 1859. 

When the Civil War was impending, he was made Secretary of the Treasury in the 
cabinet of President Buchanan ; and when the war actually began, promptly offered his services 
to President Lincoln, and was successively appointed Brigadier-General and Major-General of 
Volunteers, and afterwards elevated to the same rank in the regular army. His services were 
energetic and valuable. In 1863, he was made military commander of the Department of the 
East, a post which he held until the close of the war, and was in command at New York 
during the draft riots. In 1866, he was appointed Naval Officer at New York, and in that 
same year United States Minister to France, a position which he resigned after two years. In 
1872, he was elected Governor of the State as a Republican, but was defeated for the same 
office in 1874. He was a man of great culture, and was the author of several works of travel. 
General Dix married Catherine, niece and adopted daughter of John J. Morgan, Member 
Of Congress from New York, Miss Morgan's father, who was the brother of Mr. Morgan's 
wife, Catherine Warne, being a nephew of Colonel Marinus Willett. The eldest son of General 
and Mrs. Dix, the Reverend Dr. Morgan Dix, was born in New York City, November 1st, 
1827. He was graduated from Columbia College, in 1848, and from the General Theological 
Seminary in 1852. Three years later, he was appointed assistant minister in Trinity parish, and 
in 1862 he became rector, a position that he has held ever since. He has been indefatigable 
in his work for Trinity and is one of the leading divines of the church in this country. He has 
published many books on religious subjects and a memoir of his father. In 1874, Dr. Dix 
married Emily Woolsey Soutter, eldest daughter of General William Soutter and his wife, 
Agnes G. (Knox) Soutter. He is a member of the Grolier Club, and the Sons of the Revolution, 
and is president and commandant of the Society of the War of 18 12. 



GRENVILLE M. DODGE 

TWO brothers named Dodge emigrated from England in the early part of the seventeenth 
century and settled in Essex County, Mass. One of their descendants was Captain Solo- 
mon Dodge, of Rowley, Mass., grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Sylvanus 
Dodge, the son of Captain Solomon Dodge, born in Rowley, in 1800, died in 1872, and in 1827 
married Julia F. Philips, of New Rowley, now Georgetown, Mass., a lady belonging to a family 
celebrated in the annals of Massachusetts and who, throughout a long life, exhibited remarkable 
force of character. In 1834, Sylvanus Dodge was appointed postmaster of South Danvers, Mass., 
and held that office for ten years, when he went West. He was an old school Democrat, but 
later in life changed his politics and became active in the organization of the Republican party. 
He was among the pioneers who developed the Territory of Nebraska, and was for many years 
Register of the United States Land Office in the district in which he resided. 

Major-General Grenville M. Dodge is the second son of Sylvanus Dodge and his wife, Julia 
Philips Dodge. He was born in Danvers, Mass., April 12th, 1831. In 1847, ne entered the Military 
University of Norwich, Vt., from which institution he was graduated in 1851 as a civil engineer. 
He then went West, taking up his residence in Illinois, where he engaged as an assistant engineer 
in the construction of the Chicago & Rock Island and other railroad lines in Illinois and Iowa. 
For some time he was a resident of Iowa City, and finally of Council Bluffs, la. 

When the Civil War broke out, General Dodge was Captain of the Council Bluffs Guards 
which enlisted for service at the front. The Governor of Iowa appointed him an aide on his staff, 
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and he organized the Fourth Iowa Infantry and the Dodge 
Battery, which was attached to the same command. In July, 1861, he joined, with his regiment, 
the army of General Fremont at St. Louis. In January, 1862, he was assigned to the command of a 
brigade, leading the advance in the movement on Springfield, Mo., and in the capture of that city, 
and took part in the engagements at Sugar Creek and Blackburn's Mills. At the battle of Pea 
Ridge, he was conspicuous for bravery, and in recognition of his gallant services was made 
Brigadier-General of Volunteers. He superintended the rebuilding of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, 
was promoted to the command of the Central Division of Mississippi, defeated the Confederates 
in several important battles, captured General Faulkner and his forces near Island No. 10, and 
was assigned to command the Second Division, Army of the Tennessee. In 1863, he defeated 
the Confederate forces under General Forest and commanded the Sixteenth Army Corps in all the 
great battles of General Sherman's Atlanta campaign, the brunt of the Battle of Atlanta, July 22d, 
1864, in which General McPherson was killed, falling on his command. A few days later General 
Dodge was severely wounded and was prevented from taking part in the March to the Sea. In 
June, 1864, he was commissioned Major-General of Volunteers, and took command of the 
Department of Missouri. In 1865, he commanded the United States forces in Kansas and the 
Territories. Returning to civil life, he assumed the position of chief engineer in charge of the 
construction of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1866, he was elected a member of the Thirty-Ninth 
Congress from the Fifth District of Iowa. For the last thirty years, he has been engaged in great 
railroad enterprises. He was a director of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and has been 
identified with the building and operation of many railroads in the West and Southwest, including 
the Texas & Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, the International & Great Northern, the Fort 
Worth & Denver City, and other lines. 

General Dodge is a member of the Union League and the United Service clubs, belongs to 
the New England Society, and is a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is president 
of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee and chairman of the committee charged with the 
erection of a statue of his friend and commander, General William T. Sherman. In May, 1897, he 
was chief marshal of the procession in New York City at the dedication of the Grant Mausoleum 
in Riverside Park. 

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WILLIAM EARL DODGE 

WILLIAM DODGE, who settled at Salem, Mass., in the year 1629, was the progenitor of 
a race representatives of which are now found in many portions of the United States. 
A branch of the family established itself in Connecticut, from which the four 
generations of eminent merchants and philanthropists who have made the name of Dodge 
famous in New York's annals derive their origin. 

The first of this line was David Low Dodge, who was born in Connecticut in 1774. He 
was a highly educated man, and was in his early years head of a private school at Norwich, 
Conn., which he made famous by the introduction of novel educational methods. He married a 
daughter of the Reverend Aaron Cleveland, the grandfather of ex-President Grover Cleveland. 
Entering business life, David Low Dodge established himself in Hartford, Conn., in 1802, but in 
1805 came to New York City as partner of the firm of Higginsons & Dodge, which became the 
largest wholesale dry goods house of its day, having establishments at Boston, New York and 
Baltimore; but owing to the loss of many vessels, their business was broken up by the embargo. 
The latter, however, stimulated the growth of domestic manufacturers, and Mr. Dodge was a 
pioneer in the field. Returning to Norwich, Conn., he built a large cotton mill, one of the first in 
New England, but later on he returned to New York and established the firm of Ludlow & Dodge. 
Retiring from business in 1827, his life till his death in 1852 was mainly devoted to religious and 
literary labors. He was an elder of the Wall Street Presbyterian Church, and with Robert Lenox 
had charge of building its new structure. He was among the founders of the American Tract 
and Bible societies, and was the first president of the American Peace Society. Among his works 
on religious and social subjects was a volume, War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ, 
which was reprinted in England and translated into several European languages. His brother- 
in-law was the famous preacher, the Reverend Samuel Hanson Cox, D. D., whose son, the late 
Right Reverend Arthur Cleveland Cox, was Bishop of Western New York. 

The Honorable William Earl Dodge, Sr., his son, was born at Hartford in 1805, and was 
educated at Norwich and at Mendham, N. J., under his uncle, the Reverend Dr. Cox. His earliest 
business experience was as a clerk in the mill at Norwich ; but from his youth he was identified 
with New York, and in 1827 established the house of Huntington & Dodge here. He married a 
daughter of Anson Green Phelps, of the firm of Phelps & Peck, which Mr. Phelps had founded, 
and which was the largest establishment in the metal trade in the United States. In 1833, 
William E. Dodge entered this house, the style of which was changed to Phelps, Dodge & Co., 
which it has since retained. His interests were, however, as varied as they were extensive. He 
developed large lumber properties both in Canada and the South; he was among the first directors 
of the Erie Railroad, of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, of the Delaware, Lackawanna & 
Western Railroad, being one of the founders of the latter, while he was also president of the 
Houston & Texas Central Railroad. His enterprise and probity were rewarded not only by material 
success, but by the recognition of his fellow merchants. He joined the Chamber of Commerce 
in 1 85 5, became its vice-president in 1863, and was elected president of the organization from 1867 
till his voluntary retirement, in 1875. 

Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he labored to secure an honorable settlement of 
sectional differences. He was a member of the Peace Congress in 1861, but when the war began 
gave an unswerving support to the Union. In 1864, he was elected a Member of Congress from 
the Eighth District of New York, and distinguished himself by his opposition to unsound financial 
measures, but declined a renomination. In 1872, he was a member of the Electoral College of 
this State, and, among many other public services, was a member of a commission which 
investigated the condition of the Indians. 

The fame of William Earl Dodge, Sr., rests, however, upon a better basis than that of a 
successful career and public honors. Strong religious and humanitarian views came to him by 

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inheritance, were confirmed throughout his life, and became the guiding principles of his 
existence. He was ever active in religious work, but his charities knew no limits of creed or 
section, and the title of the "Christian Merchant," by which he was known, was fully deserved 
by the tenor of his life. He gave his efforts freely to the cause of religion, temperance and 
benevolence, and among other positions was president of the Evangelical Alliance and the National 
Temperance Society and similar bodies. He gave aid to the furtherance of education among the 
freedmen of the South after the war, and it should be noted that after the struggle for the Union 
had been crowned with success, he was one of the first to inculcate conciliation and harmony 
among all sections. His death, in 1883, called forth earnest expressions of appreciation of his 
character and services from public, mercantile, religious and benevolent bodies, and the erection 
in 1885, under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, of his statue, at Broadway and Thirty- 
fourth Street, was a fitting tribute to one of the most eminent citizens of the metropolis. 

His son, Mr. William Earl Dodge, Jr., was born in New York City in 1832. He entered 
mercantile life in his youth, and in 1864 became a partner in Phelps, Dodge & Co., of which 
he is now the senior member. He is also president of the Ansonia Brass Company and other 
corporations at Ansonia, Conn., a town founded by and named after his grandfather, Anson G. 
Phelps. During the Civil War, he was one of the Commissioners of the State of New York to 
supervise the condition of its troops in the field. His commission was among the first signed by 
President Lincoln, and at the conclusion of his services he received the thanks of the State in a 
joint resolution of the Legislature. He was also an officer of the Loyal Publication Society, an 
advisory director of the Woman's Central Association of Relief, out of which the United States 
Sanitary Commission grew, and was one of the founders of the Union League Club. 

Mr. Dodge followed the example of his father in his devotion to religious and charitable 
work. He was long the president of the Young Men's Christian Association, which, under his 
administration, erected its building at Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue, the first in the 
country devoted to the special use of an Association. He succeeded his father as president of 
the Evangelical Alliance, was vice-president of the American Sunday School Union, and chairman 
of the National Arbitration Committee. Among other services to the metropolis, he is a trustee 
of the Slater fund, a member of the executive committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 
Museum of Natural History, and the New York Botanic Garden. Mr. Dodge has also filled the 
post of vice-president of the New England Society, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union 
League, Century, City, Reform, Riding, Presbyterian, Country, and other clubs, and of the 
American Geographical Society and a large number of other social, scientific and benevolent bodies. 
His town residence is in Madison Avenue, and his country place is Greyston, Riverdale-on- 
Hudson. In 1854, Mr. Dodge married Sarah Tappen Hoadley, daughter of the late David 
Hoadley, president of the Panama Railroad Company. 

The other sons of William E. Dodge, Sr., are Anson Phelps Dodge, Norman W. Dodge 
and George E. Dodge, who are all identified with the business interests and social life of the 
city; the Reverend D. Stuart Dodge, D. D., founder of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, 
Syria, to which his father was a liberal benefactor; Brigadier General Charles Cleveland Dodge, 
a prominent cavalry officer during the Civil War and Major of the New York Mounted Rifles; 
and the late Arthur Murray Dodge. 

Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, the son of Mr. William Earl Dodge, Jr., was born in New York 
City in i860. He is a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., a trustee of the Farmers' Loan 
and Trust Company, and a director of the National City Bank and other corporations, while he 
has been actively interested in a number of local charities, and is president of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, in succession to his father. He married Grace Parish. 

Grace Hoadley Dodge, daughter of Mr. W. E. Dodge, Jr., has distinguished herself by her 
practical work on behalf of her sex. She founded the Working Girls' clubs of New York City, 
and originated the Teachers' College, now affiliated with Columbia University. She was also the 
first woman appointed a member of the New York Board of Education. 

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WILLIAM GAYER DOMINICK 

THE Huguenot emigration brought to New York, in 1742, George Dominique, who was born 
at La Rochelle, France, in 1739. George and his brother, Francois Dominique, became 
merchants in Cherry Street, New York. George was a Captain in the Second New 
York Militia in 1775, and a vestryman in Trinity Church, 1 787-1 792, Dominick Street being named 
for him. In 1761, he married Elizabeth Blanchard, who was also of Huguenot parents, though 
born in Amsterdam, Holland. Their son, James William Dominick, a merchant of eminence, was 
one of the founders and president of the Eastern Dispensary, a trustee of the American Tract 
Society, one of the executive committee of the Bible Society, and a director of the Tradesman's 
Bank. He married Phcebe Cock, daughter of Major James Cock, Adjutant in the Patriot army at 
the Battle of White Plains, and Commissary under Washington throughout the entire war. 
Major Andre was a prisoner in Major Cock's house. The night before his execution, he kissed 
Phcebe Cock, then an infant, and said, "Oh ! happy childhood ; we know thy peace but once ; 
would that I were as innocent as thou." 

Among the lineal descendants of James William Dominick, first in the male line, are 
Marinus Willet Dominick, a son of his second wife, Margaret Eliza Delavan, and five grandsons : 
Henry Blanchard Dominick and the late Alexander, sons of James W. Dominick, second, and the 
sons of the late W. F. Dominick, George Francis Bayard and the late Mr. William Gayer Dominick. 

William Francis Dominick, the latter's father, was the son of James William Dominick and 
Phcebe Cock, and though born in New York, went to Chicago in 1844, and was one of the early 
merchants there, retiring from business and returning to New York in 1855. He married, in 1844, 
Lydia Gardner Wells, a descendant of Governor Wells, of Connecticut ; of Robert Day, whose 
name appears on the Founders' Monument at Hartford, and of Richard Gardner, of Nantucket. 
Their eldest son, Mr. William Gayer Dominick, was born in Chicago, in 184s, and died suddenly 
August 31st, 1895. He was educated at Churchill's Academy, Sing Sing, and in 1863 entered the 
banking business in Wall Street. In 1869, he joined the Stock Exchange, and formed, with Watson 
B. Dickerman, the firm of Dominick & Dickerman, to which his brother, Bayard, was admitted. 

Mr. Dominick served seventeen years in the Seventh Regiment, ten years as First 
Lieutenant, and at the time of his death was Captain of the Ninth Company of the Veteran 
Association, and a Governor of the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club. He was a member and one 
of the board of managers of the Sons of the Revolution, a manager of the New York Huguenot 
Society, and one of the advisory board of the Young Women's Christian Association, a member 
of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the War of 18 12, the Aztec Society, and the Historical Society. 
Among other prominent organizations, he belonged to the Union League, City and Riding clubs, 
and the Narrows Island Shooting Club, of Currituck, N. C. A life membership of the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art was conferred on him in 1892, when he joined his brothers in presenting 
the picture by Schraeder, Queen Elizabeth Signing the Death Warrant of Mary Stuart. 

In 1874, Mr. Dominick married Anne De Witt Marshall, daughter of Henry P. Marshall and 
his wife, Cornelia Elizabeth Conrad. The Marshall family descends from Edward Marshall, who 
settled in Virginia in 1624, died in New York 1704, and is buried in Trinity churchyard. Mrs. 
Dominick's great-grandfather, the Reverend John Rutgers Marshall, was one of the ten clergymen 
who elected Samuel Seabury, the first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United 
States. Another ancestor was Colonel Charles DeWitt, the Revolutionary patriot, and among her 
early ancestors are Hermanius Rutgers, Parson Thomas Hooker, the Reverend Everardus Bogardus 
and Anneke Jans. Mr. and Mrs. Dominick's four children are William Francis (now at Yale, class 
of 1898), Elsie, Alice and Anne Marshall Dominick. Mr. Dominick was a member of St. Thomas's 
Church, Fifty-third Street and Fifth Avenue, where a beautiful altar rail has been placed, "To the 
Glory of God and in blessed memory of him whose gentle, manly, Christian character made him 
beloved by all who came in contact with him." The Dominick coat of arms was granted in 1720. 

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ROBERT OGDEN DOREMUS 

THOMAS CORNELIUS DOREMUS, father of the subject of this article, was a New York 
merchant in the early part of the present century. In 1821, he married Sarah Piatt 
Haines, the daughter of Elias Haines, her mother being a daughter of Robert Ogden, a 
lawyer who belonged to a famous New Jersey Colonial family. Through life, Sarah Piatt (Haines) 
Doremus was noted for the active part she took in many noble charities. In 1842, she was 
prominent in founding the institution for discharged female prisoners, now the Isaac T. Hopper 
Home, and was its first president. Dr. J. Marion Sims, who founded the Woman's Hospital in the 
State of New York in 1855, left it on record, that he could make no headway with the project 
until he applied to Mrs. Doremus, "who touched it and it lived." She was the first president 
of the Woman's Hospital, holding that office at her death in 1877. 

The son of Thomas Cornelius and Sarah Piatt (Haines) Doremus is Professor Robert 
Ogden Doremus. He was born in this city, entered Columbia College in 1838, and graduated 
from the University of New York in 1842. He was the first private pupil of the celebrated 
Professor John W. Draper, and in 1843 became his first assistant. He held that position for some 
years, and assisted in many of Professor Draper's famous researches. In 1847, he went to Europe 
and continued his studies of chemistry in Paris. Returning to New York in 1848, he established, 
with Dr. Charles T. Harris, an analytical laboratory, and in 1849 was elected professor of chemistry 
in the New York College of Pharmacy. Meantime, he continued the study of medicine with Dr. 
Abraham L. Cox, receiving the degree of M. D. from the University of the City of New York in 
1850. At a later date, the University conferred on him the degree of LL. D. He was one of 
the founders of the New York Medical College, and at his own expense equipped for it the first 
chemical laboratory attached to a medical college in the United States. He organized a similar 
analytical laboratory in the Long Island Hospital Medical College in 1859. 

The investigations of Professor Doremus in toxicology effected a revolution in medical 
jurisprudence. He has been an expert in that field, and has also made many important chemical 
and scientific discoveries. He is distinguished as a lecturer, and has frequently appeared in 
that capacity in aid of charitable causes. At the unveiling of Humboldt's monument in Central 
Park, he delivered the English oration. He was one of the editors of the Standard Dictionary 
of the English language, having charge of the chemical definitions. He has been president of 
the New York Philharmonic Society and the Medico-Legal Society, is a fellow of the Academy of 
Sciences of New York and the American Geographical Society, was one of the first members of 
the Union League Club and belongs to the St. Nicholas Society. 

Professor Doremus married Estelle E. Skidmore, daughter of Captain Hubbard Skidmore, 
and a descendant of the famous Captain John Underhill, of the Colonial period. Mrs. Doremus 
was, for several years, regent of the New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution and is now one of the honorary vice-presidents of the National Society of that 
organization. The children of this marriage are: Charles Avery, Thomas Cornelius, Robert Ogden, 
Fordyce Barker, Estelle Emma, Austin Flint, Clarence Seward and Arthur Lispenard Doremus. 
The eldest son, Charles Avery Doremus, born in 1851, graduated in 1870 from the College of the 
City of New York, and studied at Leipsic and Heidelberg, taking the degree of A. M. and Ph. D. 
at the latter university. From 1877 to 1882, he was professor of chemistry in the Medical 
Department of the University of Buffalo, and received the honorary degree of M. D. He was 
afterwards adjunct professor of chemistry in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and assistant 
professor in the College of the City of New York, and represented the United States Government 
at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry at Paris in 1896. He has devoted much 
of his attention to original research, and is an expert authority upon chemistry in connection 
with patent and other litigation. In 1880, he married Elizabeth Johnson Ward, of Newport, Ky., 
their surviving child being Katherine Ward Doremus. 



ORLANDO PORTER DORMAN 

TWO famous Colonial families of New bngland are represented in the person of Mr. Orlando 
Porter Dorman. His first paternal American ancestor was Thomas Dorman, a native of 
England, who came to Boston when a young man and was a freeman of Ipswich in 1636, 
afterwards becoming one of the founders of the town of Boxford, Mass. The father of Mr. Dorman 
was Orlin C. Dorman, a lineal descendant from Thomas Dorman. He was a prominent citizen of 
Connecticut, held many important positions in connection with the Legislature of that Common- 
wealth, and was also an active member of the militia. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Dorman 
was Amos Dorman, who was a citizen of considerable prominence and a large real estate owner in 
Ellington, Conn. 

The mother of Mr. Dorman was Juliana Doane, of Tolland, Conn. Through her, his 
ancestry goes back to Normandy in the tenth century. One branch of the family went from Nor- 
mandy to Germany, where they were made barons and exercised the rights of nobility for many 
generations. They were at one time deprived of their titles, which, however, were restored upon 
the accession of another dynasty to the throne. John Doane, the pioneer American ancestor of Mr. 
Dorman's mother, was one of the famous Puritans of Plymouth. He came to the Plymouth Colony 
in the ship Charity in 162 1, and, in 1632, was chosen an assistant, being a member of the first body 
of that character of which there is any record, and was associated with William Bradford, Miles 
Standish, John Howland, John Alden, Stephen Hopkins and William Gilson. A resident of 
Eastham after 1644, and one of the first seven proprietors of that town, he was an assistant, 
1649-50, and a deputy in 1659, and frequently in later years. When he went to Eastham, he was 
forty-nine years of age and he died in 1707 at the age of one hundred and ten. His property in 
Eastham consisted of some two hundred acres of land, and the boundaries he marked with stone 
posts cut with his initials, which have remained standing to this day. The descendants of John 
Doane have been numerous in the eastern part of Massachusetts and in Connecticut in every gen- 
eration since their ancestor established the family there. 

Mr. Orlando P. Dorman was born in Ellington, Conn., February 3d, 1828. Receiving an 
academic education, he entered upon business life when he was nineteen years old, going into a 
dry goods store in Hartford. There he obtained a thorough business training, and after five years 
came to New York, where he was associated with the late William H. Lee as a partner in the firm 
of Lee, Case & Co. and William H. Lee & Co., having charge of the foreign business of the house. 
After he had retired from that business, he organized the Gilbert Manufacturing Company, which 
was incorporated in 1881, and of which he has since been the president. He is recognized as one 
of the foremost American manufacturers in the particular line of trade to which he has devoted 
himself. 

Although he takes a deep interest in public affairs and is a thoroughly patriotic American, 
Mr. Dorman has never engaged in public life. He has, however, devoted much of his time and 
a- generous share of his wealth to the cause of charity and education. He has been specially 
interested in educating young men for the ministry, several members of that profession having 
been enabled to secure their theological training through his beneficence. Senior warden of the 
Church of the Heavenly Rest, and also of the Church of the Holy Spirit, he has been active in the 
field of Christian work, and has been especially interested in the particular charities that are 
promoted by those two church organizations. The wife of Mr. Dorman, whom he married in 
1850, was Delia Anna Taylor, of Hartford. The city home of Mr. and Mrs. Dorman is at Seventy- 
sixth Street and West End Avenue. They also have a country seat, Auvergne, at Riverdale-on- 
Hudson. They have had two children, a son and a daughter. The son, Harry H., graduated from 
St. Paul's School, in Garden City, Long Island, at the age of seventeen and is now in business 
with his father. He married, in 1893, Florence Page, of New York. Mr. Dorman's daughter, 
Anna Belle, married, in 1894, Franklin H. Smith, Jr., of New York. 

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WILLIAM PROCTOR DOUGLAS 

ANCESTORS of Mr. William Proctor Douglas were of the great Scottish family of that name, 
of high rank and imperishable renown. That branch of the family to which Mr. Douglas 
belongs has been settled in this country for a hundred years. Its members were large 
land owners in Scotland, but disposed of their possessions there and emigrated to this country in 
the early years of the present century. George Douglas, the father of Mr. William Proctor Douglas, 
was born in Scotland in 1792. Coming to the United States early in life, he was one of the leading 
merchants of his generation. The house of George Douglas & Co., which he founded, did an East 
India commission business not excelled in extent and importance by any of their rivals in the city, 
and had an enviable commercial renown even in Europe. 

George Douglas was an intense Democrat, and his firm was one of the few business estab- 
lishments in New York that sided with President Andrew Jackson in the warfare of that executive 
against the United States Bank. In the Presidential campaign of 1844, he was a Democratic elector 
at large for the ticket headed by James K. Polk. He was a staunch temperance man throughout 
his life and carried his temperance principles so far that he refused to receive consignments of 
brandy and wine sent to his firm, which was the first establishment in the city to take such action. 

The Douglas city residence was at 55 Broadway, in a house built by Mr. Douglas when 
lower Broadway and Battery place were the fashionable residence localities of the city. After that 
he lived in Park Place, and then in West Fourteenth Street. Later in life, he bought the famous 
Van Zandt estate, at what is now called Douglaston, Long Island, and thenceforth made that his 
family residence. This place, on the east side of Flushing Bay, was formerly part of the Weekes 
farm. Wynant Van Zandt, the New York merchant and alderman, 1789- 1804, bought the land in 
1813 and built there the residence, which is still standing and which has been for nearly three 
quarters of a century the home of the Douglas family. The wife of George Douglas was a 
daughter of Dr. Maxwell, a celebrated physician of Scotland. Dr. Maxwell died in Scotland, and 
after his death his wife and three daughters came to the United States and made their home in New 
York. The daughters were handsome women of distinguished character. One of them married 
James Scott Aspinwall and another became the wife of a member of the Rogers family of Long 
Island. 

Mr. William Proctor Douglas was born in New York in 1842, and was educated in Edin- 
burgh, Scotland. He inherited from his father the estate at Douglaston, Little Neck Bay, compris- 
ing nearly three hundred acres, where he has made his home. His only business pursuit has been 
in caring for the estate and the corporate investments which his father left to the family. He is a 
large stockholder in several of the leading banks of New York. Mr. Douglas' interests in gentle- 
manly sports have made him famous the world over. He has been particularly known for his 
untiring efforts in promotion of yachting and for his activity in measures for the defense of the 
America Cup against its British challengers. One of the first yachts that sailed in defense of the 
America Cup, the Sappho, which defeated the Livonia, in 1871, was owned by him. In later 
years, he was part owner of the Priscilla, built for a cup defender. He is a member of the New 
York Yacht, New York Athletic, Racquet, Carteret Gun, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Douglas- 
ton Yacht, Westminster Kennel, Rockaway Hunt, Meadow Brook Hunt and Coaching clubs, the 
Country Club of Westchester County and other organizations of similar character. He is also a 
member of the Metropolitan, Tuxedo and Union clubs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 
New York Academy of Design have him enrolled among their patrons. He is also a member of 
several European clubs, among them the Austrian Yacht Club. 

In 1879, Mr. Douglas married Adelaide L. Townsend, daughter of Effingham Townsend, 
of the old Long Island family of that name. Two children have been born of this alliance, 
Edith Sybil and James Gordon Douglas. The city residence of the Douglas family is in West 
Fifty-seventh Street, near Fifth Avenue. 



ANDREW ELLICOTT DOUGLASS 

IN the latter part of the seventeenth century, members of one branch of the Douglass family 
were settled in Bergen County, N. J. They were of Scotch origin, descended from the great 
Scottish family whose name they bore. David Douglass, the ancestor of Mr. Andrew Ellicott 
Douglass, was a resident of Hanover Neck, where he was born about 171 5 and died about 176s. 
His second wife, whom he married in 175s, was Esther Reed. Deacon Nathaniel Douglass, his 
son, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Born in Hanover Neck in 1760, part of his 
lifetime he was a resident of Pompton, N. J., and for many years was a member of the firm of 
Vanderpoel & Douglass, leather manufacturers, of Newark. In 1813, he removed to Caldwell, 
N. J., and resided there the rest of his life, dying in 1824. His wife was Sarah, daughter of David 
Bates. She was born in 1762 and died in 1816. 

Major David Bates Douglass, son of Nathaniel Douglass and father of Mr. Andrew Ellicott 
Douglass, was born in Pompton, N. J., in 1790 and died in 1849. He was graduated from Yale 
College in 1813 and received the degree of M. A. in 1816. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant of 
Engineers in the United States Army in 1813, he was first ordered to West Point, and during the 
Niagara campaign of i8i4saw service at the front, being promoted to be First Lieutenant, and 
then Brevet Captain the same year. In 18 19, he was made Captain of Engineers. In January, 
1815, he was appointed assistant professor of natural philosophy at West Point, and the same year 
was detailed to examine and report upon the defenses of Narragansett Bay, New London Harbor, 
Saybrook and New Haven. In 1817, he made a study of the eastern entrance of Long Island 
Sound, with a view to its fortification, and in 18 19 was United States Astronomical Surveyor. In 
1820, he joined the North West Expedition as civil and military engineer and astronomer, and the 
same year succeeded his father-in-law, Andrew Ellicott, as professor of mathematics at West Point, 
becoming professor of engineering in the same institution three years after. Resigning from the 
Government service in 1831, Major Douglas became professor of natural philosophy and afterwards 
professor of architecture and engineering in New York University; from 1840 to 1844 was president 
of Kenyon College, and was professor of mathematics in Geneva College 1848-49. Yale College 
gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1841. He died in October, 1849. He married Ann Eliza Ellicott, 
daughter of Andrew Ellicott, the distinguished surveyor and mathematician. In 1786, Andrew 
Ellicott was a member of the American Philosophical Society, and made the surveys of the City of 
Washington as it now stands. During the latter years of his life, he was professor of mathematics 
at West Point, where he died in 1820. 

Mr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass was born at West Point, November 18th, 18 19. He was 
educated in private schools and graduated from Kenyon College in 1838. After a successful 
business career of thirty-seven years, he retired and has since devoted himself to the study of 
American archaeology, traveling extensively and making many original explorations, especially 
along the Southern coast of the United States. He is a member of the leading scientific associations 
in this country and in Europe, belongs to the Century Association and the Church Club, and is the 
author of many essays, principally on archaeological subjects. His collections relating to American 
archaeology are among the most valuable in their particular line that have ever been made. 

In 1847, Mr. Douglass married Sarah Cortelyou Cornell, daughter of George Lecky Cornell 
and his wife, Isabella Woodbridge Sheldon, daughter of Charles Sheldon, of Hartford, Conn. Mr. 
and Mrs. Douglass have but one child, a daughter, Isabel Douglass, who in 1876 married Charles 
Boyd Curtis, of New York, well known as an author on art matters. They have four children, 
Ellicott Douglass, Charles Boyd, Isabel Woodbridge and Ronald Eliot Curtis. Mrs. Curtis is 
corresponding secretary of the Society of Colonial Dames of the State of New York, and president 
of the Woman's Auxiliary for Domestic Missions of the Diocese of New York. The Douglass and 
Curtis family residence in New York is in East Fifty-fourth Street, and their country home is 
Locustwood, on Milton Point, in Rye, Westchester County. 



WILLIAM DOWD 

GUILFORD is one of the Connecticut towns that were founded by Colonists from England 
who came to America under the leadership of a Puritan clergyman. In this case, the 
pastor was the Reverend Henry Whitfield, who arrived with his flock in 1639. He 
remained in Guilford for some years, but finally returned to England and died there in 1650. 
Among the number who accompanied him to the New World was Henry Dowd, who died in 
Guilford in 1668 and left several children, the most noteworthy of whom was Thomas Dowd, of East 
Guilford. Born in England, Thomas Dowd came to this country with his father as a member of 
the Whitfield Colony. He rose to be a man of mark in the Colony, and died in 1713. In the next 
generation, Thomas Dowd, second of the name, was born at East Guilford in 1684, and died in 
171 1. He was a resident of Killingworth, now Madison, Conn., and lived and died in the old 
homestead, which was standing until a few years ago. The wife of the second Thomas Dowd was 
Silence Evarts, who belonged to the family from which the Honorable William M. Evarts is 
descended. 

Joseph Dowd, grandson of the second Thomas Dowd, was born in Killingworth in 1744 and 
died there in 1809. He married, in 1768, Mary Blatchley, whose ancestors were among the 
Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. Joseph and Mary (Blatchley) Dowd were the grandparents of Mr. 
William Dowd. The father of Mr. Dowd was Joseph Dowd, who was born in Madison, Conn., 
in 1773, and died in Stafford, N. Y., in 1854. He was a landowner and merchant and the 
owner of several ships trading with the West Indies. His third wife, whom he married in 
1820, and who was the mother of Mr. William Dowd, was Polly Dutton, daughter of Deacon 
Joseph Dutton and his wife, Priscilla Stuart, of Royalston, Vt. Priscilla Stuart was born in Scot- 
land and was a daughter of Sir Elkanah Stuart, who was disowned by his family for marrying a 
lady of French Huguenot parentage. 

Mr. William Dowd was born in Batavia, N. Y., August 30th, 1824. Receiving a common 
school education, he went into business when he was twenty years of age and came to New York. 
His first situation was with the firm of Lyman Cook & Co. In two years he became a junior 
member of the concern under the firm name of Cook, Dowd & Baker, afterwards changed to 
Dowd, Baker & Whitman, when he became head of the house. In 1874, Mr. Dowd became 
president of the Bank of North America, retaining that position until his final retirement from all 
business cares, a few years ago. In 1878, he was chairman of the Clearing House Association and 
was reelected the following year. For twenty-one years he was chairman of the finance committee 
of the Importers' & Traders' Insurance Company. He was president of the Hannibal & St. Joseph 
Railroad from 1877 to 1883, and was connected with other important enterprises. 

Actively interested in municipal affairs, Mr. Dowd was appointed a member of the Board of 
Education, and held that position for ten years. He was for four years chairman of the committee 
on finance of the board and several years chairman of the committee on colored schools. He was 
also chairman of the executive committee of the trustees of the College of the City of New 
York. In 1880, he was the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York and, from 1883 to 
1888, was a member of the Aqueduct Commission. 

In 185 1, Mr. Dowd married Maria Eliza Merrill, who was born in Clinton, Conn., in 1824 
and is of Puritan descent. They have had five children. The eldest son is William B. Dowd. 
Colonel Heman Dowd, the second son, is a graduate of West Point, commanded the Eighth 
Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y., and is assistant cashier of the National Bank of North America. He 
married Miss Loveland. Joseph Dowd, the third son, is a merchant, engaged in the woolen busi- 
ness in this city. The youngest son is George M. Dowd, and the only daughter of the family is 
Mary E. Dowd. Mr. Dowd is a member of the Union League Club and the New England 
Society, being treasurer of the latter, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History 
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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MRS. JOSEPH W. DREXEL 

BEFORE her marriage, Mrs. Joseph W. Drexel was Lucy Wharton. She comes of distin- 
guished Pennsylvania lineage, being the daughter of Thomas Lloyd Wharton, of Phila- 
delphia, 1 799- 1 869, and his wife, Sarah Ann Smith, daughter of Richard Rodman Smith. Her 
grandfather was Kearny Wharton, of Philadelphia, 1 76^-1848, a president of the Common Council 
of Philadelphia and one of the most influential citizens of the Quaker City; his wife was Maria 
Saltar, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Gordon) Saltar. 

The great-grandfather of Mrs. Drexel was Thomas Wharton, Jr., 1735-1778. He was presi- 
dent of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania in 1777 and was otherwise conspicuous in 
public life. Thomas Wharton, Jr., was the grandson of Thomas Wharton, who was the son of 
Richard Wharton, of Westmorelandshire, England, and came to this country in the latter part of 
the seventeenth century. The elder Thomas Wharton belonged to the Society of Friends and was 
a member of the Council of the City of Philadelphia. His wife was Rachel Thomas, a native of 
Wales. His death occurred in Philadelphia in 1718 and his widow survived him for twenty-nine 
years, dying in 1747. The great-grandmother of Mrs. Drexel, whom Thomas Wharton, Jr., mar- 
ried in 1762, was Susannah Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, of Philadelphia, who died in 1754, 
and his wife, Susannah (Kearny) Owen, daughter of Philip Kearny, of Philadelphia, and widow 
of Dr. Edward Owen. Thomas Lloyd was the son of Thomas Lloyd and a grandson of Thomas 
Lloyd, the first Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania and president of the Provincial Council, 1684-88 
and 1690-93. The mother of Susannah Kearny was Rebecca Britton, daughter of Lionel Britton. 
Through the Lloyd branch of her ancestry, Mrs. Drexel goes back in fourteen generations from the 
first Thomas Lloyd to Edward I., King of England, by his first wife, the Princess Eleanor, daughter 
of Ferdinand, King of Castile. Among her royal ancestors from King Edward are the Princess 
Joan d'Arce; Gilbert de Clare, a descendant of King Alfred, the Great; Lady Eleanor Holland, a 
descendant of Henry I., King of France, and his wife, Anne of Russia; Sir John de Grey, Earl of 
Tankerville, a descendant of King Henry III., of England; and Lady Antigone Plantagenet, a 
descendant of King Henry IV., of England. 

Joseph W. Drexel, who married Lucy Wharton in 1865, was one of the noted American 
bankers of the last generation. He was born in Philadelphia in 183 1. His father, Francis M. 
Drexel, was a native of Austria and an accomplished artist, who practiced his profession in Phila- 
delphia until 1840, when he entered the banking business, taking into partnership, eventually, his 
three sons. After being connected with his father's banking institution for several years, Joseph 
W. Drexel went to Chicago and established himself in business there. Upon his father's death, he 
returned to Philadelphia and in 1871, in association with Junius S. Morgan, established the banking 
house of Drexel, Morgan & Co. in New York. He was also the head of the house of Drexel, 
Harjes & Co., of Paris, and had a large interest in The Philadelphia Public Ledger. 

After 1876, Mr. Drexel lived in retirement from active business until his death, in 1888. 
Greatly interested in artistic and musical affairs, he was one of the most active supporters of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, president of the Philharmonic Society and director of the Metropolitan 
Opera House, and a trustee of the Bartholdi Statue Fund. He made many generous contributions 
of paintings and other interesting art objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and bequeathed his 
valuable musical library to the Lenox Library. 

Mrs. Drexel has four daughters. Her eldest daughter, Katharine Drexel, married Dr. Charles 
Bingham Penrose, of Philadelphia. Lucy Drexel is the wife of Eric B. Dahlgren, son of Admiral 
Dahlgren. Elizabeth Drexel is the wife of John Vinton Dahlgren, also a son of Admiral Dahlgren. 
The youngest daughter is Josephine Wharton Drexel. Mrs. Drexel lives in Madison Avenue and is 
interested in art and book collecting. She owns one of the most valuable collections of rare books 
and manuscripts in the United States. Her summer residence is Penn Rhyn, a family place, on the 
Delaware River, Bucks County, Pa. 

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ARTHUR DUANE 

ONE of the prominent lawyers of Philadelphia in the first years of the present century, who 
also held a high position in national politics, was the Honorable William John Duane. 
He was born in 1780 in Ireland, where his father, who was an American, was then 
living. He learned the printer's trade, but studied law and became a leader of the Philadelphia 
bar. Among his clients was the famous merchant and philanthropist, Stephen Girard, whose 
confidential friend and adviser he became. He drew the will by which Mr. Girard bequeathed the 
bulk of his fortune to found the college for orphan youths which bears his name. This instrument 
was fiercely assailed in the courts but was never broken, and Mr. Duane was one of the first 
trustees of the college. Entering into public life, he was several times a member of the Legisla- 
ture of Pennsylvania. President Andrew Jackson invited him into his Cabinet as Secretary of the 
Treasury, but in 1833 deprived him of his portfolio because he refused to carry out the wishes of 
the President in the famous controversy with the United States Bank. Mr. Duane was an author 
of repute, publishing several books, among them The Law of Nations Investigated. 

The father of the Honorable William John Duane was William Duane, 1760- 1835, who was 
prominent in politics and journalism in the early days of our National Government. Early in life, 
he left the United States and went to Ireland, where he became a printer and editor. In 1784, he 
went to India and was proprietor of a newspaper there, from which he realized a fortune. 
Falling, however, into disfavor with the East India Company's officials, his property was confiscated 
and he was summarily sent back to England. He established The General Advertiser, in London, 
which was afterwards merged in The London Times, and in 179s returned to the United States, 
becoming editor of The Philadelphia Aurora, the organ of the Republican or Anti-Federalist party. 
President Jefferson appointed him Lieutenant-Colonel in 1805, and he was an Adjutant-General in 
the War of 18 12. In 1822, he went to South America, as a representative of the creditors of 
Columbia and other newly established republics there. He was the author of many valuable 
books, among them, A Visit to Columbia, and The Mississippi Question. He also compiled and 
edited several important works of reference, among them, A Military Dictionary, The American 
Military Library, and An Epitome of the Arts and Sciences. 

Mr. Arthur Duane is the grandson of the Honorable William John Duane, and great- 
grandson of William Duane. Through the female side of his house, he also comes of distin- 
guished ancestors. His grandfather married Deborah Bache, granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. 
The Bache family trace their ancestry to the French province of Normandy. The name was 
originally de la Beche, as it appears in the English records, the immediate ancestors of the 
American branch residing in Yorkshire. Theophylact Bache, whose name is frequently men- 
tioned in this volume, came to this country in 1751 and was one of the most prominent New 
York merchants of the Revolutionary period. Richard Bache, the youngest brother of Theophylact 
Bache, emigrated to America before 1760 and settling in Philadelphia became a wealthy and 
influential merchant. He married in 1767 Sarah Franklin, the only daughter of Benjamin 
Franklin, Mr. Duane's grandmother being one of the three daughters of this marriage. 

The father of Mr. Duane was the Reverend Richard Bache Duane, a distinguished divine 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church and for many years rector of St. John's Church in Providence, 
R. I. He married Margaret A. Tarns, daughter of William Tarns, of London, England, but who 
was long a resident of Philadelphia. Mr. Tarns was a famous shot, cricketer and horseman. Mr. 
Duane's maternal grandmother was Anne Hennessey, who was born in London, England, was 
celebrated for her beauty and was prominent in Philadelphia society. 

Mr. Arthur Duane was born in Honesdale, Pa., May 8th, 1859. His city residence is in West 
Fifty-ninth Street, his country place being Cool Gales, Sharon, Conn. He married in 1886 Julia 
Drake, of Binghamton, N. Y., and has one child, Virginia Richards Duane. He is a member of 
the Calumet Club and also of the Country Club of Westchester County. 

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JAMES GORE KING DUER 

IN the Duers of to-day are united several great Colonial families, their ancestors including Duers, 
de Peysters, Livingstons, Beverlys, Alexanders and others. Colonel William Duer, the first 
American of the name, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1747, son of John Duer, a 
wealthy planter of Antigua, and of Frances Frye, daughter of General Frederick Frye, of the 
British West India service. Educated at Eton, he went to India as an aide-de-camp to Lord 
Clive in 1762, and came to New York in 1768. He was Colonel of the militia, member of the 
New York Provincial Congress, delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777, delegate to the 
first Constitutional Convention of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He married 
Lady Catherine Alexander, daughter of the famous William Alexander, Lord Stirling. 

The Alexander family was of ancient descent in Scotland, its lineage going back to King 
Robert II. It was established in America by James Alexander, who came here in 1716 and 
married a granddaughter of Johannes de Peyster. His only son, William Alexander, Lord 
Stirling, married Sarah Livingston, daughter of Philip Livingston, the second Lord of Livingston 
Manor. He was a Major-General in the Revolution and died in 1783. 

The elder son of William Duer and Catherine Alexander was William Alexander Duer, 
1780-1858, president of Columbia College, 1829-42, whose son, William Denning Duer, 1812-1891, 
married Caroline King, daughter of James Gore King, the New York merchant, son of Rufus 
King, the statesman. Their children were Edward Alexander, James Gore King, Rufus King, 
William Alexander, Denning, Sarah Gracie and Amy Duer. Edward Alexander Duer married 
Anna Vanderpool, daughter of John Van Buren and granddaughter of President Martin Van 
Buren. James Gore King Duer is engaged in the banking business. In 1864, he married 
Elizabeth Wilson Meads, daughter of Orlando Meads, of Albany. He has three daughters, 
Caroline King, Eleanor Theodora, the wife of Joseph Larocque, Jr., and Alice Duer. Rufus King 
Duer, now deceased, was an officer in the United States Navy. William Alexander Duer, 
the fourth son, graduated from Columbia in 1869 and is a member of the New York bar. 
He married Ellin Travers, daughter of William R. Travers and granddaughter of Reverdy Johnson, 
and lives in West Twenty-first Street. He has one child, Katharine Alexander Duer. He belongs 
to the Union, Manhattan, Knickerbocker, Lawyers', City and Riding clubs. Denning Duer is a 
graduate from Columbia College, married Louise Suydam, daughter of Henry Lispenard Suydam, 
and lives in New Haven, Conn. He has one daughter, Caroline Suydam Duer. 

Another branch of this family is descended from John Duer, 1782-1858, second son of Colonel 
William Duer and Catherine Alexander. He was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention 
in 1821 and Associate Judge of the Superior Court, being Chief Justice after 1857. His wife was 
Anna Bunner. William Duer, his son, was born in New York in 1805. Graduated from Columbia 
College in 1824, he practiced law in Oswego, N. Y., and New Orleans. He was a member of the 
Assembly from Oswego in 1840, District Attorney, 1845-47, a Member of Congress, 1847-51, and 
United States Consul to Chili. His wife was his cousin, Lucy Chew, her mother being Maria 
Theodora Duer, daughter of Colonel William Duer. Her father was Beverly Chew, of New 
Orleans, Collector of the Port, 1817-29, president of the branch Bank of the United States and 
Vice-Consul of Russia. 

John Duer, eldest son of William and Lucy (Chew) Duer, born in New York, graduated 
from Columbia in 1859, and is a lawyer. In 1871, he married Sara, daughter of Henry Du Pont, 
of Wilmington, Del. He lives in West Eighty-sixth Street, and his widowed mother lives with 
him. He has two brothers and three sisters, Beverly Chew Duer, a member of the Union Club, 
who married Sophie Lawrence Pool, and has one child, Beverly Duer; Alexander, Maria Theodora, 
Anna Cuyler, and Katharine Alexander Duer, who married C. Vincent Smith. He is a member of 
the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker and City clubs, the Bar Association, the Downtown Association, 
the Columbia College Alumni Association and the St. Nicholas Society. 

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CORNELIUS ROOSEVELT DUFFIE, D. D. 

THE name of the Duffie family was formerly MacDuffie, and more anciently MacDhubhi, 
or MacPhee. The ancestor of the New York branch was Duncan Duffie, born in 
Edinburgh, in 1733. His father, John Duffie, was lost at sea, while on his way to 
America, in 1741. His mother was Catherine Carmichael, of a Huguenot family. Duncan 
Duffie married Mary Thompson, whose mother was Hannah Cannon. He was a commissary, 
with the rank of Major, during the Revolution, and died soon after the war. Elbridge Gerry, 
the signer of the Declaration of Independence, married Mrs. Duncan Duffie's sister. 

John Duffie, 1 763-1808, the son of Duncan Duffie, was the grandfather of Dr. Cornelius 
Roosevelt Duffie. In early life he was engaged in business with his brother-in-law, Cornelius 
C. Roosevelt, and was trustee of the Gold Street Baptist Church. The grandmother of Dr. 
Duffie was Maria Roosevelt, daughter of Cornelius and Margaret (Herring) Roosevelt. Cornelius 
Roosevelt was born in 1731, the son of Johannes Roosevelt, alderman in New York, from 
1717 to 1733. The parents of Johannes Roosevelt were Nicholas Roosevelt, and his wife, 
Heyltje Jans, and his grandfather, Claes Martenson Van Roosevelt, came from Holland, in 1654. 
The maternal grandmother of the Reverend Dr. Duffie descended from Peter Herring and 
Margaret Cozine, the first couple married in the new Dutch Church, in 1662. Her grandparents 
were Peter Herring and Margaret Bogart. Her father was Elbert Herring, born in 1706, and 
her mother, Catherine Lent, a descendant of Abraham Ruyken Van Lent. 

The father of the Reverend Dr. Duffie was the Reverend Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie, 
1 789-1 827, an Episcopalian clergyman, who graduated from Columbia College, in 1809. He 
studied law with his mother's cousin, the Honorable Samuel Jones, afterwards Chancellor of the 
State. For a time he was in business, and, from 181 7 to 1823, was a vestryman of Trinity 
Church. Early in life he was ensign and Lieutenant in the New York Militia. In 1821, he 
began the study of theology, became a deacon in 1823, the following year was ordained a 
priest, and founded and was the first rector of St. Thomas' Church. His wife was Helena 
Bleecker, daughter of James Bleecker, a merchant of New York, whose wife was a daughter 
of the famous Theophylact Bache. Her American ancestor was Jan Jansen Bleecker. 

The Reverend Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie was born in New York, in 1821. He graduated 
from Columbia College, in 1841, and from the General Theological Seminary, in 1845, being 
ordained deacon by Bishop Brownell, the same year. In 1846, he became connected with 
Trinity Church, New York, and in 1848, was the founder and first rector of the Church of St. 
John the Baptist, now, by consolidation, the Church of the Epiphany, of which he is rector 
emeritus. In 1849, he was ordained a priest, and became chaplain of Columbia College, in 
1857, of which he is now chaplain emeritus, and trustee of the General Theological Seminary, 
in 1865. His degree of D. D. was conferred by the University of the City of New York. 

The first wife of the Reverend Dr. Duffie was Sarah Brush Clark, daughter of Joel and 
Mary (Brush) Clark. Joel Clark was a son of Timothy Clark and Patience Osborn. Timothy 
Clark was a nephew of Abraham Clark, member of the Continental Congress from New Jersey, 
and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Sarah Brush (Clark) Duffie died in 1880. 
Dr. Duffie subsequently married Lillian A. Pelton, daughter of John Pelton, who was connected 
with the Honorable Samuel Jones Tilden. Dr. and Mrs. Duffie live at 263 Lexington Avenue ; 
their country seat is at Litchfield, Conn. The Doctor's children are : Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie, 
Jr., who married Edith Normanton Langdon; Archibald Bleecker Duffie, who married Antoinette 
Lerocque Roe, and Jane Antoinette Duffie, the wife of Edward Hamilton Cahill. 

Nearly one hundred local names in and around New York are derived from Dr. Duffie's 
ancestors and connections. Through the Bleeckers, Barclays and Gordons, Dr. Duffie can trace 
his descent to six generations of the Earls of Sutherland, and over twenty generations of Kings 
of England, Scotland and France, a Queen of Castile, and an Empress of Germany. 

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WILLIAM WEST DURANT 

FAMILY tradition and public records connect the Durants of Massachusetts with those of Vir- 
ginia. According to these authorities, George Durant, who was born in Maiden, Mass., in 
1661, was a son or nephew of William Durand, or Durant, who was sent by the Boston 
church in 1644, as ruling elder of the Puritan Congregation in Nansemond County, Va., and also 
nephew or cousin of George Durant, the first English settler of North Carolina. It is believed that 
William Durant was a son of Richard Durant, who was twice Mayor of Bodmin, in Cornwall, 
England, and who died there in 1632. 

George Durant, of Maiden, removed to Middletown, Conn., in 1663. After 1683, he was a 
resident of Lyme, where he died in 1687. Edward Durant, his son, was born in 1652, settled in 
Boston previous to 1686, and in 1691 became the owner of the Lamb Inn, in Washington Street. 
His first wife and the mother of his children was Anne Hall. Edward Durant, second of the 
name, 1695-1740, lived in Winter Street, Boston, in a house adjoining that of Judge Sewall. In 
Newton, he built a house that is still standing on Nonantum Hill. He left an estate appraised at 
nearly twelve thousand pounds, being one of the wealthiest men in the Massachusetts Colony. His 
wife was Judith Waldo, 1692-1785, daughter of Cornelius and Faith (Peck-Jackson) Waldo. 

In the fourth generation was another Edward Durant, 1715-1782, the eldest child of Edward 
Durant, of Newton. Graduated from Harvard College in 1735, he received the degree of M. A. in 
1738 and was one of the leading citizens of Newton. From 1763 to 1775, he was moderator of 
twenty-six town meetings, in 1774 was chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, and in 1774 
and 1775 was a representative to the Provincial Congresses. His wife was Anne Jackson, daughter 
of Captain John Jackson. Thomas Durant, 1746-1831, son of Edward and Anne Durant, of Newton 
and Middlefield, Mass., was engaged in the Lexington-Concord fight in 1775 and served in the 
Continental Line. His wife, whom he married in 1775, was Elizabeth Clark, daughter of William 
Clark, who, although almost sixty years old, took part in the Lexington-Concord fight. Elizabeth 
Clark, 1752-1853, was descended from Thomas Clark, who came to Plymouth, Mass., on the first 
voyage of the Mayflower and, returning to England, came back on the ship Ann in 1623. His 
name appears in the allotment of lands of the Plymouth Colony in 1624. He died in 1697, and 
one of the oldest gravestones on Burial Hill stands to his memory. 

Thomas Durant, second of the name, 1791-1866, married, in 181 5, Sybil Wright, 1788- 1866, 
daughter of Nathan and Mary Wright. He was the son of Thomas Durant and Elizabeth Clark and 
the grandfather of William West Durant. His son, Thomas Clark Durant, was born in Lee, Mass., 
in 1820, was graduated from the Albany Medical College at the age of twenty-one, and engaged in 
the practice of his profession. Later he gave up professional for business pursuits, becoming a 
partner of the firm of Durant, Lathrop & Co., of Albany, which had a large business with European 
ports. In 1848, he turned his attention to railroads in the Great West, and was prominent in 
organizing and developing the Michigan Southern, the Chicago & Rock Island and the Mississippi 
& Missouri railroads. It was due to his enterprise that the Union Pacific Railroad was carried 
through to completion. He was, from 1861 to the time of the driving of the last spike, the vice- 
president and general manager of this great transcontinental railroad and acting president most of 
the time, during the absence of its actual president, General John A. Dix, American Minister to 
France. After this work was accomplished, he continued the construction of the Adirondack 
Railroad, of which he was president. He married, in 1847, Heloise Hannah Timbrel, of England. 
When he died, in North Creek, N. Y., in 1885, he left a widow, a daughter and one son. 

Mr. William West Durant, the only son of Dr. Thomas C. Durant, was born in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., November 23d, 1850. He has been principally interested in railroad enterprises and real 
estate in the Adirondacks. He is a member of the Metropolitan Club and his special interest in 
yachting has led him to confine his further club membership to the New York, Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian, Larchmont, Eastern and other yacht clubs. 



HIRAM DURYEA 

WHILE descending primarily from French ancestors, the Duryea family in this country 
is essentially of Dutch origin. Joost (George) Durie, the ancestor of the family in 
the New Netherland, was a French Huguenot, who, after the revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes, sought a refuge at Manheim, of the Rhenish palatinate. In 1660, he married 
Magdalena LeFevre, and soon after that came to this country. As early as 1675, he was a 
resident of Long Island and lived, for various periods, in New Utrecht, Bushwick and Brooklyn, 
his death occuring in Bushwick, in 1727. 

Abraham Durije, the son of Joost Durije, 1685-1753, the originator of the name here, 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Theodoris and Aertje (Bogart) Polhemius, he the son of the 
Reverend Johannes Polhemius, and she the daughter of Teunis Gysbertsen Bogarts. Daniel 
Durije, the son of Abraham Durije, married a descendant of Laurens Cornelisen Koeck, who 
came over to the New Netherland in 1661, and Gabriel Durije, his grandson, married Femetije 
(or Phcebe) Hoogland, daughter of Cornelius and Sarah (Woertman) Hoogland. Cornelius 
Hoogland was a descendant of Dirck Jansen Hoogland, who came from Naerseveen, Utrecht, in 
1657 ; and Sarah Woertman was descended from Dirck Jansen Woertman, who came from 
Amsterdam, in 1647. 

Gabriel Durije was the great-grandfather of General Hiram Duryea, whose grandfather, 
Cornelius Duryea, was born in 1776. Beginning at that period, the family name was generally 
spelled in its present form of Duryea. The grandmother of General Duryea was Jemima Van 
Nostrand, daughter of John and Hannah (Bedell) Van Nostrand. She was descended from Hans 
Hansen Van Nostrand, who came from Noorstrand, Holstein, in 1739, and also from Robert or 
Daniel Beedle or Beadell, one of the early settlers of Hempstead, Long Island. 

The father of General Duryea was- Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea, who was born in Syosset, 
Long Island, in 1799, and died in 1891. The General's mother was Elizabeth Wright, who was 
born in 1801, was married to Hendrick V. Duryea in 1819, and died in 1881. She was the 
daughter of Zebulon and Catharine Wright, of Glen Cove, Long Island. Zebulon Wright was 
the fifth in descent from Peter Wright, who came, with his brothers, Anthony and Nicholas, 
from the County of Norfolk, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635. Peter Wright 
moved to Long Island in 1653, and was one of the first settlers of Oyster Bay. His sons 
married daughters of the old established families in that section. 

On the female side of his house, as well as through the paternal line, General Duryea 
can trace his descent to most distinguished Colonial ancestry. His grandmother, wife of Zebulon 
Wright, was Catharine Gritman, descended, on the maternal side, from Edward and Faith Dotey, 
who came over on the Mayflower, and his great-great-grandmother was Clemence Feke, daughter 
of Robert Feke, a descendant of Robert Feke, who came over to Massachusetts with Governor 
John Winthrop, and a descendant of William Ludlam, who came from Matlock, England, in 
1655. A generation further back, the wife of Gideon Wright, son of Peter Wright, the pioneer, 
was Elizabeth Townsend, daughter of John Townsend, one of the early settlers of Oyster Bay, 
and of his wife, Elizabeth Montgomerie, a cousin of the Colonial Governor Dongan, of New York. 

General Hiram Duryea was born at Manhasset, Long Island, April 12th, 1834. He received 
a good education in public and private schools, and, at the age of twenty-one, became a partner 
with his father in the starch manufacturing business. He was vice-president and president of 
the Glen Cove Starch Manufacturing Company for many years, and afterwards became president 
of the National Starch Company, which succeeded the Glen Cove Company. 

The military career of General Duryea was very creditable. In 1855, Governor Myron 
Clark commissioned him First Lieutenant of Artillery in the Forty-eighth Regiment of the State 
Militia, a commission which he held for several years. At the beginning of the Civil War, he 
promptly tendered his services to the State, and on April 25th, 1861, was commissioned Captain 

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in the Fifth New York Infantry (Duryee Zouaves), and on August 15th, 1861, was commissioned 
Major in the same regiment, and on September 3d, Lieutenant-Colonel. After the siege of 
Yorktown he commanded the regiment in the Peninsula and Maryland campaigns. In the 
Seven Days' Battles, and in the operations before Richmond, his regiment was specially 
mentioned for its gallantry and efficient services, being one of the most famous New York 
commands in the war, and he was several times commended, in official reports, for distin- 
guished service. He was appointed Colonel of the same regiment October 29th, 1862, and on 
May 26th, 1866, was commissioned by the President of the United States, Brevet Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers " for distinguished conduct at the Battle of Gaines Mills, Va." He retired 
from the service December, 1862, in consequence of permanent injuries received in the field. 

General Duryea was married, in 1868, to Laura D. Burnell, daughter of Leander Burnell 
and Anna Noble (Dewey) Burnell. His children are, Harry H., Chester B., Anna E., and 
Millicent S. Duryea. The General is a member of the Veteran Association of the regiment 
which he commanded during the war, of the Society of the Fifth Army Corps, of the United 
Service Club, and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion 

According to the old records, the Durie family originated in the Province of Burgundy, 
France. The history, traditions and genealogies of the race were published in Nice, France, 
some years ago, and reference is made therein to some of its members having been born in the 
Town of Marcigny. The family was prominent, representatives of it having been distinguished 
as judges, advocates and men of letters, and divines. 

Originally spelled Durie, the name sometimes appeared as Duryer, and in a very remote 
period as Du Ryer. The spelling Duryea, or Duryee, is, of course, a more modern variation 
of the same patronymic. The arms of the family, according to Burke, are : Azure, a chevron 
between three crescents, argent. 

Andre Duryer, or Du Ryer, who was born in Marcigny, in Burgundy, lived in the first 
half of the seventeenth century, and was a Gentleman of the King's Bed Chamber, the French 
diplomatic agent at Constantinople, and the Consul for France at Alexandria, in Egypt. He 
lived many years in the East, was one of the most accomplished Oriental scholars of his time, 
and published a translation of The Gulistan of Saadi in 1634, and one of the Koran in 1647. 
Pierre Duryer, born in Paris, 1605, was a French dramatist and man of letters, and a competitor 
of the celebrated Corneille when the latter was admitted to the French Academy in 1646. 
Charles Henri Durier, who was born in Paris in 1830, was chief in the Bureau of the Minister 
of Justice and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. 

English records show that members of the family emigrated to Scotland about the year 
1500. Among the most eminent members of the Scottish branch of the family have been 
Andrew Durie, who died in 1558, and who was Bishop of Galloway and Abbot of Melrose; 
George Durie, 1496— 1 561 , Abbot of Melrose; Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie, a Scottish 
judge, who died in 1644 ; John Durie, a Scottish Jesuit, who died in 1587; John Durie, 1537- 
1600, a Presbyterian minister of prominence, and Robert Durie, 1 555-1616, also a minister of 
the same denomination. Sir Robert Bruce, of Clackmore, who had the honor of knighthood 
conferred upon him by King James VI., of Scotland, married for his second wife, Helen, 
daughter of Robert Durie, by whom he had one daughter, who became the wife of Alexander 
Shaw, of Sautrie. Andrew Boswell, seventh son of Sir John Boswell, of Balmuto, had a 
daughter, Janet, who became the wife of her cousin, John Durie, of Grange. Andrew, the 
fourth Earl of Rothes, married for his third wife, Janet, daughter of David Durie, of Durie. The 
mother of this Janet Durie was Catharine Ramsey, the daughter of George, Lord Ramsey of 
Dalhousie, and his wife, Margaret, the only child and heiress of Sir George Douglass, of Melinhill. 

Members of the various branches of the Scotch family of Durie have, it is seen, allied 
themselves in marriage to some of the most prominent noble families of that kingdom. The 
identification of this branch of the family with that of the French line, is complete and unmis- 
takable through the records of ancient chronicles and documents and the blazons of heraldry. 



ELISHA DYER 

FROM England to Boston, before 1629, came Edward, George and Tahitha Dyre, two 
brothers and their sister. The son of one brother and the daughter of the other, who 
accompanied their parents, afterwards married and became the ancestors of the Dyer 
family in New England. William Dyre, or Dyer— the name is variously spelled in the old records — 
was a freeman of Boston in 1635. He was one of the company of seventeen persons who, in 1638, 
purchased from the Narragansett Indians the territory that afterwards became the Colony of Rhode 
Island. At the first general court of elections held at Newport, in 1640, he was chosen secretary 
of the Colony. Seven years later, he was a recorder of the General Assembly, and in the 
contest between the New Englanders and the Dutch, of New Amsterdam, was in command of a 
privateer. Mary Dyer, wife of William Dyer, was one of the religious martyrs of New England. 
She became a follower of Ann Hutchinson, and was among those who were ordered to depart 
from Massachusetts in 1659. Subsequently returning to that Colony, she was imprisoned as a 
Quaker and sentenced to death. Through the interposition of her family she was reprieved, but 
upon returning in opposition to a second decree of expulsion, was again taken into custody and 
executed upon Boston Common. 

John Dyer, a grandson of William and Mary Dyer, married Freelove Williams, a great- 
granddaughter of Roger Williams. Their son, Anthony Dyer, was the father of Elisha Dyer, who 
married Frances Jones, a daughter of Esther Jones and a great-granddaughter of Mary Vernon, 
daughter of Gabriel Vernon, of an ancient Huguenot family from La Rochelle, France. The 
Honorable Elisha Dyer, son of Elisha and Frances (Jones) Dyer, was born in Providence, R. I., 
in 181 1, and graduated from Brown University in 1829. Entering upon mercantile life, he became 
his father's partner in 1831, and after the Iatter's death was the owner of the Dyerville Manufac- 
turing Company. For nearly half a century he was one of the most prominent men in Rhode 
Island. In 1840, and for five successive terms, he was Adjutant-General of Rhode Island. In 1857, 
he was elected Governor of the State, and was reelected in 1858, but declined to accept the 
second term. 

General Elisha Dyer, son of the Honorable Elisha Dyer, was born in Providence in 1839. 
He studied in Brown University and at the University of Geissen, in Germany, and graduated from 
the latter in i860 with the degree of Ph. D. During the Civil War, he served in the Rhode Island 
Light Artillery as Lieutenant, and was wounded and promoted to be Major. In 1863, Governor 
James Y. Smith appointed him on his military staff with the rank of Colonel, and after the war 
he commanded the artillery of the State of Rhode Island. His public career began in 1877, when 
he was elected to the State Senate, and in 1881 he was a member of the General Assembly. 
In 1896, he was elected Governor of the State, and was inaugurated in 1897, forty years 
after his father's assumption of that office. In 1861, General Dyer married Nancy Anthony 
Viall, daughter of William and Mary B. (Anthony) Viall. They have three sons, Elisha Dyer, 
Jr., George Rathbone Dyer and Hezekiah Anthony Dyer. 

Mr. Elisha Dyer, Jr., was born in Providence, R. I., in 1862. He was educated in 
St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and was graduated from Brown University. He studied law, 
and was admitted to the bar, but coming to New York engaged in the banking business, and 
for some years has been secretary and treasurer of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company. 
In 1891, Mr. Dyer married Sidney (Turner) Swan, of Newport, R. I. Mrs. Dyer's family has 
been prominent in Baltimore, Md. She is a descendant of the Turners of Virginia and the 
Pattersons of Maryland, her grandfather having been a brother of Madame Jerome Bonaparte. 
Mr. and Mrs. Dyer's residence is in West Thirty-second Street, and their Newport home is 
Wayside, in Bellevue Avenue. He is a member of the Knickerbocker Club. His brother, 
George Rathbone Dyer, a graduate of Brown University, is engaged in business in New York, 
and is a Captain in the Twelfth Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. 

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HENRY EARLE 

FOR nearly five hundred years previous to the beginning of the migration from England to 
this country, members of the Earle family were inhabitants of the territory included in 
the adjoining counties of Dorset, Somerset and Devon. The family is of ancient origin, 
dating to Saxon ancestry prior to the Roman Conquest. Sir Walter Earle, of Charborough, was 
one of the first patriots of the English Revolution of 1649. Ralph Earle, 1606-1678, the American 
progenitor of the family, was contemporary with and probably a kinsman of Sir Walter Earle. 
He came to this country in 1638 or before. In the records of the City of Newport, he appears in a 
list arranged in October, 1638, as "A catalogue of such persons who, by the general consent of 
the company, were admitted to the inhabitants of the island, now called Aqueednec, having sub- 
mitted themselves to the government that is or shall be established according to the word of God 
therein." In 1655, he was a juryman and again in 1669, and was also Captain of the troop of 
horse. By his wife, Joan Savage, he had two sons and three daughters. 

A son of Ralph Earle and the ancestor of the branch of the family to which Mr. Henry Earle 
belongs, was William Earle, who died in 1715. He was a freeman of Portsmouth, R. I., in 1658, 
and afterwards removed to Dartmouth, Mass., where he was living in 1670. He was a deputy 
from Portsmouth to the General Assembly in Providence in 1704, and again to the General 
Assembly in Newport in 1706. His wife was Mary Walker, daughter of John and Katherine 
Walker. His son, Thomas Earle, lived in Portsmouth and Swansea, and died in Warwick, R. I., 
in 1727. The wife of Thomas Earle was Mary Taber, daughter of Philip and Mary Taber, of Dart- 
mouth, Mass. Oliver Earle, of the next generation, was a native of Swansea. For several years 
he lived in New York, where he was engaged in the East India trade. His wife was Rebecca 
Sherman, of Portsmouth, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Trip) Sherman. 

In the succeeding generations from Oliver Earle to Mr. Henry Earle, came Caleb Earle, of 
Swansea, 1729-1812; Weston Earle, of Swansea, 1750-1838; Caleb Earle, of Providence, 1771-1851, 
and Henry Earle, of Providence, 181 5-1854. The first Caleb Earle married Sarah Buffington, 
daughter of Benjamin and Isabel Buffington, and she was the ancestress in the fifth generation of 
Mr. Henry Earle. After the death of his first wife, he married Hannah Chace, daughter of Dani.el 
and Mary Chace. Weston Earle, 1750- 1838, son of Caleb Earle, married Hepzibeth Terry for his 
first wife, and their son, Caleb Earle, second of the name, the grandfather of Mr. Henry Earle, was 
a prominent citizen of Providence and served for one term as Lieutenant-Governor of the State of 
Rhode Island. His wife was Amey Arnold, daughter of Nehemiah and Alice Arnold, of Foster, R. I. 
The father of Mr. Henry Earle was Henry Earle, a son of Lieutenant-Governor Caleb Earle, his 
mother being Mary T. Pitman, daughter of Judge John and Rhoda (Talbot) Pitman, of Providence. 
The children of Henry and Mary T. (Pitman) Earle were: Mary T., who died in infancy; Henry, 
William P., and Joseph Pitman Earle. 

Mr. Henry Earle, the eldest son of Henry and Mary T. (Pitman) Earle, was born in Provi- 
dence, R. I., November 20th, 1843. He is engaged in mercantile business in New York and lives 
in Brooklyn. He married, in 1874, Alice Morse, daughter of Edwin and Abby M. (Clary) Morse, 
of Worcester, Mass., and has had four children, Alice Clary, Mary Pitman, Alexander Morse, and 
Henry Earle, his youngest child, who died in 1892. He belongs to the Downtown Association, 
the Marine and Field, Crescent Athletic, Barnard and Twentieth Century clubs, and is secretary of 
the Brooklyn Club. 

The youngest brother of Mr. Earle, Joseph P. Earle, born in Providence in 1847, was 
graduated from Brown University in the class of 1871, and for many years has been engaged in 
business in New York. He is a member of the Tuxedo, Union League, Union, University, New 
York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Atlantic Yacht and other clubs, belongs to the Down- 
town Association and the Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He lives in East Twenty-sixth Street. 



DORMAN BRIDGEMAN EATON 

AMONG the passengers on the ship Elizabeth and Ann, that sailed from London to the 
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, were John Eaton, his wife Abigail and two children. 
They settled in Watertown, Mass., and the head of the family was a freeman in 1636. 
Subsequently he removed to Dedham, where he died in 1658. He was the ancestor of a family 
that is known in the history of New England as the Dedham Eatons, and which includes many 
representatives who have been distinguished in business and professional life. His son, John 
Eaton, who was born in 1636 and died in 1694, had by his wife Alice seven sons and one daughter, 
and of these sons, Thomas Eaton, who was born in 1675 and died in 1748, having married Lydia 
Gay in 1697, removed to Connecticut and was a man of much influence in Woodstock. David Eaton, 
1706-1777, son of Thomas and Lydia (Gay) Eaton, was three times married: First to Dinah Davis; 
second to Bethia Tiffany, and third, to Patience Kendall. His son, David Eaton, removed to 
Hanover, N. H., and was a prominent citizen there, being an elder in the Presbyterian church in 
1775 and a soldier in one of the Hanover companies of militia in the general alarm of 1777. He was 
the great-grandfather of the Honorable Dorman Bridgeman Eaton. Some of his descendants 
removed to Vermont and became the heads of families of prominence in that State. His grandson 
was the Honorable Nathaniel Eaton, who married Ruth Bridgeman, who was also of the best 
Vermont stock, coming from one of the old families of Caledonia County, in that State. 

The Honorable Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, the son of Nathaniel Eaton and Ruth Bridgeman, 
was born in Hard wick, Vt., in 1823. He was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1848 
and from the Law School of Harvard College in 1850. Admitted to the New York bar in 1851, he 
was early associated with Judge William Kent, whom he assisted in editing the Commentaries of 
the illustrious Chancellor James Kent. He has practiced with success at the bar and is the author 
of several legal works, and of many articles and addresses on similar subjects. Mr. Eaton has been 
one of the conspicuous leaders in the political reform movement, that has characterised the closing 
years of the century, in the United States. His life has been spent in New York, but his labors in 
the cause of civil service reform have given him an international reputation, while he is also an 
authority on municipal administration. An early member of the Union League Club, he was for 
many years chairman of its committee on political reform, and he drafted the laws under which the 
salaried fire department and the metropolitan Board of Health were created. In 1867, he drew up 
the sanitary code for New York and the act organizing the police courts of the city. 

He has made the reform of the civil service virtually his life work. In this cause, he was a 
pioneer and has been the most uncompromising opponent that the spoils system has ever been 
called upon to face. In 1870, he went to Europe and spent three years studying the civil service 
systems of England and the Continental countries. The value of his work was acknowledged by 
President Grant, who made him a member of the first National Civil Service Commission, his pred- 
ecessor being the late George William Curtis. In 1877, ne ag a ' n visited Europe, the result of his 
investigations this time being a volume upon the Civil Service of Great Britain, which was 
published by authority of Congress and by Harper & Brothers. ' He drafted the act passed in 1883 
organizing the United States Civil Service Commission, and was the first commissioner appointed 
thereto by President Arthur. In 1874, he drafted a code for the Government of the District of 
Columbia, at the request of the joint committee of both Houses of Congress. 

Mr. Eaton has written much for the magazines and other periodicals, principally upon sub- 
jects relating to municipal and national government, among his most important essays having been 
The Independent Movement in New York, 1880, Term and Tenure of Office, and Secret Sessions 
of the United States Senate. He married Annie S. Foster and resides in East Twenty-ninth Street. 
He is a member of the Century Association, the Union League and Reform clubs, the leading 
legal societies, including the Bar Association, and the various organizations for municipal and 
civil service reform. 



DAVID S. EGLESTON 

EXETER, Devonshire, was the home of Bagot Egleston, who was born in 1590 and came to 
America in 1630. He married, while in England, Mary Talcott, of Braintree, in Essex. In 
163 1, he was a freeman of Dorchester and a man of influence. Afterwards he removed to 
Windsor, Conn., and died in 1674. His eldest son, John Egleston, married Hester Williams, sister 
of Morgan Williams, and was prominent in the Pequot War. Joseph Egleston, 1700-1774, of 
Windsor, Conn., and Sheffield, Mass., married, in 1730, Abigail Ashley, and thus became allied 
with many prominent New England families. Indeed, the Eglestons, Pattersons, Ashleys and 
Hydes frequently intermarried during the Colonial period. Seth Egleston, 1731-1772, the son of 
Joseph, was born in Westfield, Mass., and died in Sheffield. In 1754, he married Rachel Church, 
1736-1825. 

Major Azariah Egleston, paternal grandfather of the gentleman whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch, was the son of Seth and Rachel (Church) Egleston. He was one of the 
prominent men of western Masssachusetts in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the 
early years of the present century. He was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1757 and died in Lenox in 
1822. He was an active promoter of the famous Berkshire Convention, and it was very largely 
owing to his energetic work that the Solemn League and Covenant was adopted by that body. 
When the Revolution began, he, with his three brothers, enlisted in Captain Noble's Company. 
He was engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill, made the Canadian Campaign and fought at the 
battle of the Cedars and for his gallant conduct there was promoted to be ensign in 1777. He 
participated in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and endured the trials of Valley Forge with the 
army in the winter of 1777-78. He was a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts line in 1780. In 1786 
he was aide-de-camp to Major-General Paterson, with the rank of Major and was active in the 
suppression of Shay's Rebellion, He was subsequently on the staff of Major-General Astley. He 
was a valued friend of Generals Lafayette and Kosciusko, and enjoyed confidential relations with 
General Washington. After the war, he was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati 
and of the Massachusetts branch of that order. He held the position of justice of the peace 
of Berkshire County for nearly thirty years, was a representative to the General Court of Massa- 
chusetts, 1796-99, a State Senator, 1807-09 and Associate Judge of the Court of Sessions in 1808. 

Thomas Jefferson Egleston, father of the gentleman whose name heads this article, was the 
son of Major Azariah Egleston. He was born in Lenox in 1800, and for more than twenty-five 
years was a prominent merchant in New York, where he died in 1861. In 1828, he married Sarah 
Jesup Stebbins, who was born in 1809. The children of this alliance were Thomas Stebbins 
Egleston, who was born in 1829 and died in 1831; David S. Egleston, born in 1830; Thomas 
Egleston, born in 1832; Theophilus S. Egleston, born in 1835 and died in 1838; Sarah Elizabeth, 
born in 1837; William Couch, born in 1839; George Washington Egleston, born in 1843; and 
Henry Paris Egleston, born in 1848 and died in 1886. 

Mr. David S. Egleston is the eldest surviving child of the family. Early in life, he engaged 
in business as a merchant in New York. He married Fannie Hawley and resides in East Thirty- 
fifth Street, near Fifth Avenue. Mr. Egleston is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, and New 
York Yacht clubs, the Century Association, the Downtown Association, the National Academy of 
Design and the New England Society. 

Professor Thomas Egleston, the second son, is a graduate of Yale College and of the School 
of Mines at Paris, France, and became a distinguished professor in Columbia College. He is an 
officer of the Legion of Honor of France. He married Miss McVickar and lives in Washington 
Square. He is a member of the Century Association and the Grolier Club. William Couch 
Egleston, the third surviving son of Thomas J. Egleston, is a graduate of Yale College, a member of 
the Metropolitan and Union clubs and a patron of the National Academy of Design. He resides in 
West Fifty-sixth Street. 



GEORGE WILLIAM ELY 

IN the first two American generations of the Ely family were Nathaniel Ely and his wife, Martha, 
and Samuel Ely and his wife, Mary Day, daughter of Robert Day and Editha Stebbins. 
Nathaniel Ely, who was born in England in 1605, came to Massachusetts in 1634 and was 
one of the first settlers of the town of Hartford. His son, Samuel Ely, was a large property 
owner in Hartford, where he died in 1692. In the third American generation, Samuel Ely, second 
of the name, grandson of the pioneer, was the ancestor in the sixth generation of Mr. George 
William Ely.' He was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1668, and died in West Springfield, in 1732. 
One of the earlier settlers of the town of Springfield, he was prominent in the local affairs of 
that community, being a selectman in 1702, 17 16 and 17 19. He was clerk of the town of West 
Springfield for nineteen years, beginning with 1702. He was twice married. His first wife was 
Martha Bliss, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Leonard) Bliss. She was born in Longmeadow, 
Mass., in 1674, and died in West Springfield in 1702, and was a member of the famous Bliss 
family, that has been prominent and influential in Western Massachusetts since the earliest 
Colonial days. His second wife, whom he married in 1704 and who died in 1766, was Sarah 
Bodurtha, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Bodurtha. 

The third Samuel Ely was born in Springfield, in 1701, and died in West Springfield in 
1758. He married, in 1722, Abigail Warriner, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Day) Warriner. 
Abigail Warriner was descended on both sides from several of the oldest Colonial families of 
Western Massachusetts. She was born in 1703 and died in 1762. Thomas Ely, son of the 
second Samuel Ely, was born in West Springfield in 1725 and died in 1790. His wife, whom 
he married in 1756 and who died in 1807, was Sarah Merrick, daughter of Joseph and Mary 
(Leonard) Merrick. Their son, Captain Darius Ely, was born in West Springfield in 1761 and 
was among the early pioneers to the Western Reserve. He settled in Ravenna, Portage County, 
O., where he died in 1844. His wife was Margaret Ashley, daughter of Joseph Ashley, of West 
Springfield. She was born in 1765, married in 1786, and died in Ravenna in 1838. Joseph 
Merrick Ely, son of Darius and Margaret (Ashley) Ely, was born in West Springfield in 1802. 
Entering Yale College, he was graduated from that institution in 1829, and became one of the 
prominent educators of his generation, being principal of a classical school in New York for 
more than twenty-five years. The latter part of his life was spent in Pennsylvania, and he died 
in Athens, Bradford County, in that State, in 1873. His wife, whom he married in 1834, was 
Juliette Marie Camp, daughter of William and Abigail (Whittlesey) Camp. 

Mr. George William Ely, the son of Joseph M. Ely, was born in New York, January 6th, 
1840. After a thorough education, principally in private schools, he entered upon business life 
and has been for many years one of the prominent stock brokers of Wall Street. He has a seat 
in the Stock Exchange and is a member of the New York, Lawyers', Barnard and Whist clubs. 
Early in life, he joined the Seventh Regiment, and in 1862 went to the front as Captain, being 
the youngest Captain that the Seventh Regiment ever had. In 1864, Mr. Ely married, in Sey- 
mour, Conn., Frances Almira Wheeler, daughter of Henry and Nancy (Hotchkiss) Wheeler. For 
many years the residence of the family was in Brooklyn, but is now in West Eighty-eighth Street, 
near Central Park. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ely have three children. Their elder son, Henry Bidwell Ely, who was born in 
New York in 1866, graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1888, is a lawyer, and one 
of the trustees of the William Astor estate. He belongs to the University, New York Athletic, 
Church and AA$ clubs and to the Columbia College Alumni Association. He married Lillian 
E. Kissam and lives in West Twenty-sixth Street. The second son, Leonard W. Ely, who was 
born in Brooklyn in 1868, is a graduate from Columbia College and a practicing physician. He 
belongs to the New York Athletic Club and the Columbia College Alumni Association. The 
youngest child of the family is Agnes Merrick Ely. 



THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, M. D. 

THE Emmets, who have been prominent in New York for three-quarters of a century, come 
from the stock made famous by the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet, who was executed in 
Dublin in 1803, and whose name has been from that time a rallying cry of Irish liberty. 
The father of Robert Emmet was a prominent physician in Dublin. His eldest son, Thomas 
Addis Emmet, who was the first of the family to come to this country, was born in Cork, 
April 24th, 1764. He was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and from Edinburgh Uni- 
versity in 1784, studied law in the Temple and was admitted to the Dublin bar in 1791. Becoming 
a leader of the United Irishmen, he was apprehended by the British authorities and confined in 
Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, and in Fort George, Scotland, for nearly four years, being liberated and 
exiled from his native land after the Treaty of Amiens. In 1804, he came to the United States. 

In this country the talented advocate and Irish patriot soon rose to a position of prominence 
as a leader of the New York bar, and in 1812 became Attorney-General of the State. He died 
suddenly in 1827, while conducting a case in the United States Circuit Court, and was buried 
in the Marble Cemetery in Second Street, near Second Avenue. A monument to his memory 
stands in St. Paul's churchyard, in Broadway. Close by, in the same cemetery, is another shaft to 
the memory of Dr. William J. McNevin, the personal friend and revolutionary associate of Emmet, 
in collaboration with whom he wrote Pieces of Irish History. Several sons of Thomas Addis 
Emmet were prominent in New York during the first half of the present century. Robert Emmet, 
1 792- 1 873, was a lawyer and a leader in the contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848. Another son, 
Thomas Addis Emmet, 1798-1863, was a lawyer and Master in Chancery. A grandson, Thomas 
Addis Emmet, 1818-1880, was a civil engineer, for a long time connected with the aqueduct 
department of the City of New York. 

The second son of Thomas Addis Emmet was Dr. John Patten Emmet, who was born in 
Dublin in 1797 and died in New York in 1842. He was at West Point for three years, and 
studied medicine for four years under Dr. William J. McNevin. Graduating with the degree of 
M. D. from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, he practiced in Charleston, S. C, 
1822-24, ana * was then for many years professor of chemistry and natural history in the University 
of Virginia. He published many papers, principally upon chemistry, and was a sculptor of 
considerable skill. 

Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, the present representative of the name, is the son of Dr. John 
Patten Emmet, and was born in Virginia, May 29th, 1828. He studied in the institution with 
which his father was connected, and then, graduating in medicine from the Jefferson Medical 
College of Philadelphia in 1850, began the practice of his profession in New York. In 1855, he 
became assistant surgeon to the Woman's Hospital, and in 1862 was promoted to be surgeon- 
in-chief, which position he held for ten years and then became one of the board of surgeons, 
and has remained as a visiting surgeon until the present time. He has written many papers 
upon medical subjects, and is the author of several publications in book form, among them, 
The Treatment and Removal of Fibroids, and The Principles and Practice of Gynecology, the 
latter being a standard work, published in the United States, England, Germany and France. 

Dr. Emmet married Kate Duncan and has several children, his son, Dr. J. Duncan Emmet, 
being one of the assistant surgeons of the Woman's Hospital. The other children are Mrs. 
Charles N. Harris, Kathleen Emmet, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jr., and Robert Emmet, who, in 
1897, married Louise, daughter of James A. Garland, of this city. Belonging to the chief 
medical societies of this country, Dr. Emmet has been elected an honorary member of many 
prominent bodies of that character in Europe. In 1897, Notre Dame University, of La Porte, Ind., 
awarded him the Laetare Medal, which is annually bestowed upon the most distinguished Ameri- 
can Roman Catholic and which is regarded as one of the highest honors that can be paid in 
this country to lay members of that church. 



AMOS RICHARDS ENO 

UNDOUBTEDLY of Huguenot origin, the Eno family emigrated to England from France, 
where the name was Hennot, or Henno, and also existed in other forms of spelling. For 
a long time the family was established in Colchester, Essex County, England, where its 
members were people of high standing and influence. In this country the name has been variously 
spelled, Enno, Eno, Enos, Enoe, Eanos. The Rhode Island branch of the family has always used 
the name with a final s; the Delaware Enos are descended from the Rhode Island family. 
James Enno, the first American ancestor of that branch of the family to which the subject of this 
sketch belongs, was a native of London. He studied medicine and surgery in the institution in 
which the celebrated Sir Astley Cooper and others were afterwards apprentices, and, coming to 
this country in the early part of the seventeenth century, settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1648, where 
he married Anna Bidwell, daughter of Richard Bidwell. She died in 1657, and he married for his 
second wife Elizabeth Holcombe, widow. For his third wife, he married Hester Egleston, who 
was born Williams, the first white child in Hartford. 

In the second generation, James Eno, son of the pioneer, was a soldier in the Indian Wars 
and fought in the famous Swamp Fight against the King Philip Indians. He married Abigail 
Bissell, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Holcombe) Bissell, and died in 1714. The son of the 
second James Eno was David Eno, of Simsbury, Conn., 1702-1745. David Eno was a soldier in 
the French-Indian War, and died while taking part in the Cape Breton campaign. He married 
Mary Gillet, daughter of Nathan Gillet, and descended in the third generation from Nathan Gillet, 
who came from England to Connecticut in 1634. Jonathan Eno, of Simsbury, son of David Eno, 
was the grandfather of Mr. Amos Richards Eno. He died in 1813. His wife was Mary Hart, daugh- 
ter of Elijah and Abigail (Goodrich) Hart, of Berlin, Conn., and a descendant from Stephen Hart, 
who came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1630. She was born in 1744 and died in 1834. Salmon Eno, 
1779-1842, father of Mr. Amos Richards Eno, was a man of prominence in Simsbury, and a 
member of the Connecticut Legislature in 1834. He had a family of six children; Emmeline, who 
married Ozias B. Bassett; Aaron Richards; Salmon Chester; Mary, who married Milton Humphrey; 
Jane, who married, first, Horatio Lewis, and second, Paris Barber; and Amos Richards. 

Mr. Amos Richards Eno, present head of this family, was born in Simsbury in 1810. When 
he was a young man about twenty-one years of age, he came to New York and, in partnership 
with his cousin, John J. Phelps, opened a dry goods store. The new firm was soon one of the 
leading wholesale houses in the city. Mr. Eno continued in this business for nearly twenty years, 
when the firm was dissolved. Meantime he had become largely interested in real estate in New 
York, and thenceforth devoted himself to those interests. Through his real estate transactions, he 
accumulated a handsome fortune, and has long been rated as one of the most substantial real estate 
owners in New York. He has been a director of the Second National Bank, and a member of the 
Reform Club and the New England Society, and has been connected with many other leading 
financial institutions and social organizations. Mr. Eno married Lucy Jane Phelps, daughter of 
the Honorable Elisha and Lucy (Smith) Phelps, of Simsbury. Mr. Phelps was a member of the 
National House of Representatives from Connecticut and Speaker of the House in 1821 and 1829. 

Amos F. Eno is the eldest son of Mr. Amos R. Eno. He was born in New York and has 
been chiefly engaged throughout his business life in real estate transactions. He is a member of the 
Manhattan and Union League clubs, the Century Association, the Downtown Association, the New 
England Society and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the American Museum 
of Natural History. 

Other children of Mr. Eno are: Mary J., Anna Maria, Henry Clay, Antoinette, John 
Chester, and William Phelps Eno. Henry Clay Eno was graduated from Yale College in i860, 
received the degree of A. M. in 1863, and the degree of M. D. from Columbia College in 1864, 
and has resided for some years in Saugatuck, Conn. 



JOHN ERVING 

ONE of the most distinguished families of New York and New England is that to which 
Mr. John Erving belongs. He is descended from General William Shirley, Colonial 
Governor of Massachusetts Bay, and from the Langdons, who in early Colonial and 
Revolutionary times were prominent in the affairs of New Hampshire and have been related in 
marriage to the Astors, Kanes, Van Rensselaers and other great families of New York. The 
remote ancestors of Mr. Erving were King Henry I., of France, and his wife, Anne of Russia, 
daughter of the Grand Duke Jaroslaus, of Russia. The line of lineage is through Prince Hugh, the 
Great, son of King Henry and his wife, Lady Adela, who was descended from Edward, King of 
England; Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester and Mellent, and his successors; the Barons and 
Baronesses of Dudley, down to Edmund Sutton de Dudley, in the sixteenth century, who married 
Lady Maud, daughter of the eighth Lord of Clifford, and was the father of Thomas Dudley, 
the great-grandfather of Thomas Dudley, the American immigrant. 

Thomas Dudley was born in Cannon's Ashby about 1576. At the siege of Amiens, he 
commanded a company of Northamptonshire men. He was steward to the Earl of Lincoln 
until 1630, when he came to America with Governor John Winthrop. Before leaving England, 
he was chosen Assistant and Deputy-Governor of the Massachusetts Colony, was elected Governor 
in 1634, and for three times thereafter, and in 1644, was Commander-in-Chief of the Colonial 
forces. He died in Roxbury, Mass., in 1653. The Reverend Samuel Dudley, son of Thomas 
Dudley, was born in England about 1606, and came to this country with his father. He was 
a deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts for several years. By his first wife, Mary 
Winthrop, daughter of Governor John Winthrop, whom he married in 1632, he had a daughter, 
Elizabeth, who married Judge Kinsley Hall, of Exeter, N. H. The granddaughter of Judge 
Kinsley Hall and his wife, Elizabeth Dudley, was Mary Hall, who married John Langdon, 
of Portsmouth, N. H., and became the mother of Governor John Langdon. 

Governor Langdon was one of the most distinguished members of a family that stood 
high in public councils and wielded great influence in New Hampshire in the last century. He 
was born in 1740 and died in 1819, was a delegate to the General Congress in 1775, a Judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas in 1776, Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire, 
1776-82 and 1804-05, delegate to the Continental Congress in 1783, a State Senator in 1784, 
Governor of the State, 1785-88 and 1805-11, and United States Senator for twelve years after 
1789. A brother of Governor John Langdon was Judge Woodbury Langdon, delegate to the 
Continental Congress in 1779 and Judge of the Superior Court, 1762-91. Caroline Langdon, 
daughter of Judge Woodbury Langdon, married Dr. William Eustis, who was Governor of the 
State of Massachusetts, 1823-25. Walter Langdon, son of Judge Woodbury Langdon, married 
Dorothea Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor, and became the head of a family that has been 
prominent in New York business and social life for several generations. Governor Langdon 
was the grandfather of Mr. Erving. His wife, whom he married in 1777, was Elizabeth Sherburn. 
His eldest daughter, Catharine C. Langdon, married Benjamin Woolsey Rogers, and his second 
daughter, Eleanor E. Langdon, became the wife of Dr. Edmund Delafield. The father of Mr. 
Erving was Colonel John Erving, U. S. A., who died in 1862. His mother was Emily S. Elwyn 
Langdon, the fourth child of Governor Langdon. 

Mr. John Erving was born in 1833 and was graduated from Harvard College in 1853. 
He has been in the active practice of his profession as a lawyer in New York for more 
than forty years. He married Cornelia Van Rensselaer, daughter of William and Sarah (Rogers) 
Van Rensselaer, of Albany, N. Y. His sons are J. Langdon Erving and William Van Rensselaer 
Erving, and he has several daughters. His city residence is in West Twenty-second Street, 
and he has a country home at Manursing Island, Rye, N. Y. He is a member of the Union 
League, Harvard and City clubs and the Bar Association. 



WILLIAM MAXWELL EVARTS 

LIKE many of New York's most eminent citizens, Mr. William M. Evarts is of New England 
descent. His father, Jeremiah Evarts, was born at Sunderland, Vt., in 1781, was graduated 
from Yale College in 1802, and in 1804 married Mrs. Mehitabel Barnes, daughter of Roger 
Sherman, 1721-1793, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and a member of the 
committee which drafted it. Jeremiah Evarts practiced law at New Haven for some years, but 
becoming interested in religious work, he removed in 1810 to Charlestown, Mass., and till his 
death in 183 1, was identified with the cause of foreign missions. He was editor of The Panoplist, 
and of its successor, The Missionary Herald. In 1812, he became treasurer of the American Board 
of Foreign Missions, and in 1821 was made its corresponding secretary, a position he retained till 
his death. The Honorable William Maxwell Evarts, his son, was born at Charlestown, Mass., 
February 6th, 1818. He received his education at the Boston Latin School, and entering Yale 
College graduated in 1837. He then taught school, attended the Harvard Law School, and finally 
entered the law office of Daniel Lord, the celebrated lawyer in this city. Admitted to the bar in 
1841, he formed a partnership from which the law firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman originated. 

Mr. Evarts' legal and political career were to a large extent interwoven, owing to the fact 
that he was universally recognized by the profession and the public as one of the ablest 
constitutional and international lawyers this country ever possessed. In i860, he was chairman 
of the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, supporting 
William H. Seward. For some years afterwards he was mainly occupied with causes before the 
Supreme Court, but in 1863 went to England, for the Government, on a confidential mission. 

In 1 868, he came prominently before the country for his defense of Andrew Johnson in the 
impeachment proceedings. At their conclusion, he was appointed by President Johnson Attorney- 
General of the United States, which office he held for the remainder of that administration. In 
1871, President Grant appointed him the leading counsel for the United States (his associates 
being the late Chief Justice Waite and Caleb Cushing) to present this country's case before the 
international tribunal at Geneva, under the treaty of Washington. The result, an award of 
fifteen million dollars, paid by England to the United States, for depredations on our commerce 
committed by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers fitted out in England during the Civil 
War, was largely due to Mr. Evarts' diplomatic skill and the knowledge of international law 
displayed in his presentation of the case. In 1875-76, Mr. Evarts was senior counsel in the defense 
of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher. In the early months of 1877, he appeared as the leading 
counsel for the Republicans before the Electoral Commission. President Hayes then appointed 
Mr. Evarts Secretary of State, which office he filled with honor to himself and the country. 
In 1881, he was appointed by President Garfield a delegate to the International Monetary Conference 
at Paris, and in 1885 one of his few personal ambitions was fulfilled by an election as United States 
Senator for this State. At the conclusion of his Senatorial term he gradually retired from public life. 

Few lawyers of such eminence have ever been so popular with their professional associates 
as Mr. Evarts. He was the first president of the New York Bar Association, which office he 
held for ten years, and he has long been a member of the Union, Union League, Century and other 
clubs, of the New England Society and of many social and literary bodies. His reputation as 
an orator is also deservedly high. The public occasions on which he appeared in this role 
include a eulogy of Chief Justice Chase at Dartmouth College in 1875, the Centennial oration at 
Philadelphia in 1876, and that at Newburgh in 1893, as well as addresses at the unveiling of the 
Seward and Webster statues in New York, and of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty. 

Mr. Evarts married Helen Minerva Wardner, daughter of Allen Wardner, of Windsor, Vt. 
Their surviving children are Allen Wardner Evarts, Mrs. Charles C. Beaman, Mary Evarts, Mrs. 
Charles H. Tweed, Mrs. Edward C. Perkins, Sherman Evarts, the Reverend Prescott Evarts, 
Mrs. Charles D. Scudder, and Maxwell Evarts. 



CHARLES STEBBINS FAIRCHILD 

FOR two generations, in the person of father and son, the Fairchilds have exercised a 
potent influence in the business and political life of the Empire State. The father, 
Sidney T. Fairchild, eldest son of John and Flavia Fairchild, was born in Norwich, N. Y., 
November 15th, 1808. His parents removed to Cazenovia when he was a mere child, and he 
attended the seminary in that place, going afterwards to Hamilton College and then to Union 
College, being graduated from the latter institution in 1829. After studying law in Cazenovia, he 
was admitted to the bar in 1831, and removed to Utica, where he began the practice of his 
profession. His marriage in 1834 to Helen Childs, daughter of Perry G. Childs, of Cazenovia, 
brought him back to that place to reside, and there, in 1835, he became a member of the law firm 
of Stebbins & Fairchild. Corporation law was his specialty, and he soon became one of the leading 
members of the bar in that section of the State. He was made attorney of the Syracuse & 
Utica Railroad, which afterwards became a part of the New York Central system, and from 1858 
until his death, in 1889, was the general attorney of the New York Central Railroad. 

An accomplished gentleman and lawyer, Sidney T. Fairchild made a great reputation, and 
was very successful in his professional career. Outside of his legal practice, he had important 
business interests. He was a director and the secretary and treasurer of the third Great Western 
Turnpike Railroad Company, a director of the Madison County Bank, president of the Cazenovia 
& Canastota Railroad, and a trustee of the Union Trust Company of New York. He was a 
Democrat of deep convictions and active in the party councils. Although a leader in conventions 
and in shaping the party policy in the State, he never accepted public office, although such honors 
were many times tendered him. He was the valued adviser and esteemed friend of such great 
Democrats as Horatio Seymour, Dean Richmond, John T. Hoffman, Samuel J. Tilden, Lucius 
Robinson and Grover Cleveland. 

The Honorable Charles Stebbins Fairchild was born in Cazenovia, N. Y., April 30th, 1842. 
Prepared for college in the Cazenovia Seminary, he was graduated from Harvard College in 1863 
and from the Law School of Harvard in 1865. He studied law in Albany, was admitted to the bar 
in 1866, and a few years later became a member of the firm of Hand, Hall & Swartz. In 1874, 
Attorney-General Daniel Pratt appointed him Deputy Attorney-General of the State, and in the 
following year he was nominated for the position of Attorney-General on the Democratic ticket, 
and elected by a substantial majority. After a term of two years as Attorney-General, he spent 
two years in travel and study in Europe, and then settled to the practice of law in New 
York City. 

In 1885, Mr. Fairchild entered upon a larger career of public usefulness, when President 
Grover Cleveland appointed him Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury. When Secre- 
tary Daniel Manning broke down in health under the strain of the labors of the Treasury 
Department, Mr. Fairchild became Acting Secretary, and upon the resignation of Mr. Manning in 
1887, was advanced to the position of Secretary, remaining a member of the Cabinet until the 
close of President Cleveland's first administration in 1889. 

Since 1889, Mr. Fairchild has been the president of the New York Security & Trust 
Company. He is one of the leaders of the anti-machine Democrats of the State, and as such took 
an active and influential part in the campaign for the nomination and election of Grover Cleveland 
to the presidency in 1892, and in the municipal reform movement that resulted in the overthrow of 
Tammany Hall in 1894. In 1897, he was prominent in the Citizens' Union political movement, and 
was a candidate of that party for Comptroller in the first Greater New York municipal campaign. 
He belongs to many of the leading clubs, including the Metropolitan, University, Century and 
Reform. He married, in 1871, Helen Lincklean, daughter of Ledyard and Helen Clarissa 
(Seymour) Lincklean, of Cazenovia, N. Y. The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild is in 
Clinton Place, and they have a country home, Lorenzo, at Cazenovia. 



WILLIAM HENRY FALCONER 

PIERRE FAUCONIER, a Huguenot of Tours, came to England with his wife, Magdalene 
Pasquereau, and was naturalized in London in 1685. In 1702, he migrated to New York 
and became a merchant here, being also high in favor with the two Colonial Governors, 
Lords Bellamont and Cornbury. In 1705, he was made Collector of Customs and Receiver-General 
of the Province, and obtained large grants of land, among them being a patent to a tract within the 
town of Rye, and it was in Westchester County that the family he founded became permanently 
established; the name of Fauconier after the first generation being changed to its English equivalent, 
Falconer. 

His second son, John Falconer, of East Chester, who was born in 1747 and married Elizabeth 
Purdy, had a distinguished Revolutionary record. He is named among the officers of the 
Revolutionary Army in the military archives of the State of New York. At the outbreak of the 
revolt from Great Britain, he raised a company of troops in Westchester and fought as Captain and 
aide-de-camp to General Washington at the battle of Chatterton Hill, near White Plains. In a 
subsequent engagement, he was captured by the British, and was for a long time confined on the 
Jersey prison ship. When the French allies moved from Rhode Island to the South, prior to the 
Yorktown campaign, the Due de Lauzan, second in command to Rochambeau, made the Falconer 
mansion, on Broadway, White Plains, his headquarters, the circumstances connected with this 
event being described in an article in The Magazine of American History. The entertainment of 
the French commander and his officers was for years remembered in that vicinity. After the war, 
General Falconer, as he was called, was one of the most influential citizens of Westchester County, 
and was elected for eighteen consecutive terms supervisor of the town of White Plains. 

The present representative of this family in New York society, Mr. William Henry Falconer, 
is a great-grandson of the Revolutionary hero. He was born in this city in 1830, and is the son of 
David Falconer, of New York, a grandson of Rodger Falconer, of White Plains. Mr. Falconer was 
educated at Canandaigua Academy, New York, and was for many years identified with large real 
estate operations, but has withdrawn from all active cares concerning the details of his extensive 
property in the city, and has devoted himself to a life of cultured leisure and travel. 

Mr. Falconer married Margaret Culbertson McLean, of Fayetteville, Pa., a lady whose family 
were old settlers in the Cumberland Valley, and prominent in the Revolution. The Culbertsons, 
from whom Mrs. Falconer is descended, through her mother, were also highly distinguished among 
the pioneers of Western Pennsylvania, and took an active part in the historical events which 
occurred in that region before and subsequent to the Revolution. Their family history and 
genealogy constitutes a record of great interest. They have three children, Bruce McLean Falconer, 
Elizabeth DeHass Falconer and Sarah Louise Falconer, none of whom are as yet married. 

Mr. Falconer is a member of the Union League, and a life member of the St. Nicholas 
Society. His travels have been of an extensive character, embracing all portions of the United 
States, from Mexico to Alaska, as well as several visits to Europe. In the year 1890, his entire 
family accompanied him in a journey around the world. China, Japan, India, the Nile, the Orient, 
and the Continent of Europe were visited in turn ; this tour, which occupied three years, terminating 
in 1892, being replete with interest of every kind. During their journey, Mr. and Mrs. Falconer 
and their family, who were specially accredited by the late Mr. Blaine (then Secretary of State) to 
the representatives of the United States at foreign courts, were presented to Queen Victoria, the 
Princesses Louise and Beatrice, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII., the Empress of Japan, the King of 
Greece, the Sultan of Turkey, and the Khedive of Egypt. 

No small portion of Mr. Falconer's attention has been given to hospitals and benevolent 
institutions, which he has served as trustee and in other capacities. He is also the owner of a 
collection of fine paintings, his tastes and preferences in that direction being for the work of 
American artists. 

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GUSTAVUS FARLEY 

THE first Farley in New England was Michael, who came from England to Ipswich, Mass., 
with his two sons about 1675. The object of his coming was to attend to some of the 
American interests of Sir Richard Saltonstall. Mesheck Farley, of Ipswich, Mass., the son 
of Michael Farley, the pioneer, was born in England about 1662, and came to this country with 
his father and his brother Michael. He married here Sarah Burnham, daughter of Lieutenant 
Thomas Burnham, of Ipswich, and died in 1696. Lieutenant Thomas Burnham was a member of 
the expeditions against the Pequot Indians under Endicott in 1636, and Stoughton in 1637. 

A grandson of Michael Farley, the American founder of the family, was General Michael 
Farley, of Ipswich, who was born there in i7ic;and died in 1789. For many years he was a 
representative to the General Court of the Massachusetts Colony, and was a member of the 
Provincial Congress, 1766-79. In 1774, he was chosen a councilor, but his election was negatived 
by General Gage, who had placed him under the ban with such other eminent patriots as Bowdoin* 
Winthrop and Adams. At one time, he was a Major-General of the militia, succeeding General 
Warren, and also a member of the executive council of the Governor of Massachusetts. He 
married, in 1745, Elizabeth Choate, of the notable Essex family of that name. The epitaph upon 
his tomb, in North Cemetery, at Ipswich, Mass., refers to him "the Honorable Michael Farley, 
Esq., Major-General of the militia and Sheriff of the County of Essex, who died June 20th, 1789, 
y£r. 70. With a mind open, honest and generous, with a heart alive to humanity and compassion, 
he served for many years in various stations, public, private and honorable, his neighbors and his 
country, with such integrity, zeal and diligence as merited an extensive approbation and rendered 
his death justly regretted." The epitaph of his wife refers to her as "Mrs. Elizabeth Farley, 
consort of the late General Farley." 

Robert Farley, who was born in Ipswich in 1760, the son of General Michael Farley, died in 
the place of his birth in 1823. Although he was only fifteen years of age when the Revolution 
began, he enlisted in the following year and served throughout the war. Part of the time he was 
confined in the English prison ship Jersey, in New York harbor. After the war he maintained his 
interest in military matters and became Major in the militia. In civil life, he was High Sheriff of 
Essex County, and at one time Collector of Internal Revenue. The wife of Robert Farley, whom 
he married in 1786, was Susannah Kendall, descended from Francis Kendall, who came to this 
country from England before 1640, when a young man under twenty years of age, and was one of 
the earliest settlers in the town of Woburn, Mass. 

Mr. Gustavus Farley is the grandson of Robert Farley and his wife, Susannah Kendall. His 
father was Gustavus Farley, of Cambridge, Mass., who was born in Ipswich in 1814 and died at 
Cambridge in 1897, and who married Amelia Frederika Neuman, of Ipswich, a native of Gotten- 
burg, Sweden. The subject of this sketch was born in Chelsea, Mass., July 4th, 1844. He was 
educated in private schools, and soon after he was seventeen years of age went to England. 
After several years abroad, he returned to his home, and in 1864 went to Hong Kong, China. He 
spent two years in China and then resided in Japan, where he was in business for seventeen years. 
Returning to the United States in 1883, he has since been in mercantile life in New York City. 
The wife of Mr. Farley was Katharine Sedgwick Cheney, daughter of Frank Cheney, of South 
Manchester, Conn. The father of Mrs. Farley belongs to the celebrated Cheney family, which has 
been so prominent in the development of silk manufacturing in the United States. Distinguished 
members of the family have been Charles Cheney, the father of Colonel Frank W. Cheney, now 
the head of the firm of Cheney Brothers; Ward Cheney; Seth Wells Cheney, the artist; John 
Cheney, the engraver, and Ednah D. Cheney, the authoress and wife of Seth Wells Cheney. 

Mr. and Mrs. Farley live at 42 East Twenty-fifth Street. They have one son, Frank Cheney 
Farley, born at Yokohama, Japan, in 1880. Mr. Farley is a member of the Union, Century and 
New York Yacht clubs, the Downtown Association, and the Sons of the Revolution. 



PERCIVAL FARQUHAR 

THE family to which Mr. Percival Farquhar belongs is 01 mingled Scotch, English and 
German ancestry. His great-great-great-grandfather, William Farquhar, came from 
Scotland in the "closing years of the seventeenth century, on account of religious causes, 
and brought with him a company of his coreligionists, settling in Frederick County, Md. 
The earlier ancestors of the family were chiefs of the Scottish clan Farquhar 

On the maternal side, Mr. Farquhar descends from Robert Brook, of the House of War- 
wick who was born in London, in 1602, and who in 1635 married Mary Baker Mainwaring, 
daughter of Ro<*er Mainwaring, Dean of Worcester. In 1650, Robert Brook, with his wile, 
ten children and twenty-eight servants, came to this country and settled in Charles County, 
Md He became commandant of the county and president of the Council of Maryland. His 
descendants spread throughout that Colony, some of them settling in Montgomery County, 
where they married into the Farquhar family. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Percival Farquhar, Amos Farquhar, removed to Pennsylvania, 
in 1812, and became a cotton manufacturer. This business not proving successful, after the 
close of the War of 1812, he returned to Maryland, where he had charge of a seminary at Fair 
Hill. Arthur B. Farquhar, grandson of Amos Farquhar, and the father of the present Mr. 
Farquhar, was born in Montgomery County, Md., in 1838. He was instructed at a private 
school for boys at Alexandria, Va., and his talent for mechanics showing itself early, his 
education was completed in the line of a thorough practical mechanical instruction. He then 
went to York, Pa., engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements, and finally established 
the A. B. Farquhar Company of that place. Arthur B. Farquhar has been a student of political 
economy, finance and the tariff throughout his life, and has written many essays and pamphlets on 
finance, and a book entitled, Economic and Industrial Delusions. He has held many responsible 
public positions, especially in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, of which he was 
a commissioner, and president of the National Organization of Executive Commissioners. He 
married Elizabeth N. Jessop, daughter of Edward Jessop, of Baltimore, president of the Short 
Mountain and Tunnelton Coal Companies, and head of the firm of Jessop & Fulton. 

Mr. Percival Farquhar, son of A. B. Farquhar, was born in York, Pa., and educated at 
the York Collegiate Institute, and at Yale College, from which he graduated with the degree 
of Ph. B., in 1884. After a course of study at the Columbia Law School, he was admitted to 
the bar in 1886. For one year, 1887, he was president of the Columbus and Hocking Valley 
Coal and Iron Company. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of law, is 
connected with important business enterprises and is active in politics. In 1889, he was defeated 
in a campaign for the Assembly in the Third New York City District, but the following year 
was elected by a majority of two thousand, reelected in 1891, and again in 1892. He was one 
of the leading members of the Assembly, and established a reputation for knowledge of public 
affairs. Especially interested in the electoral franchise, he introduced and had charge of much 
important legislation relating to that subject, including the New York City Inspection Bill, the 
Personal Registration Bill, the Ballot Reform Amendments, the Codification of Laws relating to 
the Ballot, the Revisions of the Penal Code, and various measures affecting the National Guard. 
Mr. Farquhar has been actively interested in the militia. He joined the Seventh Regi- 
ment in 1887, and in 1888 accepted a commission in the Second Battery of Artillery, where he 
was promoted to be Second Lieutenant and then First Lieutenant. He is one of the board of 
managers of the A. B. Farquhar Company, of York, Pa., a member of the firm of A. B. Farquhar 
& Co., of New York, and vice-president of the New York and Staten Island Land 
Company. He is a member of many clubs and social organizations ; among them, the Southern 
Society and the United Service, Manhattan, Reform, Calumet, Lawyers', Seventh Regiment 
Veteran, Democratic, Tuxedo, Riding and University Athletic clubs. 



SIGOURNEY WEBSTER FAY 

FOR two centuries, the members of the Fay family have been among the most prominent 
citizens of a cluster of towns near the central part of the State of Massachusetts. They 
have held town offices, have been members of the State Legislature, leading merchants, 
and otherwise active and influential in their several communities. 

John Fay was the American progenitor of this interesting family. His parents belonged 
in London, and he was left an orphan at an early age. In 1656, when he was only eight 
years old, he was a passenger on board the ship Speedwell, which sailed from Gravesend with a 
company of Colonists for Boston. Arriving there, he was taken to Sudbury, where he was 
brought up. In 1669, he was in Marlborough, a town adjoining Sudbury, and already had 
several children. When King Philip's war broke out, he served in a military company, and 
after a time went with the other settlers to Watertown for greater safety. He returned to 
Marlborough when quiet was restored by the death of Philip and the subjugation of his tribe, and 
remained there until his death, in 1690. 

A great-grandson of John Fay was Josiah Fay, who was born in Westboro, Mass., in 
1732, and fought at Bunker Hill, being a member of the Westboro company which marched to 
Boston as soon as the news of the battle at Lexington and Concord had been heard. During 
the ensuing years of war, he was a member of the First Continental Infantry. In the same 
company with Josiah Fay was Elisha Forbes, of the same town, and the two remained comrades- 
at-arms throughout the long struggle for independence. Both these patriots were ancestors of 
Mr. Sigourney W. Fay, the New York merchant, one being his great-grandfather in the paternal 
and the other his great-grandfather in the maternal line, a son of Josiah Fay marrying a daughter 
of Elisha Forbes. 

Mr. Sigourney Webster Fay was born in Boston, Mass., February 6th, 1836. His father, 
Nahum Fay, was a well-known merchant fifty years ago. The son was graduated with honors 
from that rival of the famous Boston Latin School, the English High School. Fixing upon a 
business career for his future, he started as a clerk in the great dry goods store of Lawrence. 
Stone & Co., of Boston, and then gained a further knowledge of the special line of business 
that he had selected to follow by a term of service in the Middlesex Mills, of Lowell, Mass., 
one of the leading manufactories of its class. 

In i860, when he was only twenty-four years of age, he concluded to start out for himself, 
and helped to organize and to establish in New York the great commission house of Stone, 
Bliss, Fay & Allen. For nearly a decade this was one of the largest commission houses in the 
woolen goods trade in New York City. At one time, it was the selling agent of fifteen of the 
largest and most important factories in New England. In 1864, the firm was reorganized into 
Perry, Wendell, Fay & Co., and in 1878 it became Wendell, Fay & Co. 

Mr. Fay has other important business and social connections. He is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, has been a director of the Hanover National Bank since 1876, and is 
one of the governors of the House of Refuge. He belongs to the Union League Club, as one of 
its veteran members, having been among the first to join after the club was organized, in February, 
1863. For several years he was secretary of the club, his first elevation to that position being 
when he was only twenty-seven years old. His other clubs include the Metropolitan, Players, 
City, and Merchants, and he is a member of the New England Society, and, by virtue of his 
patriotic ancestry, one of the Sons of the American Revolution. In i860, he married Delia A., 
daughter of Emery B. Fay, of Boston, and for twenty-five years he has resided at 35 West Fiftieth 
Street. He possesses very pronounced literary tastes and talent, and is an acute dramatic critic, 
being a close student of the drama past and present. He has lectured frequently and success- 
fully on literary subjects, and among other works has written an able analytical essay on 
Charles Lamb. 



GEORGE RICHMOND FEARING 

SEVERAL branches of the Fearing family, members of which have been prominent in the 
social world and in business life in Newport and New York during the last hundred years 
or more, trace their descent to a common ancestor, who came to this country about 1638. 
John Fearing, this pioneer, was a native of England, and one of the company of Colonists 
that came on the ship Diligent and landed in Hingham, Mass. After arriving here, he rapidly came 
to the front as an energetic man of affairs, and became prominent in the town of Hingham, where 
he settled. In 1648, and again in 1661 and 1663, he was elected a selectman, was a constable in 
1650, a freeman in 1652 and the clerk of writs in 1657. His death occurred in 1665. 

After John Fearing, there were four generations in which the head of the family was an 
Israel Fearin°\ Israel Fearing, 1644-1693, of the first generation from the pioneer, lived in Hingham, 
and married Elizabeth Wilde. His son Israel, 1682-1754, married Martha Gibbs. His grandson 
Israel, 1725-1753, married Hannah Swift. The fourth Israel Fearing, 1747-1826, was a Brigadier- 
General of the Massachusetts militia and a soldier of the Revolution. By his wife, Lucy 
Bourne, General Fearing became the great-grandfather of George R. Fearing and Daniel B. Fearing, 
of Newport, and also of Charles F. Fearing and William H. Fearing, of New York. The grand- 
parents of both these branches of the family were William Fearing, 1771-1845, a shipping 
merchant of Massachusetts, and his wife, Elizabeth Nye. 

Daniel Butler Fearing, son of William Fearing, was born in 1804 and became one of the 
most prosperous and influential merchants in New York. His wife was Harriet Richmond, of 
Providence, R. I. Mr. Fearing died in 1870, and his widow passed away a year later. Henry 
Seymour Fearing, his son, lived in Newport, where he owned a fine estate, inherited from his 
father. His death occurred in 1886. His wife, whom he married in 1857, was Serena Mason 
Jones, daughter of George and Serena (Mason) Jones. Daniel Butler Fearing, son of Henry 
Seymour Fearing, inherited his father's estate in Newport and makes his residence in that city. 
He was graduated from Harvard College in 1882, and in 1887 married Henrietta I. Strong, 
daughter of James H. and Georgiana (Berryman) Strong, of New York. He belongs to many of 
the leading clubs and other organizations in the metropolis, his club membership including the 
Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Calumet, Players and Grolier, and the Somerset 
and Tavern clubs of Boston. 

Colonel George R. Fearing is a brother of the late Henry Seymour Fearing. He was 
born in New York and was graduated from Columbia College in i860. He has a home in Fifth 
Avenue, but spends most of his time in Newport. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, 
Knickerbocker and other clubs. He has one son, George R. Fearing, Jr., who was graduated from 
Harvard University in the class of 1893, and married, in 1897, Hester Cochrane, daughter of 
Alexander Cochrane, of Boston. 

Charles Nye Fearing, another son of William Fearing, was born in 181 2, was graduated 
from Brown University, and during his business life was in the commission dry goods trade in 
New York. His wife, whom he married in 1839, was Mary Swan, daughter of Benjamin L. and 
Mary S. Swan. William H. Fearing, the second son of Charles Nye Fearing, was born in New 
York and has been engaged in the importing business. He married Gertrude Lea, daughter of 
Joseph Lea, of Philadelphia. His residence is in East Forty-third Street, and his clubs include the 
Metropolitan, Tuxedo and Union, and he is a member of the American Geographical Society. He 
has three sons, Joseph Lea, William Henry, Jr., and Frederick Charles Fearing. The elder surviving 
son of Charles Nye Fearing is Charles F. Fearing, who was born in New York and was graduated 
from Harvard College in 1863. He engaged in business as a stock broker, but has spent much of 
his time in foreign travel. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Harvard and South Side 
Sportsmen's clubs, and of the Sons of the American Revolution. Edward Swan Fearing, the 
brother of William H. and Charles F. Fearing, died in 1881. 



CORTLANDT DE PEYSTER FIELD 

THE distinguished family to which Mr. Cortlandt de Peyster Field belongs has spread widely 
all over the United States, and has given many useful and eminent men to society, 
business and public life. The first of the name in this country was Robert Field, of 
Flushing, a descendant from Hubertus de la Field, who came to England with William the 
Conqueror. Hazard Field, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was named after his 
mother's family, the Hazards, who were descended from Thomas Hazard, of Lyme Regis, Dorset- 
ershire, who came to New England in 1636. His grandmother was of the Burling family, of 
Flushing, and his great-great-grandmother was Hannah Bowne, of the ancient Long Island Quaker 
family of that name. Hazard Field, the eldest child of a group of sixteen brothers and sisters, and 
the fifth in descent from the original Robert Field, of Flushing, was born in 1764, and died 
in 1845. 

Benjamin Hazard Field, the eldest son of Hazard Field by a second wife, and the father of 
Mr. Cortlandt de Peyster Field, was a distinguished New York merchant and philanthropist. He 
was born in the village of Yorktown, Westchester County, May 2d, 1814, and died in New York 
City, March 17th, 1893. After a substantial education in the public schools and academies, he 
came to New York and entered the office of Hickson W. Field, who was a leading merchant in 
the trade with China, as well as in the wholesale drug trade, three-quarters of a century ago. 
In 1832, he became a member of the firm and when, in 1838, his uncle retired, he succeeded to the 
business. During the next twenty-five years, he was one of the most active and public-spirited 
citizens of the metropolis. In 1865, he retired from business. 

As a philanthropist, perhaps, Benjamin H. Field was known to the whole community. He 
was actively interested in nearly every important undertaking for the public good in his generation. 
He was a trustee of the New York Dispensary, of the New York Institution for the Instruction of 
the Deaf and Dumb, the Sheltering Arms, the Children's Fold and the Roosevelt Hospital. A 
director of the House for Incurables, he was president of that corporation from its organization, in 
1866, and in connection therewith erected an Episcopal Church, at his own expense, upon the 
grounds of the home. It is said that he spent an extremely large amount for those times 
in the cause of education, religion and charity. In the commercial world, he held high 
rank, even after his retirement. He was a life member of the Chamber of Commerce, a director 
of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, the Old Fulton Bank and the Greenwood Cemetery 
Company, and vice-president of the Bank for Savings. A life member of the St. Nicholas Society, 
he was at one time its president, was a life member of the New York Historical Society, being for 
twenty years its treasurer, and in 1885 its president, and in 1859, he became a life member of the 
American Geographical Society. Deeply interested in art, he was a trustee of the American Museum 
of Natural History and was chiefly instrumental in securing the erection of the Farragut and the 
Halleck statues. 

The mother of Mr. Cortlandt de Peyster Field was Catherine M. Van Cortlandt de Peyster, 
daughter of the senior Frederic de Peyster. Through her, Mr. Field is connected with the Livings- 
ton, Beekman, Van Rensselaer, Van Cortlandt and other great New York families. Mr. Field was 
born in New York City, December 28th, 1839. Graduated from Columbia College in 1859, 
with the degree of B. A., and that of M. A. being afterwards conferred upon him, he went into his 
father's office and in 1865, succeeded to the business, which has since been conducted under the 
firm name of Cortlandt de Peyster Field & Co. He is a devoted member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church and generous to educational and benevolent enterprises. When in town, he lives in East 
Twenty-sixth Street, but makes his residence in the ancestral house in Yorktown, N. Y. Mr. 
Field's wife, whom he married in 1865, was Virginia Hamersley, daughter of John Hamersley, of 
one of the oldest and wealthiest families of New York and Virginia, representatives of the name 
having been prominent in the Colonies from an early date. 



NICHOLAS FISH 

THE English family of Fish is said to be a branch of the old Saxon family of Fyche, which in 
the tables of German nobility dates from a remote period. At what time the family 
removed to England is not definitely known, but it was settled there in the early centuries 
after the Conquest. The ancestor who first appears in English historical annals was Simon Fish, 
who was a lawyer in London and died about i S3i- Early in the seventeenth century, three 
members of the family, Nathaniel, John and Jonathan, came to New England, settled in Lynn, 
Mass., and then in Sandwich, on Cape Cod. Jonathan Fish, the progenitor of the branch of the 
family that has been distinguished in public life in New York, was the youngest of the three brothers. 
Born in England in 1610, he removed from Sandwich to Newtown, Long Island, of which place 
he was one of the first settlers in 1659. For several years he was a magistrate, and died in 1663. 
In the second generation of this Long Island family, Nathan Fish, son of Jonathan, was born in 
Sandwich, Mass., in 1650, removed to Newtown in 1659 with his father, and died there in 1734. 
His son, Jonathan, 1 680-1 723, was for fifteen years town clerk of Newtown. His grandson, 
Samuel, of Newtown, 1704-1767, married Agnes Berrien, and his great-grandson, Jonathan, 1728- 
1779, married Elizabeth Sackett and was a merchant of New York. 

Colonel Nicholas Fish, 1758-1833, son of Jonathan Fish and Elizabeth Sackett, was one of 
the foremost representatives of the patriotism which the leaders of social New York exhibited in 
the trying times of the Revolution. Born in 1758, he had just left Princeton College to take up the 
study of law, when the war against Great Britain began. As an aide-de-camp to Brigadier- 
General John Morin Scott, he served at the battle of Long Island and in the operations around New 
York, and afterwards participated in the battle of Saratoga and commanded a corps of light infantry 
at Monmouth. At the siege of Yorktown he was a Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding a portion 
of the New York line. After the war, he was equally distinguished in civil life, both in society 
and business pursuits. President Washington appointed him Supervisor of the Revenue, which 
at that time was one of the highest positions in the Treasury Department, and he also became 
Adjutant-General of the State of New York. In 1797, he was treasurer of the New York Society 
of the Cincinnati. His death occurred in 1833. The wife of Colonel Fish was Elizabeth Stuyvesant, 
great-great-granddaughter of Governor Peter Stuyvesant. Through her mother, Margaret Liv- 
ingston, she descended from Robert Livingston, the first Lord of Livingston Manor. 

The Honorable Hamilton Fish, son of Colonel Nicholas Fish and his wife, Elizabeth Stuy- 
vesant, was a man whose eminent public services and high personal character placed him in the 
front rank of the last generation of Americans. Born in New York in 1808, and graduated from 
Columbia College in 1827, he took an active part in political life, was prominent in the Whig 
party of those days, served in the State Assembly, and in 1843 was elected to Congress. In 1847, 
he was chosen Lieutenant-Governor, and was then elected Governor, serving from 1849 to 1851, in 
which latter year he was made United States Senator from New York. In 1869, President U. S. 
Grant appointed him Secretary of State of the United States, and in this great office he served 
for the entire eight years of President Grant's two terms. While in that position he carried 
through the Treaty of Washington in 1871, which led to the settlement of the Alabama Claims 
through the Geneva arbitration of 1872. His death occurred in 1893. 

In 1836, Mr. Fish married Julia Kean, daughter of Peter Kean, of Ursino, N. J. His children 
were Sarah Morris Fish, who married Sidney Webster; Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish, who married 
Frederick S. G. d'Hauteville ; Julia Kean Fish, who married Colonel S. N. Benjamin, U. S. A. ; 
Susan Leroy Fish, who married William E. Rogers; and Nicholas, Hamilton, Jr., Stuyvesant, and 
Edith Livingston Fish. 

Mr. Nicholas Fish, the eldest son of Hamilton Fish, was born in New York, February 19th, 
1846. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1867 and from the Dane Law School, of Har- 
vard, in 1869. In 1871, he was second secretary of the United States Legation in Berlin, becoming 

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first secretary in 1874. From 1877 to 1881, he was charge d'affaires to the Swiss Confederation and 
United States Minister to Belgium, 1882-86. Since 1887, he has been engaged in the banking 
business in New York and prominent in financial affairs. He married Clemence S. Bryce and has 
two children, Elizabeth S. Clare and Hamilton Fish, Jr. His town house is in Irving Place and his 
country residence is Wahnfried, in Tuxedo. Mr. Fish belongs to the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, 
University, Players, Lawyers', University Athletic, St. Anthony and Riding clubs, and is also a 
member of the Century Association, the Society of the Cincinnati, the St. Nicholas Society and 
the New York Historical Society. 

The second son of Hamilton Fish, statesman and diplomat, is the Honorable Hamilton Fish 
of this generation, who worthily bears his father's name. He was bom in Albany, April 27th, 
1849, and in 1869 was graduated from Columbia College. During the ensuing two years he was 
private secretary to his father, who was then Secretary of State in Washington. In 1873, ne 
graduated from the Law School of Columbia College. He was aide-de-camp on the staff of 
Governor John A. Dix, 1873-74, and in 1874, and for several terms thereafter, was returned to the 
Assembly of the State of New York for Putnam County. Since that time he has been one of the 
leaders in the Republican party of the State, having been Speaker of the Assembly, and for many 
years chairman of the Republican county committee of Putnam County. In 1884, he was a delegate 
to the National Republican Convention, and has received other honors at the hands of his political 
associates. He married, in 1880, Emily M. Mann, daughter of the late Honorable Francis N. Mann, 
of Troy, N. Y., and has two children. His residence is Rocklawn, in Garrisons, N. Y. He is a 
member of the Union, Metropolitan, Union League and other clubs, and of the Bar Association. 

Stuyvesant Fish, the youngest son of the senior Hamilton Fish, was born in New York, 
June 24th, 1851, and graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1871. He entered the service 
of the Illinois Central Railroad in a responsible position the same year that he was graduated from 
college, and from 1872 to 1876 was engaged with the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co. Since 
1877, he has devoted himself entirely to railroad affairs. In that year, he was elected a director of 
the Illinois Central Railroad; became the secretary of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Rail- 
road the same year, and was elected vice-president of the latter road in 1882. Made vice-president 
of the Illinois Central in 1883, he was advanced to the presidency in 1887 and holds that position at 
the present time. He is also connected with other railroads and is a director in the National 
Park Bank, the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company and the Mutual Life Insurance 
Company. 

In 1876, Mr. Fish married Marion G. Anthon, daughter of William Henry Anthon. The 
father of Mrs. Fish, one of the prominent lawyers of the New York bar in the last generation, was 
born in New York in 1827 and died in 1875. In 185 1, he was a member of the New York 
Assembly, and during the Civil War served as Judge-Advocate-General on the staff of Governor 
Edwin D. Morgan. He was the son of John Anthon, the distinguished lawyer and jurist, and 
grandson of Dr. George C. Anthon. His grandfather was a native of Germany, who entered the 
British Army and attained to the rank of Surgeon-General, serving from the commencement of the 
French War, until after the close of the Revolutionary War, when, in 1784, he resigned from the 
army and settled in New York. John Anthon, grandfather of Mrs. Fish, was born in Detroit in 
1784, and died in New York in 1863. Graduated from Columbia College in 1801, he studied law, 
was one of the founders of the New York Law Institute, of which he was president, and was the 
author of many valuable legal treatises and law reports. The establishment of the Supreme Court 
of New York City was largely due to his efforts. During the War of 1812, he commanded a 
company of militia and served in defense of the city. 

The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is in Gramercy Park, and they have a 
summer home in Newport. They have one daughter and two sons, Marion, Stuyvesant, Jr., and 
Sidney Webster Fish. In his club membership, Mr. Fish includes the Metropolitan, Union, Riding, 
Players and St. Anthony, the Downtown Association, the St. Nicholas Society and the Southern 
Society. 



HALEY FISKE 

IN the reign of King Edward IV. of England, Lord Symond Fiske, grandson of Daniel, Lord 
of the Manor of Stadhaugh, Parish of Laxfield, County Suffolk, died in 1464 and left a son 
William Fiske, who married Joan Lynne, of Norfolk, and died before 1 504. William Fiske 
and Joan Lynne were the English ancestors of the family to which Mr. Haley Fiske belongs. 
The line of descent from this William Fiske to the first American ancestor of the family is through 
Symond Fiske, of Laxfield; his son, Symond Fiske, who died in 1505; his grandson, Robert 
Fiske, who died in 1551; his great-grandson, William Fiske, who was born in 1566; and his 

great-gr eat -g rands0n ' J ohn Fiske ' who was born in St J ames ' where he died in l6 ^' and who 
married Anne Lantersee, daughter of Robert Lantersee. 

William Fiske, son of John and Anne (Lantersee) Fiske, was born in England about 1613 
and came to this country in 1637, settling in Salem, Mass., of which place he was a freeman in 
1642. His wife was Bridget Muskett, of Pelham, England, whom he married after coming to this 
country. Removing to Wenham, Mass., he was the first town clerk there, 1643-50, and a repre- 
sentative to the General Court, 1647-52. His death occurred in 1654. William Fiske, of the 
second American generation, 1643-1728, was a representative to the General Court in 1701, and 
for several terms thereafter, was a moderator, in 1702-03- 12- 13- 14, and a Lieutenant of the militia. 
His wife was Sarah Kilham, daughter of Austin Kilham, who emigrated from Kilham, Yorkshire, 
England, and was one of the first settlers of Wenham. In the next four generations, the line of 
descent is through Samuel Fiske, of Wenham and Rehoboth, and his wife, Elizabeth Browne ; 
Josiah Fiske, of Cumberland, R. I., 1702-1773, and his wife, Sarah Bishop; John Fiske, of Cumber- 
land, 1729-1789, and his wife, Mary Bartlett; and Ensign Squire Fiske, 1756-1804, Colonel of a 
Rhode Island regiment in the War of the Revolution, and his wife, Amey Lapham, daughter of 
Abner Lapham. 

Judge Haley Fiske, 1793-1877, grandfather of Mr. Haley Fiske, was the son of Ensign 
Squire and Amey (Lapham) Fiske. In the War of 1812, he raised a company of troops of which 
he was Lieutenant. He was a civil engineer and had charge of the building of the lower locks 
of the Delaware & Raritan Canal. For more than thirty-five years, he was a justice of the peace 
and was a close friend of Henry Clay. He married, in 181 5, Judith Qureau, who was born in 
1801 and died in 1865. The father of Mr. Haley Fiske was William Henry Fiske, who was 
born in Yonkers, N. Y., in 1818 and died in 1892. He was an accomplished civil engineer, and 
in the period immediately following the Civil War was connected with the street department of 
the City of New York. His wife, whom he married in New York in 1840, was Sarah Ann 
Blakeney, who was born in 1818 and died in 1884. 

Mr. Haley Fiske was born in New Brunswick, N. J., March 18th, 1852. Educated in 
Rutgers College, he was graduated in the class of 1871 and studied law in the office of Arnoux, 
Ritch & Woodford, becoming a partner in that firm. He had a successful career at the bar, 
being engaged in some of the most important cases of the present generation, his last appearance 
as an attorney being in the Fayerweather will contest. In 1891, he gave up his legal pursuits to 
take the position of vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and has since been 
engaged in that business. Other interests have commanded his attention and he has been a 
director in various corporations, including the Metropolitan Trust Company and the National Shoe 
and Leather Bank. He is treasurer of the Church of St. Mary, the Virgin. 

The first wife of Mr. Fiske, whom he married in 1878, was Mary Garrettina Mulford, 
who died in 1886. His second wife was Marione Cowles Cushman. His children are Helen 
Fiske, who was born in 1884; Archibald Falconer Cushman Fiske, who was born in 1888, and 
Marione Virginia Fiske, born in 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Fiske live in Riverside Drive, at the corner 
of Seventy-sixth Street. He is a member of the Players, Grolier, City, Church and A 4> clubs 
and the Bar Association. 

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LOUIS FITZGERALD 

BORN in New York, May 31st, 1838, General Louis Fitzgerald has been thoroughly 
identified with the metropolis during a long and active public and business career, 
and has been especially distinguished for his brilliant military service to the State and 
the country. After receiving a thorough education in public and private schools, he engaged 
in business and promptly identified himself with the militia. In 1857, he became a member 
of New York's famous Seventh Regiment, and since then his military service has been 
unbroken down to the present time, a period of forty years. 

When the Seventh Regiment was summoned, in 1861, to march to the front in defense 
of the City of Washington from the invading Confederate forces, Private Fitzgerald was among 
those who went at the country's call. After the temporary term of service for which 
the regiment had been summoned had expired, he entered the Union Army as a volunteer, 
being commissioned First Lieutenant in the Eleventh New York Infantry. Participating in the 
first battle of Bull Run, he displayed special gallantry on the field and won his commission 
as Captain. After the disbandment of that regiment he became First Lieutenant in the 
Fortieth New York Infantry, and was again promoted to be Captain for gallant services at 
the battle of Fair Oaks. During the Peninsular Campaign, he served as Provost Marshal and 
aide-de-camp on the staff of Major-General Philip Kearny. For his bravery in this campaign, 
he won the honor of wearing the Kearny Cross, being one of the few officers entitled to that 
distinction. Subsequently he was aide-de-camp to Major-General D. B. Birney, commanding 
the Third Corps, and was afterwards attached to the staff of Major-General J. G. Foster, 
commanding the Eighteenth Corps. In 1864, he was advanced to rank of Major and subse- 
quently Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment. When peace had been declared, 
he retired from the army, bearing wounds received at Bull Run, Williamsburg and Fair Oaks. 

Returning to New York, his bravery and brilliant service upon the field of battle was 
further rewarded by a commission as brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in the National Guard of the 
State of New York. His love for his old regiment brought him into the ranks again and he 
rejoined the Seventh, being appointed Regimental Adjutant. In 1875, he became Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the Seventh and held that position for the next seven years. His reputation as a 
tactitian and disciplinarian had in these years brought him into notice as one of the most 
earnest and efficient officers of the State National Guard, and lin 1882 he was commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General of the First Brigade of the State of New York, comprising the Seventh, 
Eighth, Ninth, Twelfth, Twenty-Second, Sixty-Ninth and Seventy-First Regiments, the First and 
Second Batteries of Artillery, and Squadron A of Cavalry. During the fifteen years that he 
has been at the head of the brigade, his command has developed in effectiveness, until it 
stands second to no other militia organization in the country and compares favorably with 
regular troops. 

In the business world, General Fitzgerald has been interested in large and important 
financial affairs. For many years he has been president of the Mercantile Trust Company. 
He is one of the leading financiers of Wall Street and has taken an active part in the reorgani- 
zation of the affairs of some of the most important railroad corporations of the country. In 
1872, General Fitzgerald married Gelyna, youngest daughter of William S. Ver Planck, and 
granddaughter of Gulian C. Ver Planck. They have four children: Geraldine, who in 1896 
married Ernest R. Adee, son of the late George T. Adee; Louis, Jr., Adelaide and Eleanor, 
who are unmarried. The residence of the family is in Lexington Avenue and they have 
summer homes at Seabright, N. J., and at Garrison-on-the-Hudson. General Fitzgerald is a 
member of the Union, University, Metropolitan, United Service, Lawyers', Princeton and West- 
minster Kennel clubs, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Society of Colonial Wars and 
the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



CHARLES RANLETT FLINT 

THOMAS FLINT, who came from Wales in 1642 and settled in that part of Salem, Mass., 
now known as South Danvers, was the ancestor of Mr. Charles R. Flint. The latter's 
father was Benjamin Flint, who married Sarah Tobey, and during his earlier career was a 
shipowner in Thomaston, Me. In 1858, he removed to New York and became prominent in com- 
mercial life, residing in Brooklyn. Mr. Charles Ranlett Flint, son of Benjamin Flint, was born in 
Thomaston, January 24th, 1850. He was educated in his native place, in Topsham, Me., and in 
Brooklyn, and graduated from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, being president of his class and 
later of the Alumni Association. 

Entering business life, Mr. Flint became a partner in Gilchrist, Flint & Co. in 1871, and in 
1872 was one of the founders and partners of W. R. Grace & Co. In 1874, he traveled in South 
America and afterwards paid a second visit to Brazil. In 1878, he organized the Export Lumber 
Company, Limited, and in 1885 became a partner with his father and his brother, Wallace B. Flint, 
in the firm of Flint'& Co. Later on, he brought about a consolidation of exporting interests under 
the title of Flint, Eddy & Co., the houses of which he is the head being in the front rank of Ameri- 
can exporters and merchants of the present day. In 1892, Mr. Flint originated the United States 
Rubber Company and is its treasurer. 

In a public capacity, Mr. Flint has been Consul of Chili in New York and Acting Charge 
d'Affaires of that country to the United States, Consul of Nicaragua and Consul General of Costa 
Rica. In 1889-90, he was a delegate to the Conference of American Republics in Washington and, 
owing to his knowledge of South American affairs, was an important factor in that gathering. 
Secretary of State Blaine, in a letter to Mr. Flint, said: " Your services are so valuable, that we need 
you every hour. Though your large business interests demand your attention just now, it must be 
patriotism first and business afterwards." Mr. Flint proposed the organization of the Bureau of 
American Republics, to carry out the vote of the conference for uniform statistics and the extension 
of trade between the Americas. Later on, Mr. Flint was confidential agent of the United States in 
negotiating a reciprocity treaty with Brazil, which became the basis for treaties with other South 
American States and Spain. At the time of threatened trouble between this country and Chili, 
through his efforts the mediation of Brazil was offered. When an attempt was made to reestablish 
the monarchy in Brazil, Minister Mendonca, representing President Piexoto, empowered Mr. Flint 
to procure vessels and munitions of war in the United States for the constitutional government, and 
through his energy Ericsson's Destroyer, and the two fast yachts, Feiseen and Javelin, converted 
into torpedo boats, and the steamships, El Cid and Britannia, changed to armed cruisers under 
the names of the Nictheroy and America, were placed at the service of the Republic of Brazil. 

Mr. Flint is connected with many financial institutions, being a director of the National Bank 
of the Republic, the State Trust Company, the Knickerbocker Trust Company and the Produce 
Exchange Bank. He has also been identified with other corporate interests and is one of the coun- 
cil of the New York University. In spite of his many business cares, he maintains an active interest 
in outdoor recreations and habitually spends one day each week with either rod or gun. He has 
hunted in Canada, the Rocky Mountains and South America, and has killed nearly every variety of 
big game found in the two Western Continents. He is also a prominent yachtsman and was owner 
of the Gracie, which probably won more prizes than any yacht in the United States. He was a 
member of the syndicate which built and raced the Vigilant in the contests for the America cup 
against the Valkyrie. He is a member of the Union, Riding, Metropolitan and South Side 
Sportsmen's clubs, the New York, Seawanhaka-Corinthian, and Larchmont Yacht clubs, the New 
England Society and the Century Association. 

In 1883, Mr. Flint married E. Kate Simmons, daughter of Joseph F. Simmons, of Troy, 
N. Y. Mrs. Flint possesses marked musical ability. She has devoted the receipts of her musi- 
cal compositions to charity, and with one of them endowed a bed in St. Luke's Hospital. 

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ROSWELL PETTIBONE FLOWER 

THE progenitor of the Flower family in America was Lamrock Flower, who was born in 
Ireland in 1660, and coming to America in 1685 settled in Hartford, Conn. He had a son, 
Lamrock, whose son Elijah removed to New Hartford, and married Abigail Seymour. 
George Flower, son of Elijah Flower, was born in New Hartford in 1760, became one of the early 
settlers of Oakhill, Greene County, N. Y., and married Roxaline Crowe, of New Hartford, who was 
of French descent, her ancestors having emigrated from Alsace. They had a family often children, 
one of whom, Nathan M. Flower, born in 1796, married Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas Boyle, 
the builder of the first water-works in New York City. Nathan M. Flower went into business, in 
Springfield, N. Y., and afterwards in a settlement on Indian River, in Jefferson County, which 
became the village of Theresa. He was a Justice of the Peace there for fourteen years. 

Mr. Roswell Pettibone Flower, the sixth of the nine children of Nathan M. and Mary Ann 
Flower, was born August 7th, 1835. His father died when he was only eight years of age, but he 
secured a good education, became a teacher, engaged in business, and finally became assistant 
postmaster of Watertown, the county seat of Jefferson County. A few years later he established 
himself as a jeweler and was very successful. Meantime, he kept up an extended course of 
reading in law and political history, and as a result was well fitted for the responsibilities which 
devolved upon him later. 

In 1859, he married Sarah M. Woodruff, daughter of Norris M. Woodruff, of New Hartford, 
Conn. Mrs. Flower's elder sister was the wife of Henry Keep, the New York capitalist. 
Mr. Keep died in 1869, leaving a large estate, with the request that his brother-in-law assume its 
management. Accordingly, Mr. Flower removed to New York City and at once entered upon the 
career that has brought him wealth and renown. The Keep estate was so prudently administered 
that it quadrupled in value and Mr. Flower soon attained to prominence in the financial world. He 
organized the brokerage and banking firm of Benedict, Flower & Co., afterwards R. P. Flower 
& Co., which, in 1890, became Flower & Co. and in which he is now a special partner. 

Mr. Flower has for many years been an important factor in New York State and national 
politics. He is a lifelong Democrat, of the school of Silas Wright, whose teachings he imbibed in 
youth. His first conspicuous appearance in public life was in 1881, when he defeated William Wal- 
dorf Astor for election to Congress from the Eleventh New York District. In 1882, he was urged to 
take the Democratic nomination for Governor of the State, but declined in favor of Grover 
Cleveland. The history of the country was changed by this decision. The offer of a second 
nomination for Congress was also declined, and in 1885, when nominated for Lieutenant-Governor, 
he refused the honor. In 1888, he was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention; 
in the same year was elected a member of the Fifty-first Congress, and in 1892 was the 
successful Democratic candidate for Governor of the State. He has frequently been mentioned for 
the Presidency of the United States, and in 1892 his friends made an active campaign in his behalf 
for the Democratic nomination. 

Mr. and Mrs. Flower live in Fifth Avenue. They are noted for their charities, and for many 
years have set aside one-tenth of their income for benevolence. The St. Thomas House, an 
establishment for work among the poor of this city, was built by Mr. Flower, and he erected the 
Presbyterian Church in Theresa, N. Y., as a memorial to his parents. He also built the Flower 
Surgical Hospital in New York City, opened in 1890. In his charities Mr. Flower has the generous 
cooperation of his brother, Anson R. Flower. Together they built Trinity Episcopal Church, at 
Watertown, N. Y., and presented it to the parish. Mr. and Mrs. Flower have had three children; 
one daughter, Helen, and one son, Henry K., are deceased. The surviving daughter, Emma G. 
Flower, married John B. Taylor, of Watertown, N. Y. Anson R. Flower married Ida Babcock and 
lives in Madison Avenue. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Riding, Lawyers' and 
Democratic clubs. 



WILLIAM CHAUNCEY FLOYD-JONES 

IN 1654, there came from England to Long Island a band of Colonists, headed by Richard 
Woodhull, who became patentees of a large plantation at Setauket. Prominent among 
them was Richard Floyd, a native of Brecknockshire, Wales, and the progenitor of the 
Floyd family in this country. He was a man of intelligence and vigor, acquired large estates, 
and was early chosen Judge of Suffolk County, and Colonel of the militia, which positions he 
held until his death, in 1690. The eldest son of Richard Floyd, also named Richard, 1661- 
1737, inherited his father's property, and was for many years Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas and Colonel of the militia of Suffolk County. In 1686, he married Margaret, oldest 
daughter of Colonel Matthias Nicoll, secretary of the Duke of York's commissioners, and the 
first secretary of the Province of New York. 

Richard Floyd, the third of the name, 1 703-1 771, was also a Judge and Colonel of the 
militia, and a man of eminence in the community. The fourth Richard Floyd, 1736-1791, like 
his ancestors, held the offices of Judge and Colonel, which by that time had come almost to be 
considered appendages of the family. He settled upon the estate at Mastic, and was noted as 
a gentleman of the old school. His house was always open for entertainment, and it was said 
of him that "no man ever went from his house either hungry or thirsty." In the 
Revolution he espoused the royalist cause, and, by the act of attainder, his estate was forfeited 
and sold, in 1784, his brother being the purchaser. He then removed to St. John, N. B. 

The wife of Richard Floyd, the fourth, whom he married in 1758, was Arabella, daughter 
of Judge David Jones, of Fort Neck, and a sister of Judge Thomas Jones, a Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the State of New York. Judge Thomas Jones died without issue, and, in 
accordance with the terms of the will of his father, the estate at Fort Neck reverted to the 
male issue of the daughter, Arabella, upon condition that they should add his name to their 
own. Consequently, David Richard, the only son of Richard and Arabella Floyd, became 
David Richard Floyd-Jones, and this change of name was confirmed by act of the Legislature, 
in 1788. Since that time, the senior branch of the family has borne the double patronymic, 
while the junior branches only have retained the name Floyd. 

David Richard Floyd-Jones, 1764-1826, married a daughter Of Henry Onderdonk, in 178s, 
and settled upon the estate at Fort Neck. He had two sisters, one of whom, Elizabeth, 
married John Peter DeLancey, son of Lieutenant-Governor DeLancey, and was the mother of 
Bishop William H. DeLancey, of Western New York, and of a daughter, Susan, who became 
the wife of James Fenimore Cooper. The sons of David Richard Floyd-Jones were Brigadier- 
General Thomas Floyd-Jones, 1788-1851, who succeeded to the estate, and at whose death the 
entail came to an end ; and Major-General Henry Floyd-Jones, 1792-1862, who was a member 
of the Assembly in 1829, State Senator and member of the Court of Errors from the district 
comprising Kings, Queens, New York and Richmond counties 1836-40. David Richard Floyd- 
Jones was the eldest son of Thomas Floyd-Jones, and was conspicuous in public affairs throughout 
his life. He made a worthy place for himself in the legal profession, but his activity was largely 
in politics. He was a member of the Assembly for New York State, in 1841, 1842, 1843 and 
1857, a State Senator 1844-7, inclusive, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1846, 
Secretary of State, 1860-1, and Lieutenant-Governor, 1863-4. The other two sons of Brigadier- 
General Thomas Floyd-Jones were William Floyd-Jones, of Massapequa, a merchant of New 
York, and Elbert Floyd-Jones, also for several terms in the Assembly. 

Mr. William Chauncey Floyd-Jones, one of the sons of the late William Floyd-Jones, is 
a representative in the present generation of this distinguished family. He is a member of the 
New York Stock Exchange, and his residence is on the ancestral estate at Massapequa, Long 
Island. He is a member of the Union, the Racquet, the Westminster Kennel and the Country 
clubs. 



GEORGE WINTHROP FOLSOM 

BORN in Kennebunk, Me., in 1802, the Honorable George Folsom, the father of Mr. 
George Winthrop Folsom, was a distinguished lawyer, statesman and man of letters 
in the last generation. Graduated from Harvard College in 1822, he studied law in 
Saco, Me., and practiced there and in Framingham and Worcester, Mass., for many years. He 
removed to New York in 1837 and became prominent in all the intellectual activities of the metrop- 
olis in that period, and died in Rome, Italy, in 1869. While living in Worcester, George Folsom 
was interested in historical research and was chairman of the American Antiquarian Society. 
In later years, he was president of the American Ethnological Society, and upon taking up his 
residence in New York, became one of the active members of the New York Historical Society. 
In 1844, he was elected a member of the State Senate, and in 1850 President Zachary Taylor 
appointed him Charge d' Affaires at The Hague, a position he held for four years. Among his 
published works were Sketches of Saco and Biddeford, Dutch Annals of New York, Letters and 
Dispatches of Cortez, Political Condition of Mexico, and an Address on the Discovery of Maine. 
George Folsom came from a family that traces its descent from old-time English ancestors. 
In the first half of the fourteenth century, there was a John Folsom, Prior of the Carmelite monastery 
in Norwich and prceses provincialis of all England. He was a D. D. of Cambridge University and 
died in the great plague of 1348. Richard Folsom, his brother, was much in evidence in the Court 
of John XXII., of Rome, 13 16- 1334. The first member of the family in this country was John Foul- 
sham, of Hingham, England, descended from Roger Foulsham, of Necton, Norfolk County, who 
died about 1534. He was born in 161 5, and arrived in this country in 1638, with his wife, Mary 
Gilman, who was the daughter of Edward and Mary (Clark) Gilman. Settling first in Hingham, 
Mass., he went to Exeter N. H., in 1650, being a selectman there in 1659, dying in 1681. 

The descendants of John Foulsham in direct line to the subject of this sketch were Peter 
Folsom, 1649-1717, and his wife, Susannah Cousins, or Coffin, of Wells, Me.; Peter Folsom, 1682- 
1718, and his wife, Catharine, daughter of John Gilman and granddaughter of Edward Gilman; 
James Folsom, 1711-1748, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Jonathan King; James 
Folsom, 1 737- 1 824, and his wife, Elizabeth Webster, daughter of Thomas Webster ; and Thomas 
Folsom, of Kennebunk and Portland, Me., born 1769, and his wife, Edna Ela. Peter Folsom, 1649, 
was a Lieutenant in the militia. His son Peter, 1682, was a man of talent and of great influence in 
the community in which he lived and successful in business, accumulating considerable wealth. 
Thomas Folsom, who was born in 1769, and lived in Kennebunk and Portland, was the father of 
the Honorable George Folsom. 

Mr. George Winthrop Folsom was born in New York and received a collegiate education. 
His mother, whom George Folsom married in 1839, was Margaret Cornelia Winthrop, daughter of 
Benjamin Winthrop. Through her, he is descended indirect line from Governor John Winthrop, of 
Massachusetts; Governor John Winthrop, of Connecticut; Major Waite Still Winthrop; Governor 
Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts; Governor Joseph Dudley, of Massachusetts, and Governor Peter 
Stuyvesant, of New Amsterdam. Mr. Folsom has had a city residence in East Seventeenth Street, 
but has been principally identified with Lenox, Mass. He is a member of the Century, University 
and St. Anthony clubs and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. The wife of Mr. Folsom, whom he married in 1867, was Frances Elizabeth 
Hastings Fuller, of Cambridge, Mass., daughter of William Henry Fuller and granddaughter of 
Timothy Fuller. He had two sisters, Margaret Winthrop and Helen Stuyvesant Folsom. The 
latter was a member of the Sisterhood of St. John the Baptist, and founded the corporation 
known as the St. John Baptist Foundation, which carries on various charitable works, among 
others the mission church and schools of the Holy Cross in Avenue C, a school for girls in East 
Seventeenth Street and St. Hilda's Home on Long Island, all of which are under the care of the 
Sisters of St. John the Baptist. Helen Stuyvesant Folsom died in 1882. 



THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN 

FOR nearly two hundred years, the Frelinghuysen family has been conspicuous in the clerical 
and professional life of this country, and more than three centuries ago, in Holland, men of 
the name were leaders in religious thought. The ancestor of the American branch, the 
Reverend Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, was born in West Friesland in 1691, and was ordained 
to the ministry in the Reformed Dutch Church in his native land at the age of twenty-six. He 
was selected to establish a mission in the new settlement on the Raritan River, in New Jersey, 
and came to this country in 1720. He was an energetic, devoted man and has been called 
"One of the greatest divines of the American church." When he died, in 1747, he left five 
sons, all of whom were ministers, and two daughters who married ministers. His second son, 
the Reverend John Frelinghuysen, 1727- 1754. succeeded to much of his father's work. 

The only son of the Reverend John Frelinghuysen was General Frederick Frelinghuysen, 
who was born in 1753, graduated from Princeton in 1770, and was admitted to the bar in 1774. 
He was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey in 1775-76, and of the Continental 
Congresses in 1778, 1782 and 1783. At the Battle of Trenton, he was Captain of a company of 
Artillery, and a tradition exists that a shot from his pistol killed Colonel Rahl, the Hessian com- 
mander.' He became a Colonel before the war ended, and in 1794 was Major-General of the 
New Jersey Militia. After the Revolution, he held several public positions, and in 1793 was 
United States Senator from New Jersey, but resigned his seat in 1796 on account of family bereave- 
ments. John, the eldest son of General Frederick Frelinghuysen, 1 776-1833, held a Brigadier- 
General's commission in the War of 1812, and his second son, Theodore, 1787-1861, was an 
eminent lawyer, Attorney-General of the State of New Jersey, United States Senator, 1829-35, 
Mayor of the City of Newark, 1836-38, Chancellor of the University of New York, president of 
Rutgers College, 1850-61, and Whig candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States on 
the ticket with Henry Clay in 1844. 

The Honorable Frederick Frelinghuysen, son of Frederick Frelinghuysen and grandson 
of General Frederick Frelinghuysen, has also been distinguished in public life. Born in 181 7, 
he was adopted and brought up by his uncle Theodore, his father having died when he was 
an infant. He was graduated from Rutgers College in 1856 and was admitted to the bar three 
years later. He advanced rapidly in his profession, and in time succeeded to the practice of 
his uncle, becoming one of the leading members of the New Jersey bar. He was city attorney 
of Newark, N. J., and for ten years counsel for the New Jersey Central Railroad and the 
Morris Canal Company, and Attorney-General of the State in 1861-66. Appointed to the United 
States Senate to fill a vacancy in 1866, he was elected to the seat in 1867 and reelected in 1871. 
During his last term of service, he was a conspicuous figure in the national councils, and in 1877 
was a member of the Electoral Commission appointed to settle the disputed Presidential contest 
of 1876. In 1881, he became a member of President Arthur's cabinet, succeeding James G. 
Blaine, as Secretary of State. The wife of Frederick Frelinghuysen was Matilda Griswold, daughter 
of George Griswold, a descendant of the Griswold family, of Connecticut, and one of New 
York's great merchants of the early part of the century. 

Mr. Theodore Frelinghuysen is the son of the Honorable Frederick Frelinghuysen and 
Matilda Griswold. He was born in i860, and is engaged in active business. He married Alice 
Coats, daughter of James Coats. Their residence is in West Fifteenth Street. His clubs are the 
Knickerbocker, Union, Metropolitan, Merchants', and the Country Club of Westchester County. 
The other children of Frederick Frelinghuysen are : George Griswold Frelinghuysen, who married 
Sarah L. Ballantine, lives in West Forty-third Street, near Fifth Avenue, and has a country place, 
Whippany Farm, in Morristown, N. J. ; Frederick Frelinghuysen, of Newark, N. J.; Matilda C, 
who married Henry Winthrop Gray ; Sarah Helen, who married the Honorable John Davis, and 
Lucy Frelinghuysen. 



AMOS TUCK FRENCH 

EDWARD FRENCH was born in England and settled first in Ipswich, Mass., in the year 
1636, and afterwards became one of the original settlers of Salisbury, Mass. He was a 
prominent member of the community, one of the prudential men in 1646, and paid the 
third heaviest tax in the town for many years. Daniel French, of Salisbury, 1708-1783, was 
the fourth in descent from Edward French. Daniel French, of Chester, N. H., the grandson of 
Daniel French, of Salisbury, was the grandfather of Francis Ormond French, so prominent in 
the financial circles of New York City. He was born in 1769 and died in 1840; he was a 
lawyer and for several terms was Attorney-General of the Stale of New Hampshire. His wife 
was Mercy Brown, sister of the Reverend Francis Brown, president of Dartmouth College. He 
was also the grandfather of Daniel Chester French, the sculptor. 

The son of Daniel French was Benjamin B. French, 1 800-1 870. He was born in Chester, 
N. H., practiced law for some ten years, and served in the New Hampshire Legislature. In 
1833, he entered the clerk's office of the House of Representatives at Washington, and was 
clerk of the House from 184s to 1847. President Lincoln appointed him Commissioner of 
Public Buildings in Washington in 1861, a position that he retained until 1865. He was 
associated with Professor S. F. B. Morse and Postmaster-General Amos Kendall, in the first 
efforts to establish the telegraph, and was president of the Magnetic Telegraph Company, 
organized to construct a line between Washington and New York. The wife of Benjamin B. 
French, whom he married in 182s, was Elizabeth Smith Richardson, a daughter of Chief Justice 
William Merchant Richardson, of New Hampshire. Her family was connected with the early 
history of Charlestown, Mass. One of its members took part in the celebrated Tea Party in 
Boston Harbor in 1772, and another was a Captain in the Continental Army. 

Francis Ormond French, their son, was born in Chester, N. H., in 1837. He was fitted 
for college at Phillips Exeter Academy, entered the sophomore class of Harvard College in 18S4, 
and was graduated in 1857. At that time, he evinced decided literary tastes, being secretary 
of the Hasty Pudding Club, and class poet and a favorite pupil of Professor James Russell 
Lowell. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1859, and, entering the office of Thomas 
Nelson, in New York City, was admitted to the New York bar in i860 and went to Exeter, 
N. H., to practice. In 1862, the appointment of Deputy Naval Officer of the Port of Boston 
was offered him under his father-in-law, the Honorable Amos Tuck, who was Naval Officer. 
In 1863, he was promoted to be Deputy Collector. In 1865, he resigned from the Government 
employ and entered the banking firm of Samuel A. Way & Co., Boston, and subsequently 
founded the banking house of Foote & French. In 1870, he returned to New York City and 
became a partner in the firm of Jay Cooke & Co., and was the representative of the London 
firm of Jay Cooke, McCullough & Co., remaining with them until 1873. In 1874, he was 
one of the capitalists who acquired control of the First National Bank of New York City, and 
became connected with its management. His most notable work in the financial field was 
in relation to the funding of United States loans. From 1888 until his death, in 1893, he 
was president of the Manhattan Trust Company. He was president of the Harvard Club of 
New York City for two years, and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy. He married Ellen 
Tuck, daughter of the Honorable Amos Tuck, of Exeter, N. H., Member of Congress, 1847-53, 
and Naval Officer of the Port of Boston, 1861-5. 

Mr. Amos Tuck French, the only son of Francis Ormond French, is prominent in the 
business and social life of the metropolis. Having graduated from Harvard College, Mr. French 
entered upon a financial career in New York City. He was secretary of the Manhattan Trust 
Company under the presidency of his father, and is now vice-president of that institution. He is 
a member of the Tuxedo colony, and belongs to the Metropolitan, Union, Racquet, Knickerbocker, 
Harvard and New York Yacht clubs. 



FREDERIC GALLATIN 

THE rival of Alexander Hamilton in renown as a financier and statesman, Albert Gallatin 
followed him in public service by some years and now, for nearly half a century, has slept 
his last sleep beside his predecessor in Trinity churchyard. Gallatin, like Hamilton, was 
foreign born, but cast his lot with this country before he had reached his maturity. He was born 
in Geneva, Switzerland, in 176 1, a descendant of an ancient patrician family that for many genera- 
tions had been prominent in Swiss history. His father, Jean Gallatin, died when he was only two 
years old and he lost his mother, Sophie Albertine Rolaz du Rosey, before he was ten years of age. 
He was baptized Abraham Alphonzo Albert, and after being graduated from the University of 
Geneva with high rank in 1779, he ran away and came to this country to escape the importunities 
of members of his family who wished him to enter the army and engage in the Hessian service 
of Frederick of Hesse Cassel. 

Arriving in Boston in 1780, Gallatin was successively soldier, teacher, and instructor in 
Harvard College. Then he went to Pennsylvania, bought real estate, engaged in business, and 
about 1790 entered upon his political career by going to the Legislature. He was in Congress 
in 1795 as a follower of Madison, and was the recognized leader of his party. Secretary of the 
Treasury, 1801-13, one of the Commissioners to arrange the Treaty of Ghent, United States 
Minister to France in 181 5, Envoy Extraordinary to Great Britain in 1826, and otherwise prominent 
in public service, he filled out a long life of activity and usefulness. After his retirement to private 
life, he was president of the National Bank of New York, 1831-39, one of the founders of the New 
York University in 1830, the first president of the American Ethnological Society in 1842, and from 
1843 to the time of his death, in 1849, president of the New York Historical Society. 

A grandson of Albert Gallatin, Mr. Frederic Gallatin is descended through his grandmother 
from James Nicholson, of the United States Navy. James Nicholson was born in Chesterfield, Md., 
in 1727, and came of ancestors who had settled in that locality a century before. His father had a 
grant of what was called Nicholson's Manor, and was in the official employ of the British 
Government. James Nicholson went into the navy at the outbreak of the Revolution, commanded 
the Defense in 1775, was made ranking Captain by resolution of Congress in 1776, became Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Navy in 1777, commanded the frigate Trumbull in the battle with the Wyatt 
in 1780, and in 1781 was taken prisoner and held until the close of the war. Returning to civil 
life, he settled in New York and remained a resident of this city until his death, in 1804. His 
daughter married Albert Gallatin. 

The father of Mr. Frederic Gallatin was Albert R. Gallatin, the second son of Albert Gallatin. 
He was liberally educated and was graduated from Princeton College. Although he was admitted 
to the bar in Pennsylvania, he practiced only a short time and then removed to New York and 
engaged in financial pursuits. At one time, he was in business with John Jacob Astor and his 
ventures were generally profitable, so that he was able to accumulate a considerable fortune. He 
was the companion of his father a great part of the time, and in consequence was thrown into 
association with people of public note. He went abroad with his father several times, to France 
in 1816, to Great Britain in 1826 and upon other occasions. On these trips, he made the acquaint- 
ance of many eminent Europeans and became the personal friend of the Duke of Wellington and of 
many of the leaders in the French Revolution. He lived until 1890, a connecting link between 
this generation and the deeds and the men of the infant days of the Republic. 

Mr. Frederic Gallatin is a University man and a lawyer. He married Amy G. Gerry, 
and occupies a residence in upper Fifth Avenue, near Central Park. He belongs to the Metro-, 
politan, Century and other clubs, and his interest in scientific matters is indicated by his 
membership in the American Geographical Society. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman and 
devotes considerable time to that sport, being a member of the New York, Seawanhaka, 
Larchmont and Atlantic Yacht clubs. 



THOMAS GALLAUDET, D. D. 

OF French origin, the first American ancestors of the Gallaudet family were among the 
Huguenots who participated in the famous migration to America in the early part of the 
eighteenth century. Pierre Elisee Gallaudet, a physician, first appeared in New York. He 
was born in Moze (Mauze) pays d'aunis, near Rochelle. His father was Joshua Gallaudet and his 
mother was Margaret Prioleau, daughter of Elisha Prioleau, minister of Niort, 1639-50. Dr. 
Gallaudet came to New Rochelle, N. Y., as early as 171 1. His son Thomas, the great grandfather 
of the subject of this sketch, was born about 1724, and lived until 1772. His wife was Catharine 
Edgar, who was born in 1725 and died in 1774. They had a family of six children. Their second 
son, Peter Wallace Gallaudet, was born in 1756, in New York, and died in Washington, D. C, in 
1843. His wife, whom he married in 1787, was Jane, or Janet, Hopkins, daughter of Captain 
Thomas and Alice (Howard) Hopkins. She was descended in the sixth generation from John 
Hopkins, of Hartford, Conn., who came over in 1634. 

The Reverend Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was born in Philadelphia in 1787, and died in 
Hartford in 1851. Graduated from Yale College in 1805, with the degree of A. B., he received the 
degree of A. M. in 1808. For two years, 1808-10, he was a tutor in Yale College, and then studied 
in the Theological Seminary in Andover, being licensed to preach as a Congregational minister in 
1814. The greater portion of his lifetime was spent in philanthropic work. In 1816, he was the 
founder and incorporator of the Connecticut Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, the first school of the 
kind in the United States, and he devoted many years and much energy to the care of the unfortun- 
ate insane. In 181 5, he visited London, Edinburgh and Paris. He was the author of Bible Stories 
for the Young, Child's Book of the Soul, and Youth's Book of Natural Theology. His wife was 
Sophia Fowler, of Guilford, Conn., one of his earliest deaf-mute pupils. 

The Reverend Thomas Gallaudet, the son of Thomas H. Gallaudet, was born in Hartford, 
Conn., in 1822. For more than half a century he has been prominently connected with institutions 
for the instruction of deaf mutes and improving their material and spiritual condition. In this field 
of labor, he has been one of the most active and most useful workers in the world, and has acquired 
an international reputation. For fifteen years, 1843-58, he was an instructor in the New York 
Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. Meantime, having been ordained in the 
Protestant Episcopal Church, he founded, in 1852, St. Ann's Church for deaf mutes and their 
hearing friends. Since 1869 he has been pastor of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd, and was 
for three years Chaplain of the Midnight Missions. Since 1872, he has been general manager of 
the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes. He has traveled extensively in the interest of the cause to 
which he has devoted his life, visiting Europe several times. In 1885, he founded the Gallaudet 
Home for Deaf Mutes on a farm near the Hudson River, between Hamburgh and Poughkeepsie. 
Trinity College made him a D. D. in 1862, and he belongs to the Trinity College Alumni 
Association. 

In 1845, Dr - Gallaudet married Elizabeth Budd, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. B. W. Budd. The 
family home is in West Thirteenth Street. Dr. and Mrs. Gallaudet have five daughters, Virginia 
B., Elizabeth F. and Edith Gallaudet, Mrs. A. D. Shaw and Mrs. R. M. Sherman. Their son, Dr. 
Benjamin Gallaudet, is a well-known surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons of New York. A brother of the Reverend Dr. Thomas Gallaudet is 
Peter Wallace Gallaudet, a broker, who lives in West Forty-eighth Street, is a member of the 
New York Club and the New England Society, and was at one time treasurer of the Huguenot 
Society. Another brother is Dr. Edward Miner Gallaudet, president of Gallaudet College for the 
Deaf, in Washington, D. C. This college was founded in 1864, at the suggestion of its president, 
who has been at the head of the institution, of which the college is a part, for more than forty 
years. The college received its name in honor of Dr. Thomas H. Gallaudet, as the founder of 
deaf-mute education in America. 



HUGH RICHARDSON GARDEN. 

DISTINGUISHED Southern Colonial families unite in the person of this gentleman. The 
father of Mr. Garden was born Alester Garden Gibbes, who, at the request of an uncle, 
Major Alexander Garden, changed his name to Alester Garden. He was a descendant of 
Stephen Gibbes, 1594, of Edmonstone Court, England. The latter's son, Robert Gibbes, was 
appointed about 1648 a member of the Council at the Barbadoes, where his son, Robert, was born. 
The second Robert Gibbes became Chief Justice of South Carolina, and his son was John Gibbes, 
who married Mary Woodward, of St. James' Parish, South Carolina. The next in line of Mr. 
Garden's ancestors, Robert Gibbes, third of the name, married Sarah Reeves, of Johns Island, S. C, 
and their son, Wilmot S. Gibbes, 1 781 -1852, married Anna Frances de Saussure, the last named 
couple being the parents of Alester Garden Gibbes. Thomas S. Gibbes, whose descendants have 
held a high position in New York, was a brother of Wilmot S. Gibbes. 

The Garden family descended from George Garden, 1555, Laird of Banchory. His great- 
grandson, the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756, came to this country, and was head of the 
Church of England in the Carolinas. His son, Dr. Alexander Garden, 1730-1791, a physician in 
Charleston, adhered to the Royal cause in the Revolution, and returned to England in 1783. 
Major Alexander Garden, 1757-1829, his son, married Mary Ann Gibbes, daughter of the third 
Robert Gibbes. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and, returning to Charleston, 
espoused the patriotic side in the Revolution, being a Lieutenant in Lee's Legion, and aide-de-camp 
to General Nathaniel Greene. He was vice-president of the South Carolina Society of the Cincin- 
nati after the war. 

On his grandmother's side, Mr. Garden descends from Henri de Saussure, a Huguenot of 
ancient family, who came from Lorraine to South Carolina about 1700. His son, Daniel de Saus- 
sure, of Beaufort, S. C, married Mary McPherson, and was a Revolutionary patriot. He was a 
member of the Provincial Congress, served at the siege of Charleston in 1780, and was captured 
and imprisoned by the British. After the war, he was a State Senator until 1791, and was presi- 
dent of the Senate. His son, the Honorable Henry William de Saussure, 1 763-1837, the great- 
grandfather of Mr. Garden, fought as a boy in the defense of Charleston, and was made prisoner. 
Afterwards he studied law in Philadelphia, and became a member of the South Carolina Constitu- 
tional Convention in 1789; was a member of the Legislature and Chancellor of the State from 1808 
to 1837. He was also director of the United States Mint in 1794, and coined the first gold eagles. 
Mr. Garden's maternal grandfather was William G. Richardson, son of Captain William 
Richardson, 1740- 1793, and Anna (Poinsette) Richardson. Captain Richardson was a grandson of 
William Richardson, 1680, Jamestown, Va., and owned Bloomhill, in the hills of Santee, S. C. He 
was a member of the Provincial Congress, a Captain in the Continental Army, and a supporter of 
General Marion. Emma C. Buford, wife of William G. Richardson, was a granddaughter of 
Colonel William Buford, of Virginia, of the Continental Army, whose name was derived from a 
younger son of the Duke of Beaufort. 

Mr. Hugh R. Garden was born in Sumter, S. C, July 9th, 1840, and graduated with 
honors at the South Carolina College in i860. He entered the Confederate Army, served at Fort 
Sumter and Manassas, and raised and equipped the Palmetto Battery, of which he was Captain. 
He commanded the artillery of General Lee's rear guard at Appomattox. After the war, he studied 
law in the University of Virginia, was admitted to the bar and practiced in the South until his 
removal to New York in 1883. He has devoted himself largely to corporation law, while he 
acquired international reputation by his part in the settlement of the Virginia debt. Mr. Garden 
has been president of the Southern Society of New York. In 1892, the University of the South 
conferred the degree of D. C. L. upon him. In 1868, Mr. Garden married Lucy Gordon Robertson, 
daughter of the Honorable William J. Robertson, formerly a Judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals, 
and granddaughter of General William F. Gordon, the friend of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. 



JOHN LYON GARDINER 

LION GARDINER, the founder of one of the foremost of New York's manorial families, 
was an English officer who had seen service in the low countries under Lord de Vere 
and became Engineer and Master of Works to the Prince of Orange in his campaigns. 
He crossed the Atlantic in 1635 and landing at Boston was entrusted by Winthrop with the build- 
ing of the fortifications which defended that city until after the Revolution. He commanded 
the garrison of Saybrooke, Conn., during the Pequot War, but in 1639 removed with his wife, 
Mary Willemsen Deurcant, to that beautiful island at the extremity of Long Island which bears his 
name. His daughter Elizabeth was the first child of English parentage born in New York. Lion 
Gardiner, it is recorded, purchased his island from Wyandanck, the Sachem of the Long Island 
Indians. His possession was also known as the Isle of Wight, and his title was confirmed by the 
Earl of Sterling, who made claim to eastern Long Island, and was also subsequently ratified by 
the Dutch authorities. Gardiner's Island was erected into a lordship and manor in 1667, with all 
the customary feudal privileges. Lion Gardiner died in Easthampton in 1665, and his tomb there 
is marked by a recumbent effigy in armour, erected in 1886 as a monument by his descendants. 

His successor was his son David, the first European child born in Connecticut, who became 
the second Lord of Gardiner's Island, and whose son John was the third Lord of the Manor. 
Gardiner's Island had in the meantime been the scene of romantic events. The famous pirate, 
Captain Kidd, landed there and buried some of his treasures. The island was plundered 
by Spanish pirates, but the Gardiner family clung to their manor, the estate being entailed. 

David Gardiner, 1691-1751, was the fourth of the Lords, his successor being John, the fifth 
in the line. David Gardiner, the sixth Lord, died in 1774, just as the Revolution began. His eldest 
son, John Lyon Gardiner, 1770-1816, was a minor, in the charge of guardians, and the island 
was in a prosperous condition. It was ravaged repeatedly by the British forces, who left marks of 
their occupation which are still to be discovered in the stately manor house which the sixth Lord 
had completed the year of his death. John Lyon Gardiner, the seventh of the Lords of 
Gardiner's Island, restored the prosperity of his dominion and, though the Revolution had 
obliterated his manorial rights, was, during his life, known to his neighbors by the same title as 
his ancestors. In 1803, he married Sarah Griswold, daughter of John Griswold, of Lyme, Conn., 
and granddaughter of Governor Matthew Griswold. The island was again visited by a British fleet 
during the War of 1812, but escaped without serious damage. 

David Johnson Gardiner, eldest son of John Lyon Gardiner, became the eighth Lord, 
being the last to receive the estate under the entail. Dying unmarried and intestate, it was inherited 
by his brother, John Griswold Gardiner, the ninth Lord. He also died unmarried, and his heir 
was his brother, Samuel Buell Gardiner, tenth Lord of the manor. He married Mary Thompson, 
their children being David Johnson Gardiner, Colonel John Lyon Gardiner and three others. The 
manor was bequeathed to David Johnson Gardiner, but being unwilling to assume the care of such 
a large estate, he disposed of his rights to his brother, Colonel John Lyon Gardiner, the present 
and twelfth Lord of this ancient manor. The history of Gardiner's Island probably presents the 
only instance in America where an estate has descended for two hundred and sixty years, or since 
1639, according to the law of primogeniture. 

Colonel John Lyon Gardiner married Elizabeth Coralie Livingston-Jones, a descendant of the 
Jones family, of Long Island, and also of the Livingstons, of New York. Their children are: 
Coralie Livingston Gardiner, who married Alexander Coxe, an English gentleman whose estate is 
near Sevenoaks, Kent; Adele Griswold Gardiner, Lion Gardiner, the future thirteenth Lord of the 
manor, who will be of age in 1899, and who is now a student at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. ; 
John Gardiner and Winthrop Gardiner. Mrs. Gardiner was a founder and the first vice-president 
of the original Society of Colonial Dames of America. The family residence is at Gardiner's 
Island and the town house is 674 Madison Avenue. 



DUDLEY GREGORY GAUTIER 

A FRENCH Huguenot, who came to this country after the revocation of the Edict of 
Nantes, was the progenitor of the Gautier family in New York and New Jersey. He 
was descended from an ancient family, formerly of St. Blanchard, in Languedoc. 
Originally the family was of noble extraction, and attained eminence during the religious wars of 
France. Jacques Gautier, its first American representative, had two sons, Daniel and Francois, 
and several daughters. 

Daniel Gautier came to this country with his father, and was married in the Dutch Church in 
New York, in 1716, to Maria Bogaert. In the early dissensions in the Huguenot Church, caused by 
the claims of rival ministers, Daniel Gautier sided with the De Lancey party, and, when Governor 
Burnet decided adversely to that faction, left that church to attend the Dutch Church, though his 
children became members of the Church of England, in Trinity parish, with which their 
descendants have since been connected. Andrew Gautier, son of Daniel Gautier, was born in 1720. 
For his first wife he married Elizabeth Crossfield, a lady of English birth, and sister of Stephen 
Crossfield, one of the proprietors of the Totten and Crossfield land patents. His second wife, 
whom he married in 1774, was Margaret Hastier, daughter of Jean and Elizabeth (Perdrian) 
Hastier. Andrew Gautier became a large property owner, an assistant alderman, 1765-77, and an 
alderman, 1768-73. During the Revolution, his sympathies were with the mother country. It is 
related of him that, in 1749, when fire threatened to destroy Trinity Church, he climbed the steeple 
of the church at great personal risk and extinguished the flames. For this the parish presented 
him with a silver bowl, appropriately inscribed, which is still preserved in the family. 

Andrew Gautier, second of the name, was born in 1755 and educated in King's College, 
now Columbia University. His first wife, whom he married in 1772, and who became the 
ancestress of that branch of the family now referred to, was Mary Brown, daughter of Captain 
Thomas Brown, 1717-1782, and Mary Ten Eyck, of Bergen County, N. J. Captain Brown, who 
was of mingled English and Dutch parentage, followed the sea in his youth, and during the 
French wars was captain of a privateer. He owned the ferry across the Hackensack River, and 
acquired large estate in Bergen County. During the Revolution, he espoused the patriot cause, in 
1775 was a member of the Committee of Correspondence for Bergen County, and occupied many 
positions of prominence. His second wife, the mother of Mary Brown, was Mary Ten Eyck, 
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Gurney) Ten Eyck. 

Thomas Gautier, 1774-1802, the great-grandfather of Mr. Dudley G. Gautier, was a 
prominent lawyer in New Jersey and New York. His wife was Elizabeth Leavy, daughter of John 
and Elizabeth (Dickson) Leavy. Thomas Brown Gautier, their son, was born in 1797, graduated 
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1823, and received the degree of 
M. D. from Rutgers College in 1831. He was an eminent physician of Hudson County, N. J. 
His first wife belonged to one of the most distinguished New Jersey families. She was 
Elizabeth Hornblower, daughter of Josiah and Anna (Merselis) Hornblower. Josiah Hornblower 
Gautier, their son, was born in 1818, and graduated from the University of New York and from its 
medical department in 1844. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Jersey City, but finally 
engaged in business, and in time became the principal partner in the firm of J. H. Gautier & Co., 
manufacturers of plumbago crucibles. His wife was Mary Louisa Gregory, daughter of the 
Honorable Dudley S. and Ann Maria Gregory. They had a family of seven children: Dudley 
Gregory, Thomas Brown, Maria Louisa, Josiah Hornblower, Anna Elizabeth, Charles Edward and 
Clara Sutton Gautier. 

Mr. Dudley Gregory Gautier was born in Jersey City, February 2d, 1847, and received his 
education in Germany. He is engaged in the steel business, being head of the firm of D. G. 
Gautier & Co., and resides in Hempstead, Long Island. He is a member of the Union Club, the 
Meadow Brook Hunt Club and the Downtown Association. 



JAMES W. GERARD 

AMONG the distinguished families that were compelled to flee from France by the 
persecutions of the reign of Louis XVI., were the Gerards. They went to Scotland, 
and there William Gerard was born. His parents were Robert and Elizabeth Gerard, 
who, in 1774, resided at Mill of Camousie, near Banff. He was for a time a resident of 
Gibraltar, but previous to 1780 came to this country and engaged in business. The year after 
his arrival here he married Christina Glass, of a Sutherlandshire family. Her father was John 
Glass, of Tain, and her mother was a Monroe, from Ross-shire, a grandniece of Sir Thomas 
Hector Monroe, Governor of the East Indies, and a favorite niece of Dr. Alexander Monroe, 
one of the founders of the University of Edinburgh. A brother of Miss Glass, Alexander S. 
Glass, was a well-known New York merchant of the early part of the nineteenth century. 
Their mother came to this country, a widow with a family of young children, just before the 
Revolution, and afterwards married Alexander McLean, a Surgeon in the British Army. Her 
son was Dr. Hugh Monroe McLean, an eminent physician in New York City in the early part 
of this century. His home on Beekman Street and afterwards in Warren Street, where he lived 
with his two maiden half-sisters, was one of the social centres of the city. 

William and Christina Gerard had seven children. Ann married Andrew Hosie and was 
the mother of Mrs. Schuyler Livingston. Christina married Dr. Jeremiah Fisher, a Surgeon in 
the United States Army in the War of 1812. James W. Gerard, born in 1794, was the youngest 
of the three sons, and was graduated from Columbia College in 181 1. In 1812, he joined the 
"Iron Greys," a company organized for home defense. After the war, he entered the law 
office of George Griffin, who was then one of the giants of the New York bar, and in 18 16 
he took the degree of M. A. from Columbia, at the same time being admitted to the practice 
of his profession, in which he gained great distinction. He was by instinct a philanthropist, 
and it was mainly owing to his efforts that the first House of Refuge was established in this 
city in 1825. A uniformed police force of this city was also first advocated by him. He died 
in 1874, and during the latter part of his career devoted himself to the cause of public education, 
holding the offices of school trustee and inspector, and was assiduous in his attention to the 
public schools. 

Early in life he married Eliza, daughter of the Honorable Increase and Elizabeth Sumner, 
of Boston, of the renowned New England family of that name, originally from Bicester, 
Oxfordshire, descended from William Sumner, a freeman of Dorchester, Mass., prior to 1637. 
The father of Eliza (Sumner) Gerard was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Governor of 
Massachusetts, and her brother, General William H. Sumner, was aide-de-camp to Governor 
Strong of Massachusetts during the War of 1812. 

Mr. James W. Gerard, the second of the name, was born in New York City. He was 
graduated from Columbia College with the honors of valedictorian in 1843, and the same 
institution conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him in 1892. He followed his father in the 
legal profession and won an excellent reputation in the specialty to which he devoted himself, 
real estate and property, and became a recognized authority upon those subjects and was also 
an able advocate in the courts. He has devoted a great deal of his time to the schools of 
his native city, and was one of the Commissioners of Education and a State Senator in 1876-7. 
He is an author of repute, having written much on historical and legal subjects, and also in a 
lighter vein. The Peace of Utrecht is his most important historical work. He is also the 
author of Titles to Real Estate in the State of New York, a standard book of the legal profession. 
He married, in 1866, Jenny Angel, daughter of the Honorable B. F. Angel, formerly United 
States Minister to Sweden. He is a member of the Players, the Tuxedo, the St. Nicholas and 
Union clubs. Mrs. Gerard is a vice-president of the Society of Colonial Dames, being a 
descendant of Elder Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. 



ELBRIDGE T. GERRY 

ELBRIDGE GERRY, the grandfather of the present representative of the family, was a 
prominent patriot of the Revolutionary period and a statesman of eminence in the earlier 
annals of the United States Government. A native of the town of Marblehead, Mass., 
where he was born in 1744, and a graduate of Harvard in 1762, he became a leader in the move- 
ment which resulted in separating the Colonies from Great Britain. He was one of the 
Massachusetts delegates to the Continental Congress, and affixed his signature to the Declaration 
of Independence. His prominence continued throughout the struggle, and he again represented 
Massachusetts in the Convention of 1787, which framed the Constitution of the United States. At 
the same time he opposed the ratification of that instrument, and became one of the anti-Federal 
leaders, and then a founder of the party out of which the existing Democratic party in the United 
States was evolved. Massachusetts, however, chose him as one of its representatives to the first 
United States Congress, which met in New York in 1789, and he remained a member of that body 
until 1793. In 1797, he was one of the three envoys of this country sent to Paris to treat with the 
French Directory, and was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1810, and again in 1811, while in 
1812 he was elected Vice-President of the United States on the same ticket with President Madison. 
He did not complete his term of office, but died in Washington in 18 14. Slight and small in 
stature, Elbridge Gerry was noted even among the gentlemen of those days for his attractive 
personality and urbane manners; and the political rivalries in which his life was passed never 
conflicted with the personal friendship of his leading contemporaries. His wife was Miss Thomp- 
son, who was one of the leaders of New York's social life in the early days of Washington's 
first administration. 

Thomas R. Gerry, his son, became an officer in the United States Navy, and in 1835 married 
Hannah Goelet, of the old New York family of that name, a sister of Peter and Robert Goelet. 
Mrs. Gerry's husband died in 1845. She survived him for fifty years, dying, in 1895, in the old 
Goelet mansion at Nineteenth Street and Broadway. There were two children of this union, 
Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry and a daughter, who became thewife of Frederic Gallatin, grandson of 
Albert Gallatin. 

Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry was born in New York, in 1837, and graduated from Columbia Col- 
lege in 1857. He adopted the profession of law, and soon became an active and successful 
practitioner. His law library is considered one of the finest private collections of the kind in the 
country. He has not taken an ambitious part in politics, and his principal efforts in public affairs 
have been in the field of philanthropy. He was associated with Henry Bergh in the early growth of 
the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and was for many years its counsel. 
He is now its first vice-president and chairman of its executive committee. 

In 1867, he served as a member of the State Constitutional Convention. He was appointed 
in 1892, by the Mayor of New York, chairman of the special commission of inquiry which 
investigated the public care of the insane. He is a governor of the New York Hospital, and was 
chairman of the New York State Commission on Capital Punishment. In 1875, he was a founder 
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and became its president in 1879, a post 
in which he still continues. 

From early youth, he has been an enthusiastic yachtsman, making himself practically 
acquainted with the details of the sport. The steam yacht Electra, of which he is owner, master 
and pilot, was built for him in 1884, and from 1886 to 1893, he was Commodore of the New 
York Yacht Club. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, and other clubs of 
New York, and the Fort Orange Club, of Albany. Since 1882, he has been president of the X ¥ 
fraternity. Commodore Gerry married Louisa M. Livingston, daughter of the late Robert J. 
Livingston, of New York, and has two sons and two daughters. His town house is at the 
corner of Sixty-first Street and Fifth Avenue. He also has a summer home in Newport. 



ROBERT GOELET 

LIKE many of the families which have assumed the lead in all phases of life in New York, the 
Goelets are of Huguenot descent. Their ancestors lived in La Rochelle, and during one of 
the persecutions to which the members of their faith were exposed, during the seventeenth 
century, escaped to Holland, the records of the Dutch City showing their presence in Amsterdam 
in 1 62 1. Francis Goelet, the youngest son of the family, came to the New Netherland in 1676, 
bringing with him his son, Jacobus, a lad about ten years of age. Returning to Holland on 
business, Francis Goelet was presumably lost at sea, the ship which carried him never having been 
heard from, and the orphan lad, Jacobus, was brought up by Frederick Phillipse, the famous 
merchant of New York's early history. He married Jannetje Coessar, who was also a member of a 
Huguenot family, and at his death, in 1731, left a family of six children. His third son was John 
Goelet, who, in 1718, married Jannetje Cannon, daughter of Jean, or Jan, Cannon, a merchant of 
New York, who was also of French Protestant ancestry. John Goelet died in 1753, and was the 
father of several children. 

Peter Goelet, the fourth son of John, was born in 1727, and became an eminent and 
opulent merchant in New York. His place of business was in Hanover Square, being designated 
according to the custom of that time by the sign of the Golden Key. He was at first in partnership 
with Peter T. Curtenius, but from 1763 onward carried on business by himself, his name appearing 
frequently in the public journals and official records of the city as a man of prominence in mercan- 
tile life. In 1755, he married Elizabeth Ratse, daughter of a wealthy merchant who had his 
residence in lower Broadway near the Bowling Green, which locality was then the abode of the 
leading men of the community. 

Peter P. Goelet, son of Peter Goelet, was born in 1764 and died in 1828. He inherited 
considerable real estate and other property, and throughout his life steadily added to his posses- 
sions. In 1799, he married Almy Buchanan, daughter of Thomas Buchanan, one of the leading 
merchants of the Revolutionary period and a member of the Committee of One Hundred, which 
took charge of the city in 1775. The Buchanan mansion was in Wall Street, and in it the marriage 
of his daughter to Peter P. Goelet was celebrated. They had four children, Peter, Jean B., Hannah 
and Robert. Their daughter, Hannah, married Captain Thomas R. Gerry, U. S. N., son of 
Elbridge Gerry, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Massachusetts and 
Vice-President of the United States. Her son is Elbridge T. Gerry, ex-Commodore of the New 
York Yacht Club. 

Peter and Robert Goelet were closely associated throughout their lives. Peter Goelet was 
born in 1800 and died in 1879. He was unmarried and resided in the house at the corner of 
Broadway and Nineteenth Street, which until its removal, a short time since, was one of the land- 
marks of Broadway. He was retiring in his habits, but was charitable and contributed generously 
to aid the sick and wounded soldiers of the Civil War. His brother, Robert Goelet, was born 
in 1809 and died in 1879, two months before Peter Goelet's decease. He married Sarah Ogden, 
daughter of Jonathan Ogden, of the famous family of that name which has been conspicuous in 
New York and New Jersey for fully two centuries, and was the father of Mr. Robert Goelet and of 
the late Ogden Goelet. The brothers, Peter and Robert Goelet, continued the policy which had 
been pursued by their father of investing in real estate, upon the lines of the city's growth and 
improvement, and in this manner became the owners of one of the largest and most valuable 
estates in New York. They were also numbered among the founders of that famous New 
York financial institution, the Chemical Bank. 

Mr. Robert Goelet, of the present generation, was born at his father's house, 5 State Street, 
fronting the Battery, September 29th, 1841. He graduated from Columbia College in i860, was 
admitted to the bar, but has devoted his attention to the care of the large estate left by his father 
and uncle. He has been distinguished, not only by remarkable discernment and foresight in the 

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conduct of affairs, but for the policy he has pursued of improving his properties in a manner which 
would beautify the city. In this connection, Mr. Goelet has not only displayed a notable degree of 
civic pride in the municipality with which his family has been so long identified, but has given a 
useful lesson to other large real estate owners in New York of the advantage of taking into consid- 
eration such features apart from any mere question of revenue. He is a director in some of the 
largest financial institutions of the country, including the Chemical National Bank, and, while 
declining public office, takes an active interest in national and city affairs. His tastes are 
intellectual, and he has been the guiding influence in administering the extensive estates which he 
and his younger brother, the late Ogden Goelet, inherited. In 1879, Mr. Goelet married Henrietta 
Louise, daughter of George Henry Warren, Sr., a distinguished lawyer of this city. They have two 
children, Robert Walton Goelet and Beatrice Goelet. Mr. Goelet's city residence is 591 Fifth 
Avenue, and he also has country places at Newport, R. I., and Tuxedo, N. Y. He is a member 
of the Bar Association and of the Holland and St. Nicholas societies, while among the many clubs 
to which he belongs the Union, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Racquet, New York Yacht and 
Players of this city may be mentioned, as well as the Metropolitan of Washington and the Philadel- 
phia Club. He is also a member of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club and the Royal Northern Yacht 
Club, of Glasgow, Scotland, and is the owner of the steam yacht Nahma, which was designed by 
George L. Watson and built at Thompson's works on the Clyde, and completed in 1897. This 
vessel is three hundred and six feet over all in length, and is equipped for lengthy cruises, its 
machinery and other features making it a representative modern yacht of the highest type. 

The late Ogden Goelet, the younger son of Robert and Sarah (Ogden) Goelet, was also bom 
at the family residence, 5 State Street, in this city, on June nth, 1846, and died August 27th, 1897, 
on board his yacht, the Mayflower, at Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. He devoted himself in 
youth to the business interests connected with the family property. In 1877, he married Mary R. 
Wilson, eldest daughter of Richard T. Wilson, of this city. Their family consisted of two children, 
a son, Robert Goelet, and a daughter, Mary Goelet. The family residence is on Fifth Avenue, at 
the corner of Forty-ninth Street, and they also have a country home at Newport. Ogden Goelet 
was a member of the Union, Metropolitan and other leading clubs, and a member of prominent 
scientific, artistic and patriotic societies. He was, however, during his life most prominently 
identified with yachting. He was long a member of the New York Yacht Club and other institu- 
tions in this country for the promotion of the sport, and owned at one time the fine schooner yacht 
Norseman. In 1882, he gave to the club the Goelet Cups, which are annually contested for by 
sloops and schooners respectively, the possession of which are considered the chief prizes of the 
American yachting world. 

For some years before his death, the late Ogden Goelet spent most of his time abroad, 
pursuing his favorite sport. He chartered the steam yacht White Ladye, in which he cruised 
in English waters and in the Mediterranean, and was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 
and of the principal Continental clubs connected with the sport. He also, while abroad, gave a 
number of handsome cups and prizes to be raced for at the important regattas, one of which 
was won in the Mediterranean by the famous cutter Britannia, belonging to the Prince of Wales. 
In 1896, he commissioned the noted designer, George L. Watson, to build for him a steam yacht 
representing the most advanced ideas that had yet been applied to the construction of such craft. 
This was the Mayflower, which was built on the Clyde at the works of the Messrs. Thompson, 
the builders of the New York, Paris and other celebrated ocean steamers. The Mayflower, 
which was launched in November, 1896, is of eighteen hundred tons and three hundred and 
twenty-one feet over all in length, with nine water-tight compartments. Many novel ideas 
were included in the machinery, fittings and adornment of the yacht, which was in fact a luxurious 
floating home for its owner. In it he contemplated some extended cruises, and among the other 
features, making it suitable for voyages to distant and little visited portions of the world, are 
the six rapid fire guns on the bridge deck. Mr. Goelet made the Mayflower his home from her 
completion until his lamented death, in August, 1897. 

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BRENT GOOD 

THE English surnames Goode and Good seem to have been derived through various trans- 
formations from the Anglo-Saxon Goda, a name which frequently occurs in early English 
history. In the Domesday Book, which records the ownership of the lands of 
England, after the occupation of the country by William the Conqueror, between thirty and 
forty Godes and Godas appear as holding possessions in various parts of England under the 
new monarchy. It was toward the end of the fourteenth century that the name first assumed 
the form of Goode or Good. In 1398, Richard Gode was rector of Busham, St. Andrew, in 
Norfolk, and afterwards rector of St. Mary's, at Peak Hall, Norfolk. Early in the fifteenth century, 
Richard Goode was a rector in Norfolk County, and in 1500 one of the same name was a tenant 
of Trinity corporation of Windsor. William Good was a Jesuit priest and missionary to 
Ireland, Sweden and Poland in the sixteenth century. Representatives of the name were widely 
distributed throughout Lincolnshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Cornwall and elsewhere, though 
families bearing it were most numerous in the western part of England. 

Brent Good, the elder of that name, was of the Somersetshire branch of the family, and 
established himself in this country in the early part of the present century. He was a descend- 
ant from the Goods of Hutton Court, Weston Super Mare, Somersetshire. His ancestors had 
long held that manor, which came into their possession through a marriage with the heiress 
of the Brent family. Certain representatives of the Brents, it may be remarked, came to this 
country and settled in Virginia about a century and a half ago. There they intermarried with 
the descendants of another branch of the Good family, representative of the Cornwall Goodes, 
who had also established themselves in Virginia at an early date in its history. Brent Good, the 
first of the name when he came to this country, settled in Troy, N. Y., where he died in 1837. 
He left a son, Brent Good, second of the name in America, who died in Buffalo in 1839, and upon 
his death the English estate, to which the American members of the family were heirs, was 
disposed of. 

One of the sons of the second Brent Good is Mr. Brent Good, of New York, who has 
been distinguished in the commercial life of the metropolis in this generation. He was born 
in Rochester, N. Y., in 1837. When he was two years old his family removed to Canada and 
settled upon a property at the Bay of Quinte, in upper Canada, where he was brought up and 
received his education. When old enough to enter upon a business career, he began his 
experience in a drug establishment at Belleville, Ont. In 1856, when nineteen years of age, 
he came to New York and entered the employ of Demas Barnes & Co. 

Mr. Good became a partner in 1863, but retired from the firm in 1869, to become the 
senior partner of an importing house, Good, Roof & Co., which he established, remaining 
in that business for more than fifteen years. Since 1879, however, he has been interested in 
the manufacture of medicinal articles and organized the Carter Medicine Company, of which he 
is the president. He has been connected with other business enterprises, having served as 
president of several corporations and as director of the Franklin National Bank, of which, in 
1890, he was one of the founders. He is also the owner of the Lyceum Theatre, in this city, 
and president of the Tutt Manufacturing Company. 

Mr. Good married a daughter of Henry I. Hoyt, of Norwalk, Conn. She was of a 
family that has been long noted in Connecticut and New York, and died in 1894. In 1896, 
he married Frances Colfax Colwell, of Brooklyn, a member of a Virginia family which removed 
from that State at the time of the Civil War. Mr. Good's surviving children are Henry Hoyt and 
Kate Hamilton Good. He is interested in yachting and is a member of the New York Yacht 
Club, and also belongs to the New York Athletic, Lotos, Manhattan, Hardware and Wa-Wa-Yonda 
clubs, and to the St. James Club, of Montreal. He lives at 130 West Fifty-seventh Street and 
has a country residence at Monmouth Beach, N. J. 



FREDERIC GOODRIDGE 

THE American ancestor of the Goodridge family was William Goodridge, who came from 
England and settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1636, being a freeman of that place in 1642. 
From him Mr. Frederic Goodridge was descended in the seventh generation. Benjamin 
Goodridge, son of the pioneer, was born in Watertown in 1642. He was a man of consequence 
in the town of Newbury, where he grew up. He was killed in 1692 by the Indians. Samuel 
Goodridge, son of Benjamin Goodridge, was born in Newbury in 1682, and afterwards moved to 
Boxford, where he became prominent. His wife was Hannah Frazer, daughter of Colin and Anna 
(Stewart) Frazer, of Newbury. John Goodridge, in the fourth generation from the pioneer of the 
family, was born in Boxford in 1729, and lived in that place until he was twenty-eight years of age. 
He married in 1751, Abigail Hall, daughter of Ambrose and Joanna (Dodge) Hall, and in 1757 
removed with his wife to Marblehead, going to Keene, N. H., in 1773, and to Grafton, Vt, in 
1783. He died in 1815, and she died in 1821. John Goodridge was the great-grandfather of Mr. 
Frederic Goodridge, and his wife, a daughter of Ambrose Hall, was a granddaughter of Joseph 
Hall, of Newbury, great-granddaughter of Thomas Hall, of Newbury, and great-great-grand- 
daughter of Thomas Hall, who emigrated to New England and settled in Newbury in 1637. One 
generation further back, she was descended from Thomas Hall, of the parish of Walton-at-Stone, 
Hertfordshire, England, and his wife, Joan Kirby. 

The grandfather of Mr. Goodridge was Moses Goodridge, who was born in Marblehead, 
Mass., in 1764, and was afterwards a resident of Grafton, Vt. He died in Michigan in 1838. His 
wife was Abiah, daughter of Samuel and Huldah (Heaton) Wadsworth, of Keene, N. H. Mr. 
Goodridge's father was Samuel Wadsworth Goodridge, who was one of the great merchants in 
the East India trade in the last generation. He was born in Grafton, Vt., in 1793, and entered upon 
mercantile life in Rockingham, Vt., being a partner in a business house there. In 1819, he removed 
to Saxton's River, Vt., and in time became one of the most extensive wool buyers in that State. 
In 1834, he disposed of his business there, and removing to Hartford, Conn., engaged in the East 
India and China trade, afterwards establishing himself in the shipping and East India trade in New 
York, becoming one of the foremost merchants in that line in his generation. He died in 1868. 
His wife, Lydia Read, whom he married in 1819, was a daughter of the Reverend Peter Read, of 
Ludlow, Vt., the first representative to the Vermont Legislature from that town. She was born in 
1798 and died in 1843. 

Mr. Frederic Goodridge was born in Hartford, Conn., January nth, 1836. He was long a 
leading merchant of New York, being engaged for many years in the business of importing from 
China and the East Indies, in which he accumulated a large fortune. During the latter years of 
his life, he was retired from active business. He was a graduate from Trinity College, a member 
of the Manhattan Club, the Century Association, the Liederkranz, the American Geographical 
Society and the Trinity College Alumni Association, and a patron of the American Museum of 
Natural History. His death occurred in 1897. 

In 1864, Mr. Goodridge married Charlotte Matilda Grosvenor, daughter of Jasper and Matilda 
A. Grosvenor, her father being a prominent merchant of New York in the last generation. Mrs. 
Goodridge has a town house, at 250 Fifth Avenue, and a country residence, Springhurst, at River- 
dale-on-Hudson. Her receptions and musicals have been distinguishing features of every New 
York social season for many years. 

Mr. and Mrs. Goodridge had five children. The eldest son, Jasper Grosvenor Goodridge, 
who was born in 1866, died an infant. The eldest daughter, Matilda Grosvenor Goodridge, is the 
wife of Gouverneur Morris Carnochan. The second daughter, Charlotte Grosvenor Goodridge, 
married George Edward Wyeth. The youngest daughter is Caroline L. Goodridge. The 
youngest child is Frederic Grosvenor Goodridge, who was born in 1873, and is a student in 
Harvard University. 



CLIFFORD CODD1NGTON GOODWIN 

ON his father's side, Mr. Clifford Coddington Goodwin is descended from Ozias, brother 
of William Goodwin, who arrived in Boston from England in 1632, removed to Newtown, 
now Cambridge, Mass., the same year, and became one of the ruling elders of that place 
and a representative to the General Court in 1634. William and Ozias Goodwin accompanied the 
colony that removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1635, and were prominent men in that community. 
They were directly descended from the Goodwins of East Anglia, whose names appear in the 
records of Norwich, England, as early as 1238. They were sturdy, independent Pilgrims, intoler- 
ant of oppression, and among the most substantial and most useful citizens of the New World. 
Samuel Goodwin, 1682-17 12, great-grandson of Ozias Goodwin, was the ancestor of that branch 
of the family to which Mr. Clifford Coddington Goodwin belongs. The wife of Samuel Goodwin 
was Mary Steele, daughter of Lieutenant James and Sarah (Barnard) Steele, of Hartford. Their 
son, Samuel Goodwin, 1710-1776, was a resident of Hartford, where he was collector in 1737-45- 
47, grand juror in 1743 and ensign of the military company in 1749. His second wife, the ances- 
tress of the subject of this sketch, was Laodamia Merrill, daughter of Moses and Mary Merrill, of 
Hartford. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Clifford Coddington Goodwin was George Goodwin, who was 
born in Hartford, in 1757. He entered the office of Thomas Green, founder of The Connecticut 
Courant, and in 1777 was admitted to a partnership in the business, being for the rest of his life 
identified with that newspaper, with which he had been connected almost from its foundation. 
He retired in 1825, after more than sixty years of devotion to business, and his sons succeeded 
him. The wife of George Goodwin, whom he married in 1779, was Mary Edwards, daughter of 
Richard and Mary (Butler) Edwards, of Hartford. She died in 1828 and he lived until 1844. The 
grandfather of Mr. Goodwin was Oliver Goodwin, who was born in Hartford, in 1784. During 
the War of 1 812 he was an ensign in Captain Samuel Waugh's company and was also prominent 
in the administration of public affairs in Litchfield, where he lived, being frequently honored with 
public office. He died in 1855. His wife, whom he married in 1818, was Clarissa Leavitt, 
daughter of David and Lucy (Clark) Leavitt, of Bethlehem, Conn. The father of Mr. Goodwin is 
Edward Clark Goodwin, who was born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1825, and is still living in the old 
Goodwin mansion, in Fifth Avenue. 

The mother of Mr. Goodwin was Matilda Eleanor Coddington, daughter of Jonathan Inslee 
Coddington. Mrs. Goodwin's father was born in Woodbridge, N. J., in 1784 and died in New 
York in 1856. He was a member of the Assembly from New York City in 1827, Presidential 
elector in 1844 and Postmaster of New York, 1836-42. His grandfather was John Coddington, 
of Woodbridge, N. J., who died there about 1758 ; his father was James Coddington, 1754-1816, 
of Woodbridge, a Revolutionary soldier who married Experience Inslee, daughter of Jonathan and 
Grace (Moore) Inslee. Several brothers of Mrs. Goodwin have been distinguished in public life. 
Colonel Clifford Coddington, after whom the subject of this sketch was named, was born in New 
York in 1841 and died in 1892. He was a lawyer and broker, a member of the Seventh Regiment 
and a soldier in the Civil War. Another brother was David Smith Coddington, 1825-1865, an 
orator and frequently a member of the Assembly from New York City. A third brother is Gilbert 
Smith Coddington, of New York, to whom reference is made in another part of this volume. 

Mr. Clifford Coddington Goodwin was born in New York, December 3d, i860, and educated 
at the Columbia University. Washington, D. C. He resides in Fifth Avenue, in the same block 
where three generations of his family have been born and lived. His summer residence, the 
country home of the family, is Edgewater, in Barrytown-on-Hudson. He belongs to the St. 
Nicholas and New York clubs. His brother, Edward Leavitt Goodwin, was born in 1859 and 
died in 1878. Another brother, Henry Leavitt Goodwin, was born in 1862 and married, in 1889, 
Mary Bowditch Osborne. 

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JAMES JUNIUS GOODWIN 

IN the burying ground connected with the First Church of Hartford, Conn., stands a monument 
erected to the early settlers of that place. Inscribed thereon are the names of William and 
Ozias Goodwin, two brothers who were of the company that, in 1635, led by the Reverend 
Thomas Hooker, left Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., and went to Connecticut to found a new 
Colony. Ozias Goodwin was the first American ancestor of Mr. James Junius Goodwin. He was 
born in England about 1596 and died in Hartford in 1683. His wife was Mary Woodward, of Brain- 
tree, England. The line of descent from Ozias Goodwin to the subject of this sketch is through 
the son, Nathaniel, 1637-1713; the grandson, Ozias, 1689-1776, who was a deacon of the First 
Church of Hartford, and married Martha Williamson, daughter of Captain Caleb Williamson; the 
great-grandson, Jonathan Goodwin, 1734-181 1; the great-great-grandson, James Goodwin, 1777- 
1844, and the great-great-great-grandson, James Goodwin, 1803- 1878, who was the father of Mr. 
James J. Goodwin. 

The wife of Jonathan Goodwin, great-grandfather of Mr. James J. Goodwin, was Eunice 
Olcott, of Hartford, daughter of Joseph Olcott. She was descended from Thomas Olcott, who was 
one of the first settlers of Hartford with William and Ozias Goodwin. The grandmother of Mr. 
Goodwin was Eunice Roberts, daughter of Lemuel Roberts, who was a Captain in one of the 
Connecticut regiments during the War of the Revolution. Her remote American ancestor was John 
Roberts, who assisted in founding the town of Simsbury, Conn., in 1688. James Goodwin, of 
Hartford, Mr. J. J. Goodwin's father, was born in that city in 1803 and died in 1878. He was well 
known in the business world, having been president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance 
Company for more than thirty years. His wife, whom he married in 1832, was Lucy Morgan, 
daughter of Joseph Morgan. She was descended from Captain Miles Morgan, one of the first set- 
tlers of Springfield, Mass., an associate of Colonel William Pynchon and Deacon Samuel Chapin and 
the ancestor of many distinguished men and women. 

One of the sons of James Goodwin was the Reverend Francis Goodwin, of Hartford, who 
was born in 1839, was ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1863, and was the 
rector of Trinity Church, in Hartford, from 1865 to 1871. He had charge of various parishes from 
1872 to 1877, and after 1877 was a trustee and president of the Watkinson Farm School. He was 
also on the boards of street, park and school commissioners of Hartford, and for many years a 
trustee of the Berkeley Divinity School and Trinity College. His wife was Mary Alsop Jackson, 
daughter of Captain Charles H. Jackson, of the United States Navy, and a lineal descendant of 
Deacon John Jackson, of Newtown, Mass., 1639. 

Mr. James Junius Goodwin was born in Hartford, Conn. Educated in private schools and 
the Hartford High School, he spent two years traveling in Europe after 1857. Upon his return to 
the United States in 1859, he removed to New York and, in 1861, became associated with his 
cousin, J. Pierpont Morgan, in the foreign banking business. He continued this relation for ten 
years, when he retired, in 1871. In 1873, he married Josephine Sarah Lippincott. Mrs. Goodwin 
is of Quaker parentage. Her father was Joshua B. Lippincott, the Philadelphia publisher, 1813-1886, 
who for fifty years after 1836 was at the head of the great publishing house which he founded. He 
was a man of high culture and thorough literary attainments, a patron of the Philadelphia Academy 
of Fine Arts and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. 

The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin is in West Thirty-fourth Street and they have a 
country home in Hartford, Conn. Their children are Walter L., James L. and Philip L. Goodwin. 
Walter L. Goodwin graduated from Yale University in the class of 1897. Mr. Goodwin is a member 
of the Metropolitan, City, Union, Century and Riding clubs, the American Geographical Society, 
the Society of Colonial Wars of New York and Connecticut, the Sons of the Revolution and the 
Sons of the American Revolution, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 
National Academy of Design. 

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GEORGE JAY GOULD 

THE history of the Gould family, which has been so prominent in the financial affairs of 
the metropolis and of the country for two generations, goes back to the earliest 
Colonial period. Originally derived from good old English stock, the lineage 
of those of the present day can be traced, through several lines, to ancestors who were 
prominent and active in the formative period of the new Republic, in Colonial times and 
in the American Revolution. 

Major Nathan Gould, the ancestor of the subject of this article, was a native of St. 
Edmondsbury, England. Coming to Fairfield, Conn., about 1645, with Governor John Win- 
throp, he became a leading man in the community, and with Winthrop, Samuel Wyllys, 
General Mason, John Talcott and others, joined in the petition to Charles II. for a charter of 
the Colony ; his name being on the venerable instrument that was granted to Connecticut. 
He was an assistant to the Governor, an office that corresponded to our State Senators, in 
1657, and for every year thereafter, except one, to 1662. In 1670, he was rated as the richest 
man in the community where he lived, and when he died, in 1694, he was spoken of in the 
town register of Fairfield as "the worshipful Major Nathan Gould, Esq." Nathan Gould, Jr., 
son of Major Nathan Gould, was town clerk of Fairfield, Deputy Governor in 1706 and Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Connecticut. His wife was Hannah Talcott, 
daughter of John Talcott, the secretary of the Colony, and he had seven sons. 

Samuel Gould, grandson of the pioneer, died in Fairfield in 1723, at the age of seventy- 
seven, and Colonel Abraham Gould, his son, was an officer in the Revolution and was killed 
in battle at Ridgefield, in 1777. Two brothers of Colonel Abraham Gould, Daniel Gould and 
Abel Gould, were also Revolutionary soldiers. 

Jay Gould, who brought the family name into prominence in the last generation by his 
ability and success as a financier and railroad manager, was the great-grandson of Colonel 
Abraham Gould. The wife of Colonel Abraham Gould was Elizabeth Burr, a descendant of 
John Burr, who came to America in 1630, with Governor Winthrop, and was one of the 
eight founders of Springfield, Mass. Their son, Captain Abraham Gould, settled in Roxbury, 
N. Y., 1780, and his son, John Burr Gould, was the first male white child born in that town, 
and became the father of the late Jay Gould. His wife was Mary More, granddaughter of 
John More, a Scotchman who came from Ayrshire in 1772. 

Jay Gould was born in Roxbury May 27th, 1836. Educated in the public schools, in 
local academies and at Albany, he entered upon a business career early in life, learned sur- 
veying and map making, mapped several counties and townships in New York, Ohio, and 
Michigan, surveyed several railroads, wrote a history of Delaware County, which was published 
in 1856, founded the town of Gouldsboro in Eastern Pennsylvania and built large tanneries 
there, laying the foundation for the great fortune that he afterwards accumulated. Shortly before 
the Civil War broke out, Jay Gould became interested in railroad enterprises. His first step in 
this direction was when he obtained control of The Rutland & Washington Railroad Company, 
becoming president, treasurer and superintendent of the road. He also became interested in 
the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad and other lines in various parts of the country. He then 
became a member of the stock brokerage firm of Smith, Gould & Martin, of New York City, 
and from that time on his life was a history of the greatest railroad and financial enterprises 
that this country has ever seen. His connection with the Erie, the Union Pacific, the Texas 
& Pacific, the Wabash and the Missouri Pacific Railroads, the Atlantic & Pacific and the Western 
Union Telegraph Companies and the Manhattan Elevated Railroad, of New York, is too well 
known to be dwelt upon here. He died in 1892. Several years ago, his children built the 
handsome Dutch Reformed Church at Roxbury, N. Y., as a memorial to him. Mr. George 
Jay Gould is the eldest son of Jay Gould. His mother was Helen Day Miller, daughter 

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of Daniel S. Miller, a prominent wholesale merchant of New York, a descendant of an old English 
family, settled at Easthampton, Long Island, in the early Colonial days. 

Mr. Gould is a native of New York, having been born in 1864. He was educated in 
private schools and under tutors, and when still a comparatively young man became the asso- 
ciate and assistant of his father in the latter's vast railroad and business enterprises. He was 
soon placed in highly responsible positions of an executive character, being at first an assistant 
to the president of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and from time to time assumed 
other places of importance, relieving his father of much of the burden which the active charge 
of such great interests involved. He traveled abroad to a limited extent and visited nearly all 
portions of the United States, giving special attention to the sections of our country traversed 
by the railroad lines with which he was officially connected, and making close study of their 
capabilities. The ability and capacity which he developed in his business pursuits were 
recognized in the terms of the will of Jay Gould, who, in bequeathing to his eldest son an 
additional share of his estate, placed this particular mark of approbation upon the ground of his 
devotion to such cares and the talent which he had shown for his duties. 

On the death of his father, Mr. George J. Gould became, with his brothers and sisters, 
an executor of the paternal estate, and at the same time naturally took the place for which his 
training had fitted him as the head of the various corporations with which the family interests 
were identified. At the present time, Mr. Gould is president of the Missouri Pacific Railway, 
of the Texas Pacific Railway, and the Manhattan Elevated Railway, and is a director and member 
of the executive committee of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He is also an officer 
or director of many other corporations. He married Edith Kingdon, of Brooklyn, and has 
five children ; three sons, Kingdon, Jay, and George J. Gould, Jr., and two daughters, Marjorie 
G. and Helen Vivien. 

Mr. Gould is interested in yachting and belongs to the New York, American, Larchmont 
and Atlantic Yacht clubs. He owns the handsome steam yacht Atalanta, which his father built. 
He also purchased the celebrated America cup defender, Vigilant, which he sailed in a series of 
international races in European waters in the season of 1894, defeating the Prince of Wales' 
yacht, Brittania, in one race. Mr. Gould is also a member of the Lawyers', New York Athletic, 
New York and Jekyl Island clubs, and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. His city residence is in Fifth Avenue, at the corner of Sixty- 
seventh Street, and he has a country home at Lakewood, N. J. 

Edwin Gould, brother of the subject of this article and the second son of Jay Gould, 
was born in 1866. He entered Columbia College and was a member of the class of 
1888. He has since been a liberal friend of his alma mater, to which he has made several 
noteworthy gifts, including a splendid boat house. He showed a decided interest in military 
matters, becoming a member of Troop A of the National Guard, and was subsequently 
appointed Inspector of Rifle Practice to the Seventy-first Regiment, with the rank of Captain. 
He married a daughter of Dr. George F. Shrady and resides at Irvington, N. Y. Edwin Gould 
also devotes his attention to the management of his large corporate and financial interests, and 
is the vice-president of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and a director of the Missouri 
Pacific Railway, Western Union Telegraph Company and other corporations. 

Howard Gould, the third son of the family, is unmarried and has taken a prominent 
position as a yachtsman. He has raced his yacht, the Niagara, in British waters for several 
seasons, meeting the most prominent boats of its class on the other side. The youngest 
brother, Frank J. Gould, is still under age. 

Helen Miller Gould, the eldest sister of George J. Gould, is noted for her interest in and 
devotion to church and benevolent work. She resides in the Gould family place, Lyndhurst, at 
Irvington-on-the-Hudson. The younger sister of the family, Anna Gould, was married in 1895 
to Count Paul Marie Ernest Boniface de Castellane, a French nobleman of ancient lineage, and 
since her marriage has made her home in Paris. 

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WILLIAM RUSSELL GRACE 

RAYMOND LE GROS, a Norman baron who took part in the occupation of Ireland by the 
Plantagenet kings, obtained extensive possessions in Kilkenny and the adjoining counties. 
His descendants added to the family's power and influence, their name being modified to 
its present form, Grace, but when English oppression involved the Norman-Irish as well as the 
Celtic inhabitants, the lands of the Graces were confiscated, and they were forced to retire to Con- 
naught. In a later generation, the head of the family, who was great-grandfather of the gentleman 
now referred to, returned to the South of Ireland and attempted to regain possession of his ancestral 
estates, and, though unsuccessful in this, his children attained substantial prosperity. 

James Grace, father of the Honorable William R. Grace, inherited a fortune, but lost a large 
part of it and almost sacrificed his life in efforts to free Venezuela from Spain. His wife was Ellen 
Mary Russell, a member of a family which has been distinguished in Ireland for several centuries. 
The Honorable William Russell Grace, the eldest of their four sons, was born in Riverstown, 
County Cork, Ireland, May ioth, 1832. An ambitious and spirited lad, at fourteen years of age he 
ran away from school and worked his passage to New York on a sailing vessel. Remaining two 
years, he then returned home, but in 1850 again left Ireland and entered the employ of Bryce & Co., 
of Callao, Peru. Becoming a partner two years later, the name was changed to Bryce, Grace & Co. 
and the firm did a large mercantile business at the ports of Peru and Chili. A few years later, it 
became Grace Brothers & Co., Mr. Grace's brother, Michael P. Grace, entering it as a partner. 

In 1865, Mr. Grace, after close application to business for nearly twenty years, came to New 
York intending to retire. His health returning, he remained in business, and in 1894 the corpora- 
tion of W. R. Grace & Co. was organized, with Mr. Grace as president. It has branches in 
London, San Francisco, Peru and Chili, and occupies a preeminent position in the business world 
of three continents. He has been a director of the Lincoln National Bank, and the Lincoln Safe 
Deposit Company, and a trustee of the New York Life Insurance Company, the Terminal Ware- 
house Company and the Brooklyn Warehouse and Storage Company, and is identified with other 
corporations. As a Democrat he has taken a conspicuous part in the politics of New York, being 
a leader in local matters and influential in the councils of his party in the State. In 1880, he was 
nominated by the combined Democracy for Mayor of New York City and was elected to that office, 
despite strong opposition, based principally on religious grounds. His administration of municipal 
affairs was, however, distinguished by impartiality, and when, in 1884, he was again nominated 
for the Mayoralty, he was reelected by the support of citizens of all classes. 

In September, 1859, Mr. Grace married Lillias Gilchrist, daughter of George W. Gilchrist, of 
St. George, Me. He has five children: Alice, widow of W. E. Holloway, of San Francisco; Joseph 
P., Lillias J., Louisa and William R. Grace, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Grace live at 31 East Seventy-ninth 
Street. He is a member of the Manhattan, Metropolitan, Lawyers', Reform, Catholic, Country and 
other clubs, and is a trustee of St. Patrick's Cathedral. His donations to benevolent causes and 
institutions have been munificent. In 1879, he wa s one of the largest contributors to the relief of 
the famine in Ireland. In 1897, he took steps to establish a large institution in New York City for 
the manual instruction of girls. Its founder's hope is that it will accomplish much practical good; 
it will be entirely supported by Mr. Grace and members of his family, and will be known as 
the Grace Institute. 

Mr. Grace has three brothers, all of whom are distinguished for their ability and business 
achievements. John W. Grace established the branch house in San Francisco, but now lives in 
New York and takes an active part in the management of the entire business. Michael P. Grace 
founded the firm in London and is largely interested in many prominent financial corporations. 
The youngest brother, Morgan S. Grace, who went to New Zealand as an army surgeon, has 
been prominent in politics there, becoming a member of Parliament, and is now a life member of 
the upper House of the Colony. 



MALCOLM GRAHAM 

BORN in Edinburgh, in 1694, John Graham, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. Malcolm 
Graham, came of the family of which the dukes of Montrose are the heads. He was 
educated at the University of Glasgow and became a physician. In the early part of 
the eighteenth century, he came to Exeter, N. H., and turning from medicine to theology, was 
the first pastor of the church in Stafford, Conn., in 1723. In 1732, he was called to the church 
in Southbury, Conn., where he remained for over forty years and was especially active in the 
great New England revival of 1740. He died in Woodbury, Conn., in 1774. His wife was 
Abigail Chauncey, daughter of the Reverend Doctor Nathaniel Chauncey. Andrew Graham, 
their son, became a physician. He was a Revolutionary patriot and a member of the Committee 
of Safety. At the battle of Danbury, he acted as regimental surgeon and at the battle of White 
Plains he was taken prisoner and not released until the surrender of Cornwallis. For many 
years he represented the town of Woodbury in the General Court of Connecticut. He married, 
in 17S3, Martha Curtiss and died in 1785. His son, John Andrew Graham, 1764-1841, was born 
in Southbury, Conn., was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1785, and removed to Rutland, Vt., 
where he became prominent in his profession. He visited Europe several times, and in 1796 
received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Aberdeen. After 1805, he was a resident of 
New York and became a well-known lawyer. His second wife, the grandmother of Mr. 
Malcolm Graham, was Margaret Lorimer, daughter of James Lorimer, of London. 

Colonel John Lorimer Graham, father of Mr. Malcolm Graham, was born in London in 1797 
and died in Flushing, N. Y., in 1876. He studied law in the celebrated school of Judge Tapping 
Reeve at Litchfield, Conn., and afterwards with John Anthon, of New York, being admitted 
to the New York bar in 182 1 and becoming a member of the law firm of Graham, Sanford & Noyes. 
He entered the military service of the State in 1817, and in 1819 became a member of Governor 
De Witt Clinton's staff, with the rank of Colonel. In 1834, he was regent of the State University, 
from 1840 to 1844 Postmaster of New York, and after 1861 an officer in the Treasury Department 
at Washington. He was a member of the Historical, New England, St. George's and St. Andrew's 
societies, and a life director in the American Bible Society. A member of the council of the Univer- 
sity of the City of New York, he founded a free scholarship in that institution. His wife was the 
youngest daughter of Isaac Clason and he left four sons, James, Clinton, Augustus and Malcolm 
Graham, and one daughter, Emily Graham. 

Mr. Malcolm Graham, the youngest son of Colonel John L. Graham, was born in New 
Jersey, July 27th, 1832. In 1854, he formed, with Marcellus Hartley, the firm of Hartley & Graham, 
of which he is still a member. He lives in West Seventeenth Street and has a summer home, 
Cedarcroft, at Seabright, N. J. He married, in early life, Annie Douglas, daughter of George 
Douglas, of New York. She died in 1873, and in 1876 he married Amelia M. Wilson, 
daughter of J. B. Wilson, of New York. Mr. Graham is a member of the Metropolitan, Union 
League, Union, Lawyers', New York Yacht, and Riding clubs, the Century Association, the Saint 
Andrew's Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National 
Academy of Design, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Chamber of Commerce. 
He has two sons, Malcolm, Jr., and Robert D. Graham, and one daughter, Mary Douglas Graham. 
Malcolm Graham, Jr., graduated from Princeton University in 1890, married Maud L. Brightman 
and lives in New Brighton, Staten Island. He is a member of the University, Lawyers', A <I> and 
New York Yacht clubs, the Saint Andrew's Society, and the Chamber of Commerce. Robert D. 
Graham married, in 1896, Edith Sands, daughter of Philip J. Sands. 

The arms of the Graham family are : Quarterly ; first and fourth, or., on a chief sable, three 
escallops of the field for Graham ; second and third, argent, three rose gules, barbed and seeded, 
proper for Montrose. The crest is an eagle, wings hovering, or., perched upon a heron lying upon 
jts back, proper, beaked and membered, gules. Motto, Ne ouhliei. 



FREDERIC DENT GRANT 

IT has been noticed as a curious and interesting fact that the four great Generals of the 
American Civil War were descended respectively from the four representative peoples of 
the British Isles, Grant from the Scotch, Sherman from the Saxons, Sheridan from the 
Irish and Thomas from the Welsh. The Grant family has been sturdily American in all its 
branches for nearly three centuries. The first of the name who came from Scotland were two 
brothers, the eldest of whom, Matthew Grant, arrived in Massachusetts in May, 1630, on the ship 
Mary and John. 

Matthew Grant was only twenty-nine years old when he emigrated. In 1635, he was in the 
company which settled the town of Windsor, Conn., and there he lived until his death, in 1681, 
being one of the leading citizens of the place, clerk of the town and surveyor of land. His wife 
died in 1644, and a few years after he married a Mrs. Rockwell, who had several children by her 
first marriage, and others by her second husband. General Ulysses S. Grant in his memoir relates 
that by intermarriages two or three generations later he was descended from Matthew Grant and 
from both his wives. In the French and Indian War, in 1756, Noah Grant and his younger brother, 
Solomon, held commissions in the English Army and were killed in the field. Noah Grant, in the 
fifth generation from Matthew Grant, was the great-grandfather of General Ulysses S. Grant. His 
son, also named Noah, General Grant's grandfather, was born in 1748 and died about 1821, having 
served in the Continental Army throughout the War of the Revolution, participating in the battle 
of Bunker Hill, and being present at Yorktown. After the war, he removed to Westmoreland 
County, Pa., and being a widower, there married again, and in 1799 moved still further 
West to Ohio. 

The eldest son of Captain Noah Grant by his second wife was Jesse R. Grant, who was 
born in 1794 and died in 1873. He was brought up in the family of Judge Tod, father of Governor 
Tod, of Ohio, but on coming of age learned the trade of tanning. He became an energetic 
business man, fairly prosperous, and married, in 1821, Hannah Simpson, a young lady of Scotch 
descent, who came of a family that had lived in Montgomery County, Pa., for several generations. 
General Ulysses S. Grant, soldier and eighteenth President of the United States, eldest son of Jesse 
R. and Hannah (Simpson) Grant, was born in 1822 and died in 1885. There is no call now to 
dwell upon his notable career. The record of his student days at West Point, his service in the 
old army of the United States, in the Mexican War and in California, his incomparable service to 
his country in the Civil War, the civic honors that were showered upon him alike in his native 
land and in foreign countries during the journey around the world which he took after his presi- 
dential term expired, has become a familiar household story to the present generation. 

Colonel Frederic Dent Grant, the eldest son of General Grant, is in the ninth generation 
from Matthew Grant. His mother was Julia T. Dent, of St. Louis, whom General Grant married 
in 1848. Colonel Grant was born in St. Louis, May 30th, 1850, and was with his father during 
most of the Civil War, being present at five battles before he was thirteen years old. He was 
graduated from West Point in 1871, and served on the frontier in active military duty until 1881, 
part of the time as aide-de-camp to General Sheridan, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He 
retired from the army in 1881 to enter business, and in 1892 was appointed United States Minister 
to Austria. In 1894, he became a member of the Board of Police Commissioners of New York 
City, and resigned that position in 1897. Naturally, he is a strong Republican, and is a member of 
the Republican and Union League clubs. 

The wife of Colonel Grant was Ida Honore, of Chicago, and descended from an old-time 
aristocratic French family of Kentucky. A sister of Mrs. Grant is Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago 
and Newport. Colonel and Mrs. Grant have two children, Ulysses S. Grant, third, and Julia 
Grant. The family residence is in East Sixty-second Street, and they spend the summer in 
Newport. 

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JOHN ALEXANDER CLINTON GRAY 

IN the year 1795, Alexander Gray, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came from the 
North of Ireland to the United States and died in Philadelphia soon after his arrival, leaving a 
widow and a son, John Gray, who died in 1816, and who was the father of Mr. John Alexan- 
der Clinton Gray, of New York. The widow of Alexander Gray was Mary Little Gray, a lady of 
the Clinton family, illustrious in the Revolutionary annals of New York, and after her husband's 
death she became the second wife of her deceased husband's cousin, General James Clinton, the 
Revolutions y soldier. By his first wife, Mary De Witt, General James Clinton was the father of 
one of the most famous men of this State, De Witt Clinton, Governor of New York and creator 
of the Erie Canal. 

The Clinton family in Ireland and America came from the same race as the Earls of Lincoln 
in England. William Clinton, who established the Irish branch, was an officer in the army of 
Charles I., and after the overthrow of the royal cause and the execution of the King, took refuge in 
Ireland. His son, James Clinton, married Elizabeth Smith, whose father had been a Captain in the 
Parliamentary Army during the Civil War, and it was their son, Charles Clinton, 1690-1773, who 
came to New York in 1729, and established the settlement of Little Britain in Ulster, now Orange 
County. His most celebrated sons were General James Clinton, the stepfather of John Gray, and 
the Honorable George Clinton, 1739-1812, who was one of the most prominent and active Revo- 
lutionary patriots during the agitation which preceded the rupture with the mother country, 
and a member of the Continental Congress. He afterwards became the first Governor of the 
State of New York and later Vice-President of the United States. 

Mr. John Alexander Clinton Gray was born in 181 5, in the Clinton mansion, at Little 
Britain, Orange County, N. Y., and has since his boyhood been a resident of New York City. He 
entered business life at an early age, retiring in 1852. Since that time, he has been interested in 
various railroad enterprises, but much of his time has been passed in Europe and devoted 
to travel. When the original Central Park Commission was formed Mr. Gray was its vice- 
president. In 1837, he married Susan M. Zabriskie, daughter of George Zabriskie, a prominent citi- 
zen of New York, an alderman of the city and a member of the State Assembly. Mrs. Gray was a 
descendant in the sixth generation of Albrecht Zaborowsky, a native of Poland, who came from 
Prussia to New Amsterdam in 1662, and took up his residence in New Jersey, purchasing lands at 
Paramus. His son, Jan, married Margaretta Duryea, and his grandson, Joost, married Annetje 
Terhune, daughter of John Terhune, while his descendants have been since prominent both in 
New Jersey and New York and have become allied with the oldest families in both States. Mr. 
Gray is a member of the Union League Club. 

The two elder sons of Mr. and Mrs. Gray have been distinguished clergymen and scholars. 
The Reverend George Zabriskie Gray was for nearly twenty years dean of the Protestant Episcopal 
Divinity School at Cambridge, Mass., and the Reverend Albert Zabriskie Gray was graduated from 
the General Theological Seminary, New York, in 1864, served as a chaplain in the field during the 
Civil War, held several pastorates and was warden of Racine College in 1882. In 1889, he 
received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Columbia College. 

The Honorable John Clinton Gray, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Gray, has earned the 
highest honors of the legal profession in New York. Graduating from the University of New 
York, he took the degree of LL. B. at Harvard Law School and also studied law at the University 
of Berlin. Engaging in the practice of his profession in this city, he was a member of the law firm 
of Gray & Davenport. In 1888, Governor Hill appointed him to fill the vacancy in the Court of 
Appeals, caused by the death of Judge Charles A. Rapallo, and at the election held that year he 
was chosen for the full term of fourteen years. Judge Gray is a member of the Bar Association, 
and of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Century and Union League clubs, and of the National Academy 
of Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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FRANCIS VINTON GREENE 

DISTINGUISHED Colonial lineage is the proud heritage of the family to which Colonel 
Francis Vinton Greene belongs and which has held high rank in business and in social 
life in the State of Rhode Island. The first of the family to come to this country was 
John Greene, an English surgeon, who arrived with Roger Williams on the ship Hampton in 1635. 
His ancestors for several generations were gentlemen and landed proprietors in Dorsetshire. He 
settled first in Salem, Mass., and then went with Roger Williams to found the Colony of Providence 
in 1636. He was a leading man of the Colony, one of the twelve whom Williams recorded as his 
"loving friends and neighbors," and was on the organization committee of ten. His son was one 
of the ten assistants to the Governor under the charter of 1663, and his immediate descendants 
were Governors, Deputy Governors, Secretaries of the Colony and delegates to the General Assem- 
bly. One of his most distinguished descendants was General Nathaniel Greene, the Revolutionary 
patriot, Washington's trusted friend, the famous Quartermaster-General of the Continental Army, 
and the brilliantly successful commander of the Army of the South who compelled the British 
forces to abandon South Carolina. 

Colonel Francis Vinton Greene was born in Providence, R. I., June 25th, 1850, a direct 
descendant from the pioneer, John Greene, and collaterally related to General Nathaniel Greene. 
He was graduated from West Point in 1870, at the head of a class of fifty-eight cadets. Assigned 
first to the artillery service, he was transferred in 1872 to the Corps of Engineers. For four years 
he was detailed for service with the joint commission that had in charge the survey of the boundary 
line between the United States and the British possessions from the Lake of the Woods to the 
Rocky Mountains, being assistant astronomer and surveyor. 

During the year of 1876, he was in the office of the Secretary of War in Washington, and in 
1877 was detailed as military attache to the United States Legation at St. Petersburg, his special 
duty being to make a study of the military operations during the war between Russia and Turkey. 
He accompanied the Russian Army throughout its celebrated campaign, and returned to the United 
States in January, 1879. The same year he was assigned to duty as assistant to the Engineering 
Commissioner in Washington, D. C, and had charge of the engineering work upon the streets, 
roads and bridges in the District of Columbia. After six years of this service, he was sent in July, 
1885, to the Military Academy at West Point, as instructor of practical military engineering. In 
January, 1886, he resigned from the army and became vice-president of the Barber Asphalt Paving 
Company. Soon after, he was advanced to be president of the same corporation and now holds 
that position. 

Colonel Greene's interest in military affairs followed him into civil life, and in 1889 he joined 
the National Guard of the State of New York, being commissioned as Major and Engineer of the 
First Brigade. In February, 1892, he was elected Colonel of the Seventy-First Regiment and has 
held that position since. He has contributed much to military literature. His official report upon 
the Turko-Russian War was published in two volumes by the United States Government in 1879, 
under the title of The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey, 1877-78. In military circles 
this is recognized as the one authoritative work upon the particular subject with which it deals. 
Colonel Greene is also the author of an entertaining and popular book on Army Life in Russia, of a 
volume entitled The Mississippi, which treats of the campaigns of the Civil War, and of a biography 
of Nathaniel Greene, which appeared in the Great Commander Series. He has written much for 
magazines, reviews and other periodicals, chiefly upon military, historical and allied subjects. 

The residence of Colonel Greene is in East Thirtieth Street, and he has a country home in 
Jamestown, R. I. He married Belle Chevallie. He belongs to the Century, University, Union 
League, Metropolitan, Lawyers', and New York Yacht clubs and to the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
ington. From the Czar of Russia he received the decorations of St. Vladimir and St. Anne and the 
campaign medal, and from the Prince of Roumania the Star of Roumania and the Roumania Cross. 

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RICHARD HENRY GREENE 

WILLIAM GREENE, who married Desire Bacon, daughter of John Bacon and Mary 
Hawes, is believed to have descended from James Greene, who came to Massachu- 
setts in 1634. Mary Hawes was the granddaughter of Edmund Hawes and of Captain 
John Gorham, who was mortally wounded in King Philip's War, and whose wife was Desire 
Howland, daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, both of whom came in the May- 
flower. Desire Bacon was a great-granddaughter of the Reverend John Mayo, whose daughter, 
Hannah Mayo, married Nathaniel Bacon and was the mother of John Bacon. 

Captain James Green, son of William and Desire Greene, and ancestor of Mr. Richard H. 
Greene, of New York, was born September 17th, 1728, and was Captain of the Second Connecticut 
Horse in the Revolution. He was with Washington's army in 1766 and with Gates at Saratoga. 
Ruth Marshall, his wife, was a daughter of John Marshall and Elizabeth Winslow, a descendant of 
Kenelm Winslow, who came on the second trip of the Mayflower, in 1629, and was a brother of 
Governor Edward Winslow, the Mayflower Pilgrim. John Marshall's grandfather, Captain Samuel 
Marshall, commanded the Windsor Company in King Philip's War and was killed in the great 
Swamp fight in 1675. His mother, Mary Drake, was a granddaughter of Henry Wolcott, 
1578-1655, and through her Mr. Greene can trace his descent back to remote ages, having collected 
the names of two thousand ancestors. Mr. Greene's grandfather, Captain Richard Green, of East 
Haddam, Conn., served in the War of 1812, and married Sarah, daughter of William Webb. The 
latter's father, William Webb, fought at the battle of Long Island in Colonel Josiah Smith's regi- 
ment. He married Elizabeth Hudson, daughter of Richard and Keturah (Goldsmith) Hudson. The 
Webbs, Hudsons and Goldsmiths were early settlers on Long Island. William Webb Green, Mr. 
Greene's father, was born in 1807, was a merchant in New York and Captain in the Tenth Regiment, 
National Guard. In Brooklyn, prior to 1856, he was an alderman and Judge. 

Mrs. William W. Green was Sarah A., daughter of Colonel William Whetten Todd, born in 
1781, and who, in early life, was associated in business with his uncle, the first John Jacob Astor. 
He married Maria Caroline Duffie; from 1798 to 1848 he was engaged in the business founded by 
his father-in-law, John Duffie, and the latter's brother-in-law, Cornelius C. Roosevelt. He was 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifty-First Regiment, New York Militia, and a sachem of Tammany. 
His father, Captain Adam Todd, was at Kingston when that place was burned during the Revolu- 
tion, and was confined in the Provost Prison, New York. He married Margaret Dodge, daughter of 
Jeremiah Dodge and Margaret Vanderbilt, great-great-granddaughter of Aert Vanderbilt and Jan 
Vandervliet. Captain Adam Todd was a brother of Sarah Todd, the wife of the first John Jacob 
Astor and son of Adam Todd, who came to New York \i kilt and plaid. Mr. Greene's maternal 
grandmother, through her grandparents, Cornelius Roosevelt and Margaret Herring, descended 
from the earliest Dutch settlers; among them, Claes Martense Van Roosevelt, Barent Kunst, 
Cornelius Barentse Slegt, Olfert de Metzelaer, Jan Cloppers, Peter Haering, Louen Bogaert and 
Jan de Conseille. 

Mr. Richard Henry Greene was born January 12th, 1839, and graduated from Yale in 1862, 
and from the Law School of Columbia College. He engaged in the practice of law as a member of 
the firm of Roosevelt & Greene, and later, as counsel, was drawn into the management and presi- 
dency of local street railway corporations, and retired from active practice in 1886. In 1867, Mr. 
Greene married Mary Gertrude Munson, daughter of Captain Edwin Beach and Amelia C. (Sperry) 
Munson, of New Haven, a descendant of Thomas Munson, a settler of New Haven, Conn. Mrs. 
Greene also descends from the same Mayflower Pilgrims as her husband. They have a son, 
Marshall Winslow Greene, and a daughter, Edna M. Greene. Their residence is 235 Central Park 
West. Mr. Greene belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of 
American Wars, Society of the War of 1812, Seventh Regiment War Veterans, New York His- 
torical Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and the Yale Club. 

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JOHN GREENOUGH 

FROM the earliest days of Boston's history the Greenough family and their kindred have held 
prominent places in that city. Mr. John Greenough, of New York, belongs to the seventh 
generation in line of descent from Captain William Greenough, who was born in England 
in 1639, and came, with his uncle, to Boston in 1642. Captain Greenough was a shipmaster, and 
established a shipyard, which is prominently indicated upon the earliest map of Boston now 
extant. His title of Captain, however, came from his military service. He commanded one of the 
eight train bands of the town of Boston, and was called out in King Philip's War in 1676, rendering 
important service. He was also Ensign of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery in 1691. He 
married Ruth Swift in 1660, and died in Boston in 1693, his tomb with its inscription being still 
seen in one of the ancient burial grounds of Boston. 

His son, John Greenough, born in Boston in 1672, married Elizabeth Gross in 1693 and died 
in 1732; and their son, Thomas Greenough, who was born in 17 10 and died in 1785, married 
Sarah Stoddard in 1750. During the Revolution, Deacon Thomas Greenough was a member of the 
Committee of Correspondence. His wife was also a member of a Boston family of standing, being 
a daughter of Simeon Stoddard and a granddaughter of Anthony Stoddard. The latter was 
constable of Boston in 1642, which, at that time, was an office of considerable importance. Simeon 
Stoddard also played quite an important part in the local history of his day, having been one of the 
three substantial citizens of Boston selected by King James II. to act under a power of attorney in 
the matter of certain royal grants. David Stoddard Greenough, 1752-1826, the next in the 
direct line of descent, married, in 1784, Ann Doane. After the War of Independence, he moved to 
Jamaica Plain, then a suburb of Boston. The house in which he lived is still occupied by members 
of the family, and is one of the few surviving historic landmarks of that period. It was built in 
1760 by Commodore Loring, then chief of the British forces in Massachusetts, and during the siege 
of Boston was occupied by General Greene as his headquarters. His son, David Stoddard 
Greenough, second of that name, born in 1787, married Maria Foster Doane, daughter of Elisha 
Doane, of Cohasset, Mass., in 1813, and died in 1830. He was a graduate of Harvard College in 
the class of 1805. Becoming interested in military matters, he was for a long period Colonel of 
the Boston Cadets. That organization acts as the body guard of the Governor of Massachusetts 
and has always been, as it still is, one of the most select military bodies in the entire country. 

David Stoddard Greenough, 18 14- 1877, the third of that name and father of Mr. John 
Greenough, was the eldest son of the second David Stoddard Greenough. He, like his father, 
graduated at Harvard, in the class of 1833, and also held the rank of Colonel of the historic Corps 
of Cadets. His wife, the present Mr. Greenough's mother, belonged to a Boston family of 
prominence. She was Anna A. Parkman and was a granddaughter of Samuel Parkman, who, in 
the early portion of the present century, was one of the most eminent merchants of Boston. She 
was closely related to the Shaw, Sturgis, Russell and other leading families of Boston. In fact, on 
both sides of the present Mr. Greenough's relationships are found the names of many who have 
achieved more than local reputation in professional life, in literature and in art. The late Francis 
Parkman, the historian, was Mr. Greenough's cousin, as likewise was Horatio Greenough, whose 
statue of Washington which adorns the national capitol was the first work of an American 
sculptor to gain international recognition. 

Mr. John Greenough was born in 1846, graduated from Harvard in 1865, and was the first 
member of his family to leave Boston. He engaged in business in New York early in life, and is 
now a member of the banking firm of Poor & Greenough. In 1879, Mr. Greenough married 
Carolina H. Storey, daughter of John M. Storey, of this city. His residence is 31 West Thirty-fifth 
Street, and his summer home is in Tuxedo. Mr. Greenough is a member of the University, 
Harvard and Tuxedo clubs, as well as the Sons of the American Revolution and other patriotic and 
public societies. 

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ISAAC JOHN GREENWOOD 

AMONG the earlier immigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony was Nathaniel Greenwood, 
who was born in Norwich, England, in 1631 and died in Boston in 1684. He was a ship- 
L builder at the North End, Boston, in 1654, a water bailiff in 1670, and a selectman. His 
wife was Mary Allen, daughter of Samuel Allen, of Braintree. Nathaniel Greenwood was of a 
family that had been long established in Norwich. His father, Miles Greenwood, was a citizen of 
Norwich in 1627, and the eldest son of Miles Greenwood, of the parish of St. Peter's-in-Mancroft, 
who married, in 1599, Anne Scath, of Barnham-Broome, County Norfolk. The family was a 
branch of the Yorkshire Greenwoods, who trace their descent to Guiomar, or Wyomarus, de 
Grenewode, of Greenwood Lee, Achator to the household of the Empress Maud, whose son was 
Henry II. of England. The arms of the Norwich Greenwoods, as borne by Miles Greenwood on 
his ring, are, argent, a fess sable, between three spur-rowels in chief, and three ducks in base, all 
sable. Crest, a spur-rowel between two duck-wings sable. Motto, Ut Prosim. 

In the second American generation, Samuel Greenwood, son of Nathaniel Greenwood, also 
a shipbuilder and selectman, married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Bronsdon, of Boston, and died 
in 1 72 1. His son, Isaac Greenwood, born in 1702, graduated from Harvard College in 1721, 
studied divinity, and, perfecting himself in mathematies with Dr. Desaguliers, in London, became 
the first Hollisian professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard College in 1727. His 
wife, Sarah, daughter of Dr. John Clarke, was a niece and namesake of the Reverend Doctor Cotton 
Mather's last wife. 

Isaac Greenwood, son of Professor Isaac Greenwood, was born in Cambridge in 1730 and 
died in 1803. He was one of the expert makers of mathematical instruments in his generation, his 
services being called into requisition by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. His wife, Mary Tans, was a sister- 
in-law of Colonel Thomas Walker, of Montreal, remembered for his endeavors to arouse the 
Canadians to join us in our struggle for independence. His son, Dr. John Greenwood, born in 
Boston in 1760, became a famous physician in New York City. A devoted patriot, he joined the 
provincial army of Boston in 1775, but after the battle of Trenton, left the land service, and, sailing 
on various privateers, attained the rank of Captain, and was four times a prisoner of war. At the 
end of the hostilities, he settled in New York City, where he lived until his death, in 1819. His 
son, Dr. Isaac John Greenwood, M. D., D. D. S., born in 1795, was a member of the Governor's 
Guard during the War of 1812. He succeeded to his father's practice, retired in 1839, and died in 
1865. By his first wife, Sarah Vanderhoof Bogert, daughter of John Gilbert and Jane (Earl) Bogert, 
he had three daughters. His second wife, whom he married in 1832, was Mary McKay, daughter 
of John and Elizabeth (Riddell) McKay, of New York, and was mother of two sons, Isaac John and 
Langdon Greenwood. 

Mr. Isaac John Greenwood, son of Dr. Isaac John Greenwood, was born in New York, 
November 15th, 1833. Graduated from Columbia College in 1853, he received the degree of A. M. 
in 1857. He studied chemistry with Professor Robert Ogden Doremus and attended lectures in the 
New York Medical College, 1856-61. Having been one of the original members in 1859, Mr. 
Greenwood was an incorporator and first vice-president of the American Numismatic and Archaeo- 
logical Society in 1864. He is also a corresponding member of the New England Historical and 
Genealogical Society and of the Buffalo Historical Society, and a member of the New York 
Historical, the New York Genealogical and Biographical, the American Geographical and Statistical, 
and the Long Island Historical Societies, the Dunlap Society, and the Prince Society of Boston; also 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York 
Botanical Garden and Zoological Societies. He is also a member of the Sons of the Revolution 
and of the Grand Consistory of the Collegiate Dutch Church. His wife, Mary Agnes Rudd, 
daughter of Joseph and Eliza E. (Barnes) Rudd, whom he married in 1866, died in October, 1890. 
He lives at 271 West End Avenue, and is a member of the Colonial Club. 

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FRANCIS BUTLER GRIFFIN 

OF Welsh origin, the Griffins and Griffings of the present generation trace their descent 
from the Griffiths and Gruffids, great families in the history of the principality. The 
last Prince of Wales, Llewellyn ap Griffiths, is the progenitor of the different branches. 
In the United States, there have been two notable Colonial families bearing the name. One 
descends from Cyrus Griffing, of Virginia, and the other from Jasper Griffing, who was born in 
Wales about 1648, and came to New England when a child. He resided in Essex, Mass., in 1670. 
He married in Massachusetts, and with his wife, Hannah, moved to Southold, Long Island, in 
1675. His descendants in Long Island, Connecticut and New York have been numerous. 

In the second American generation, Jasper Griffin, second of the name, born about 1675, 
married Ruth Peck, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Peck, of Lyme, Conn. Lemuel Griffin, son 
of the second Jasper Griffin, was born about 1704, and married Phoebe Comstock. George Griffin, 
son of Lemuel Griffin and great-grandfather of Mr. Francis Butler Griffin, was born in 1734, and 
married Eve Dorr, daughter of Edmund Dorr. The father of Eve Dorr was born in Roxbury, 
Mass., in 1692, settled in Lyme, Conn., and died in 1734. He was the sixth son of Edward Dorr 
and Elizabeth Hawley. His father emigrated from the West of England, where he was born in 
1648, and settled in Boston in 1670, becoming the progenitor of the Dorr family in New England. 
The mother of Eve Dorr was Mary Griswold, a daughter of Matthew Griswold and his wife, 
Phoebe Hyde, who was a daughter of Samuel and Jane (Lee) Hyde, of Norwich, Conn. Matthew 
Griswold was one of the founders of Lyme, Conn., in 1666. He was a son of Matthew Griswold, 
who was descended from Sir Matthew Griswold, of Malvern Hall, England, and came to this 
country in 1639, and settled in Windsor, Conn. He married Anna Wolcott, daughter of Henry 
Wolcott, son and heir of John Wolcott, of Golden Manor, England. Henry Wolcott came to 
America in 1630, was one of the founders of Windsor in 1636, and was annually elected to the 
General Court of Connecticut until the time of his death. George Griffin and his wife, 
Eve Dorr, have had many distinguished descendants, among whom was the Reverend Edward 
Dorr Griffin, D. D. 

The grandfather of Mr. Francis Butler Griffin was George Griffin, 1728- 1860, second of the 
name. He was graduated from Yale College in 1797 and became a lawyer. Removing to Wilkes- 
barre, Pa., he remained there until 1806, when he returned to New York and became one of the 
distinguished members of the bar. In 1801, he married Lydia Butler, of Wilkesbarre, who was 
the daughter of Colonel Zebulon Butler, of that city, and his wife, Phcebe Haight, of Fishkill, 
N. Y. Colonel Butler was a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary War. He was in command 
of the American forces at the time of the massacre in the Wyoming Valley, and after the treason of 
Benedict Arnold was assigned to duty at West Point by special order of General Washington. 
On the paternal side, his ancestry was traced from the family of the Earls of Ormond. 

George Griffin, the third of the name and the father of Mr. Francis Butler Griffin, attended 
Williams College and settled in Catskill, N. Y., of which place he became a prominent citizen. His 
third wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was Elizabeth Frances Benson, daughter of 
Abraham Benson, of Fairfield, Conn. The children of George Griffin by this marriage were 
Francis Butler, Lydia Butler, Sophy Day, George and Caroline Griffin. 

Mr. Francis Butler Griffin was born in New York, November 8th, 1852, and has been 
engaged in the hardware business for the last twenty-five years. He is a director of the National 
Shoe and Leather Bank. He married Anne M. Earle, daughter of the late John H. Earle, their 
residence being in East Forty-first Street. Mr. Griffin is a member of the City and Presbyterian 
clubs, and he also belongs to the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars and the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is one of the managers of the Presbyterian Hospital, is on the 
executive committee of the board of that institution, and is treasurer and one of the managers of 
the New York Infant Asylum. 



IRVING GRINNELL 

MATTHEW GRINNELL, a member of a Huguenot family in France, came to America with 
two brothers in 1632. Settling in Rhode Island, he was a resident of Newport, in 1638, 
and died in 1643. His will shows that he was a man of comfortable means and of high 
standing in the Colony. Matthew Grinnell, the son of the pioneer, was a freeman in Portsmouth, 
R. I., in 1655, a constable of the town and frequently a moderator of the town meetings. He 
died at Portsmouth in 1705. 

A descendant from these pioneers was Cornelius Grinnell, whose wife was Sylvia Howland, 
a descendant of John Howland of the Mayflower in 1620. Cornelius Grinnell was a successful 
shipping merchant in New Bedford, Mass. Three sons of Cornelius Grinnell attained prominence 
in mercantile pursuits in New York and were among the most public spirited citizens of their day. 
The eldest brother, Joseph Grinnell, came to New York in 181 5 and established the firm of Fish & 
Grinnell. His brothers, Henry and Moses Hicks, became partners in 1825 and soon after Joseph 
retired. Henry Grinnell, 1800-1874, was identified with the business interests of New York for 
half a century. In 1850, he organized the Arctic expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, and in 
1853, with George Peabody, organized the second expedition for the same purpose. 

Moses Hicks Grinnell, father of Mr. Irving Grinnell, was the third of those great merchants 
and one of six brothers. He was born in New Bedford, Mass., March 23d, 1803, and died in New 
York, November 24th, 1877. His early education was secured in the New Bedford Academy, 
and he had his first business experience in his father's counting room. For a short time he was a 
clerk for a New Bedford firm engaged in importing Russian goods, but soon engaged in business 
on his own account, and before he had attained his majority went on a voyage to Brazil and 
France as supercargo of a vessel. In 1825, he came to New York City with his brothers, and in 
1828, after Joseph Grinnell had retired, he organized, with his brother Henry, the firm of Grinnell 
& Minturn, of which Robert B. Minturn was junior partner. This concern soon came to be one 
of the most prosperous in its class of business. It probably built more ships, prior to i860, than 
any other mercantile house in this country. The partners were the owners of about fifty vessels 
engaged in the South American and foreign trade, and in the packet service to England. They 
established the Blue and White Swallow-Tail Line to Liverpool, and the Red and White Swallow- 
Tail Line to London. 

Mr. Grinnell was one of the leading citizens of the metropolis and prominent in all public 
enterprises. In 1838, he was president of the Phcenix Bank, and early in his career was elected a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was the eighteenth president, succeeding 
Robert Lenox in that position, which he occupied for five years. In his youth he was a Democrat 
and a member of Tammany Hall, and in 1838 was elected a Member of Congress as a Whig; but 
in 1856 he was a Presidential elector-at-large on the Fremont ticket. From i860 to 1865 he was 
a Commissioner of Charities and Correction. In 1869, President Grant appointed him Collector of 
the Port of New York. During the Civil War, he was a member of the Union Defense Committee, 
and was a generous contributor in support of the Union cause. He was one of the original 
members of the Union League Club. 

Mr. Irving Grinnell, the second child of Moses H. Grinnell, was born in New York, August 
9th, 1839. His mother, whom his father married in 1836, was Julia Irving, a niece of Washing- 
ton Irving, and descended from William Ervine, a companion-in-arms of Robert Bruce. His sister, 
Julia Irving Grinnell, married George S. Bowdoin, and another sister, Fanny Leslie Grinnell, 
married Thomas F. Cushing, of Boston. Mr. Grinnell was educated in Columbia College. 
He married, April 28th, 1863, Joanna Dorr Howland, daughter of Gardiner G. and Louisa (Meredith) 
Howland, and descended from John Howland, of the Mayflower. Mr. and Mrs. Grinnell live at 
New Hamburgh-on-Hudson. He belongs to the New York Yacht and Hudson River Ice Yacht 
clubs, and for several years has been treasurer of the Church Temperance Society. 

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WILLIAM MORTON GRINNELL 

MATTHEW GRINNELL, who was a freeman of Newport in 1638, was the American 
ancestor of a notable family. The Honorable George Grinnell, of Greenfield, Mass., who 
was born in 1786 and died in 1877, was in the seventh generation of descent from 
Matthew Grinnell. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1808, and became one of the 
most prominent public men in Western Massachusetts, being a member of the Massachusetts 
Senate and of the National House of Representatives, and a Judge in Franklin County, Mass., 
1849-53. Judge Grinnell's wife, Eliza Seymour Perkins, descended from the Pitkins, a leading 
family in early Connecticut. William Pitkin, its founder, was born near London, England, in 
1635. He was a lawyer of high attainments and in excellent standing when he came to this 
country and settled, about 1659, in Hartford, Conn., where he held many public offices. William 
Pitkin, in the second generation, born in Hartford, in 1664, was a Judge, and was otherwise 
prominent in Colonial affairs. In the third generation, William Pitkin, born in Hartford, in 1694, 
was a Colonel of militia, Chief Justice of the Colony, Lieutenant-Governor 1754-66, and Governor 
1766-69, and one of the most useful public men of the pre-Revolutionary period. Mrs. Grinnell 
was also descended from Thomas Clap, one of the early presidents of Yale College, and included 
other Colonial New England families among her ancestors. 

The Honorable William F. Grinnell, father of Mr. William Morton Grinnell, was the son of 
Judge Grinnell, and was born in 1831. For several years he was actively engaged in mercantile 
pursuits, and at one time was a partner in business with the Honorable Levi P. Morton. In 1877, 
he was appointed, by President Hayes, Consul of the United States in St. Etienne, France. He 
held that office during five successive administrations, and was afterward United States Consul in 
Manchester, England, being acknowledged to be one of the most accomplished consular officials 
in the service. In 1856, he married Mary Morton, daughter of the Reverend Daniel D. Morton, 
of Vermont, and his wife, Lucretia Parsons, daughter of the Reverend Justin and Electa (Frary) 
Parsons. Daniel D. Morton, 1788-1852, the son of Levi Morton, of Middleboro, and a Revolu- 
tionary soldier, was minister of the Congregational Church in Shoreham, Vt., 1814-31, and after- 
ward occupied several pulpits in Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The Honorable 
Levi Parsons Morton is Mrs. Grinnell's brother, and an uncle of the subject of this sketch. 

Through his mother, Mr. Grinnell is descended from George Morton, the first of that name 
in America, who was born about 1585 in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England. He was a member of 
the ancient Morton family, whose arms were: Quarterly gules and ermine, in the dexter chief and 
sinister base, each a goat's head, erased, argent, attired or. Crest, a goat's head argent attired or. 
George Morton was one of the Pilgrims who settled in Leyden, Holland, where he married in 
1612. After serving as London agent for the Pilgrims in 1620, he came to this country in 1623, 
but returned some years later and died in England. The ancestors of Mrs. Grinnell included 
George Morton, of Plymouth, deputy to the General Court. 

Mr. William Morton Grinnell was born in New York, in 1857. He entered Harvard 
College, but on account of ill health left college before taking a degree, and went abroad. Return- 
ing to America, he was graduated from the Law School of Columbia College, was admitted to the 
bar, and practiced his profession in this city. For several years he resided in Paris as counsel to 
the American legation there. In 1890, the French Government conferred on him the decoration of 
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1892, he was appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State 
by President Harrison, and held that position until the coming in of the Cleveland administration. 
Since 1894, he has been a partner in the banking firm of Morton, Bliss & Co. He has two 
sisters, Mary Lucretia, wife of Edward H. Landon, and Ethel Morton Grinnell. His brother, 
Richard B. Grinnell, is a member of the New York bar. Mr. Grinnell, who is unmarried; lives 
in East Sixty-sixth Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan, University, Harvard and 
Lawyers' clubs, and of the Metropolitan Club of Washington. 

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CLEMENT ACTON GRISCOM, JR. 

AN exceptionally large number of names distinguished in the histories of Pennsylvania and 
New Jersey are found in Mr. Griscom's ancestry. The family which he represents has 
been identified with those States and with the City of Philadelphia for over two centuries. 
It was in the Quaker City that Mr. Griscom was born, June 20th, 1868, his parents being Clement 
A. Griscom and his wife Frances Canby Biddle Griscom. His grandparents were Dr. John D. 
Griscom and Margaret Acton, daughter of Clement Acton, of Salem, N. J., while his maternal 
grandfather was William C. Biddle. On his father's side, Mr. Griscom descends from one of the 
earliest settlers of Pennsylvania, Andrew Griscom, who accompanied William Penn to the New 
World in 1682, and who was prominent in the early history of the Province, having been a 
member of the first grand jury that was impaneled there. Another of Mr. Griscom's ancestors 
was Thomas Lloyd, Deputy-Governor of Pennsylvania from 1691 to 1693, and who also held 
the offices of Provincial Councilor, Master of the Rolls and Keeper of the Great Seal. Samuel 
Preston, son-in-law of Thomas Lloyd, who also appears in the Griscom ancestry, was a member 
of the Provincial Council and of the Pennsylvania Assembly, and in 171 1 was Mayor of the City 
of Philadelphia. Samuel Carpenter, Deputy-Governor of Pennsylvania, 1694-1698, Member of the 
Governor's Council, Treasurer of the Province and Member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, is still 
another distinguished ancestor of the subject of this article. 

The maternal line in this instance represents, however, names and families fully as 
distinguished and interesting. Mr. Griscom's mother is a direct descendant of William Biddle, 
the founder of the Philadelphia Biddle family, who settled in New Jersey early in the history of 
that Province, was a member of the Governor's Council in 1682, and held other important offices. 
An ancestor of this connection was Owen Biddle, a member of the Provincial Council held in 
Philadelphia in 1775, and who took an active and patriotic part in the Revolution. From his 
mother, Mr. Griscom, moreover, can claim a long line of good New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
names, such as Thomas Olive, Deputy-Governor of New Jersey, Member and Speaker of the 
Council, and Member of the Assembly; Isaac and Thomas Marriott, Elisha Bassett, Ebenezer 
Miller, Henry Wood, William Bates, Thomas Thackara, Daniel Leeds, and others, all of whom 
filled Colonial offices in New Jersey, together with Robert Owen and Joseph Kirkbride, both 
members of the Pennsylvania Assembly in the last century. 

Clement A. Griscom, Sr., the father of the subject of the article, is one of the leading 
citizens of Philadelphia, and has been active and successful in restoring the prestige of the United 
States upon the ocean, and in regaining our country's share of the world's carrying trade. Born 
in Philadelphia, in 1841, and educated there, Mr. Griscom was from early life connected with 
the Philadelphia shipping house of Peter Wright & Sons, in which he soon became a partner, 
and was a founder of the International Navigation Company, the corporation owning the 
American and Red Star line of ocean steamers, of which company he is now president. He is 
a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and of many financial institutions. He was a 
delegate and influential member of the International Maritime Conference at Washington, and 
since its foundation has been president of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. 
He is a member of many clubs in Philadelphia, New York and London, and enjoys honorary 
membership in numerous scientific bodies both here and in Europe. 

His eldest son, Mr. Clement A. Griscom, Jr., was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, 
taking the degree of Ph. B. He has made New York his home for some years, being manager 
of the International Navigation Company in this city. He resides at 303 West Eighty-fourth 
Street, and has a country home at Flushing, Long Island. In 1889, Mr. Griscom married 
Genevieve Ludlow, daughter of Colonel William Ludlow, of the Engineer Corps, U. S. N. Mr. 
Griscom is a member of the Metropolitan and Lawyers' clubs of New York and of the University 
Club of Philadelphia. 



CHESTER GRISWOLD 

THE Connecticut Griswolds, from which family Mr. Chester Griswold is descended, were 
of English root, an ancient family established in Warwickshire prior to the year 1400. 
They had a long and honorable pedigree and were entitled to a coat of arms : Argent, 
a fess, gules, between greyhounds, courant, sable. John Griswold, who, about the middle of the 
fourteenth century, came to Kenilworth and married the daughter and heiress of Henry Hugh- 
ford, of Huddersley Hale, was the .first of the name to come into historical prominence. King 
Henry VI., in 1436, granted the estate, Solihule, to Thomas Griswold, and from his descendant, 
Richard Griswold, of the reign of Henry VIII., have sprung the other branches. The family was 
one of local distinction, and held many local offices. 

Edward and Nathan Griswold, who came to America from Kenilworth, England, in 
1639, were men of education and property. They were members of the Reverend Ephraim 
Huit's party, that settled in Windsor, Conn. Matthew Griswold became the father of a family 
that has given many eminent men to public service, Governors, Senators, judges, clergymen 
and educators. Edward Griswold, the ancestor in direct line of the subject of this sketch, was 
born in England, about 1607, and died in 169 1. He built the old fort in Springfield, was a 
deputy to the General Court from Windsor, 1656-63, and after his removal to Killingworth, 
now Clinton, Conn., a place that he founded, in 1667, was magistrate and deputy there 
continually up to the time of his death. He was always an active and influential member of 
the Legislature, and since that time there has rarely been an Assembly of the State of Connec- 
ticut in which some of his descendants, and those of his brother, Matthew, have not been members. 

Simon Griswold, in the fourth generation from Edward Griswold, was born in Bolton, 
Conn., in 1753, and died at Nassau, N. Y., in 1793. When he was just of age the War of 
the Revolution began, and he enlisted, serving about Boston, and on Long Island and with 
Washington, in New Jersey. The son of Simon Griswold was Chester Griswold, of Nassau, 
N. Y., who was born in Bolton, Conn., in 1781, and died in i860. He was active in public 
affairs throughout his long life, holding many town and State official positions, and being a 
member of the New York Legislature, 1823-31. 

The son of Chester Griswold was the Honorable John A. Griswold, for more than twenty- 
five years one of the most prominent citizens of Troy, N. Y. He was born in Nassau, 
November nth, 1818, and for a time lived in the family of General John E. Wool, who was 
his uncle. Early in life he became interested in the Rensselaer Iron Company, eventually 
became the principal owner of the concern, and, with his associates, introduced the Bessemer 
steel process into this country. In 1861, in connection with C. F. Bushnell and John E. 
Winslow, he built Ericsson's monitor, and also aided in building seven others of the monitor 
class, including the monitor Dictator. He was Mayor of the City of Troy, in 1850, aided in 
raising three regiments of infantry in the Civil War, as well as the Black Horse Cavalry and 
the Twenty-first New York or Griswold's Light Cavalry, was a Representative to Congress, 
1863-9, Republican candidate for Governor in 1868, and trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, 1860-72. 

Mr. Chester Griswold, the son of the Honorable John A. Griswold, was born in Troy, 
N. Y., September 10th, 1844. He is a steel manufacturer, and president of the Crown Point 
Iron Company, and vice-president of various manufacturing organizations. He is prominent in 
the social life of the metropolis, being a member of the Tuxedo, South Side Sportsman's and 
Riding clubs, and other exclusive social organizations. He also belongs to the Metropolitan, 
Union, Racquet, New York Yacht, and other clubs, the Sons of the Revolution and the Down- 
town Association, and is a patron of the American Museum of Natural History. Mrs. Griswold 
is a daughter of Le Grand B. Cannon, and is descended from the old-time Connecticut family 
of that name. 



EGBERT GUERNSEY, M. D. 

AMONG the two hundred Puritans who went from Boston in 1638 to found New Haven, 
was John Guernsey, a native of the Island of Guernsey. He was the ancestor in direct 
line through six generations of Dr. Egbert Guernsey. John Guernsey became prominent 
in the Colony and was one of the party that protected the regicides, Goff and Whalley. 

The descendants of John Guernsey were numerous in Connecticut, and in the struggle 
for independence, thirteen of the family were in the Continental Army. His great-grandson, 
John, who was born in Woodbury, Conn., in 1709, removed to Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., 
and Noah Guernsey, his son, was the grandfather of Dr. Egbert Guernsey; his wife, whom 
he married in 1770, being a Hollister, a direct descendant from William Clinton, the first Earl 
of Huntington, A. D. 1350, whose descendant during the reign of Henry VIII. was created Earl 
of Lincoln, a title subsequently merged into that of the Dukes of Newcastle. The mother of 
Dr. Guernsey was Amanda Crosby, daughter of William Crosby, of the same family as Enoch 
Crosby, the famous spy of the Revolution. 

Dr. Guernsey's parents were long-time residents of Litchfield, Conn., and there he was 
born, July 3d, 1823. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and the scientific 
department of Yale College. He studied medicine under Dr. Valentine Mott, and in 1846 was 
graduated from the medical department of the University of New York. For a short time he 
was an editor of The Evening Mirror. Associated with N. P. Willis and George P. Morris, 
and with George Bennett and Aaron Smith, he established The Brooklyn Times, of which 
he was editor for two years. He, however, continued the practice of his profession without 
interruption and was city physician of Brooklyn. He also wrote a school history of the United 
States which became an accepted text-book. Ill health compelled his temporary retirement, but 
in 1850 Dr. Guernsey returned to his profession in New York City and in a few years attained 
an exceedingly large practice. 

In addition to his private practice, Dr. Guernsey has been prominent in many ways. 
For six years he was professor of materia medica and of theory and practice in the New York 
Homoeopathic Medical College, and he was one of the founders and the first president of the 
Western Dispensary and the Good Samaritan Hospital, and a member of the medical staff of 
the Hahnemann Hospital. In 1877, he was largely instrumental in having the Inebriate Asylum 
on Ward's Island converted into a general hospital under the Department of Charities and 
Corrections and placed in the hands of the Homoeopathic School of Practice. Since that time, 
he has been the president of the medical faculty of the institution. He was also one of the 
originators of the State Insane Asylum at Middletown, N. Y., and was many years a trustee 
and vice-president. In medical literature, also, Dr. Guernsey is prominent. In 1852, he was 
one of the editors of Jahr's Manual, and in 1872 he founded The New York Medical Times, of 
which he has always been the senior editor. In 1855, he published Domestic Practice, which 
has passed through many editions and been republished in Europe in four languages. He has 
also been a frequent contributor to medical journals and is an active member of many societies. 
The wife of Dr. Guernsey, whom he married in 1848, was Sarah Lefferts Schenck, whose 
maternal ancestors were the Huguenot Merseroles, of Picardy, and on the paternal side the 
Lefferts and Schencks. The latter family descended from Edgar de Schencken, who in 798 was 
seneschal to Charlemagne. From him came the Baron, Schenck Van Mydeck, of Gelderland, 
the ancestors of Johannes Schenck, who came from Holland in 1683, and from whom Mrs. 
Guernsey is descended in the sixth generation. Dr. Guernsey is a member of the Union League 
Club, of which he was one of the founders. He also belongs to the Sons of the American 
Revolution, the National Academy of Design and the New England Society, and resides at 180 
Central Park South. He has had two children, a daughter, Florence Guernsey, who is still 
living, and a son, Dr. Egbert Guernsey, Jr., of Florida, who died July 25th, 1893. 



ERNEST RUDOLPH GUNTHER 

STUDENTS of American genealogy are acquainted with the fact that many of the families 
prominent in the social, professional and business world in this country are descended 
from ancestors belonging to the class of nobles in the various countries of Europe. The 
Napoleonic wars, which convulsed Germany at the close of the last century and the first 
decades of the present one, brought to the United States a number of representatives of noble 
families whose estates had been confiscated in the course of the violent changes that marked 
the period in question, or who for various political reasons found it prudent to leave their 
native country for other lands. Among them was Christian G. Von Gunther, who came to New 
York in 1815, became a successful and respected citizen of this country, and was the grandfather 
of the gentleman of whom this sketch treats. 

The Von Gunthers were originally a noble family of Germany, with a long ancestry 
extending back for many generations. Many representatives of the race remained in their native 
country, while others had distinguished themselves in the service of various monarchs and 
foreign powers. An uncle of Christian Von Gunther, who made Holland his adopted country, 
became a prominent officer in the Dutch Navy. The principal German branch of the family 
was established in the Kingdom of Saxony, where they were high in the favor of the electors 
and kings of that country. They possessed a castle, paintings of which are among the heirlooms 
now in the possession of the American representatives of their name. The father of Christian 
Von Gunther was a physician and a man of the highest scientific attainments, and was surgeon 
to the King of Saxony. His son entertained liberal opinions and followed the example of his 
royal master in giving support to the cause of the Emperor Napoleon and of France, during 
the trying times that preceded the downfall of the Empire. For this the King of Saxony, 
when Napoleon was overthrown, was punished by the allied Powers assembled at the Congress 
of Vienna. One-half of his dominions, comprising some of the richest portions of the kingdom, 
were taken from him and annexed to Prussia. Von Gunther, who was among the supporters 
of the French cause and liberal opinions, thereupon came to America, taking with him the 
emblazoned coats of arms of his family and portraits of some of its members, including those 
of himself and brother, and of the uncle (the Dutch naval officer already mentioned) and his 
wife, these last two being in the court costume of the period. 

Once in the New World, Von Gunther became imbued with democratic sentiments, 
identifying himself thoroughly with this country and its institutions and discarded the aristocratic 
prefix Von of his name, the American branch of the Von Gunther family having since adhered 
to the name of Gunther. He entered business life with energy and success and attained a high 
position in the commercial world in New York, which city he had from his arrival in the 
United States selected for his abode. His son, the late William Henry Gunther, followed in 
his footsteps and pursued an energetic and successful business career, having the respect and 
confidence of the community in which his modest and useful life was passed. 

Mr. Ernest Rudolph Gunther is the son of the late William Henry Gunther, and the 
grandson of Christian Gunther. He was born in this city in 1862, in Gunther Row, a block 
of handsome residences built by his father at Fourteenth Street and Second Avenue, then the 
fashionable part of New York. After a course of study in private schools in New York and 
on the Hudson, he received his final education abroad. Mr. Gunther has been a prominent 
patron of art, and these tastes are gratified by the possession of a number of examples of 
paintings by the foremost artists of Europe, prominent among which is The Communicants, by 
F. Estran, of Vienna. He takes great interest in horses, and his brake and four are well known 
in the park. Mr. Gunther is a member of the City, Country and Union League clubs. He 
is also well known for his entertainments, to which his artistic and musical tastes give a 
marked character. 



ABRAM EVAN GWYNNE 

JOHN CLAYPOOLE, who was a member of Cromwell's House of Peers, and whose eldest son 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Cromwell, was of royal descent. He came from an old Welsh 
family, and among his ancestors in direct line were Sir Robert Winfield, William de Bohun, 
Earl of Northampton, Henry de Bohun, the first Earl of Hereford and Essex, and his successors 
in that peerage for four generations; Edward I., King of England, William the Conqueror, St. 
David, King of Scotland, Henry II., Emperor of Germany, Edmund Ironsides, King of the Anglo- 
Saxons, A. D. 989; Baldwin, Count of Flanders, Hugh Capet, King of France, A. D. 940, and other 
sovereigns of England and France. He was ninth in descent from Princess Elizabeth, daughter of 
Edward I. of England, and her husband, Humphrey de Bohun, the fourth Earl of Hereford and 
Essex, who were married in 1506. 

James Claypoole, a son of John Clayppole, came to this country in 1683 on the ship Con- 
cord, landing in Philadelphia. He became a merchant and was treasurer of the Free Society of 
Traders of the Province of Pennsylvania. His son and his grandson in succession were eminent in 
that Colony and each held the office of Sheriff of Philadelphia County, while his great-grandson 
was Captain Abraham Claypoole, of Philadelphia, 1756- 1827, an officer in the Continental Army 
and one of the original members of the Pennsylvania Society of the Order of the Cincinnati. 
Among the descendants of Captain Claypoole by his first wife, Elizabeth P. Falconer, are the 
Rockhill and Biddle families, of Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the Claypoole and Carson 
families, of Cincinnati and Columbus, O. 

Captain Claypoole married, for his second wife, Elizabeth Steele, in 1795, and his second 
child, Alice Ann Claypoole, became the wife of Major David Gwynne, of Cincinnati. Major 
Gwynne was a First Lieutenant in the United States Army in 1812, a Captain in 1813, a Major in 
1814 and a Major and Paymaster in 1816. He resigned from the army in 1830 and died at his 
country seat, near Louisville, Ky., August 21st, 1831. The eldest son of Major David Gwynne 
was Abraham Evan Gwynne, of Cincinnati, a lawyer and a partner of the famous Judge Storer of 
that city. He married Cettie Moore Flagg, daughter of Henry Collins Flagg, who was Mayor of 
New Haven, Conn., 1836-41, and his third child was Alice Claypoole Gwynne, who is well known 
to New Yorkers of this generation as the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the present head of the 
Vanderbilt family. 

Mr. Abram Evan Gwynne, of New York, is the fourth child and second son of Abraham 
Evan Gwynne. His birthplace was Cincinnati, 0., where he was born November 22d, 1847. His 
early education was received at Starr's Military Academy, Yonkers, N. Y., and at the famous 
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He then entered Columbia College, New York, and was grad- 
uated from that institution in the class of 1870. Immediately after completing his college course, 
Mr. Gwynne began his active career by entering a banking office in Wall Street. He remained 
there for several years, but in 1876 accepted a responsible position on the staff of the New York 
Post Office, under Postmaster Thomas L. James. This place he gave up two years later to enter 
the service of the Canada Southern Railway Company, one of the roads of the Vanderbilt system, 
in its executive offices in this city. Mr. Gwynne's experience in the railway business lasted only 
two years and he returned to Wall Street and the banking business, and a short time afterwards, 
with his brother, David Eli Gwynne, joined the Stock Exchange firm of Chauncey & Gwynne 
Brothers. This association lasted ten years, and when it was dissolved the Messrs. Gwynne 
formed a firm of the same character, under the title of Gwynne Brothers, Abram Evan Gwynne 
being the junior partner in this establishment. 

Mr. Gwynne is an amateur painter of talent, having inherited a taste and aptitude for art 
from his celebrated ancestor, Washington Allston, who was half-brother of his grandfather on his 
mother's side. He is also a frequent contributor to the newspaper and magazine literature of 
the day. 



JOHN HALL, D. D. 

FEW clergymen, whether foreign or native born, have played a more important part in the 
religious life of New York than the Reverend Dr. John Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue 
Presbyterian Church. As a pulpit orator he is preeminent, while his activity in the cause 
of education has been notable. The ancestors of Dr. Hall were Scotch Presbyterians, who emi- 
grated from Scotland to Ireland two centuries ago and were active in the settlement of the 
Province of Ulster. The Reverend Dr. John Hall was born in 1829, in the County of Armagh, 
Ireland, on the place occupied by his ancestors for six generations, and which is still held by 
the family. His father was an elder of the Presbyterian Church and the family held a good 
social position. Being the eldest son, Dr. Hall received the Christian name of his grandfather, 
John Hall. Receiving a classical preparatory education in private schools, he entered Belfast 
College before he was thirteen years old. During his college course, he gained reputation by 
his scholarly attainments, winning the prize for excellence in the Hebrew language. After 
graduating, he studied for the Presbyterian ministry, and in 1849, when twenty years of age, 
received his license to preach from the Presbytery of Belfast. He then accepted a call to a 
missionary station in the west of Ireland. After a few years, he was called to the First Church 
of Armagh, where he was installed in 1852. For six years he held that pulpit, and then, in 
1858, he became the junior pastor of St. Mary's Abbey, now Rutland Square, Dublin. There 
he rapidly attained to prominence, and also became identified with educational affairs, receiving 
a royal appointment as Commissioner of Education. 

In 1867, Dr. Hall was a delegate from the Irish General Assemby to the Assemblies of 
the Presbyterian Churches of the United States. His reputation had preceded him to this 
country, and his presence here attracted further attention from both clergy and laymen. Called 
to the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he accepted and was installed in November, 
1867. For thirty years he has occupied that pulpit, and has brought the church to a foremost 
position. Its gifts to the missionary and benevolent work of the Presbyterian denomination 
have been of a notable character. 

In literary and educational work, Dr. Hall has also achieved fame. His contributions to 
the religious press have been abundant, and he is frequently a speaker on public occasions. 
Among his published works are Family Prayers for Four Weeks, Papers for Home Reading, 
Familiar Talks to Boys, Questions of the Day, God's Word through Preaching, and Light upon 
the Path. From 1882 until the appointment of Dr. MacCracken, he was Chancellor of the 
University of the City of New York, succeeding the Reverend Dr. Howard Crosby. 

In 1852, after his settlement in the City of Armagh, Dr. Hall married Emily (Bolton) 
Irwin, the daughter of Richard Bolton, who long occupied Monkstown Castle, County Dublin. 
Her first husband was John Irwin, a gentleman of County Roscommon, who died in early life. 
Her son by her first marriage, William Irwin, is a well-known lawyer of this city. Dr. Hall 
was a missionary in County Roscommon, where he met Mrs. Irwin, who was doing much 
voluntary work for the poor during and after the famine. Dr. and Mrs. Hall have had four sons 
and a daughter. The eldest son, Robert W. Hall, graduated from Princeton in 1873 and is a 
professor in New York University. The second son, Bolton Hall, graduated from Princeton 
in 1875. He married Susie Hurlbut Scott, daughter of William H. Scott, and lives in East Forty- 
sixth Street. He is a member of the City and Reform clubs and has taken an active part in reform 
movements, gaining distinction as a platform orator, and a writer on social questions. The third 
son, a prominent surgeon, died recently, and the youngest is a Presbyterian minister, and has 
rendered good service in Omaha and Chicago. He married the daughter of the great botanist, 
Professor Bartling, of Gottingen, Germany. The only daughter, Emily Hall, married William E. 
Wheelock. Dr. Hall's residence is in upper Fifth Avenue and his vacations, as a rule, are 
passed in his native Ireland. 

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FREDERIC ROBERT HALSEY 

BORN in Hertfordshire, England, in 1 592, Thomas Halsey was the progenitor of the American 
family that bears his name. He came to this country before 1637, being a resident of 
Lynn, Mass., in that year. He was one of the founders of Southampton, Long Island, 
in 1640, where he was considered one of the most respected citizens. He was a delegate to 
the Connecticut General Court in 1664, was named in the patent of confirmation in 1676, was 
also named in Governor Dongan's patent in 1686, and took an active part in all the town affairs 
and in the controversies between the Dutch and the English. His first wife, Phoebe, who was 
murdered by the Pequot Indians in 1649, was the ancestress of that branch of the Halsey family 
which is here under consideration. His second wife was Ann Johnes, widow of Edward Johnes. 

Descendants of Thomas Halsey distributed themselves throughout various parts of the South 
and West, and many of them were prominent in the settlement of Oneida and Otsego Counties, 
and other portions of New York State which were then a wilderness. In Tioga County is a village 
called Halsey Valley, in Tompkins County is Halseyville, in far-off Oregon there is a village named 
Halsey, while, nearer at home, Halsey Street in Brooklyn still preserves the memory of the family. 
Many of the Halseys took part in the early French and Indian wars, and their names are recorded 
in the Colonial records of New York. They served in the Revolution, notably at Fort 
Ticonderoga, and in the Wars of 1812 and 1848. In the Civil War, several of them won high 
rank in defense of the cause of the Union. 

Daniel Halsey, of the second American generation, 1630- 1682, the third son of Thomas 
Halsey, was the ancestor in direct line of Mr. Frederic Robert Halsey. His son, Daniel Halsey, 
1669-1734, married Amy Larison, daughter of John Larison. His grandson, Silas Halsey, 1718-1786, 
married Susanna Howell, and was chairman of the Committee of Safety of Southampton, Long 
Island, on the breaking out of the Revolution. Dr. Silas Halsey, second, 1743- 1832, and his 
second wife, Hannah (Jones) Howell, whom he married in 1780, were the great-grandparents of 
Frederic Robert Halsey. Silas Halsey studied medicine in New Jersey and practiced his profession 
in Southampton until 1776. His uncompromising patriotism brought him particularly under the 
ban of the British authorities in New York, and he was forced to remove to Connecticut, where he 
remained for three years. After the war, he returned to his former home and was Sheriff of Suffolk 
County in 1787 by appointment of Governor Clinton. In 1793, he removed to Ovid, N. Y. For 
several years he was supervisor and a member of the Assembly; in 1801, a delegate to the Consti- 
tutional Convention; in 1804, a member of the National House of Representatives, and in 1807, a 
State Senator. His son, Nicoll Halsey, 1782-1865, grandfather of Mr. Frederic R. Halsey, married, 
in 1806, Euphemia McDowell, daughter of Robert and Margaret McDowell, of Kingston, Pa. He 
was a member of the State Assembly of New York in 1824, and a Member of Congress, 1833-35. 
The parents of Mr. Frederic R. Halsey were Robert Halsey, who was born in 1809 and died in 
1896, and his wife, Sarah Stewart. 

Mr. Frederic Robert Halsey, in the eighth generation of the American Halseys, was born in 
1847, in Ithaca, N. Y. He was graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1868 and from the 
Columbia College Law School in 1870, and engaged in the practice of his profession in New York. 
Interested in public affairs and in the militia, he was appointed, in 1893, Paymaster-General on the 
staff of Governor Roswell P. Flower, with the rank of Brigadier-General. He is the author of a 
book treating of the engraved works of Raphael Morghen. He married, in 1872, Emma Gertrude 
Keep, only child of Henry Keep. His city residence is 22 West Fifty-third Street, and his country 
residence, is Egeria, Tuxedo Park. Mr. and Mrs. Halsey have no children. He is a member of the 
Union, University, Tuxedo, Manhattan, Racquet, New York Athletic, Harvard and Westminster 
Kennel clubs, and is a patron of the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. He also belongs to the Gun Club of Philadelphia, the Olympic Club of Long 
Island and the St. James Club of Paris. 

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JAMES HOOKER HAMERSLEY 

IN 1716, William Hamersley, an officer in the British Navy, a descendant 01 Sir Hugh 
Hamersley, Lord Mayor of London, 1627, was stationed at New York and married into 
the old Dutch family of Van Brugh. He became a resident of the city, a vestryman 
of Trinity, and is buried in its historic graveyard. Hamersley Street, changed in later times to 
West Houston, was named after him. He was furthermore the founder of a family which 
has lived in New York for five generations, which has always been identified with its interests, 
and which has been distinguished by high character, social position and noteworthy alliances. 

In the fourth generation in direct descent from Mr. William Hamersley is James Hooker 
Hamersley. He was born in New York, 1844, being the son of the late John William Hamersley, 
also born in New York, and of his wife, Catharine Livingston Hooker, born at Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y. The paternal grandparents were Lewis Carre Hamersley, of New York, who married 
Elizabeth Finney, born in Accomac County, Va. ; while on the maternal side were the 
Honorable James Hooker, born at Windsor, Conn., and his wife, Helen Sarah Reade, born 
at Red Hook, properly Reade Hoeck, Dutchess County, N. Y. 

Mr. Hamersley's family is thus connected with some of the most eminent names in early 
Colonial history. It may be mentioned that he is fifth in descent from Judge Thomas Gordon, 
of the Council of the Province of East Jersey, Deputy-Secretary and Attorney-General, 1692, 
Receiver-General and Treasurer, 1710-19, and one of the Lords Proprietors; sixth in descent from 
Robert Livingston, Speaker of the New York Assembly, 1718-25, and founder of Livingston 
Manor; seventh in descent from Filyp Pieterse Van Schuyler, Captain of New York Provincial 
forces, 1667, and eighth in descent from Brant Arentse Van Schlichtenhorst, Governor of the 
Colony of Rensselaerwyck, 1648, and commandant of the fort and garrison at Rensselaerstein, 
who led his forces against Governor Stuyvesant, of New Amsterdam, and was in the main 
successful. Through his mother's family, Mr. Hamersley is also connected with the Van 
Cortlandts, de Peysters and Stuyvesants, while among his other ancestors is Henry Beekman, 
the patentee from Queen Anne of a large amount of land in Dutchess County, N. Y., a portion 
of which has never left the hands of his descendants, and is owned by Mr. Hamersley. 

Mr. Hamersley graduated with honors from Columbia College in 1865, and took the degree 
of LL.B. at the Law School of the same institution two years later. He practiced the legal 
profession successfully for some years, but finally retired to devote himself to the duties of 
cotrustee of the large estate left by his father. In April, 1888, he was married to Margaret 
Willing Chisolm, born at College Point, Long Island, daughter of William E. Chisolm and his wife, 
Mary A. Rogers, daughter of John Rogers. The Chisolms are of a prominent South Carolina 
family, the Rogers being large owners of real estate in New York. The sister of John Rogers 
married William C. Rhinelander. Mrs. Hamersley is also a great niece of William Augustus 
Muhlenburg, who founded St. Luke's Hospital, and is a direct descendant of Frederick Augustus 
Muhlenburg, first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hamersley's two children are Catharine Livingston Hamersley and Louis Gordon Hamersley. 

He is an extensive traveler, including some twenty voyages across the Atlantic, a participator 
in the pleasures of society, member of a number of clubs, including the Metropolitan, University 
and City clubs and St. Nicholas Society, president of the Knickerbocker Bowling Club, 
member of the New York Geographical Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, etc. The 
engrossing occupations incident to the care of his family property have not prevented Mr. 
Hamersley from taking an active interest in politics. Literature is, however, the favorite pursuit 
of his leisure, and he writes occasional articles on the live topics of the day, such as law, 
religion, and politics and history. Mr. Hamersley is a graceful poet, his verse appearing 
in various periodicals and collections of poems, though they have not yet been brought together 
in one volume. 



WILLIAM GASTON HAMILTON 

EVERY schoolboy knows the story of the career of Alexander Hamilton. Born of parents 
in moderate circumstances, on the Antilles island of Nevis, through the kindness of friends 
he studied in Kings (Columbia) College, was a soldier in the Continental Army, and on 
the staff of Washington with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, was Secretary of the Treasury in 
Washington's first Cabinet, one of the ablest jurists and statesmen of the early period of the 
United States, and among the greatest men that have been called upon to serve the Republic. His 
death in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804 has always added a melancholy interest to the story of his 
life, and was a striking and impressive end to a brilliant and picturesque career. 

The descendants of Alexander Hamilton have been conspicuous in military and civil life. 
His eldest son, Philip, was killed in a duel before he had attained his majority, on the same spot 
where his father fell three years later. His second son, Alexander, was a soldier in the War of 
1812, and another son, James Alexander, also served in the War of 1812, was a lawyer and United 
States District Attorney. William Stevens Hamilton was a Colonel of Volunteers in the Black 
Hawk War, and the youngest son, Philip, was a lawyer in New York, and at one time an Assistant 
District Attorney. 

The fourth son of this interesting and notable family, Colonel John Church Hamilton, was 
the father of Mr. William Gaston Hamilton. Born in Philadelphia, in 1792, he was graduated from 
Columbia College in 1809, and was admitted to the bar. When war with Great Britain was 
declared in 1812, he offered his services and was commissioned a Lieutenant. Later he was an aide 
on the staff of General Harrison, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The greater part of his 
life was given to literary pursuits, His important literary work related to the life and career 
of his distinguished father. In 1834-40, he edited and published the Memoirs of Alexander 
Hamilton; in 1851, his Works of Alexander Hamilton appeared in two volumes, and in 1850-58 he 
published, in seven volumes, A History of the Republic as Traced in the Writings of Alexander 
Hamilton. 

Mr. William Gaston Hamilton, the fourth son of Colonel John Church Hamilton, was born 
in New York in 1832. Through his grandmother, Elizabeth Schuyler, sister of General Philip 
Schuyler, he is descended from another noted Colonial family. His mother was Maria Eliza Van 
den Heuvel, daughter of Baron John Corneilus Van den Heuvel, once Governor of Dutch Guiana, 
and a resident of New York. The brothers of Mr. Hamilton are Alexander Hamilton, of Tarry- 
town, General Schuyler Hamilton and Judge Charles A. Hamilton, of the Supreme Court of Wis- 
consin. His sister Elizabeth married, first, Major-General Henry W. Halleck, and, second, Major- 
General George W. Cullum. 

Mr. Hamilton is a civil and mechanical engineer, and has been connected with many 
important business enterprises, having been president and engineer of the Jersey City Locomotive 
Works, vice-president of the Ramapo Wheel and Foundry Company, president of the Hamilton 
Steeled Wheel Company, Consulting Mechanical Engineer to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and 
vice-president and director of the Mexican & Central and the South American Telegraph Com- 
panies. He is a vice-president of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the 
Poor, vice-president of the Demilt Dispensary, a manager of the New York Cancer Hospital, 
the Woman's Hospital, and the New York Blind Asylum, and chairman of the Mayor's advisory 
committee on public baths. In his clubs he includes the Century, Metropolitan, Tuxedo and 
Church, and he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Sons of the Revolution, 
the American Geographical Society, and the St. Nicholas Society, and a patron of the Academy of 
Design and the American Museum of Natural History. He married Charlotte (Jeffrey) Pierson. 
His city residence is at 105 East Twenty-first Street, and he has a country home in Ramapo, 
N. Y. His son, William Pierson Hamilton, married Juliet P. Morgan, daughter of J. Pierpont 
Morgan. His daughters are Helen M. and Marie V. Hamilton. 

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WILLIAM ALEXANDER HAMMOND, M. D. 

THE Hammonds of Maryland inherit the blood of Rollo, the first Duke of Normandy. 
Among the principal followers of William the Conqueror, and of his son, William 
Rufus, were Robert Fitz Hammon, Earl of Corbeille, and his brother Hammon, Viscount 
of Thonars, from the last of whom the Hammonds of Acrise are directly descended, as well as 
the Hammonds of Kent and various other parts of England. John Hammond, who came 
to Maryland in the reign of Charles I., was a cadet of that noble house. He was an earnest 
royalist, though other representatives of his name had espoused the Parliamentary side, and in 
1654-1655 played an energetic' part in opposing the Puritan faction in Maryland. His son, the 
Honorable John Hammond, was Major-General of the Province, a member of its Council and 
Judge in Admiralty. He died in 1705, and was buried at the family estate in Anne Arundel 
County, where the inscription on his tomb is still legible after nearly two hundred years and where 
his descendants continued to reside. His great-grandson, Philip, married Nancy Joyce, noted for 
her beauty, one of their children being Dr. John W. Hammond. The latter married Sarah 
Pinkney, of Annapolis, daughter of Jonathan Pinkney, and niece of the famous statesman, William 
Pinkney, United States Senator, Minister to England, and Attorney-General of the United States. 

Dr. William Alexander Hammond, who was born at Annapolis in 1828, was the second 
son of this marriage, but by the death of his elder brother, the Reverend J. Pinkney Hammond, 
D. D., he became the head of the family. Educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, and 
receiving his medical degree from the University of the City of New York, he was appointed 
in 1849 First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon in the army. After about ten years' service, he 
resigned to accept the position of Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of 
Maryland, at Baltimore. On the beginning of the Civil War, he returned to the army and was 
soon afterwards made Surgeon-General with the rank of Brigadier-General. He was removed 
from his office about the end of the war, but was reinstated in 1879, after full inquiry, and is 
now Surgeon-General and Brigadier-General on the retired list of the army. 

Dr. Hammond's first wife was Helen, daughter of Michael Nisbet, of Philadelphia, his 
second alliance being with Esther Dyer, daughter of John F. Chapin, of Providence, a lady 
related to prominent New England families and a descendant of Baron de Bernon, the Huguenot 
settler in Rhode Island. The two surviving children of Dr. Hammond are Clara, who married 
the Marquis Lanza di Brolo, cousin of Cardinal Rampolla, and Graeme Monroe Hammond, M. D., 
who married Louisa Elsworth, a descendant of Oliver Elsworth. The Marquise Lanza has 
inherited her father's literary talent. 

After residing in New York for twenty years, Dr. Hammond returned to Washington in 
1888, his house, Belcourt, Columbia Heights, being the finest reproduction of a French chateau 
in America. Identified socially as well as professionally with New York, he has long figured 
in its most exclusive circles and still retains his membership in the Manhattan Club. His 
Washington clubs include the Metropolitan, Army and Navy, Country and Chevy Chase. 
Though not an active sportsman, he was a member of both the New York Yacht and American 
Jockey clubs. 

Dr. Hammond's professional career has placed him in the front rank of modern scientists. 
It is possible to speak only briefly of his honors, which include professorships in the leading 
medical schools of the country and membership in the foremost scientific bodies of the United 
States and Europe. He is the author of many professional works which have been translated 
and reproduced in Europe, and is a frequent contributor to both scientific and popular periodicals. 
He has also found relaxation and fame as a writer in a lighter vein, being the author of five 
successful novels and many short stories. His son, Dr. Graeme Monroe Hammond, succeeded 
his father as professor in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and is the 
author of many articles and monographs upon medical subjects. 

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WAINWRIGHT HARDIE 

SHORTLY after the close of the Revolutionary War, two young men of good family, John 
and James Hardie, natives of Aberdeen, Scotland, came to America. James Hardie was 
a scholar and writer, at one time a professor in Columbia College, and the author of 
several standard works, among them a history of the State of New York. John Hardie 
settled at Sharon, Conn., and married Elene Bogardus, a direct descendant of the famous Anneke 
Jans by her second husband, Domine Everardus Bogardus (her first husband having been a 
member of the princely house of Orange), the exceedingly prominent place which she occupies 
in the ancestry of many New York families of distinction being well known, while her gifts 
to Trinity Church, it is needless to say, created the prosperity of that corporation. 

Allen Wardwell Hardie, the son of John and Elene Bogardus Hardie, was born at Sharon, 
in 1799, and died in 1849. He was prominent in politics and business in New York City and 
State, and operated largely in lands, having offices both in Albany and New York. He was 
an old-fashioned Democrat, possessed great influence in the Hudson River counties, and was 
the intimate associate of the prominent statesmen of his time, including President Van Buren, 
the Honorable Gulian Ver Planck, and others of similar eminence. He was also Captain in the 
Ninth Regiment, New York State Artillery Militia, his commission, signed by De Witt Clinton, 
Governor of the State of New York, being preserved among the family papers. His correspond- 
ence with various prominent statesmen of the time was also very extensive, and was 
conducted on a footing which indicates not only confidence and intimacy, personal and political, 
but also shows the respect which men of that standing entertained for him. 

His wife, Caroline Cock Hardie, 1800-1876, born in New York, belonged to a well- 
known Quaker family of Long Island, the Cocks, of Oyster Bay. She was present at the 
reception given by the Society of New York to the Marquis de Lafayette on September 10th, 
1826, her card of invitation being also preserved among the family archives, with other interesting 
mementoes of the early social life of the city, in which Mrs. Hardie was prominent. The 
family residence was then in Cortlandt Street. 

Mr. Wainwright Hardie is a son of this marriage. He was born in this city, and was 
baptized at old St. Anne's Church, Fishkill-on-Hudson, where the family at that time had a 
country seat. He was named after the famous Bishop Wainwright, then rector of old Grace 
Church, Broadway and Rector Street, of which his parents were attendants and pew holders. 

His education was received principally at St. John's School, Varick Street, over which 
Doctor Wainwright, then rector of St. John's Chapel, presided as founder and patron. His 
business career commenced with the Commercial Mutual Marine Insurance Company, at the 
time of its organization, and after many years' service in various positions, latterly as the 
company's vice-president, he retired for rest and recreation, and made an extended tour in 
Europe. Mr. Hardie is unmarried ; he resides at 8 East Twelfth Street, and devotes himself 
to business and to the affairs of charitable organizations. 

Members of the families of Mr. Hardie's mother and grandmother fought in the Revolu- 
tionary War and in the War of 1812. In the war between the States, a distinguished 
representative was furnished in the person of a brother of the subject of this article, General 
James Allen Hardie, U. S. A. The latter, born in New York in 1823, entered the United States 
Military Academy at West Point, and was a classmate of General Ulysses S. Grant. General 
Hardie served throughout the Civil War with distinction, and enjoyed the confidence and 
friendship of Generals Grant and Sherman, and was the intimate friend of Lincoln and Stanton. 
His military record is set forth in full in the annals of the War Department. After the close of 
the war, he was appointed Assistant Inspector-General of the United States Army, and died in 
1876. His son is Captain Francis Hunter Hardie, of the Third Cavalry, United States Army, 
who, like his father, is a graduate of the United States Military Academy, at West Point. 

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ORLANDO METCALF HARPER 

JOHN HUMFREY, who was born in Dorchester, England, about 1600, died in his native 
place, in 1661. For fifteen or twenty years he was notably identified with the first 
English enterprises that resulted in the settlement of New England. Educated as a lawyer, he 
became renowned in his profession, and was a man of considerable wealth, for those times. 
In 1628, he was one of a company of six individuals of similar views to his own, who were 
the original purchasers of the territory that subsequently became the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
and was the first treasurer of the Plymouth Colony. 

At the second meeting of the Massachusetts Bay Company, John Humfrey was chosen 
Deputy-Governor, and came to New England in the discharge of the duties of his position. 
On his voyage to the New World he was accompanied by his wife, Lady Susan Clinton, 
daughter of Thomas Clinton, third Earl of Lincoln, and Lady Elizabeth, his wife. Six children 
of Governor Humfrey came with their parents. He settled in Swampscott, Mass., and was 
chosen the first Major-General of the Colony. With several of his associates he laid out the 
town of Ipswich, in 1636. He returned to England, in 1641, but several of his children 
remained in the New World, and from them have come many illustrious descendants. 

Mr. Orlando Metcalf Harper is the descendant in the ninth generation on his mother's 
side from Governor John Humfrey. The great-grandfather of Mr. Harper was Arunah Metcalf, 
a man of distinction in public affairs, in the central part of the State of New York, in the 
early years of this century. During most of his life he resided in Otsego County. In 1810, 
he was elected to represent the Otsego County district as a Democrat in the Twelfth United 
States Congress, and was returned to the State Assembly, in 18 14-16, and 1828. 

Mr. Orlando Metcalf Harper was born in Pittsburg, Pa., September 17th, 1846. His 
father, John Harper, was president of the Bank of Pittsburg, and identified with other large 
financial institutions and public enterprises. He was especially interested in the cause of 
philanthropy, and gave considerable attention to the object of caring for the insane, and improv- 
ing their condition. He was a descendant of a good English family, of considerable antiquity 
and prominence. His son, the present Mr. Harper, was primarily educated in the academic 
schools of his native city, and then went to Yale College. Before he had completed his 
collegiate course, an injury to his eyes compelled him to forego further study, but Yale 
University has since conferred upon him the honorary degree of M. A. 

Returning to Pittsburg in 1867, he engaged in the cotton manufacturing business there, 
in which he was eminently successful for nearly twenty years. He was president of the Eagle 
Cotton Mills Company, director of the Bank of Pittsburg, and of the Pittsburg and Alleghany 
Suspension Bridge Company, president of the Eagle Mills, at Madison, Ind., and for a time 
vice-president of the Association of Southern and Western Cotton Manufacturers. He was also 
editorially connected with one of the daily newspapers in the city of Pittsburg. 

In 1886, Mr. Harper removed to New York City and established the cotton dry goods 
commission business, in which he is still engaged. He is a member of the New York Cotton 
Exchange, of the Chamber of Commerce, the Pennsylvania Historical Society, the New York 
Historical Society, the New York Geographical Society, the New England Society and the Yale 
Alumni Association. His club memberships include the Union League, the Merchants', and the 
Riding clubs. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. His business connections, outside of his commission house, include the 
Merchants' Reliance Company, of which he is president. 

In November, 1877, Mr. Harper married Kathleen Theodora Ludlow, daughter of John 
Livingston Ludlow, and granddaughter of the Reverend Dr. John Ludlow, an eminent Dutch 
Reformed clergyman, and a member of one of the oldest and most distinguished Colonial 
families of New York. 



SAMUEL CARMAN HARRIOT 

HERIOT'S Hospital, one of the historical monuments of the ancient city of Edinburgh, was 
founded in 1628 under a bequest by George Heriot, the friend and courtier of King 
James I. of England and VI. of Scotland, and a figure of prominence in the times when 
England and Scotland were united under one crown by the accession of the monarch in question 
to the throne of the former country. In the capacity of a man of business, as well as a 
courtier, Heriot accumulated great wealth for those days. 

The Scottish philanthropist figures as one of the characters in Sir Walter Scott's Fortunes 
of Nigel. His own romance connected him with the Primroses of Rosebery, the family of which 
the former Prime Minister of England, the Earl of Rosebery, is the representative. George Heriot's 
wife, Alison Primrose, daughter of James Primrose, clerk of the privy council, having died 
before her twenty-first year, it was in memory of her that his large fortune was mainly 
devoted, on his death, to the foundation of the hospital for the education of the children of 
citizens of Edinburgh, which bears his name, and which to the present day is regarded as one 
of the chief charitable and educational institutions of the city to which his noble benefaction 
was dedicated nearly three hundred years ago. All visitors to the historic capitol of the 
Scottish Kingdom have, without doubt, heard of this fact. 

Mr. Samuel Carman Harriot bears the same arms as the famous George Heriot, and is 
descended from a brother of the latter; members of the family having aided in the establishment 
of the Colony of West Jersey, where they attained wealth and prominence. His grandfather, 
Samuel Harriot, of New Jersey, married Abigail Carman, and was the father of Samuel Carman 
Harriot, born at Woodbridge, N. J. 

The elder Samuel C. Harriot inherited an ample fortune and estate from his father, and 
was not engaged in active business pursuits, but accepted the presidency of the Greenwich Fire 
Insurance Company of New York, a post which he filled for over thirty-one years, being an 
influential and esteemed citizen. His wife, the mother of the gentleman to whom this refers, 
was Martha Crozier Dawes, daughter of Charles Dawes, of Philadelphia, and Deborah Williams 
Elliott, of Darby, Pa., her grandfather, Rumford Dawes, having been a famous shipping 
merchant of Philadelphia, and an elder of the Friends or Quaker Society. On her mother's 
side, Mrs. Harriot is descended from the Earls of Guys, her great-grandmother, Elizabeth Guy, 
who married John Elliott, having also been a niece of William Penn, the famous founder of the 
State of Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Harriot was born of this ancestry in the City of New York, in 1863. He was 
educated under private tutors here and pursued a course of study at Paris. Care of his large 
real estate interests has filled the place of professional employment. He is still unmarried, and 
resides with his mother and sister, Florence Harriot, at 454 West Twenty-third Street, the 
house in which he was born, a residence containing many paintings by celebrated artists, 
statuary, mosaics and other works of art collected by members of the family in Europe, 
as well as a carefully selected library. Mr. Harriot's own tastes are literary, artistic and 
musical. He has spent no inconsiderable portion of his life in travel, and has visited nearly 
every part of Europe, including some countries and districts to which ordinary tourists rarely 
penetrate. He has been presented to many representatives of royalty, and numbers among his 
friends numerous members of the nobility. While in England, during the Queen's Jubilee year, 
1887, he was present at the ball given in London in honor of the late Crown Prince Rudolph, 
of Austro-Hungary, at which the latter, with the Prince of Wales and other representatives of 
royalty, were the prominent guests. He is a member of the City Club, and is also a member 
of the St. Andrew's Society and the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in both 
of which organizations he takes an active interest as befits the descent from Colonial and 
Revolutionary ancestors which he represents. 

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MARCELLUS HARTLEY 

IN the collateral line of Mr. Marcellus Hartley's ancestry, a notable name is that of David 
Hartley, the English diplomat, who was born in 1729, and died in 1813, and was 
prominently identified with the early history of the American Republic. He was educated 
at Oxford, and became a member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Hull. His name appears 
conspicuously in the history of our country from the fact that he was the British Plenipotentiary 
appointed to arrange for terms of peace with John Jay, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Laurens, 
the American commissioners in Paris after the War of the Revolution. 

The father of David Hartley was David Hartley, the elder, founder of the English Association 
of Psychologists, author of Observations on Man, published in 1749, and whose life was that of a 
benevolent and studious physician, principally in London and Bath. The father of Dr. Hartley was 
the Reverend David Hartley, vicar of Armley, in Yorkshire, an eminent clergyman, whose family, 
of great antiquity, was descended from the Hartleys of Chorton. 

Another son, Dr. David Hartley, was James Hartley, of Boughton, England, where he was 
born in 1736, and died in 1776. He was a business man, chiefly engaged in manufacturing, and 
was noted for his piety and intellectual vigor. Robert Hartley, son of James Hartley, was a native 
of Boughton, where he was born in 1736, and succeeded to his father's business as a manufacturer. 
During the latter part of his life, he lived at Cockermouth, England, where he died in 1803. His 
wife, whom he married in 1754, was Martha Smithson, daughter of Isaac Smithson, a son of Sir 
Hugh Smithson, baronet, head of a family whose name is identified with the United States through 
the Smithsonian Institution, which was endowed by one of its members in a latter generation. 

Isaac Hartley, the son of Robert Hartley and his wife, Martha, was born in Cockermouth, 
England, in 1766, and was the first of his family to remove to the United States. He married 
Isabella, daughter of Joseph Johnson, of Embleton, England. He settled in Perth, N. Y., and 
died in 1851. His wife died in Schenectady, in 1806. Robert Milham Hartley, son of 
Isaac Hartley, was born in Cockermouth, England, in 1796, and died in New York in 1881. 
He was educated in Fairfield Academy, New York, and became one of the distinguished 
philanthropists of the metropolis in the first half of the present century. In 1829, he was 
one of the founders of the New York City Temperance Society, of which he was the 
secretary for nine years. He was also active in founding the New York Association for 
Improving the Condition of the Poor in 1844. The Workingmen's Home, the Demilt Dispensary, 
the Juvenile Asylum, the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, and the 
Presbyterian Hospital were other benevolent undertakings fostered by him. The wife of Robert 
Milham Hartley, whom he married in 1824, was Catharine Munson, daughter of Reuben Munson. 
Her father, a New York merchant, was an alderman, 1813-23, and a member of the Assembly, 
1820-22. 

Mr. Marcellus Hartley, the elder son of Robert Milham and Catharine (Munson) Hartley, is 
a prominent New York merchant and financier, a member of the Union League, Lawyers', 
Riding and Presbyterian clubs, and the New England Society, and a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. He married Frances Chester White, daughter of Dr. S. Pomroy White, and 
lives in Madison Avenue. 

Joseph Wilfrid Hartley, another son of Robert M. Hartley, was born in New York, and 
early in life began a business career. For more than thirty years he was a shipping merchant, 
but later became interested in electrical science, an occupation that engages his attention at the 
present time. He married, in 1854, Florinda Morton, daughter of Henry Grant and Florinda 
(Berga) Morton. Mrs. Hartley's father was a native of East Windsor, Conn., a descendant of 
one of the early settlers of that Colony. Mrs. Hartley died in 1871. The city residence of 
Mr. Hartley is at 34 Gramercy Park, where he lives with his two daughters, Florinda Morton 
and Isabel S. Hartley. 

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LEWIS CRUGER HASELL 

THE bearings which constitute the coat of arms of the Hasell family, of England and 
America, comprise a gold shield with a blue band, on which are three silver crescents, 
between three hazel nuts, proper. The crest is a silver squirrel feeding on a hazel nut 
proper, encircled with hazel branches, and the motto is Labor omnia vincit. These arms and 
crest were granted shortly after the English Herald's College became an incorporated body, 
during the reign of Richard 111. At that time and since "every gentleman entitled to bear coat 
armor was noble, whether titled or not, though this fact has been forgotten in recent times, 
and the term nobility appropriated exclusively to the peerage." 

An account of this ancient family (whose name is pronounced Hazel), which was first 
established in Cambridgeshire, England, and a description of their coat of arms is given in Sir 
Bernard Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary, commencing with John Hasell, who was 
buried in Bottisham Church in 1572. From him was descended Sir Edward Hasell, who was 
knighted by William III., and who settled in Cumberland, having purchased in 1665 the estate 
of Dalemain, Parish of Dacre, which property is still in the possession of kinsmen of the 
American branch of the family, and who entertain a cordial family correspondence with the 
latter. The Reverend Thomas Hasell was the first of John Hasell's descendants who came to 
America and settled in South Carolina, in 1705. He was a graduate of Cambridge University, 
was ordained deacon in 1705, and priest in 1709, by Bishop Compton, of London. He was 
the first Episcopalian minister of the Parish of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, South Carolina. An 
account of his long and eminent services is given in Dalchos's History of the Church in South 
Carolina. Among his descendants was Bishop Gadsden, of South Carolina. The Reverend 
Thomas Hasell died in 1744, leaving, by his wife, Elizabeth Ashby, whom he married in 17 14, 
eight children. One of them was Andrew Hasell, 1 729-1 763, who married Sarah Wigfall in 
1751, and was the father of Andrew Hasell, the second of that name. The latter, 1755-1789, 
married in 1778 Mary, daughter of General Job Milner, of the British Army, whose wife, Mary, 
was the daughter of Jacob Bond and his wife, Susan Maybank. 

George Paddon Bond Hasell, M. D., was the son of Andrew Hasell the second, and was 
born in South Carolina, in 178 1. He graduated at the University of Edinburgh and became an 
eminent physician in his native State, where he died in 18 18. While abroad he married, in 
1802, Penelope, daughter of Bentley Gordon Bentley, of Chipping Norton, England, and his 
wife, Penelope Bentley, who was descended from Edward Bentley, who resided at Little 
Kingston, Warwickshire, in 1595. Bentley Gordon Bentley's father was Alexander Gordon, 
whose name was changed by act of Parliament to Alexander Gordon Bentley, in order that he 
might inherit the Bentley estates. 

Bentley Hasell, son of the preceding, was born on Sullivan's Island, S. C, in 1807, graduated 
at Yale and from the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School in 1827. In 1828 he married Catherine de 
Nully Cruger, daughter of Nicholas Cruger and his wife, Ann Trezevant. Ann Trezevant first 
married Daniel Heyward, of South Carolina, by whom she had Elizabeth, who married General 
James Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina. Ann Trezevant was the granddaughter of 
Theodore Trezevant, the leader of the Huguenot Forty Families, who, on the revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes, fled from France, in 1685, and settled in South Carolina. He brought with 
him wealth, acquired several plantations, and gave financial assistance to his less fortunate 
compatriots. He was deputed by the Huguenot families to correspond with the English 
Government as to the rights and privileges which should be accorded them, which task he 
executed to the satisfaction of both the Colonists and the Government. 

The Cruger family, famous both in New York and in South Carolina, descends from 
John Cruger, who came to New York prior to 1700, married Maria Cuyler, daughter of Major 
Hendrick Cuyler, of Albany, and his wife, Annetje Schepmoes. John Cruger was appointed 

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Mayor of New York in 1739, and remained in office till his death, in 1744- His son, John, 
was also Mayor of New York, from 1756 to 1765 inclusive, was the Speaker of the first 
Colonial Assembly, and founder and first president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. 
His nephew, Henry Cruger, was Mayor of Bristol, England, and was the colleague of Edmund 
Burke as a member of the English Parliament for the same constituency. His other nephew, 
Nicholas Cruger, the first of that name (and the grandfather of Catherine de Nully Cruger-Hasell), 
was born in New York in 1743, and died at Santa Cruz, West Indies. He owned the beautiful 
Rose Hill estate, which is now in the heart of New York City. He was the friend of 
Washington and the patron of Alexander Hamilton, who obtained his first mercantile clerkship 
in Mr. Cruger's counting house at Santa Cruz, and came to New York under his auspices. 
Nicholas Cruger's first wife was Ann de Nully, daughter of Bertram Pierre de Nully and his 
wife, Catherine Heyliger, daughter of General Pierre Heyliger, Chamberlain to Christian V., of 
Denmark, and Governor-General of the Danish West Indies. Bertram Pierre de Nully was the 
son of Count Bertram de Nully, a planter of Martinique. 

Bentley Hasell died in 1836, and his wife, Catherine de Nully Cruger, died in 1870. 
They are buried in the family vault in St. Mark's churchyard in this city, jointly built by their 
uncle, William Bard, and Ferdinand Sands. They left two sons, Bentley Douglas Hasell, C. E., 
and Lewis Cruger Hasell, M. D., who died in 1889 at his country residence, near George- 
town, S. C. Bentley Douglas Hasell was born in Charleston, S. C, February 27th, 1829, 
and in 1852 married Hannah, daughter of Judge Jesse Morgan and his wife, Jane Cisna, 
who died in 1875. After leaving Trinity College, in 1848, he adopted the profession of a civil 
engineer, and has been engaged on many important public works, among which were the United 
States dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York; the Erie Railroad, Michigan Southern, 
Northern Indiana Railroad, and Quincy & Toledo Railroad. He was chief engineer and general 
manager of the New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad, now the Southern division 
of Illinois Central Railroad; held the same position on the Memphis & Ohio Railroad, now a 
part of the Louisville & Nashville system, and was president of the Charleston & Savannah 
Railroad. He has for some years past been in business in New York, as head of the firm of 
B. D. Hasell & Co., and is president of a company bearing his name, controlling a perfected 
automatic railroad block signal system. Mr. Hasell was for seventeen years a member of the 
Union Club, and is a life member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and 
a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Downtown Association. He 
published, in 1892, for private distribution among his relatives, a chart of the Cruger family in 
America descended from John Cruger. In 1896, he also published a chart of the Rhinelander 
family in America, descended from Philip Jacob Rhinelander, who came to this country in 1686, 
and founded the notable New York family of that name. 

Mr. Lewis Cruger Hasell, born in 1858, is the only surviving child of Bentley Douglas 
Hasell and his wife, Hannah Morgan. Mr. Hasell is a merchant in this city, where he resides, 
having also a country residence at Greenwich, on the Sound, and is a member of the Calumet 
Club. In 1884, he married Mary Mason Jones, daughter of Mason Renshaw Jones and his first 
wife, Lydia Haight. Mrs. Hasell is a granddaughter of Isaac Jones, president of the Chemical Bank 
of New York, and his wife, Mary Mason, daughter of John Mason, founder of the Chemical Bank. 
Frances A. Jones, sister of Isaac Jones, married John Church Cruger, the father of Colonel Stephen 
Van Rensselaer Cruger. Mr. Lewis Cruger Hasell and his wife, Mary Mason Jones, have three 
children, Mason Cruger, Alice and Mary Mason Hasell, who are the eighth generation of their 
name in this country. 

To recount the alliances of the Hasells, Trezevants, Crugers, de Nullys, Heyligers and 
Bentleys would be to enumerate a majority of prominent family names in South Carolina, Virginia 
and New York, as well as the oldest families in England, France and Denmark, the entire subject 
being of great interest to the genealogist and student of the Colonial and later history of 
our country. 

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CHARLES WALDO HASKINS 

BORN in Brooklyn, January nth, 1852, Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins has been socially 
prominent in New York and is actively identified with several patriotic bodies of the 
highest standing, while he has achieved success and reputation in a difficult profession. 
His parents were Waldo Emerson Haskins and his wife, Amelia Rowan Cammeyer. After 
graduating from the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Haskins entered the accounting department 
of F. Butterfield & Company, of New York, where he spent five years and then traveled abroad for 
two years, after which he became connected with the brokerage firm of W. E. Haskins. For 
three years he was engaged upon the accounts of the North River Construction Company, which 
built the West Shore Railway, and then began practice as an expert accountant, in which 
profession he has taken a leading place. He was also secretary of the Manhattan Trust Company, 
of New York, for some time, but his principal work was one which has given him national 
reputation. This was nothing less than the reorganization of the Government's system ot 
accounts, which had never been altered since the Treasury and the other departments were 
established. To this task Mr. Haskins was called by a joint commission of Congress, and, in 
association with his present partner, E. W. Sells, performed it in such a radical, yet judicious, 
manner that the public business has been simplified and expedited to a marked extent. The 
methods he suggested have all been adopted, and, after thorough experience, have won the 
approbation of the executive and accounting officials of the Government and the warm thanks of 
the commission in charge of the matter. Mr. Haskins is president of the board of examiners, 
appointed by the regents of the University of New York to pass on the qualifications of applicants 
for certificates as Certified Public Accountants, and is president of the New York Society of 
Certified Public Accountants. He is also comptroller of the Central of Georgia Railway Company, 
and is officially connected with other corporations, besides holding important fiduciary positions. 

Mr. Haskins inherits the characteristics as well as the blood of a notable New England 
ancestry. His paternal line in America begins with Robert Haskins, a resident of Boston early in 
the eighteenth century. "Honest John Haskins," his son, born in 1729, became an eminent 
citizen of Boston, famed for his probity and sterling qualities, and was Captain in the old Boston 
Regiment, his commission dating from 1772. He was also one of the first Sons of Liberty, and 
was active on the patriotic side in the agitation that led to the Revolution. John Haskins' wife, 
Hannah Upham, came of prominent Puritan families. She was descended from John Upham, who 
came to Massachusetts in 1635, while among her other ancestors were Captain John Waite, of 
Maiden; Rose Dunster, sister of the first president of Harvard; Thomas Oakes, cousin of Dr. 
Oakes, the fourth president of the same college, and John Howland, the famous Mayflower 
Pilgrim. Robert Haskins, son of John and Hannah (Upham) Haskins, married Rebecca Emerson, 
daughter of the Reverend William Emerson, who died while chaplain of the Patriot army at 
Ticonderoga in 1776. Ruth Haskins, Robert's sister, married the second Reverend William 
Emerson and was the mother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great New England poet and 
philosopher. The grandparents of the present Mr. Haskins were Thomas Haskins, son of Robert, 
and Mary (Soren) Haskins, Waldo Emerson Haskins having been the child of the latter couple. 

In 1884, Mr. Charles Waldo Haskins married Henrietta Havemeyer, daughter of Albert 
Havemeyer, the youngest brother of William F. Havemeyer, Mayor of New York, 1848-49 and 
1873-74. The issue of this marriage is two daughters, Ruth and Noeline. The family reside in 
West Fourteenth Street. Mr. Haskins is a member of the Manhattan, Riding and Westchester 
County clubs in New York, the Metropolitan Club in Washington, and the Piedmont Club of 
Atlanta, Ga. He is, as already referred to, actively identified with patriotic societies, being a 
member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and treasurer general of the National Society 
Sons of the American Revolution, 1892-97, while he was secretary of the Empire State Society of 
that organization, 1893-94, and has done much to advance its interests. 

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CHARLES HAYNES HASWELL 

BORN in New York City in 1809, and identified with the naval service of the United 
States, as well as with some of the most remarkable feats of American engineering 
science in the present century, the parents and ancestors of the subject of this article 
were, nevertheless, natives of the Island of Barbadoes. The families from which he descends 
were on both sides numbered among the royalist gentry who, after the overthrow of Charles I. 
and the loss of their cause at the battle of Worcester, migrated to Barbadoes and other West 
India islands, where they became wealthy and prominent. Mr. Charles Haynes Haswell is the 
son of Charles Haswell and his wife, Dorothea Haynes, the latter being the daughter of Richard 
Haynes and Anna Elcock. One of Mr. Haswell's uncles, the Honorable Robert Haynes, was 
Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbadoes and Lieutenant-General of the royal forces of 
the island, while another uncle, Henry Haynes, was a Post Captain of the British Royal Navy, 
and at his death was at the head of the list of Captains in that service. The Haynes coat of 
arms, borne by the representatives of the family both in England and the Western hemisphere, 
is: Quarterly, first and fourth, argent, three crescents, paly, wavy gules and azure, and second and 
third gules, two billets, argent, and the crest of Haswell is the head of the talbot, or hunting dog, 
erased, azure, collared, ermine. The crest of the Haynes is a stork, with wings displayed, 
proper, bearing a serpent in its beak. 

Mr. Haswell received a classical education at academies in Jamaica, Long Island, and the 
City of New York, and in 1828, after a complete early training, began his career as a civil and 
marine engineer. In 1836, he entered the United States Navy as Chief Engineer, and in 1845 
was commissioned Engineer in Chief. While in the service, he bore a most useful share in 
the first steps that led to the evolution of the modern war ship, designed and superintended 
the construction of a number of the earlier steam vessels of the navy, and in the line of duty, 
while on active service at sea, visited not only Europe, but Africa and South America. Leaving 
the navy in 1851, after fifteen years passed in the service of the Government, he has since been 
engaged in the succesful practice of his profession, being regarded as one of its foremost members, 
filling, among other important public and private duties, those of the engineer of the Board of 
Health and trustee of the Brooklyn Bridge. He was a member of the Common Council of the 
City of New York in 1854-56, and its president in 1857. In 1862, he accompanied Major- 
General Burnside on his expedition to North Carolina as Chief Engineer of the Naval Service, and 
was present at the bombardment and capture of Roanoke Island and other operations of that 
campaign. He is the author of several important professional works, his Engineers' Pocket Book 
having more than a national reputation, and is a member of many scientific bodies, including the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, the Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the 
Institutions of Civil Engineering and Naval Architecture of Great Britain, and others of similar 
character and prominence. Among the many flattering testimonials to his services, he received, 
in 1853, a diamond ring from the Emperor Nicholas of Russia. It is impossible to mention the 
numerous inventions and improvements he originated, beyond noting that he designed and 
directed the construction of the first steam launch in 1837, and in 1847 he first applied zinc to 
prevent oxidization in marine boilers and in the holds of iron vessels. 

In 1829, Mr. Haswell married Ann Elizabeth Burns, of New York, their children being Sarah 
Haynes, Edmund Haynes, Frances Roe, Gouverneur Kemble, Charles Haynes and Lillie Bulwer 
Haswell. Mr. Haswell resides at 324 West Seventy-eighth Street, New York, and possesses, in 
addition to a collection of statuary and paintings, a large and valuable library. 

Leading an active life, full of grave responsibilities and labor, he has found pleasure in 
society and yachting, and is a member of the Union and Engineers' clubs, as well as of the 
American Yacht Club. His interest in yachting has been active, and for many years he acted as 
chairman of the Regatta Committee of the New York Yacht Club. 

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HENRY OSBORNE HAVEMEYER 

NEARLY a century ago, the two brothers, William and Frederick Havemeyer, established 
themselves in New York and founded families that have since been extremely prominent in 
many directions. The younger of these brothers, Frederick C. Havemeyer, was the ances- 
tor of that branch of the family to which Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer and the late Theodore A. Have- 
meyer belong. The elder, William Havemeyer, as will be seen from the ensuing page, was the 
father of Mayor William Frederick Havemeyer and his line. 

Frederick C. Havemeyer, grandfather of Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, was the junior member of 
the firm of W. & F. C. Havemeyer, which engaged in sugar refining in New York in 1807. His 
son, Frederick Christian Havemeyer, the father of Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, was born in 1807 in 
New York. After spending two years in Columbia College, he entered the paternal establishment 
in Vandam Street as an apprentice, and gained a thorough knowledge of sugar manufacturing. In 
1828, he became associated with his cousin, William F. Havemeyer, under the firm name of W. F. 
& F. C. Havemeyer, and continued in business for fourteen years. After the death of his father, he 
had the management of the large estate left by the latter, and also traveled extensively in the United 
States and in Europe. In 1855, he returned to business, establishing the firm of Havemeyer, 
Townsend & Co., which afterwards became Havemeyer & Elder, one of the largest sugar refining 
houses in the world. During the time that he was out of business, he applied himself to literary 
pursuits as well as to travel. His favorite study was the Latin language and literature. For many 
years he was president of the school board of Westchester County, where he had his residence. In 
1831, he married Sarah Osborne Townsend, daughter of Christopher Townsend, one of his business 
associates. Ten children were born of this union. The sons were Charles, Theodore A., George 
W., Henry O., Thomas J., Warren H., and Frederick C. Havemeyer. Mary O. Havemeyer, the 
eldest daughter, became the wife of J. Lawrence Elder; Kate B. Havemeyer married Louis J. 
Belloni, and Sarah Louise Havemeyer married Frederick Wendell Jackson. 

Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer, the fourth son of his father's family, was born in New York, 
October 18th, 1847. Educated in private schools, he entered the firm of which his father was head, 
and in 1869 was admitted to partnership. He soon became the manager of the firm, whose mem- 
bers, besides his father, were Theodore A., Thomas J. and Henry O. Havemeyer, J. Lawrence Elder 
and Charles H. Senff. The development of the business of which he is now at the head makes 
one of the most interesting pages in the industrial and commercial history of the country. It was 
mainly through his initiative that the American Sugar Refining Company, in which were merged 
nearly all the great refineries of the United States, was organized in 189 1 and has become one of the 
greatest corporations in the country. 

In 1883, Mr. Havemeyer married Louisine Waldron Elder, daughter of George W. Elder, who 
was also well known from his connection with the sugar business. Mr. and Mrs. Havemeyer have 
three children, Adeline, Horace and Electra Havemeyer. The city residence of the family is at the 
corner of Sixty-sixth street and Fifth Avenue. Mr. Havemeyer also has a home in Greenwich, 
Conn., one of the finest country seats on the Long Island Sound, situated on a ridge overlooking 
the water and the surrounding country. Mr. Havemeyer is interested in the breeding of cattle and 
high grade stock, and has at his place a notable herd of cattle and fine specimens of horses and 
Southdown sheep. A large public school building, which he erected and presented to the town of 
Greenwich at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, is a proof of his active interest in 
public education. He is a member of the Grolier and Riding clubs and a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. The best known of his brothers was the late Theodore A. Havemeyer, who 
married Emilie de Loosey, daughter of Charles F. de Loosey. His sons are Theodore A., who 
married Katherine Aymar Sands, and Henry O. Havemeyer, Jr. He was for many years consul- 
general of Austria-Hungary in New York, and was active in business, but also was prominent in 
society and sport and was largely instrumental in making golf popular in this country. 

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WILLIAM FREDERICK HAVEMEYER 

IN Germany, the history of the Havemeyer family can be traced back for more than three 
hundred years. Herman Havemeyer, who lived in Bueckeburg, Germany, before 1600, 
was the ancestor of William Havemeyer, who came to this country and founded an 
American family that for three generations has been eminently distinguished in mercantile and 
civic life. When only fifteen years of age, William Havemeyer left his German home and went 
to London. There he learned the art of sugar refining, and in 1799 he came to the United 
States. In less than ten years he began business on his own account, taking as a partner his 
younger brother, Frederick C. Havemeyer. The two brothers were, respectively, the American 
ancestors of the two branches of the Havemeyer family of New York. William Havemeyer was 
the ancestor of the branch of the family of which Mr. William Frederick Havemeyer is the 
representative. Frederick C. Havemeyer was the ancestor of the branch to which Henry O. 
Havemeyer belongs. 

The eldest son of William Havemeyer was William Frederick Havemeyer, who was born 
in New York in 1804, and graduated from Columbia College in 1823. In 1828, with his cousin, 
Frederick Christian Havemeyer, he established the firm of W. F. & F. C. Havemeyer. He 
was also interested in other business enterprises, being elected president of the Bank of North 
America in 1851 and president of the New York Savings Bank in 1857. He was vice-president 
of the Pennsylvania Coal Company and of the Long Island Railroad, and a director in other 
corporations. 

It was in public life, however, that William Frederick Havemeyer became best known. 
As early as 1844, he took an active part in politics, becoming a delegate to the Democratic 
general committee of New York City. In the same year, he was a Presidential elector for the 
successful Polk and Dallas ticket. In 1845, he was elected Mayor of the city, and after serving 
one year declined a renomination. The subject of emigration had for many years engaged 
his attention, and when the law creating the Board of Emigration Commissioners of this State 
was passed in 1847, he became its first president. In 1848, he was elected Mayor of the city 
for the second time, and again in 1859, he was nominated for the same office, but on this 
occasion was defeated by Fernando Wood. He maintained his active interest in municipal 
affairs, and during the Civil War was one of the most devoted supporters of the national 
government. When the transactions of the so-called Tweed-ring were exposed in 1870, he 
again exhibited his unswerving devotion to the public interests and to the welfare of the city, 
and as vice-president and afterwards president of the Committee of Seventy rendered untiring 
and efficient service to the reform movement. For the fourth time, in 1 871, he was nominated 
for Mayor and elected for the third time. He died suddenly in November, 1874, while in his 
office at the City Hall. 

William Frederick Havemeyer married in 1828, at Craigville, N. Y., Sarah Agnes Craig, 
daughter of Hector Craig, who was a member of the National House of Representatives, 1823-25, 
and was afterwards reelected in 1829, subsequently serving a term as Surveyor of the Port of New 
York. The children of this marriage were six sons and two daughters. Sarah C. Havemeyer, 
who became the wife of Hector Armstrong, and Laura A. Havemeyer, who married Isaac W. 
Maclay, were the daughters. The sons were John, Henry, Hector Craig, James, Charles and 
William F. Havemeyer, Jr. 

Mr. William F. Havemeyer, of the present generation, was born in New York, and after 
receiving his education, engaged in the sugar business, becoming vice-president of the Have- 
meyer Sugar Refining Company, of which his brother, Hector Craig Havemeyer, was president. 
He lives in East Fifty-seventh Street, near Fifth Avenue. The clubs of which he is a member 
include among others the Metropolitan, Grolier and City, the Century Association and the 
Downtown Association. 

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GEORGE GRISWOLD HAVEN 

BELONGING to an old family that had long been established in the West of England, Richard 
Haven came from his native land to Massachusetts in 1645. One or more brothers came 
with him, and from them are descended all the Havens of this country who trace their 
lineage to Colonial ancestry. John Haven, 1656- 1705, a son of Richard Haven, was an important 
man in Lynn, Mass., frequently serving on committees of the town, while he was a selectman 
several times and a representative to the General Court in 1701 and again in 1702. In the next 
generation, Joseph Haven, 1698-1776, was as prominent in public affairs as his father. In 1732, he 
was a surveyor, was elected a selectmen the following year, and was a justice of the peace from 
1756 until the time of his death. His wife was his cousin, Mehitable Haven, daughter of Moses 
Haven. She died in 1780. 

Samuel Haven, 1727-1803, son of Joseph Haven, was the great-grandfather of Mr. George 
Griswold Haven. His first wife was Mehitable Appleton, daughter of the Reverend Dr. Appleton, 
of Cambridge. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1749, entered the ministry, was 
ordained over the South Church in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1752, and occupied that pulpit for fifty- 
one years, retiring in 1803 on account of advanced years. He received the degree of D. D. from 
the University of Edinburgh in 1772, and Dartmouth College conferred the same honor upon him 
in 1773. The grandfather of Mr. George Griswold Haven was John Haven, who was born in 
Portsmouth, N. H., and became one of the leading merchants of that city. His wife, whom he 
married in 1791, was Ann Woodward, of a prominent Colonial family of New Hampshire. Joseph 
Woodward Haven, son of John Haven, was born in 1803 and was also engaged in mercantile 
pursuits. His wife, whom he married in 1833, was Cornelia Griswold. 

Mr. George Griswold Haven, son of Joseph Woodward Haven, was born in Portsmouth, 
N. H., in 1837, and was graduated from Columbia College in 1857. The greater part of his life- 
time has been spent in New York, engaged in the banking business. He was for a long time at 
the head of the firm of George G. Haven & Co., in Wall Street. After his retirement from active 
business, the firm became Hollister & Babcock, in which Mr. Haven and Samuel D. Babcock are 
special partners. For a third of a century Mr. Haven has held a conspicuous place in financial affairs, 
being a director in several banks, trust companies and other institutions. He is vice-president of 
the National Union Bank and a trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. In the social world, 
he has also been prominent. He was active in forming the organization which resulted in the 
building of the Metropolitan Opera House, was president of the corporation which carried that 
work to completion, and has given effective support to the various operatic enterprises associated 
with the Metropolitan Opera House. Several times the nomination for Mayor of the city has been 
tendered to him, but he has resolutely refrained from entering into the field of politics. He has, 
however, served on committees that have worked in the interests of healthy municipal government, 
and has been a member of the Board of Park Commissioners. 

Mr. Haven married Emma Martin, daughter of Isaac P. Martin. She died in 1872, and in 
1880 he married Fannie (Arnot) Palmer, widow of Richard Suydam Palmer. Their home is in 
East Thirty-ninth Street and their country residence in Lenox, Mass. Mr. Haven belongs to the 
Tuxedo colony, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Union, Manhattan, Union 
League, Whist, Coaching and Players clubs, the New England Society, the Downtown Associa- 
tion, the Columbia College Alumni Association, and the American Museum of Natural History. 
His children are Joseph Woodward, George Griswold, Jr., and Marian A. Haven. 

Joseph Woodward Haven, the eldest son, married Lorriette Cram. He belongs to the 
Metropolitan, Knickerbocker and Grolier clubs. George Griswold Haven, Jr., graduated from Yale 
in 1887, and is a banker. He married Elizabeth Shaw Ingersoll. He lives in East Forty-fourth 
Street, and has a country home in Ridgefield, Conn. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, 
Knickerbocker and University clubs, and the Yale Alumni Association. 



HENRY EUGENE HAWLEY 

THE Hawleys came over from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. 
Their name appears on the roll of Battle Abbey, among the leaders of the victorious 
Norman Army, as Hauley. In the course of time, several branches of the family were 
established in different parts of England and attained to prominence. One branch, in Somersetshire, 
had for their arms: Emerald, a saltire, engrailed, pean. Crest, an Indian goat's head, holding a 
three-leaved sprig of holly, proper. Motto, Survey Moi. The chief seat of this branch of the family 
is Buckland House, in the County of Somerset. The arms of the Derbyshire Hawleys are: 
Vert, a saltire, engrailed, argent. Crest, a dexter arm in armor, proper, granished or., holding in 
the hand a spear, point downwards, proper. Motto, Suive\ Moi. The American family is entitled 
to these arms, also to the crest, a winged thunderbolt. 

Thomas Hawley, the first of the name in this country, came to Roxbury, Mass., early in the 
seventeenth century. He married Dorothy Harbottle, and during King Philip's War, was killed by 
the Indians in 1676 at the famous Sudbury fight. Captain Joseph Hawley, the representative of the 
family line in the next generation, graduated from Harvard College in 1674, was a freeman of 
Northampton, Mass., in 1678, Lieutenant of the provincial troops in 1687, and afterwards Captain, 
justice of the peace and representative to the General Court of the Colony. His wife was Lydia 
Marshall, daughter of Captain Samuel Marshall, of Windsor, Conn. The great-great-grandfather 
of the subject of this sketch was the Reverend Thomas Hawley, who was the son of Captain 
Joseph Hawley, and whose wife was Abigail Gold, daughter of Colonel Nathan Gold, of Fairfield, 
Conn. His great-grandparents were Captain Thomas Hawley, 1723- 1765, and Elizabeth Gold, 
1725-1807, of Fairfield, Conn., and his grandparents were Elisha Hawley, 1759-1850, of Ridgefield, 
Conn., a Revolutionary soldier, and Charity Judson, 1760-1860, daughter of Daniel Judson. 

The father of Mr. Henry E. Hawley was Irad Hawley, who was born in 1793, and was a 
prominent New York merchant, a member of the firm of Holmes, Hawley & Co., in 1812, and a 
Captain in the War of 1812-14. After 1839, he became interested in railroad and coal enterprises, 
being a director in the Boston & Providence Railroad, the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, 
chairman of the financial committee of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, and president of 
the Pennsylvania Coal Company. He married, in 1819, Sarah Holmes, daughter of Eldad and 
Lucy (Lockwood) Holmes, and had eight children. He died in Rome, Italy, in 1865. 

Mr. Henry Eugene Hawley, the youngest son of Irad Hawley, was born in New York in 
1838. Graduated from Yale University in i860, he became a partner in the firm of Carter, Hawley 
& Co. in 1864. In the course of some years, he became the head of the house in question, which 
has an extensive business throughout the United States, in South America, the East Indies, Europe, 
China and Japan, being correspondent of the Netherland Trading Society of Holland, and the 
Surinam Bank of Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. For twenty years, he has been a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, and is a director in several prominent 
corporations. He has devoted much time to philanthropic causes, having long been a trustee 
of the Children's Aid Society and of the Five Points House of Industry. 

In 1862, Mr. Hawley married Jane Elizabeth Lockwood, daughter of William S. and 
Catharine (Hawley) Lockwood, of Norwalk, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley lived in West Thirty- 
third Street for twenty-five years. Their present residence is Ashton-Croft, Ridgefield, Conn. 
The old homestead, in Ridgefield, has been in possession of the family since 1713, when, in the 
settlement of the town, the land was apportioned to the Reverend Thomas Hawley, the first 
minister there. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley have had four children, Sarah, Henrietta Eugenie, Edith 
Judson and Elizabeth, who died in 1865. Edith Judson is the wife of Coleman G. Williams, and 
Sarah is the wife of Dr. T. Halstead Myers. Mr. Hawley belongs to the Union League, Century, 
University and Riding clubs, the Downtown Association and the Yale Alumni Association, and is a 
patron of the American Museum of Natural History. 



BRACE HAYDEN 

AN ancient family of knightly rank is the description given in the English genealogies 
of the Heydons of Hayden, in Norfolk, from whom the American Haydens are believed 
to descend. Their original seat was Baconsthorp Hall, Norfolk, but in the thirteenth 
century John de Heydon, one of the scions of the Norfolk house and a Judge under Edward I., 
established a branch of the family in Devonshire, where his descendant, John Heydon, also an 
eminent lawyer in the reign of King Henry VIII., became possessed of the Cadhay Hall estate, 
Ottery St. Mary's, Devonshire, where, before 1650, he built a stately Tudor mansion, still 
standing, though many generations ago it passed out of the hands of its original possessors. 

Three Haydens, William, John and James, came to Massachusetts in the first emigration. 
They are thought to have been brothers belonging to the west country branch of the English 
family. William Hayden arrived in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, but removed to Hartford and in 
1640 to Windsor, Conn., subsequently going to Kenilworth, now Clinton, Conn., where he died 
in 1669. In the Pequot War, in 1637, he served under Captain Mason and saved that famous 
officer's life from the Indians. His sword is now in the Connecticut Historical Society's collection. 
He received an allotment of land at Windsor, the locality being now called Haydens, where, in 
1885, upon the old home property, a gathering of his descendants dedicated a memorial inscription, 
cut in a natural boulder. His first wife's name has not been preserved. Her death is, however, 
recorded in 1655, and he afterwards married Margaret, the widow of William Wilcoxson, of 
Stratford. His son was Daniel Hayden, 1640-1672, whose wife, Hannah Wilcoxson, was the first 
English child born in Connecticut. 

The succeeding three generations of ancestors of Mr. Brace Hayden were Samuel Hayden, 
1677-1742, who married Anna Holcomb; Deacon Nathaniel Hayden, 1709-1803, whose wife was 
Naomi Gaylord, a descendant of William Gay lord, one of the first settlers of Windsor; and Levi 
Hayden, 1747-1821, who served in a cavalry regiment in the Revolutionary Army, and, after the 
war, held various offices and represented his town in the Legislature. He married Margaret Strong, 
daughter of Lieutenant Return and Sarah (Warham) Strong, and a descendant of the famous Elder 
John Strong, of Northampton. 

Their son, Hezekiah Hayden, 1777-1823, was the grandfather of Mr. Brace Hayden. He 
married, in 1801, his cousin, Hannah Hayden, like himself a native of Haydens, Conn. As a young 
man, he went to sea and made several voyages to Europe, but early in the present century removed 
to Otsego, N. Y., finally settling in Springfield, in that county. He engaged in manufacturing 
and was among the first to establish woolen mills in this State, having made himself a master 
of the art, then a new one in the United States; he also owned extensive saw mills and other 
properties in that section of New York. Albert Hayden, his second son, was born in Spring- 
field, in 1807, and early in life engaged successfully in business in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1849, however, 
the California excitement led him to attempt the perilous overland journey to the new land of gold. 
He started as the leader of a party of twelve, but died in June, 1849, near Fort Laramie, of an illness 
contracted during the expedition. In 1831, he married, at Black Rock, N. Y., Sevilla Brace and had 
a family of eight children. 

Mr. Brace Hayden, the eldest son and third child of this marriage, was born in Buffalo, 
N. Y., August 10th, 1836, and was educated in that city. He removed to New York City, 
where for forty years he has been in active commercial life. For a long period, he has been 
connected with a leading hardware and metal establishment of San Francisco, Cal., being vice- 
president of the corporation. In 1870, he married Kate Quinan, who died in 1871, and in 1880 he 
contracted a second marriage, with Abbey Jewell Crane. His children are Kitty Quinan, Florence, 
Sevilla and Curtis Crane Hayden. Mr. Hayden's residence is in Seventy-ninth Street, near Madison 
Avenue, and he is a member of the Republican, Church, Hardware and New York Athletic clubs, 
the American Geographical Society, and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



JOHN GERARD HECKSCHER 

ONE of the most eminent and respected merchants of New York in the first half of the cen- 
tury was Charles Augustus Heckscher. He came to this country from his native 
Germany in 1830, and through his remarkable business talent achieved a high position 
in the commercial world. For some years he was Consul of the Duchy of Mecklenburg in this 
city, and became senior partner of the house of Heckscher & Coster, one of the foremost mercantile 
concerns of its day. As his wealth increased, he extended the field of his enterprises and was one 
of the first to appreciate the value of the Pennsylvania anthracite fields, acquiring valuable coal 
mines in that State. He was thus conspicuously identified with the development of the anthracite 
industry and in addition had many other important financial and business interests. He was the 
father of the gentleman whose name heads this article. 

The wife of Charles Augustus Heckscher, the present Mr. Heckscher's mother, was Georgina 
Louisa Coster, daughter of John Gerard Coster and his wife, Catharine Margaret Holsmann. Mrs. 
Charles A. Heckscher was a woman of great beauty, was prominent in society and well known for 
her charities. John Gerard Coster, a native of Harlem, Holland, came to New York about 1790, 
and was for many years one of the most distinguished merchants of the city and president of the 
Bank of the Manhattan Company. 

Mr. John Gerard Heckscher, who was named after his maternal grandfather, is the promi- 
nent representative of his family in this generation. He was born in New York in 1837. During 
the Civil War, he served for two years under General McClellan as First Lieutenant in the Twelfth 
United States Infantry. He engaged in active business early in life, but has given the greater share 
of his attention to society, and particularly to the higher forms of sport. He was the friend and 
intimate associate of Messrs. Belmont, Jerome, Travers and the other gentlemen who established 
racing in America on a firm foundation. Mr. Heckscher was also one of the founders of the Coney 
Island Jockey Club, and was one of the organizers of the National Horse Show Association, labor- 
ing actively and efficiently as an officer and director of the latter to give it popularity and success. 
The institution has fully justified Mr. Heckscher's views concerning the influence of the horse show 
it conducts, and has benefited the breeding of the highest type of horses in this country, while it 
has been the example for the horse shows now so frequent and popular in all parts of the Union. 
Mr. Heckscher still maintains his official connection with the organization which owes so much to 
his efforts and counsels. He is a member of the Jockey Club as well as of the New York Yacht 
Club, the South Side Sportsmen's Club, and the Metropolitan, Union, Racquet and Army and 
Navy clubs, while he also belongs to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 

In 1862, Mr. Heckscher married Cornelia Lawrence Whitney, a descendant of Henry Whit- 
ney, who settled at Norwalk, Conn., and died in 167?. His great-great-grandson was Stephen 
Whitney, the famous New York merchant three-quarters of a century ago. His son, Henry 
Whitney, born in New Haven in 1812 and graduated from Yale in 1830, was Mrs. Heckscher's 
father. Her mother was Hannah Eugenia Lawrence, daughter of the Honorable Isaac Lawrence 
and his wife, Anna Beach, daughter of the Reverend Abraham Beach, of Trinity Church. Mrs. 
Heckscher died some years ago. In 1892, Mr. Heckscher contracted a second marriage, with 
Mary Travers, eldest daughter of the late William Riggin Travers. The career of William R. 
Travers and the national reputation he possessed as a financier, sportsman and wit are fully set 
forth on another page. 

Of Mr. Heckscher's four daughters by his first wife, two survive. The elder, Georgiana 
Louisa, is the wife of the Honorable George Brinton McClellan, son of General George Brinton 
McClellan, U. S. A., the illustrious soldier of the Civil War, whose wife was the daughter of Gen- 
eral Randolph B. Marcy, U. S. A. Mr. Heckscher's younger daughter, Emeline Dora, is the wife 
of Egerton Leigh Winthrop, Jr., of New York, whose family and ancestry are described in a sepa- 
rate article in this volume. 



ALONZO BARTON HEPBURN 

PETER HEPBURN, a native of Scotland, who came to this country in the early part of the 
eighteenth century, was the earliest American ancestor of that branch of the Hepburn 
family to which the above-named gentleman belongs. The wife of Peter Hepburn, 
whom he married after coming to this country, was Sarah Hubbell, of Newton, Conn. He was a 
resident of Stratford, Conn., and died there in 1742. Four sons and one daughter, Joseph, Peter, 
Sarah and George Hepburn, comprised the family of Peter Hepburn and his wife. 

Joseph Hepburn, the eldest son, was born in 1729 and was the great-grandfather of 
Mr. Alonzo Barton Hepburn. His wife, whom he married in 1751, was Eunice Barton, of 
Stratford, daughter of Judson Barton and Eunice Lewis. She was born in 1732. Eight children 
were born to Joseph Hepburn and his wife, Joseph, Silas, Lewis, Patrick, George, Eunice, Sarah 
and Ann Hepburn. The eldest son, Joseph, was born before 1756, married Hannah Lobdell and 
settled in Hotchkisstown, Conn., now Westville. He was the father of Zina E. Hepburn, 
who, born in 1798, died in 1874, having married Beulah Gray, who was born in 1807, in St. Law- 
rence County, N. Y. 

Mr. Alonzo Barton Hepburn was the son of Zina E. Hepburn and his wife, Beulah 
Gray. He was born in Colton, N. Y., in 1846. His early education was secured in the local 
schools, but afterwards he attended the St. Lawrence Academy of Potsdam, N. Y., and the Valley 
Seminary in Fulton, N. Y., in which institution he was prepared for college. He entered Middlebury 
College, Vermont, graduating in the class of 1871. After this, he became professor of mathematics 
in the St. Lawrence Academy and was principal of the Ogdensburg Educational Institute in 1870. 
Having meantime applied himself to the study of law, he was admitted to the bar and entered 
upon practice in his native town of Colton. He also took an active part in public affairs in 
that section of the State and was elected a school commissioner of St. Lawrence County. That 
position he resigned in 1875 to take a seat in the New York Assembly and there, for five suc- 
cessive years, he represented his district, holding during that time a high position as an able 
and conscientious member of that body. 

In 1880, Mr. Hepburn was appointed, by Governor Alonzo B. Cornell, superintendent of 
the Banking Department of the State of New York, in which position he rapidly achieved 
reputation as a conservative and skilful official and an expert upon matters of banking and 
finance. In 1883, he was appointed receiver of the Continental Life Insurance Company, of New 
York, and successfully wound up the affairs of that corporation. In 1889, his reputation as a 
financier led to his being chosen for a responsible and important place under the Treasury Depart- 
ment, and he was appointed National Bank Examiner for New York and Brooklyn. While holding 
that position, in 1890, he was instrumental in exposing the maladministration of the Sixth 
National Bank, of this city. In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison promoted him to be Comptroller 
of the Currency of the United States, a position that he retained until the change of national 
administration, by the election of President Grover Gleveland, brought about his retirement in the 
following year. 

After resigning his office in Washington, Mr. Hepburn became president of the Third 
National Bank of this city, and has since then resided here. On the merging of that institution 
with the National City Bank, in 1897, he assumed the vice-presidency of the latter, which, 
through this consolidation, became the largest bank on this continent. 

In 1873, Mr. Hepburn married Harriet A. Fisher, of St. Albans, Vt., who died in 1881. 
Later he married Emily L. Eaton, of Montpelier, Vt. By his first wife he has one surviving 
child, Charles Fisher Hepburn, born in 1878. The children of his second marriage are two 
daughters, Beulah Eaton Hepburn, born in 1890, and Cordelia I. Hepburn, born in 1894. Mr. 
Hepburn's residence is in West Fifty-seventh Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union 
League and A K E clubs, and of other social and scientific organizations. 



JACOB HOBART HERRICK 

IN olden times, the name of Hireck, Hericke and Herrick was prominent in England, and in 
other parts of Great Britain. The name and the family is of ancient origin, and naturally recalls 
the Norse name of Eric, and that some members of the family were descended from the 
Norsemen does not admit of doubt. The first English ancestor of whom there is definite historic 
record was Eyryk, of Great Stretton and Houghton, Leicester County, in the time of Henry III., 
1216-72, a lineal descendant of Eric the Forrester. In the eighth generation from Eyryk of Great 
Stretton, was Sir William Herrick, of Leicester, London and Beau Manor, 1 557—1652, a member of' 
Parliament, 1601-30, and a knight in 1605. His wife was Joan May, daughter of Richard May, of 
London, and Mary Hilderson, of Devonshire. 

Sir William Herrick was the father of Henry Herrick, who was born in 1604 and came to 
America, first to Virginia and afterwards to Massachusetts. Most of the representatives of the 
family were devoted to the cause of church and King, but Henry Herrick, the ancestor of the New 
England branch, seems to have been an exception to this rule, and was a Puritan. Coming to this 
country in the early years of the seventeenth century, he finally settled on Cape Ann, on the banks 
of the Bass River, near what is now the town of Beverly. He was a close friend of the Reverend 
Thomas Higginson, the dissenting minister of Leicester, and was among the thirty who founded 
the first church in Salem and Beverly. His wife was Editha Laskin, daughter of Hugh Laskin, of 
Salem. 

Ephraim Herrick, son of Henry Herrick, the pioneer, was born in 1638 and died in 1693. 
He lived in Beverly, Mass., having settled on a farm given to him by his father, on Birch Plain, as 
it was called. In 1668, he was a freeman of Bass River, and from time to time held various public 
offices. In 1661, he married Mary Cross, of Salem. Samuel Herrick, the son of Ephraim and Mary 
Herrick, was born in 1675 in Beverly, but early in life removed to Connecticut, settling in the town 
of Preston, there becoming the head of the large and important Connecticut branch of the family. 
His wife, whom he married in Massachusetts in 1698, before he removed to Connecticut, was 
Mehitable Woodworth, of Beverly. 

Animated by the pioneer spirit that possessed the early settlers of New England, and that 
was continually moving them to seek new homes further and further away from the coast towns, 
where they were first settled, Stephen Herrick, son of Samuel Herrick, of Connecticut, moved to 
Dutchess County, N. Y., and established there the family from which is descended the gentleman 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch. Stephen Herrick was born in 1705, in Preston, 
Conn., and was married in 1726 to Phoebe Guild. The great-grandfather of Mr. Jacob Hobart 
Herrick was Joseph Herrick, of Amenia, Dutchess County, N. Y., son of Stephen Herrick. He was 
born in 1735 and his wife was Elizabeth Burton, of Preston. Their son was Josiah Herrick, of 
Dutchess County, who married Margaret Hicks, of the ancient Hicks family of Long Island. The 
parents of Mr. Herrick were Jacob Burton Herrick, who was born in 1800, and Julia Ann Lyon, 
who was born in 1804 and married in 1825. He removed to New York before middle life, and was 
in business here until the time of his death, in 1864. 

Mr. Jacob Hobart Herrick was born in New York in 1833, and has been a leading merchant 
in the grain trade. In 1884, he was president of the New York Produce Exchange. He is a trustee 
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and is connected officially with several other corporations. 
He has achieved distinction as a graceful and forcible public speaker. His wife, whom he married 
in 1859, was Maria Amelia McKesson, daughter of John McKesson. Mr. and Mrs. Herrick have 
had five children, Caroline McKesson, Henry Hobart, Florence, Isabel May and Ethel Hull Herrick. 
Florence Herrick is the wife of Clarence H. Wildes, and Isabel May Herrick married H. Montague 
Vickers. The city residence of the family is in West Sixty-eighth Street and they have a summer 
home at Monmouth Beach, N. J. Mr. Herrick is a member of the Union League and Whist clubs 
and of the Century Association. 

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ABRAM S. HEWITT 

ON his mother's side, Mr. Abram S. Hewitt is descended from the Garniers, an old 
Huguenot family. As early as the close of the seventeenth century, Garniers were 
settled in New York City. Francis Gamier, who came over with Peter (Pierre) Jay, 
who fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, was the head of that branch 
of the family from which Mr. Hewitt is descended. He settled in Rockland County, and in the 
course of time the name of the family was locally changed to Gurnee. Mr. Hewitt's father 
was an eminent civil engineer and machinist, who came to America in 1790. He assisted in 
putting up the first steam engine works, and in building the first steam engine ever made 
wholly in the United States. A destructive fire in his machine shops brought on financial 
reverses after he had enjoyed a long and successful business career, and he retired to private 
life on the ancestral farm that belonged to his wife, in Haverstraw. 

The Honorable Abram S. Hewitt was born, July 31st, 1822, in the old homestead, in Haver- 
straw, and in 1842 was graduated from Columbia College at the head of his class. He became a 
member of the faculty of his alma mater, an acting professor of mathematics, and in 1845 visited 
Europe. He was admitted to the bar, but close application to his college and subsequent law 
studies, and to his duties as a teacher and professor, had impaired his eyesight, and he was forced 
to forego a legal career. Turning his attention to business occupations, he became associated with 
Peter Cooper, soon becoming junior partner in the firm of Cooper & Hewitt, with Edward 
Cooper, who had been his classmate in college. The firm succeeded to the business of the elder 
Mr. Cooper, and developed it into one of the largest and most successful iron establishments of 
its kind in the country. As a man of business, an executive, and a manufacturer, Mr. Hewitt has 
achieved remarkable success, and he is recognized as one of the world's great authorities upon all 
kinds of iron and steel work. 

In 1862, Mr. Hewitt went to England, and brought home with him the most recent 
improvements in the manufacture of gun barrel iron, and later on was the first to introduce into 
the country the Martins-Siemens, or open-hearth, process for the manufacture of steel. In 1867, 
he was commissioned by President Grant to visit the Paris Exposition and report on the iron 
and steel exhibits there, and his report was of such a thorough character that it was translated 
into nearly all European languages. For more than a quarter of a century he has taken an 
active part in public affairs. He has been prominent in the councils of the Democratic party, and 
was a Member of Congress from New York City, 1874-86, with the exception of one term, was 
elected Mayor of New York in 1886, and was chairman of the Democratic National Committee 
in 1876. On social, financial and industrial questions, Mr. Hewitt is a recognized authority, and is 
a frequent writer and public speaker upon such subjects. It was principally due to his advocacy 
of the plan that the United States Geological Survey was created by Congress. His address on 
A Century of Mining and Metallurgy in the United States, delivered upon his retirement from the 
presidency of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1876, was recognized as an important 
historical monograph. 

Columbia College gave Mr. Hewitt the degree of LL. D. in 1887, and he was elected 
president of the Alumni Association in 1883. The industrial and educational benefactions of Peter 
Cooper, that are centred in the well-known Cooper Union, have been practically managed by him 
as the active member and secretary of the board of trustees for nearly forty years. Mr. Hewitt 
married, in 1855, Sarah A. Cooper, daughter of Peter Cooper, and with his family lives in Lexing- 
ton Avenue, near Gramercy Park. His sons are Peter Cooper Hewitt, who married Miss Work- 
Abram S. Hewitt, Jr., and Erskine Hewitt, Princeton, 1891. His daughters are Sarah Cooper and 
Eleanor G. Hewitt. The leading clubs of the city count him on their membership rolls, among 
them being the Metropolitan, Century, City, Church, Union, Engineers', Tuxedo, Players, Riding 
and South Side Sportsmen's. 

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CHARLES BETTS HILLHOUSE 

FREEHALL, one of the large estates of Ireland, was the birthplace of the Reverend James 
Hillhouse, the second son of its owner, and the first representative of the name in 
America, to which he came in 1720. The property had long been, and is still in the 
family, but passed into the female line, owing to the part its American branch took in the 
Revolutionary War in this country. The family was of great local prominence in its native 
seat, an uncle of the Reverend James Hillhouse being Captain James Hillhouse, mentioned in 
Macauley's history for bravery at the siege of Londonderry, and afterwards its Mayor. 

The Reverend James Hillhouse, who was Mr. Charles Betts Hillhouse's American ancestor, 
settled in Connecticut and married a great-granddaughter of the famous Captain John Mason, 
"The Indian Killer." William Hillhouse, their son, was prominent in Connecticut during the 
Revolution. He was a member of the Continental Congress, which first met at Philadelphia, in 
September, 1774, and paved the way for the Declaration of Independence, became a Major of 
Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution, and represented his town in one hundred and six semi- 
annual State Legislatures. Sarah Griswold, his wife, was a daughter of John Griswold, of Lyme, 
Conn., and a sister of Governor Matthew Griswold, of Connecticut. Her grandfather, Matthew 
Griswold, was Deputy Governor of the Colony. Their son, Thomas Hillhouse, moved to Albany, 
and married Ann Van Schaick Ten Broeck, whose father, John Cornelius Ten Broeck, great-grand- 
father of Mr. Charles Betts Hillhouse, was a prominent Revolutionary patriot. He was a Major in 
the Continental Army, and was present at Valley Forge, Brandywine and the siege and surrender 
of Yorktown. His regiment, the First New York, formed part of Lafayette's division, and he was 
among the officers who originated the Order of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. Charles Betts Hillhouse possesses other ancestors representing eminent names of our 
early Colonial history. He is a direct descendant of Colonel Olaf Stevensen Van Courtlandt, the 
last burgomaster of New Amsterdam under the Dutch rule; from Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first 
patroon of Rensselaerwyck; from Jeremias Van Rensselaer, Speaker of the Colonial Assembly of 
1664; from Johannes Cuyler, Mayor of Albany ; from Henry Wolcott, the royal charterer, and 
from Major Dirk Wessels Ten Broeck, Mayor of Albany in 1696. 

William Hillhouse, son of Thomas, married Frances J. Betts, daughter of Judge Samuel 
Rossiter Betts, who for forty years was Judge of the United States Court at New York, and 
of his wife, Caroline Dewey, of Massachusetts. Charles Betts Hillhouse, the son of William and 
Frances (Betts) Hillhouse, and the subject of this article, was born November 25th, 1856, and 
graduated from Yale College in the class of 1878. 

In 1888, Mr. Hillhouse married Georgiana Delprat Remsen, daughter of Robert G. Remsen 
and his wife, Margaret Delprat. Robert G. Remsen, the father of Mrs. Hillhouse, was a 
conspicuous figure in the social life of New York in the last generation, and was one of the three 
gentlemen who organized the famous Patriarchs. He died in January, 1896. Mrs. Hillhouse also 
traces an ancestry to Revolutionary and Dutch families. Her paternal grandfather was Henry 
Remsen, private secretary to President Jefferson, his father being Hendrick Remsen, known in the 
American Revolution as Patriot Remsen. Through her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth de Peyster, 
she is descended from the Honorable Johannes de Peyster, burgomaster, of New Amsterdam, in 
1674, as well as from Johannes de Peyster, Mayor of the city, in 1698. Another ancestor of Mrs. 
Hillhouse was Jans Joris de Rapelye, who came to America in 1623, his grandfather, Gaspard 
Colet de Rapelye, having been an officer of Francis I. and Henry II. Among other families from 
which she descends are the Banckers, Rutgers and Roosevelts. Her maternal great-grandfather 
was the Reverend Daniel Delprat, court chaplain of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and who 
later on had charge of the education of William III. when Prince of Orange. Through her maternal 
grandmother, Elizabeth Steuart, of Baltimore, she is descended from the Steuart family, famous 
in the history of Scotland. 



THOMAS H1LLHOUSE 

JOHN HILLHOUSE, of Freehall, County Londonderry, was the father of the Reverend James 
Hillhouse, circa 1688-1740, ancestor of the Hillhouse family of Connecticut and New York, of 
which the late General Thomas Hillhouse was a representative. The preceding page, relating 
to another branch, gives an account of the first three generations in America, and of their 
relationship to prominent Colonial families of Connecticut and New York. 

The late General Thomas Hillhouse was the eldest son and second child of Thomas Hill- 
house and Ann Van Schaick Ten Broeck, his wife. His father was born at Montville, New London 
County, Conn., but removed to New York early in the present century, and made his home at 
Walnut' Grove, an estate at Watervliet, near Troy, which once formed part of the Van Renssalaer 
Manor. General Hillhouse was born at Walnut Grove, March 10th, 1816. He was preparing for 
college at Chase's Academy, Chatham, N. Y., but the death of his father obliged him to assume 
the care of the estate and the position of head of the family. In 185 1, he moved to Geneva, N. Y. ( 
where he resided until he came to New York. 

Much of his leisure was devoted to the study of political and military science, and becoming 
deeply interested in the vital questions of the day, he was an opponent of slavery and a supporter 
of Fremont in 1856. He was elected State Senator in 1859, and in 1861 was called by Governor 
Morgan to assume the duties of Adjutant-General, which position he held for two years. In this 
post, he transformed a virtually civil place into an arm of the Government, organizing two hundred 
thousand men for service in the Union Army, and was appointed by President Lincoln Assistant 
Adjutant-General of Volunteers. In 1865-66, he was Comptroller of the State, and rendered 
important service in the foundation of Cornell University. In 1870, President Grant appointed 
General Hillhouse Assistant Treasurer of the United States in New York, which position he held 
until 1882, throughout the administrations of Grant and Hayes. In 1882, he founded the Metro- 
politan Trust Company, of New York, and was its president until his death, in July, 1897. 

In 1844, General Hillhouse married Harriet Prouty, daughter of Phinehas Prouty, a lineal 
descendant of Richard Prouty, of Scituate, Mass., 1667. Her mother, Margaret Matilda Van 
Vranken, daughter of the Reverend Nicholas Van Vranken, was a descendant of the most eminent 
families of Colonial Rhode Island, among her ancestors being Richard and Thomas Arnold, 
Thomas Angell, the companion of Roger Williams, Captain Samuel Comstock, John Wickes, a 
royal charterer, Samuel Gorton, Randal Holden, and the Reverend Chad Brown. The children 
of General Hillhouse were Margaret Prouty Hillhouse, Thomas Griswold Hillhouse, who married 
Julia, daughter of the Honorable John C. Ten Eyck, United States Senator 'from New Jersey; 
Phinehas Prouty Hillhouse, who married his fourth cousin, Caroline Matilda, daughter of the 
Reverend Maunsell Van Rensselaer, D. D. ; Harriet Augusta Hillhouse, who married Walter Wood 
Adams; Anna Hillhouse, who died young, and Adelaide Hillhouse. 

In the voluminous correspondence which General Hillhouse left are included letters of some 
of the most distinguished men in public life for the last fifty years, the portion relating to the 
Civil War and financial affairs having a peculiar value. He wrote the Report on National Difficul- 
ties presented to the New York Legislature on the eve of the Rebellion, which had a decisive effect 
on the position taken by the Empire State in the Civil War; and another pamphlet written by him 
entitled, A Defense of the Conscription Act, had great influence upon public opinion. He also 
wrote other pamphlets and reports of importance, as well as occasional articles for the press. 
General Hillhouse was one of the earliest members of the Union League Club, and was also a 
member of the Grolier Club. He belonged to the New England Society, the New York Historical 
Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For 
many years he was a manager of the House of the Holy Comforter, served as president of the 
Hahnemann Hospital, and was connected with various benevolent institutions. The motto on 
the coat-of-arms borne by the Reverend James Hillhouse is Time T)eum. 

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THOMAS HITCHCOCK 

ON the ship Susan and Ellen, in 1635, came Matthias Hitchcock from London to America. 
Landing in Boston, he settled in Watertown, Mass. In 1639, he removed to 
New Haven, of which place he was one of the original founders. This pioneer 
belonged to an old English family, one branch of which had been established in Wiltshire from 
the time of William the Conqueror. Anciently there were two families. The arms of one were: 
Argent, on a cross, azure, five fleurs de lis, or., in the dexter chief quarter, a'lion rampant, gules; 
crest, a castle, gules, on the tower a lion's head erased, in the mouth a round buckle ; motto, 
Esse quod opto. The arms of the other branch were : Gules, a chevron, argent, between three 
alligators; crest, an alligator. Luke Hitchcock, brother of Matthias, was a freeman of New Haven 
in 1644. He married a sister of William Gibbens, one of the original settlers of Hartford, who 
came in 1636. He was a large landowner in Wethersfield, Conn., and established very friendly 
relations with the Indians. His eldest son, John, married a daughter of the famous Deacon Samuel 
Chapin, of Springfield, Mass., and became the progenitor of a family that has been prominent and 
influential in the western part of the State of Massachusetts for several generations. 

Eliakim Hitchcock, son of Matthias Hitchcock, married, in 1666, Sarah Merrick, daughter of 
Thomas Merrick, of Springfield, Mass., who came from Wales in 1630, settled first in Roxbury, 
Mass., and removed to Springfield in 1636, one of the company of pioneers who pushed through the 
wilderness to make new homes for themselves on the banks of the Connecticut. The great-great- 
grandfather of Mr. Thomas Hitchcock was Joseph Hitchcock, youngest son of Eliakim Hitchcock. 
He was born in 1686 and died in 1758, was a large landowner in Norwalk, Conn., a vestryman of 
the church and generally prominent in public affairs. His second son, John, was born in Norwalk, 
in 1726, and bought land in Greenwich of John Coscob, the Indian who gave his name to that part 
of the town, an appellation that has been retained in local annals to this day. 

Thomas Hitchcock, the grandson of Eliakim Hitchcock, was born in Greenwich, in 1757, 
and died in 1813. He was a patriot of the Revolutionary period and served as a soldier in the war, 
being a Lieutenant in the company of Captain Nehemiah Mead. In 1784, he married Clemence 
Reynolds, daughter of William Reynolds. William Reynolds Hitchcock, son of Thomas 
Hitchcock and father of the subject of this sketch, was the sixth child in his father's family. He 
was born in Greenwich in 1794 and died in New York in 1857. His wife was Elithea Lockwood. 

Mr. Thomas Hitchcock was born in New York, December 1st, 1831. He was educated in 
private schools and was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1849. Then he 
studied law in the law department of Harvard College and was graduated in 1851. Until 1864, he 
was engaged in the practice of law, but since that time has devoted himself to journalistic and 
literary pursuits. In 1868, he joined the editorial staff of The New York Sun, and his work upon 
that newspaper has been principally on book reviews and philosophical and religious topics. His 
regular Monday morning financial letter, under the signature of Matthew Marshall, who, by the 
way, was chief clerk of the Bank of England fifty years ago, has become one of the many valuable 
features of The Sun, and is regarded by the commercial and financial world generally as one of the 
most important periodical contributions to the financial literature of the day. 

Mr. Hitchcock resides in East Twenty-ninth Street, and is a member of the Century 
Association and the National Academy of Design. His son, Center Hitchcock, is a prominent 
figure in social circles and a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker and other 
clubs. Another son, Francis R. Hitchcock, is a graduate from Columbia College, is a steward of 
the Jockey Club, for many years has been master of the Meadow Brook Hunt, and belongs to the 
Union, Knickerbocker and other clubs. His third son, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., married, in 1891, 
Louise Eustis, only daughter of the late George Eustis, of New Orleans, and granddaughter of the 
late W. W. Corcoran, the famous banker of Washington; he lives in Westbury, Long Island, and 
is a member of the Meadow Brook Hunt, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Union and other clubs. 



GEORGE HOADLY 

IN the Revolutionary War, Timothy Hoadley, of Northford, Conn., a representative of a 
family which settled in New England at the beginning of the colonization, was Captain in 
the Second Regiment, Connecticut Militia, and as such was repeatedly in active service 
during the contest. After the peace, he was prominent in civil life, being twenty-six times a 
member of the Connecticut Legislature. He married Rebecca Linley, and their son, George 
Hoadly, was the father of the Honorable George Hoadly, of New York. 

George Hoadly, the elder, was born in Northfield in 1781, graduated from Yale College in 
1801, and was a tutor there from 1803 to 1806. He pursued his professional studies with Judge 
Nathaniel Chauncey and practiced law for some years in New Haven, Conn. For one term he was 
Mayor of the city, and also became president of the Eagle Bank of New Haven. In 1830, however, 
after the failure of the bank, he removed to Cleveland, O., of which city he also became Mayor, 
and in which he died in 1857. He was a man of great learning and marked public spirit, and 
wherever he lived was a leading citizen. 

Through his mother, who was Mary Anne Woolsey, widow of Jared Scarborough, the 
present George Hoadly traces his descent from one of the oldest pioneer families of Long Island. 
His first American maternal ancestor was George Woolsey, a resident of Yarmouth, England, in 
1610, who afterwards went to Holland and finally came to New York with the Dutch immigrants 
in 1623, settling in New Amsterdam as a clerk in the employ of Isaac Allerton, of Mayflower fame, 
afterwards removing to Jamaica, Long Island. His son, George Woolsey, had two sons; the 
Reverend Benjamin Woolsey, the younger, being the ancestor of that branch of the family to 
which attention is now directed. 

The Reverend Benjamin Woolsey, the great-grandfather of Mary Anne (Woolsey) Hoadly, 
was born in Jamaica, Long Island, and graduated from Yale College in 1707. In 1720, he 
succeeded the Reverend Joshua Hobart in the pastorate of the First Congregational Church at 
Southold, Long Island. His son, Benjamin Woolsey, Jr., who was born in 1720, was graduated 
from Yale in 1744, and resided at Dosoris, Long Island, where he died in 1771. He was, by his 
second wife, the father of Major Benjamin Woolsey, who was an officer in the Queen's Rangers 
during the Revolution; of William Walton Woolsey, born in 1766, and George Muirson Woolsey, 
and of Elizabeth (Woolsey) Dunlap, wife of the renowned artist, author and stage manager, 
William Dunlap. Both William W. and George M. Woolsey were prominent figures among the 
leading merchants of New York in the closing years of the last century, and the first quarter of 
the present one. William W. Woolsey was in the hardware trade, and was a partner of Moses 
Rogers, of Stamford, who married his elder half-sister ; while George M. Woolsey engaged in 
business as a sugar refiner, and made a large fortune. When William Walton Woolsey died, in 
1839, he was president of the Boston & Providence Railroad Company, and at an earlier date of 
the New York Merchants' Exchange. 

The wives of these members of the Woolsey family came from ancestors not less eminent 
than those of their husbands. The Reverend Benjamin Woolsey married Abigail Taylor, daughter 
of John Taylor, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, and Mary Whitehead, his wife. The Taylors and 
the Whiteheads were among the first families to settle in that part of the New York Colony. 
Through his wife, the Reverend Benjamin acquired a great landed estate on Long Island, to which 
he gave the name of Dosoris, by which the property is still knov/n, the title being formed from the 
two Latin words, dos uxoris, and was applied to the property because it was his wife's dowry. 
Benjamin Woolsey, Jr., married for his second wife, who was the grandmother of Mary Anne 
(Woolsey) Hoadly, Anne Muirson, daughter of Dr. George Muirson, and granddaughter of 
William Smith, of Tangier, Chief Justice and a member of the Council of the Colony of New York. 
The wife of William Walton Woolsey, and the mother of Mary Anne (Woolsey) Hoadly, was 
Elizabeth Dwight, daughter of Major Timothy Dwight, of Northampton, Mass., and his wife, 



Mary Edwards. Mary (Edwards) Dwight was one of the daughters of the celebrated New 
England divine, Jonathan Edwards, and was a sister of the mother of Lieutenant-Colonel Aaron 
Burr. Timothy Dwight, the first president of that name of Yale College, was the eldest son of 
Mary (Edwards) Dwight, and thus uncle of Mary Anne Woolsey. Major Dwight was a gallant 
soldier of the Colonial forces during the French and Indian wars, and died in an unsuccessful effort 
to colonize Mississippi, then owned by the English, at Natchez, just before the Revolution. 

George Hoadly and his wife had several children. Their second child, Elizabeth Dwight 
Hoadly, was born in 1822 and married the Honorable Joshua Hall Bates, son of Dr. George 
Bates, of Boston, Mass. Joshua Hall Bates graduated from West Point in 1837, is a lawyer, was a 
member of the Ohio State Senate in 1864, and 1877, a Lieutenant in the United States Army during 
the Florida War, and a Brigadier-General of Ohio Volunteers in 1861. The eldest daughter of 
George Hoadly, Sr., Mary Anne Hoadly, was born in 1820, and married Dr. Thomas Fuller 
Pomeroy, son of Dr. Theodore Pomeroy, of Utica, N. Y. Dr. Thomas F. Pomeroy was a graduate 
of Union College in 1835, and afterwards a physician in Detroit, Mich. His wife died in 1862 and 
he died in 1896. A noteworthy fact connected with Governor Hoadly's family is that among his 
ancestors and relatives, including those on the maternal side, there have been three presidents and 
nine professors of American colleges. The late President Woolsey, of Yale College, was the 
youngest son of William Walton Woolsey, and brother of Mary Anne (Woolsey) Hoadly. 

The Honorable George Hoadly, of New York City, is his father's only son, and was born 
July 31st, 1826. He was educated at the Western Reserve College, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1844. Afterwards he studied at the Harvard College Law School. His own alma 
mater gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws, and the same distinction was conferred on him by 
Yale in 1885 and by Dartmouth College in 1887. In 1847, he was admitted to the bar, beginning 
the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, O., as a junior partner of the Honorable Salmon P. 
Chase, afterwards the famous Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's Cabinet and Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and who was Governor Hoadly's lifelong 
friend. In 1851, he was elected Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and was City Solicitor 
in 1855. In 1859, he was again returned to the bench of the Second Superior Court, holding his 
seat there for nearly seven years, when he resigned to engage once more in private practice. From 
1864 onward, he was for twenty years a professor of law in the Cincinnati Law School. In 
1873-74, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio, and in 1883 
was elected Governor of the State, and served a term in that high office. In 1887, he moved 
to New York City, where he has since been a member of a leading law firm. 

The wife of the Honorable George Hoadly was Mary Burnet Perry, daughter of Samuel 
Perry, one of the pioneers of Cincinnati and of Ohio, and his wife, Mary Burnet Thew, of 
Rockland Lake, then known as Thew's Pond, in Rockland County, N. Y. Her father, Abraham 
Thew, was a lawyer in New York, who lost his health in one of the epidemics which afflicted the 
city early in the century, and, retiring to his ancestral home, at Rockland, soon died, leaving two 
daughters, afterwards known by their married names as Mrs. Samuel Perry and Mrs. Nathaniel 
Wright, the latter being the wife of a very distinguished lawyer of Cincinnati. The two orphan 
girls were taken by their uncle, Judge Jacob Burnet, on a visit to Ohio in 181 5, where both 
married; Mrs. Samuel Perry, the elder, dying at the advanced age of eighty-seven in 1881. 

Mr. Hoadly's family consists of his son George, a graduate of Harvard, Class of 1879; Laura, 
the widow of Theodore Woolsey Scarborough; and Edward, who graduated from the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute in 1889. George Hoadly, Jr., who is a lawyer at Cincinnati, O., married 
Genevieve Groesbeck, daughter of the late Colonel John Groesbeck, Thirty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, and has two children, George, the fourth of this name, and Genevieve Olivia. Laura 
(Hoadly) Scarborough has a daughter, Mary Hoadly Scarborough, born in 1891. 

Governor George Hoadly is a member of the Bar Association, the Ohio Society and the 
American Geographical Society, as well as of the Manhattan, Metropolitan, Century, Lawyers' and 
Reform clubs, while he is also a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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CORNELIUS NEVIUS HOAGLAND, M. D. 

ON his father's side, Dr. Cornelius Nevius Hoagland is descended from Christoffel Hoog- 
landt, a native of Holland, born in 1634. Coming from Haarlem to New Amsterdam 
in early youth, he engaged in business, united with the Dutch Church in 1661, was 
an alderman in 1669 and a Lieutenant of the militia. He married Catharine Cregier, daughter 
of Captain Martin Cregier, who was one of the prominent citizens in New Amsterdam, Captain of 
the military company and often in command of expeditions into the interior. In 1653, he was 
one of the first burgomasters of New Amsterdam, his associate being Arent Van Hattan. 

In the second generation, Christopher Hooglandt, 1669- 1748, was a resident of Long Island 
and afterwards of New Jersey. His second wife, the ancestress of the branch of the family to 
which Dr. Cornelius N. Hoagland belongs, was Helena Middagh, daughter of John and Adriana 
Middagh. His son, Christopher, 1699-1777, married Catalyntie Schenck. His grandson, 
Christopher, 1727-1805, who changed the spelling of his family name to Hoagland, was a 
prominent citizen of Somerset County, N. J., where he was a justice of the peace in 1776, an elder 
in the church and a member of the New Jersey Legislature in 1778. The wife of Christopher 
Hoagland, whom he married in 1752, was Sarah Voorhis. 

Isaac Hoagland, son of Christopher and Sarah Hoagland, was the grandfather of Dr. 
Cornelius Nevius Hoagland. He was born in Somerset County, N. J., in 1 77 1 . He entered 
Rutgers College, but he left that institution and went to Princeton, where he was graduated. 
He then settled in Sussex County, and having studied medicine, received an appointment as 
surgeon's mate in the United States Army. Ordered to service in the garrison in East Florida, 
he died there two years after. His wife, whom he married while a student in Rutgers College 
in 1792, was Margaretta Machett. Andrew Hoagland, the father of Dr. Hoagland, was born in 
New Jersey in 1795 and died in 1872. He went West in 1834 and settled in Miami County, O. In 
the latter years of his life he lived in Troy, the county seat of Miami County, where he died in 1872. 
In 1828, he married Jane Hoogland, daughter of Cornelius and Katharine Hoogland. She was 
descended in the sixth generation from Dirck Jansen Hoogland, who came from Holland in 1657. 
Her family was not related to that of her husband, although it bore the same name. 

Dr. Cornelius Nevius Hoagland was born in Somerset County, N. J., in the family home- 
stead, November 23d, 1828. Taken to Ohio with his parents, he attended school in West Charles- 
ton until 1845, and graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland, in 1852. Engaging in the practice of medicine in Miami County, he also became inter- 
ested in politics, and was elected auditor of the county in 1854 and in 1856. When the Civil War 
began, he enlisted in the Eleventh Ohio Infantry, becoming First Lieutenant in that regiment. In 
October, 1861, he was appointed surgeon of the Seventy-First Ohio, and served until the close of 
the war, principally in the campaigns in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, being actively 
engaged in many great battles in connection with the duties of his position, serving on brigade 
and division staffs, and frequently having charge of important field hospitals. 

After the war, he returned to Ohio to the practice of his profession, but in 1868 removed to 
New York and engaged in mercantile pursuits, which have since occupied his attention. He is a 
director of the People's Trust Company and the Dime Savings Bank, and connected with other 
corporations. In 1887, he founded and amply endowed the Hoagland Laboratory, which is devoted 
to original medical research. The wife of Dr. Hoagland was Eliza E. Morris, daughter of Judge 
David H. Morris, of Ohio. His children are: Cora, wife of George P. Tangeman; Elizabeth, wife 
of Charles O. Gates, and Ella Hoagland. The family residence is in Brooklyn. Dr. Hoagland is a 
member of the Hamilton, Union League and Brooklyn clubs of Brooklyn, the Downtown Club, 
Ohio Society, and Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He is a fellow of the Royal Microscop- 
ical Society of London, and of the American Geographical Society of New York, and a member of 
the New York Genealogical and BiograDhical Society and the Long Island Historical Society. 

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ROBERT HOE 

A TWO-FOLD interest attaches to the name which heads this article. It recalls a family 
which has supported the fame of this country throughout the world for invention and 
workmanship in a most important branch of mechanics. Furthermore, the gentleman 
of whom we speak is personally recognized as one of the foremost American patrons of art 
and letters, and as having made his taste and knowledge of inestimable value to this city. 

Robert Hoe, first of the name, was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1784. He was 
an expert mechanician, and, coming to New York, in 1803, engaged in the business of making 
printing presses ; his establishment, which, from that day to the present, has been conducted 
under the style of R. Hoe & Co., being in Maiden Lane and later in Gold Street. Its founder 
took out some of the first patents for improvements in printing presses, and at his works 
steam was first employed as a motive power in New York. He made the earliest presses of 
the cylinder type constructed in the United States, which, though based upon European 
models, represented a great improvement over the originals. Retiring from business, in 1832, 
he died at his country seat, in Westchester, in the following year, leaving his sons, Richard 
M. and Robert Hoe, as his successors. 

Robert Hoe, second of the name, was a noted patron of the fine arts, was distinguished 
by his discriminating liberality to young artists, and was one of the founders of the National 
Academy of Design. He died in 1884, he and his brother being succeeded in business by 
his son, the present Mr. Robert Hoe, who was born in this city, in 1839. 

Mr. Hoe is the head of the firm of R. Hoe & Co., which, as it exists to-day, is largely 
his creation, and which he has brought to the height of reputation it now enjoys. The works 
in Grand Street embrace now the largest manufacturing plant of its kind in or around New 
York. Employing at least one thousand six hundred skilled mechanics, the works support 
some ten thousand of the city's population. It is the only large manufacturing establish- 
ment conducted by individual owners, that remains in the city. Other concerns of similar 
magnitude have either been absorbed in some of the numerous combinations of industrial 
capital, or have been removed from New York on account of the taxation and the restrictive 
laws that prevail here. Many inducements have been offered to Mr. Hoe to remove his plant 
elsewhere. He has, however, uniformly rejected all such offers, and in a true spirit of local 
pride, keeps his establishment in the city of his own birth, and where it also grew up. Some 
seven years ago, Mr. Hoe inaugurated a branch of R. Hoe & Co., in London, which is unique 
of its kind in England, and supplies the principal printing offices of that country, and its Colonies. 

Inheriting in a full degree the mechanical and business talents of his family, Mr. Hoe 
has thus continued and improved upon its record for success. He is, however, a student and 
connoisseur, quite as much as a man of affairs, and in the former connection has a more than 
national reputation. He was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an 
earnest laborer for its success. One of New York's valued literary institutions, the Grolier 
Club, sprang from his suggestion, and, as its president, he has contributed effectively to incite 
interest in the arts pertaining to the production of books, which are the objects of its attention. 
Mr. Hoe is an indefatigable collector of books and works of art, and his magnificent private 
library is universally admitted to be the most remarkable and valuable in America, while he 
has written, at times, upon the subjects that engross his attention. 

Mr. Hoe married Olivia P. James, daughter of Daniel James, of New York and Liverpool, 
England. Their children are: Carolyn, now Mrs. Leon Marie; Olivia, now Mrs. Henry Lewis 
Slade; Laura, the wife of Ernest Trow Carter; Ellen James, Ruth L., Robert, Jr., and A. I. Hoe. 

The family residence is 1 1 East Thirty-sixth Street, and Mr. Hoe's country seat is at 
Lake Waccabuc, N. Y. His clubs, in addition to the Grolier, are the Century, Union League, 
Players, Engineers' and Fencers'. 

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EUGENE AUGUSTUS HOFFMAN, D.D. 

HIMSELF a toremost representative of the culture, refinement and Christian activity of the 
metropolis in the present generation, the Very Reverend Eugene Augustus Hoff- 
man, D.D., LL. D., D.C. L., comes of old Knickerbocker stock. The family, for two 
centuries and a half, has been prominent in New York, Kingston and Red Hook, and much of the 
land originally patented by its founders still remains in the possession of their descendants in 
Ulster and Dutchess counties. Those of this generation can trace their lineage with the Ver 
Plancks, Beekmans, Bensons and other leading families of New York State. The American founder 
of the family was Martinus Hoffman, who was born in Sweden about 1640, and was a ritmaster 
in the army of Augustus Adolphus, of Sweden. He came to this country about 1660, and settled 
in New Amsterdam. Then he removed to Albany and became a large land owner, but finally 
settled in Ulster County, where he founded the village that was named after him, Hoffmantown. 

Nicholas Hoffman, son of Martinus Hoffman, lived in Kingston and married Jannitie 
Crispell, daughter of Antoine Crispell, a Huguenot and one of the patentees of New Paltz. Their 
son, Martinus Hoffman, 1 706-1 772, settled in Red Hook and was a man of much wealth and 
local importance, being a justice of the peace and Colonel of a militia regiment; his wife was 
Trintie Benson, daughter of Robert and Cornelia (Roose) Benson. The son of Martinus and 
Trintie Hoffman was Harmanus Hoffman, who married Catherine Ver Planck, daughter of Samuel 
and Effie (Beekman) Ver Planck, and became the father of Samuel Ver Planck Hoffman, the 
grandfather of the Reverend Eugene A. Hoffman. 

Samuel Ver Planck Hoffman, 1802- 1880, was a lawyer early in life, but in 1828 established 
a dry goods house, in which he remained until his retirement, in 1842. He was a director in 
several insurance companies and other corporations, a member of the Union League Club, a 
trustee of the General Theological Seminary, a vestryman of Trinity Church, and a generous 
supporter of philanthropic enterprises. By his marriage with Glorvina Rossell Storm, daughter 
of Garrit Storm, the New York wholesale merchant, he had two sons, the Reverend Dr. Eugene 
A. Hoffman and the Reverend Dr. Charles F. Hoffman. 

Dean Eugene A. Hoffman was born in New York, March 21st, 1829, and educated in 
the Columbia Grammar (School and Rutgers College, from which he was graduated when only 
eighteen years of age. His studies were further continued in Harvard, and from that University 
he has the degrees of B. A. and M. A. Graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 
1851, he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, the same year and entered 
at once upon parochial work in Christ Church, Elizabeth, N. J. He continued actively in the 
ministry for twenty-eight years, holding rectorships in Burlington, N. J., Brooklyn and Philadelphia. 
In 1879, he was elected to the office of dean of the General Theological Seminary, and 
his administration has covered the period of the greatest prosperity that that famous institution has 
ever enjoyed. His management of the seminary has revealed him as a man of executive ability, 
deep religious fervor and broad sympathies. He has improved and added to the buildings of the 
seminary, which is now one of the chief educational and architectural ornaments of the city. 
Over a million dollars have been added to the funds of the institution, chiefly by the munificence 
of Dean Hoffman and members of his family. He married, in 1852, Mary C. Elmendorf, daughter 
of Peter Z. Elmendorf, of New Brunswick, N. J. His residence is in Chelsea Square and he 
belongs to the Century, City, Riding, South Side Sportsmen's, St. Nicholas and Jekyl Island clubs, 
and the St. Nicholas Society. His son, Samuel Ver Planck Hoffman, was graduated from Columbia 
College and married Louisa M. Smith. His only brother, the Reverend Charles F. Hoffman, 
married Eleanor F. Vail. Their son, Charles Frederick Hoffman, Jr., was graduated from Columbia 
College in 1878, and their daughter, Eleanor L. Hoffman, married William MacNeill Rodewald. 
Dean Hoffman is interested in many humanitarian institutions, is a member of many church boards 
and is connected with numerous literary and scientific societies. 

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ROBERT JOSEPH HOGUET 

THE ancestors of Mr. Robert Joseph Hoguet belonged in France originally. The name was 
attached to one of the most ancient Catholic families in that country, where for many gen- 
erations it was substantial and influential. The great-grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch, Joseph Hoguet, was the first of the name to leave his native land. In the latter part of 
the eighteenth century, he went to Ireland, and there established himself in business. The son of 
this French exile was Robert Joseph Hoguet, who was a leading merchant of Dublin. He married 
Eleanor Pontet, a compatriot, also descended from an eminent French Catholic family of the old 
regime and herself a native of France. 

Henry Louis Hoguet, the sixth child of Robert Joseph Hoguet and his wife, Eleanor, was 
brought up under the instruction of private tutors until he was thirteen years of age, having been 
born in 1816. He was then sent to France to complete his education, and in 1829, was entered as 
a pupil in the Massin Institute, an appendage to the ancient Charlemagne College in Paris. There 
he prosecuted his studies for the ensuing four years, completing his course in the autumn of 1833. 
In April of the year following his graduation from Charlemagne College, although he had not yet 
completed his eighteenth year, he became possessed of an ambition to seek his fortunes in the 
New World. Accordingly he sailed for New York, whither several of his brothers had already pre- 
ceded him. The firm of Hoguet & Son had been established several years previous to this time and 
was already doing a flourishing business in Maiden Lane. The house had been founded by his 
father, who had sent over his second son, Anthony Hoguet, to manage the business. Henry L. 
Hoguet, upon arriving in New York, took a place in his father's firm, where he remained for 
several years and then, in 1838, went into the employ of William Kobbe. 

In 1846, Mr. Hoguet determined to engage in business for himself and assisted in founding 
the firm of Chesterman & Hoguet, of which he was the junior partner. After three years, this 
partnership was dissolved, and the firm of Wilmerding, Hoguet & Humbert succeeded to the busi- 
ness. Subsequently, the firm name became Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co. The establishment was 
moved from William Street, where it had existed from its earliest days, to a location in Broadway, 
and became one of the leading business houses of the metropolis. Mr. Hoguet was also for 
many years president of the Emigrants' Savings Bank. 

A devoted member of the Roman Catholic Church, Mr. Hoguet was long prominent in the 
lay councils of that denomination. For many years he was a trustee of the old St. Patrick's Cathe- 
dral in Mott Street, when that church was the leading ecclesiastical institution of the Roman 
Catholics in New York. He was also one of the managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, 
a trustee of the St. Vincent de Paul's Church, treasurer of St. Vincent de Paul's Orphan Asylum, 
and one of the founders of the New York Catholic Protectory, being for many years president of 
the latter institution. His valuable and unselfish services in the cause of religion and charity com- 
manded the attention and the approval of the church authorities, and, in 1880, Pope Leo XIII. 
created him a Chevalier of the Order of St. Gregory, and conferred upon him the cross and diploma 
of that order, an exceptional honor to be bestowed upon a lay member of the church. Mr. Hoguet 
was twice married. His first wife, whom he married ia 1838, was Miss Atkinson, granddaughter 
of Captain John O'Connor. She died in 1869. His second wife, whom he married in 1872, was a 
French lady, a native of Paris; she survived her busband. 

Mr. Robert Joseph Hoguet, the only son of Henry L. Hoguet and his first wife, was born in 
August, 1839, and succeeded his father in the business of Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co., with which 
he has been connected from his early manhood. He married Marie Noel, a lady of French descent, 
and lives in the old family residence, at the corner of the Boulevard and West One Hundred and 
Forty-first Street, overlooking the Hudson River. He belongs to the Catholic and Merchants' clubs, 
and has followed in the footsteps of his father as a generous supporter of religious and benevolent 
institutions. 

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HENRY HUTCHINSON HOLLISTER 

LIEUTENANT JOHN HOLLISTER, who was born in England in 1612 and emigrated to this 
country in 1642, was one of the influential men in the early days of the Connecticut 
Colony. He married Joanna Treat, daughter of the Honorable Richard Treat, Sr., and 
became the ancestor of the Hollister family, representatives of which have been prominent in 
Connecticut and New York. His son, John Hollister, who was born in Wethersfield, Conn., 
about 1644, was the ancestor of the branch now under consideration. He was one of the 
principal men of Glastonbury, to which place he moved from Wethersfield, and where he died 
in 171 1. His wife, Sarah Goodrich, came from another leading Colonial family. She was a 
daughter of William Goodrich and Sarah Marvin, her maternal grandfather being Matthew 
Marvin, who came from London in 1635, and was an original proprietor of Hartford and one 
of the grantees of Norwalk, in which he settled in 1653. 

The successive representatives of the family line from John Hollister down to Mr. Henry 
H. Hollister, of New York, were: Thomas Hollister, 1672-1741; Gideon Hollister, 1699-1785; 
Nathaniel Hollister, 1731-1810; Gideon Hollister, 1776-1864, and Edwin M. Hollister, 1800-1870. 
Thomas Hollister resided in Glastonbury, where he was a deacon in the church. His wife was 
Dorothy Hills, 1 677-1 741, daughter of Joseph Hills, of Glastonbury, a son of William Hills, 
who came to America in 1632, settled in Roxbury and afterwards moved to Connecticut. 
His first wife was Phyllis Lyman, daughter of Richard Lyman, and his second wife was the 
widow Mary Steele, daughter of Andrew Warner, of Hadley. Gideon Hollister, son of Thomas 
Hollister, was a Lieutenant in the Militia in 1736. He married, in 1723, Rachel Talcott, 
1 706- 1 790, daughter of Nathaniel Talcott, of Glastonbury. The wife of Nathaniel Hollister in 
the next generation was Mehitable Mattison, 1739-1824. Gideon Hollister, the son of Nathaniel 
Hollister, and the grandfather of Mr. Henry H. Hollister, removed to Andover, Conn., where 
he was engaged in business as a paper manufacturer. His wife was Mary Olmstead, of East 
Hartford, who died in 1827. Their son, Edwin M. Hollister, removed early in life to Hartford, 
where he was engaged for many years as a dry goods merchant. Afterwards he resided in 
Windsor and became a prosperous paper manufacturer. His wife was Gratia Taylor Buell, 
who was born in 1801, her father being Major John H. Buell, who was an energetic patriot, 
served in the Revolutionary Army, and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

Mr. Henry Hutchinson Hollister, the youngest son of Edwin M. and Gratia (Buell) 
Hollister, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1842. His early years were spent in Vermont, but 
when young he removed to New York and entered upon a successful business career. For 
many years he has been a banker and broker, and is connected with many financial enterprises. 
In 187 1, he married Sarah Louise Howell, daughter of William A. Howell and Lucetta B. 
Gould, of Newark, N. J. His second wife was Anne Willard Stephenson, daughter of 
J. H. Stephenson, of Boston; her grandfathers being Benjamin Stephenson, of Scituate, Mass., 
and Aaron Willard, of Boston. The children of Mr. Hollister by his first wife were Louise 
Howell, Henry Hutchinson, Jr., Louise and Buell Hollister. Henry H. Hollister, Jr., is an 
undergraduate at Yale University. The residence of the family is in West Forty-ninth Street. 
Mr. Hollister is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, New York, Riding, Whist and South 
Side Sportsmen's clubs, and belongs to the New England Society, the Sons of the Revolution 
and the Society of the Cincinnati. 

The brothers and sisters of Mr. Hollister, children of Edwin M. and Gratia (Buell) 
Hollister, were Edward Hubbell Hollister, born 1826, who married Emily H. Phelps and died 
in 1868; Sarah Buell Hollister, who married the Honorable Broughton D. Harris, of Vermont; 
George Hollister, born in 1832, who married Phcebe Conkling; Mary Louise Hollister, born 
in 1834, who married Walter A. Pease; Helen Mercia Hollister, born in 1836, who married 
Effingham Maynard, and John Buell Hollister, born in 1838, who married Ellie Crane. 



CHARLES RUSSELL HONE 

ONE of the most distinguished Mayors that New York City ever had, and one of the most 
courtly gentlemen of the metropolis in the last generation, was the Honorable Philip 
Hone. His son, Robert S. Hone, was the father of Mr. Charles Russell Hone. Robert 
S. Hone was prominent in business affairs, being for many years president of the Republic Fire 
Insurance Company, vice-president of the New York Institution for the Blind, and a director and 
trustee of many other charitable and philanthropic institutions of the city. The wife of Robert S. 
Hone was Eliza Rodman Russell, of Providence, in which city she was born in 1819. Mr. and 
Mrs. Hone had four children. Mary Schermerhorn Hone married Horace W. Fuller, son of Dudley 
B. Fuller, and had two children, Dudley and Arthur Fuller. The other children were Anna 
Russell Hone, Charles Russell Hone and Robert Hone. 

Through his mother, Mr. Charles Russell Hone is descended from several of the most 
distinguished families of Rhode Island. Eliza Rodman Russell was a daughter of Charles Handy 
Russell by his first wife, Ann Rodman, whom he married in 1818. The father of Ann Rodman 
was Captain William Rodman, of Newport and Providence, who married Ann Olney, niece of 
Colonel Jeremiah Olney, of Revolutionary fame. Captain William Rodman was descended from 
Dr. Thomas Rodman, the first American ancestor of the family, who was born in 1639 and died in 
1727. The line of descent was through Samuel Rodman, who was born in 1703 and died in 1749; 
William Rodman, who married Lydia Gardner about 1757; Captain William Rodman, second, 
who was born in 1758 and became the father of Ann Rodman. One of the daughters of Captain 
William Rodman, Elizabeth Rodman, married John Rogers, of Providence, and another daughter, 
Mary Rodman, married Stephen Hopkins, of Providence, son of Stephen Hopkins, one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. 

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Charles Russell Hone was Charles Handy Russell, one of 
the most distinguished merchants and business men of Newport and New York in the last 
generation, and prominently identified with many financial institutions of New York, and with 
the public service and literary and social enterprises. Mr. Russell traced his descent on the 
maternal side back through several generations to Samuel Handy, a native of England, and an 
early settler of the Maryland Colony in the first part of the eighteenth century. The grandmother 
of Mr. Russell was Ann Brown, descended from Chad Brown, one of the first settlers of Newport, 
who was born in 1671, and died in 1731, and whose wife was Elizabeth Cranston, daughter of 
Governor John Cranston. Her father was Captain John Brown, of Newport, a grandson of Chad 
Brown. Members of the Brown family were especially distinguished in the early generations in 
Rhode Island. John Brown, the eldest son of Chad Brown, married Jane Lucas, daughter of 
Augustus and Bathsheba Lucas, of Newport, and descended from the Reverend Joseph Eliot, of 
Guilford, Conn., son of John Eliot, the Indian Apostle, whose wife was Sarah Brenton, daughter of 
Governor William Brenton. Ann Brown, who married Charles Handy, was the eighth daughter 
of this Captain John Brown. All her descendants are, therefore, descendants of Governor William 
Brenton, the Reverend John Eliot, Governor John Cranston and of Governor Jeremiah Clark. 

On the Russell side of the house, the ancestry of Mr. Charles Russell Hone goes back to John 
Russell, who came to Charlestown, Mass., before 1640, and among his antecedents along this 
line are: the Reverend John Russell, Jr., one of the first Baptist ministers of Boston, and Major 
Thomas Russell, an aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General John Stark, during the War of the Revolu- 
tion, and afterwards at the head of the great East India importing house of Russell & Co. 

Mr. Charles Russell Hone was born in New York, May 8th, 1849, was educated in New 
York and New Haven, and has been engaged in the banking business. His wife, whom he mar- 
ried in 1876, was Josephine Hoey, and they have two sons, Charles R. Hone, Jr., and Harold Hone. 
The residence of the family is at Westbury Station, Long Island. Mr. Hone is a member of the 
Union, Knickerbocker, Country and Meadow Brook Hunt clubs, and of the New England Society. 

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GEORGE BEVAN HOPE, M. D. 

PRIOR to the Revolution, representatives of the Hope family came from Scotland to the 
American Colonies. The name is one of great antiquity, as well as of historical 
prominence in the annals of the Scottish Kingdom, and has been represented, not only in 
the nobility of the country, but in the professions and in the highest ranks of Great Britain's 
commerce. Among the first baronetcies of Scotland was that represented in this age by Sir John 
D. Hope, whose hereditary title dates back to 1628. In 1703, another of the branches of the family 
was invested with the Earldom of Hopetown, and a century later the then bearer of the dignity 
received the English baronage of the same title. By their intermarriage with the highest nobility 
and gentry of the United Kingdom, the Hopes have become allied with many families of the first 
distinction, one instance of which is afforded by the well-known Beresford-Hope family, which 
for some generations has been prominent in the social and political life of the mother country. 
Closely connected were the famous Hopes of Amsterdam, Holland, merchants and bankers, who, 
during the last century and the earlier part of the present one, were among the most powerful 
financiers of the world. To this portion of the family belonged the traveler and philosopher, 
Thomas Hope, 1770-1831, the author of Anastasius, and other works, who was also famous for 
his munificence in the cause of art. The branch to which Dr. George Bevan Hope, of New York, 
belongs, established itself in Pennsylvania about 1760. Both his grandfather, Richard Hope, and 
his father, Matthew Boyd Hope, were natives of that State, the latter adopting the ministry and 
becoming a member of the faculty of Princeton College, in which institution he was a professor for 
many years, and the author of numerous educational and other works. His wife was Agnes C. 
Bevan, of Philadelphia, a daughter of Matthew L. Bevan, one of the most noted citizens of that city 
in the early part of the century. 

The Bevan family descended from English Quakers, who came to Pennsylvania in the 
early days of the Province. Matthew L. Bevan was a merchant of the highest standing in the 
East India trade. As was the custom of those days, he owned his own ships and personally made 
several voyages to China. He took a prominent and active part in benevolent and religious work 
in Philadelphia, and was one of the foremost laymen of the Presbyterian Church in America. In 
politics, also, he was an influential factor and a friend and adviser of the foremost men of his time. 
His intimacy with Henry Clay was especially close, and, accompanied by his daughters, he made 
the long and then wearying journey across the mountains from Philadelphia to Kentucky, for the 
purpose of visiting the statesman at his home at Ashland. Without having held public office, 
Matthew L. Bevan rendered many important services to his State and country. The most notable 
of these was the winding up of the Bank of the United States on the expiration of its charter in 
1835. At a critical juncture, President Jackson selected him as the associate of Albert Gallatin in 
that task, which, owing largely to his financial knowledge and the confidence reposed in him by 
the business community, was accomplished with complete success. 

Dr. George Bevan Hope accordingly takes his middle name from his maternal ancestry. He 
was born at Princeton, N. J., in 1847, and graduated from the college in the class of 1869. 
Adopting the medical profession, he pursued his studies in this city at Bellevue Medical College, 
graduating in 1876, followed by a residence abroad of several years, during which he took a 
post-graduate course at the famous medical schools of Vienna and Paris. In his profession, Dr. 
Hope has devoted himself to a specialty — the throat— upon which he is one of the foremost 
authorities, and holds professorships in the Post-Graduate Medical School in this city, as well as in 
the medical faculty at the University of Vermont, at Burlington. His published writings have 
been confined to professional subjects, and have appeared in the leading medical periodicals of 
the country. 

Dr. Hope has a wide circle of personal friends in New York society. He is unmarried, 
and is a member of the Union League Club, his residence being at 34 West Fifty-first Street. 

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WILLIAM BUTLER HORNBLOWER 

JOSIAH HORNBLOWER, an eminent English civil engineer, was born in 1729. At the request 
of Colonel John Schuyler, he came to the United States in 1753, and settled near Belleville, 
N. J., where he erected the first stationary engine known in this country. He managed the 
copper mines of Belleville for several years and served as a Captain in the French and Indian 
wars. In the Revolution, he was an uncompromising patriot and was Speaker of the Lower House 
of the New Jersey Legislature in 1780. His activity in devising and promoting important measures 
to advance the interests of the patriot cause excited the special ire of the British, who unsuc- 
cessfully tried to kidnap him. In 1781, he was elected to the upper branch of the Legislature, 
where he remained until 1784, when he was selected to represent the Colony in the Continental 
Congress. In 1790, he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Essex County, N. J., 
and continued on the bench for many years. 

The son of Josiah Hornblower was Joseph C. Hornblower, 1777-1864, who was admitted to 
the bar in 1803. He was a Presidential elector in 1820, and voted for James Monroe; was elected 
Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey in 1832, and reelected in 1839; was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention in 1844; was appointed Professor of Law in Princeton College in 1847; 
was a vice-president of the First National Republican Convention, in 1856; was president of the 
Electoral College of New Jersey in i860, voting for Lincoln and Hamlin; was one of the original 
members of the American Bible Society and president of the New Jersey Historical Society. 
The Reverend William Henry Hornblower, 1820-1883, son of Judge Hornblower, was a prominent 
Presbyterian divine. He was educated in Princeton College, was engaged in missionary work for 
five years, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Paterson, N. J., for twenty-seven years, 
and a professor in the Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pa., for twelve years. He married 
Matilda Butler, of Suffield, Conn., whose ancestry runs back to the Puritans. Of this union came 
two sons and one daughter. 

Mr. William Butler Hornblower, the second son, was born in 1851. He was prepared for 
college in the collegiate school of Professor George P. Quackenbos, matriculating at Princeton in 
1867, at the age of sixteen, and being graduated four years later. For two years he devoted 
himself to literary studies, but in 1873 entered Columbia Law School and was graduated in 1875. 
Entering upon the practice of law, he connected himself with the firm of Carter & Eaton, of New 
York, retaining that professional association until 1888, when he founded the firm of Hornblower 
& Byrne, which subsequently became Hornblower, Byrne & Taylor. Since 1880, Mr. Hornblower 
has been counsel for the New York Life Insurance Company. He has been very successful in 
bankruptcy cases, of which, at one time, he made a specialty. In the famous Grant & Ward case, 
he was counsel for the receiver. He was also successful in several important tontine insurance 
cases that he tried for the New York Life Insurance Company. For several years past he has had 
a large practice in the United States Courts, and among other important cases there he appeared in 
the Virginia bond controversy, and the railroad bond litigation of the City of New Orleans. 

A Democrat of independent proclivities, he has exercised a considerable influence in con- 
temporaneous political movements in the State of New York. He has been frequently mentioned 
for public office, and in 1893 was nominated by President Cleveland to be a Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. His fitness for the place was generally conceded, but his independence 
in politics had placed him in opposition to some of the leaders of his party, and the Senate refused 
to confirm the nomination. In 1882, Mr. Hornblower married Susan C. Sandford, of New Haven, 
Conn., who was descended from several of the old Puritan families of New England. Mrs. Horn- 
blower died in 1886, leaving three children. He married, in 1894, Emily (Sandford) Nelson, 
widow of Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Nelson, of the United Sta*es Army, and a sister of his first 
wife. He lives in upper Madison Avenue, and his summer home is Penrhyn, Southampton, Long 
Island. He belongs to the Metropolitan and other leading clubs and social organizations. 

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HARRY LAWRENCE HORTON 

BARNABAS HORTON, the first American ancestor of the family to which Mr. Harry 
Lawrence Horton belongs, came of an ancient English family. Robert De Horton appears 
in the old records as the master of the Manor of Horton in the thirteenth century. 
Other members of the family also had a manor house in Great Horton. William Horton, of Frith 
House, Barksland, who was descended from Robert De Horton, married Elizabeth Hanson, 
daughter of Thomas Hanson, of Toothill. His son, Joseph Horton, who was born about 1578 
and settled in Mousley, Leicestershire, was the father of Barnabas Horton. 

Tradition says that Barnabas Horton came to this country in the ship Swallow, that was 
commanded by one of his relatives, Captain Jeremy Horton. He was born in 1600, and emigrated 
to the New World in 1633 or soon after, landing in Massachusetts. Before 1640, he removed to 
New Haven, Conn., and afterwards formed one of the company that crossed to the eastern end of 
Long Island, and settled the town of Southold, being one of the patentees of that place. He was 
a constable in 1656 and 1659, a deputy to the General Court of the Connecticut Colony, 1654-64, a 
freeman of the Colony in 1662, and a magistrate of the town of Southold from 1664 until the time of 
his death, in 1680. Joseph Horton, son of Barnabas Horton, who was born in England, came to 
this country with his parents when an infant. Brought up in the town of Southold, he removed 
to Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., in 1664, was a freeman of the Connecticut Colony in 1662, 
a selectman of Rye in 1671, a justice of the peace in 1678, and a Lieutenant and then Captain 
of the militia. His wife was Jane Budd, daughter of John Budd, one of the thirteen original 
settlers of Southold. 

In successive generations from Joseph Horton, the ancestors of Mr. Harry Lawrence 
Horton were: David Horton, who was born in Rye in 1664, and his wife, Esther King; John 
Horton, who was born in White Plains in 1696, and his wife, Elizabeth Lee; Richard Horton, 
who was born in White Plains and married Jemima Wright; Elijah Horton, who was born in 
Peekskill in 1739 and died in Bradford County, Pa., in 1821, and his wife, Jemima Currie; Elijah M. 
Horton, who was born in Peekskill in 1768 and died in Sheshequin, Pa., in 1835, and his wife, 
Abigail Bullard; and William Bullard Horton, who was born in Sheshequin, in 1807, and 
died in 1867, and his wife, Melinda Blackman, daughter of Colonel Franklin Blackman and Sybil 
Beardsley. 

Mr. Harry Lawrence Horton was born in Sheshequin, Bradford County, Pa., January 17th, 
1832. Having received a sound education in the schools of his native place, he entered upon 
mercantile life in Horn Brook, Pa., at the age of seventeen. After that, he traveled extensively 
throughout the West, and then settled in Milwaukee, Wis., and engaged in the produce commis- 
sion business in 1856. For nine years he remained in Milwaukee, and was a successful man of 
affairs. Then coming to New York in 1865, he established the banking house of H. L. Horton & 
Co., of which he has been the senior member for more than thirty years. He has spent con- 
siderable time abroad in the business interests of his house, and has also traveled extensively 
for pleasure. He is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Produce Exchange, as 
well as of the Chicago Board of Trade and other similar business organizations. 

Mr. Horton married Sarah S. Patten, of New York, and has two daughters, Blanche 
and Grace Horton. The city residence of the family is in West Fifty-seventh Street, and 
they have a summer home at Monmouth Beach, N. J. For many years, Mr. Horton resided 
at New Brighton, Staten Island, and was president of the Board of Trustees of that town for 
three years. One of the most enterprising and most public-spirited citizens of New Brighton, 
he was chiefly instrumental in promoting the Staten Island Water Supply Company and the 
Rapid Transit Company. He contributes generously in support of charity, and is an intelligent 
patron of art and literature. He is a member of the Manhattan, Union League, Lawyers', New 
York Athletic and Riding clubs. 



ALFRED CORNELIUS HOWLAND 

ON another page will be found the full and detailed account of the ancestry of the Howland 
family, descended from John Howland, the Mayflower Pilgrim, and Elizabeth Tilley, his 
wife. The branch to which attention is now directed is represented in New York not 
only by Judge Henry E. Howland, but by his younger brother, the distinguished artist whose 
name heads the present article. The father of these gentlemen, Aaron Prentiss Howland, was a 
respected citizen of Walpole, N. H., and an architect. In connection with his profession he was 
also a builder, and both designed and built many of the principal churches and other edifices of the 
large towns of New Hampshire and Vermont. He was also prominent in local affairs, and in 
addition to his own distinguished descent was connected by marriage with families of prominence. 

Mr. Alfred Cornelius Howland is the younger son of Aaron Prentiss and Huldah (Burke) 
Howland, his birth having taken place in 1838 at Walpole, N. H. His artistic talent was displayed 
at an early age, and after preliminary study in this country, he became a pupil at the Academy of 
Dusseldorf, Germany, under Professor Andreas Muller, and afterwards in the private studio of 
Professor Flamm, followed by a course of several years under the celebrated artist, Emil Lambinet, 
at Paris. He first exhibited in the Academy of Design in 1865, and was elected an Associate of 
the National Academy in 1876, and a member of that body in 1882. Mr. Howland is also a 
member of the Century and Salmagundi clubs, and of the Artist Fund Society, of the National 
Academy of Design, and of other leading professional bodies of New York. Many of his 
pictures are included in the collections of the most noted lovers of art, among whom may be 
named Governor George Peabody Wetmore, the late George I. Seney, Chauncey M. Depew, 
the Honorable William M. Evarts, Charles C. Beaman, William H. Fuller and Thomas B. Clarke. 
His large picture of the historic Yale Fence was presented by Mr. Depew to Yale College, and is 
now one of the chief features of the new gymnasium. The Fourth of July Parade, belonging to 
Mr. Fuller, was exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago. Mr. Howland has also exhibited in Paris 
and Munich. The Layton Art Gallery, at Milwaukee, contains his genre picture, entitled 
Driving a Bargain. 

By his marriage, which took place in 1871, Mr. Howland became connected with a New 
York family of old descent and high position, his bride being Clara Ward, daughter of the late 
Oliver Delancey Ward, a distinguished merchant of this city, and a descendant of the Delancey 
family so famous in the early history of the Province of New York, his own name recalling the 
celebrated Chief Justice Oliver Delancey, in many respects the most eminent man in the entire 
Colonial history of the Province of New York. Andrew Ward, the founder of Mrs. Howland's family 
in America, belonged to an ancient race settled at Goilston and Homesfield, Suffolk, England, and 
was descended from William de la Ward, who flourished in 1 1 54-89. He came to Massachusetts 
in 1630, accompanied the first settlers to Connecticut, was elected a magistrate in 1636, and 
became a resident of Fairfield in 1649. 

His grandson, Edmund Ward, removed to Eastchester, N. Y., and was a member of the 
Colonial Assembly in the early part of the eighteenth century. Mrs. Howland's grandfather, 
named like her father, Oliver Delancey Ward, owned Ward's Island, in the East River, where he 
had his summer residence until the island was purchased by the city. The Ward homestead still 
defies age and weather, and is used as the residence of the chaplain of the island, which forms 
part of the municipal charities. On the side of her mother, Emily Potter Ward, Mrs. Howland is 
also a descendant of Edward Winslow, who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower, and among her 
other collateral ancestors were Governor John Winthrop and John Hancock. Mr. and Mrs. 
Alfred C. Howland's children are Winthrop Prentiss Howland, born in 1873, and Alice Ward 
Howland, born 1878. Mr. Howland's studio is at 318 West Fifty-seventh Street, New York, and 
he also has one in his summer house, The Rooftree, at Williamstown, Mass., where he passes a 
considerable portion of each year. 

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GARDINER GREENE HOWLAND 

THE first American ancestor of the Howland family was the celebrated Puritan leader, John 
Howland, who came from England on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth. He was 
early a freeman of Plymouth, an assessor in 1633, and a selectman in 1666. For six years, 
between 1652 and 1666, he was a deputy to the General Court, and was also a member of the 
Governor's Council. His wife was Elizabeth Tilley. He died in 1673. Joseph Howland, son of 
the pioneer, was also a man of importance in Plymouth, where he was Lieutenant of the militia in 
1679. His wife was Elizabeth'Southworth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Reynor) Southworth. 
In the two following generations the ancestors of that branch of the family which is here under 
consideration were Nathaniel Howland and his son Nathaniel. The elder Nathaniel, 1671-1746, had 
for his first wife Martha Cole, daughter of James Cole, and for his second wife Abigail Churchill, 
daughter of Eleazer and Mary Churchill. The second Nathaniel was the son of the first wife, and 
was born in Plymouth in 1705 and died in 1766. His second wife, whom he married in 1739, and 
who was the mother of Joseph Howland, next in the line of descent, was Abigail Burt, daughter of 
the Reverend John Burt, who was killed at Bristol, R. I., by the British in 1775. 

Joseph Howland, the grandfather of Mr. Gardiner Greene Howland, was born in Boston in 
1749, became one of the great merchants in the West India trade and died in 1836. Settling in 
Norwich, Conn., he engaged in business and, about the beginning of the century, removed to New 
York, the firm of Joseph Howland & Son becoming one of the largest shipowners of that time. 
In 1808-31 he was president of the Highland Turnpike Company, afterwards merged in the Hudson 
River Railroad Company. His wife was Lydia Bill, daughter of Ephraim Bill, of Norwich, Conn. 

Gardiner Greene Howland, the father of Mr. Gardiner Greene Howland, was one of the 
great merchants of New York in the last generation. He was born in 1787 and soon after he had 
become of age, was intrusted with the management of many of his father's business affairs. After- 
wards, with a younger brother as a partner, the firm of G. G. & S. Howland became one of the 
most successful importing houses in New York in the first quarter of the present century. He was 
a director of the Old Bank of New York and was connected with insurance and other financial 
institutions. One of the greatest enterprises of his life was the construction of the Hudson River 
Railroad, in which company he was for a long time a director. Mr. Howland was twice married, 
first to Louisa Edgar, daughter of William Edgar, and second to Louisa Meredith, daughter of 
Jonathan Meredith, of Baltimore. By his first wife he had five children, William Edgar, Annabella 
Edgar, Abbie Woolsey, Robert Shaw and Maria Louisa Howland. By his second wife he had six 
children, Rebecca Brien, who married James Roosevelt; Meredith, who married Adelaide Torrence; 
Gardiner Greene, Joanna Dorr, who 1 married Irving Grinnell; Emma Meredith, and Samuel 
Shaw Howland. 

Mr. Gardiner Greene Howland, the second son of his father's second wife, was born in New 
York in 1834. For many years he has been the general manager of The New York Herald. His 
wife, whom he married in 1856 and who died in 1897, was Mary Grafton Dulany, and he has 
four children, Gardiner Greene, Jr., Dulany, Meredith and Maud Howland, who married, in 
1889, Percy R. Pyne, son of Percy R. Pyne and Albertina Taylor. The city residence of the 
family is in East Thirty-fifth Street, and they also have a home in the old Bennett mansion, on 
Washington Heights. Mr. Howland is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Lawyers', Racquet 
and New York Yacht clubs. 

Samuel Shaw Howland, the youngest son, was born in New York, August 28th, 1849. He 
married Frederika Belmont, daughter of August Belmont, Sr. The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. 
Howland is in West Eighteenth Street. Their country home is Belwood, Mt. Morris, N. Y., and 
they also spend much time in Washington, D. C, where Mr. Howland has important professional 
and social connections. Mr. Howland is a member of the Metropolitan and Union clubs of New 
York, the Philadelphia Club of Philadelphia and the Metropolitan Club of Washington. 



HENRY ELIAS HOWLAND 

AMONG the Pilgrims on the Mayflower who signed the compact that served as a constitution 
for the first political community in North America, was John Howland, who became the 
ancestor of a family of worth and substantial qualities. He shared the rigors of the 
landing and first winter of the Plymouth settlement, was a leader of the Colony's military and 
exploring expeditions and furnished a touch of romance to its history, since his marriage was one 
of the first the Pilgrims celebrated in their New England home, his wife being Elizabeth Tilley, 
who had also been a passenger on the Mayflower. He lived to a ripe old age and was the last 
survivor of the entire number of those who came over to the New World on that remarkable voy- 
age. John and Elizabeth Howland, the Pilgrim couple, had a large family, and their descendants, 
both of the same name and through females, are numerous. One of their great-grandchildren 
was the Reverend John Howland, who graduated at Harvard College in 1741 and became a 
distinguished preacher. For nearly sixty years he occupied the pulpit of the Congregational 
Church in the town of Carver, Mass. Branches of the family were established in New Hamp- 
shire and New York at an early date, and the old-time merchants of this city, G. G. Howland 
and Samuel S. Howland, derived their descent from the same source. 

Judge Henry E. Howland comes of the New Hampshire branch of this notable family. 
His father, Aaron Prentiss Howland, was a direct descendant in the sixth generation from John 
Howland, the Pilgrim of the Mayflower, and was a grandson of the Reverend John Howland above 
referred to. His mother, whose maiden name was Huldah Burke, came also of a distinguished 
family of that section of the country. She was a near relative of the eminent New Hampshire 
politician and Congressman, Edmund Burke, who, among other offices, was Commissioner of 
Patents under the administrations of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan. 

Mr. Henry E. Howland, the elder son of this marriage, having been born at Walpole, N. H., 
in 1835, was educated at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, N. H., entered Yale College 
and was graduated in the class of 1854. He then took a course in the Harvard College Law 
School and in 1857 received the degree of LL. B. He was admitted to practice in 1857 and made 
New York his home; and has since then practiced here, except for a period in 1873, when Gov- 
ernor John A. Dix appointed him to the bench of the Marine Court to fill an unexpired term. 
He served in the Twenty-Second Regiment of the National Guard of the State for seven years, 
and he was a Captain in that command while it was mustered in the United States service 
in 1862 and 1863. Judge Howland has been active in the Republican party and was an alderman 
of the city in 1875 and 1876. In 1880, he was appointed by Mayor Cooper, president of the 
Municipal Department of Taxes. In 1884, he was his party's candidate for Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas, and received a similar nomination in 1887 for the bench of the Supreme Court. 
Judge Howland has been for some years a member of the Corporation of Yale University. He 
is president of the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Blind, and also president of the Board 
of the Manhattan State Hospital of this city. 

In 1865, he married Louise Miller, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah R. Miller, and 
granddaughter of Edmund Blunt, the famous mathematician and author of Blunt's Coast Pilot. 
Six children were born to them, Mary M., Charles P., Katharine E., John, Julia Bryant and Frances 
L., of whom three survive; none, however, are married. 

As a speaker, either in court, at political meetings, or on social occasions, Judge Howland 
has a widespread reputation. He is governor-general of the National Society of Mayflower 
Descendants and governor of the New York Society, president of the Jekyl Island Club, secretary 
of the Century Association, president of the Meadow Club of Southampton, and one of the council 
of the University Club. His other club affiliations include membership in the Metropolitan, Union 
League, Players, Republican and Shinnecock Hills Golf clubs, as well as the Bar Association. 
His city residence is 14 West Ninth Street, and his country home is at Southampton, Long Island. 

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ALFRED MILLER HOYT 

REPRESENTATIVES of the Old New England family of Hoyt have been prominent in 
New York for the last four generations. All of them have come from the same parent 
stock, though their lines of descent in most instances separated several generations 
ago. The subject of this sketch is descended from the first Simon Hoyte, who came to Massa- 
chusetts from England in 1628 and afterwards was one of the first settlers in Connecticut, 
being a resident of Windsor, Fairfield, Stamford and other towns. His son, Walter Hoyt, the 
ancestor of the branch of the family now under consideration, was one of the first settlers of 
Norwalk, a selectman of the town, deputy to the General Court, and Sergeant of the militia. 
The line of descent thence is through Deacon Zerubbabel Hoyt, 1650-1727 ; Joseph Hoyt, 1676- 
1708; and James Hoyt, 1708-1774, who married Hannah Goold. 

Colonel Jesse Hoyt, the son of James Hoyt and his wife, Hannah, was the grandfather 
of Mr. Alfred M. Hoyt. He was born in Norwalk, Conn., in 1744 and lived in Norwalk, 
Oyster Bay and Huntington, Long Island, and Weymouth and Annapolis, Nova Scotia, dying 
in Annapolis in 1822. He was a prosperous landowner and Colonel of the militia. In 1764, 
he married Mary Raymond. James Moody Hoyt, the son of Colonel Jesse Hoyt, was born in 
Weymouth, Nova Scotia, in 1789. When about seventeen years of age, he came to New 
York, where he was engaged in business. During the latter part of his life, he made his 
home in Norwalk, Conn., and there his death occurred in 1854. In 1814, he married Mary 
Nesbitt, daughter of Dr. Samuel Nesbitt, a native of Scotland. She survived him until 1867. 

Mr. Alfred M. Hoyt, their son, was born in New York in 1828. He was educated at 
private schools, entered college and graduated with honors, and afterwards studied law. In 
1854, he became a member of the firm of Jesse Hoyt & Co., in partnership with his brothers, 
Jesse and Samuel N. Hoyt, and Henry W. Smith, the firm succeeding to the business interests 
of his father. Samuel N. Hoyt soon retired from business, but Mr. Alfred M. Hoyt and his 
brother Jesse continued together until 1881. The two brothers were largely interested in the 
development of the great Northwest, where they owned extensive tracts of timber land. Mr. 
Hoyt was also interested in grain elevators in Chicago, Milwaukee and other cities of the 
Northwest, as well as in several railroads and other important properties. In conjunction with 
his brothers and other associates, he was one of the builders and owners of the Flint & Pere 
Marquette Railroad, the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, now part of the Chicago & North- 
western system, and the Milwaukee & Northern Railroad, of which he was the president. Of 
late years he has been engaged in banking. 

In 1858, Mr. Hoyt married Rose E. Reese. The city residence of the family is in upper 
Fifth Avenue, and their summer home is at Montauk, Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt have 
three sons, Henry R., Alfred William and John Sherman, and three daughters, Florence Cecilia, 
now Mrs. W. K. Otis, Mary E., deceased, and Rosina Sherman Hoyt. Mr. Hoyt belongs to 
the Metropolitan, Union League, Grolier and Riding clubs, the Century Association, the American 
Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy 
of Design and the American Museum of Natural History. He is a trustee of the Bank for Savings, 
a director of the Merchants National Exchange Bank, the Continental Trust Company, and other 
corporations. His eldest son, Henry R. Hoyt, graduated from Harvard College in 1882, studied 
law in Columbia Law School and was a student in the office of Elihu Root. Soon after he was 
admitted to the bar, he formed a partnership with Ex-Chief Justice Charles P. Daly and Alexander 
T. Mason, under the firm name of Daly, Hoyt & Mason. The second son, Alfred William Hoyt, 
was graduated from Harvard College in 1885 and is engaged in the banking business with his 
father; he is a member of the Metropolitan, Calumet, Union, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, 
University and Harvard clubs and the Century Association. Mr. Hoyt's third son, John Sherman 
Hoyt, was graduated from Columbia College School of Mines, and is a civil engineer. 

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COLGATE HOYT 

IN the first and second American generations, the ancestors of Mr. Colgate Hoyt were Simon 
Hoyte, who came to Massachusetts in 1628 and settled in Windsor, Conn., in 1639, and 
his son, Walter Hoyt, 1618-1698, one of the first settlers of Norwalk. John Hoyt, who 
stands at the head of that branch of the family to which Mr. Colgate Hoyt belongs, was a son of 
Walter Hoyt and was born in Windsor in 1644. He was one of the original settlers of Danbury in 
168s, and died in that place in 171 1. His wife was Mary Lindall. His son, John Hoyt, 1669-1746, 
married Hannah Drake, daughter of John Drake, of Simsbury, Conn., and their son, Drake Hoyt, 
of Danbury, 1717-1805, married Hannah Knapp. In the next generation came Noah Hoyt, 1741- 
1810, who represented Danbury in the Legislature and was otherwise a leader in town affairs. He 
was three times married; first to Abigail Curtis, then to Sarah Comstock and lastly to Ellen Purdy. 
His son, David P. Hoyt, who was born in 1778 and died in 1828, removed from Danbury to Utica, 
N. Y., and was a successful merchant in the hide and leather business. He was a member of the 
New York Assembly in 1820. He married Mary Barnum, daughter of Gabriel Barnum, in 1802. 

James Madison Hoyt, father of Mr. Colgate Hoyt, was the son of David P. Hoyt. He 
was born in Utica in 181 5 and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1834. Studying law, he 
removed to Cleveland, O., and engaged in practice there for nearly twenty years, after which he 
became interested in the real estate business. For twenty-six years he was superintendent of the 
Sunday School of the First Baptist Church in Cleveland, in 1854 was licensed to preach, for many 
years was president of the Ohio Baptist State Convention and, 1866-70, was president of the 
American Baptist Home Missionary Society. His eldest son was the distinguished Reverend Dr. 
Wayland Hoyt, who was born in Cleveland in 1838, graduated from Brown University in i860 and 
was for many years pastor of the Strong Place Church, in Brooklyn. 

Mr. Colgate Hoyt was born in Cleveland, O., March 2d, 1849. He was educated in the 
public schools of Cleveland and then was sent to the celebrated Phillips Academy in Andover, 
Mass., to prepare for college. Ill health compelled him to forego his plans of study, and he 
returned to Cleveland to enter upon a business career. He went into his father's law office and 
finally into the real estate business, and in 1881 removed to New York, becoming a member of 
the banking and bullion firm of J. B. Colgate & Co. In 1882, he was appointed by President 
Arthur one of the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and during his 
entire term of service was chairman of the board. He became a trustee of the Wisconsin Central 
Railroad in 1884, his co-trustees being Charles L. Colby and Edwin H. Abbott, and through their 
labors that road was rehabilitated and the Chicago & Northern Pacific terminal in Chicago 
developed. He was also a director of the Union Pacific Railroad. 

Mr. Hoyt was a director of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, the Northern 
Pacific Railroad and the Oregon & Transcontinental Company, and in 1890 reorganized the latter 
company under the name of the North American Company. His master hand was also seen in 
work for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, to meet the urgent needs of which he formed the 
Northwest Equipment Company and raised $3,000,000. In 1889, he was called to undertake the 
reorganization of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, in which work he was associated with 
Frederic P. Olcott, president of the Central Trust Company. He has been connected with many 
important business enterprises aside from railroads, among them the Spanish-American Iron 
Company, a corporation that he organized to develop the Lola iron mines in Cuba. In 1888, he 
organized the American Steel Barge Company, that built the first whaleback steamship. 

In 1873, Mr. Hoyt married Lida W. Sherman, daughter of Judge Charles T. Sherman 
and niece of General W. T. Sherman. He has a family of four children. He is a popular club- 
man, among his clubs being the Metropolitan, Union League, Lawyers', Riding, Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Yacht, and the Ohio Society. He is a trustee of Brown University. He lives in Park 
Avenue and his country home is Eastover Farm, Oyster Bay, Long Island. 



GROSVENOR SILLIMAN HUBBARD 

JOHN HUBBARD, the ancestor of the family from which this gentleman descends, came over to 
the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England and settled in Boston before 1670. He was a 
soldier in King Philip's War in 1675-6. About 1686 he left Massachusetts and went to 
Connecticut, being one of the proprietors and founders of New Roxbury, afterwards Pomfret. 
His son, John Hubbard, 1689-1731, and his grandson, Benjamin, who was born in 1714, lived for 
a time in Newport, R. I., the latter's wife being Susannah Cady. His great-grandson, Benjamin, 
who was born in 1741, lived in Smithfield, R. I., and Pomfret, Conn., and died in 1790. He was 
Major in the militia and married Chloe Comstock. Stephen Hubbard, 1776- 1853, the son of Major 
Benjamin Hubbard and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married, in 1803, Zeruiah 
Grosvenor, daughter of Oliver and Zeruiah (Payson) Grosvenor. 

The father of Mr. Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard is Professor Oliver Payson Hubbard, who 
was born in Pomfret, Conn., in 1809. After studying at Hamilton College, he graduated from Yale 
College in 1828, where he acted for a time as assistant to the elder Professor Benjamin Silliman. 
In 1836, he became professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology at Dartmouth College, where 
he remained for thirty years. In 1883, he was made Professor Emeritus and still maintains that 
connection. He served two terms as a member of the New Hampshire State Legislature. South 
Carolina Medical College gave him the degree of M. D. in 1837, and in 1861 he received the degree 
of LL. D. from Hamilton College. In 1844 he was one of the founders and one of the secretaries 
of the American Association of Geologists and Naturalists, and at different times was recording 
secretary, vice-president and president of the New York Academy of Sciences, and was connected 
with various other prominent scientific bodies and associations. 

The mother of Mr. Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard was Faith Wadsworth Silliman, who was 
born in New Haven in 1812 and died in New York in 1887. She was the daughter of the elder 
Professor Benjamin Silliman and his wife, Harriet Trumbull, both Mayflower descendants. Through 
her father she was descended from Judge Ebenezer Silliman, of Connecticut, 1707-75. Judge 
Silliman graduated at Yale in 1727 and was a deputy and Speaker to the General Assembly, a 
member of the House of Assistants, and a Major in the militia and Judge of the Superior Court, 
1743-66. His son was GoldSelleck Silliman, of Fairfield, Conn., 1732-1790, Yale College, 1752. He 
was attorney of Fairfield County under the Crown, a Colonel of Cavalry at the outbreak of the 
Revolution, became Brigadier-General in the Continental Army, and in 1779 was captured by the 
British, who sent a special body of troops to his home to secure him and held him on parole until 
he was exchanged for Judge Jones, the well-known Long Island Tory. Professor Benjamin 
Silliman, his son, 1779-1864, Yale College, 1796, was well called by Edward Everett "the Nestor of 
American science." For more than sixty years he was connected with Yale College, and also 
identified with some of the most important scientific investigations and results of the last 
generation. Professor Silliman's wife, the grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was Harriet 
Trumbull, daughter of the second Jonathan Trumbull, 1740- 1809, and granddaughter of the 
first Jonathan Trumbull, a graduate of Harvard, and the great Connecticut patriot of the 
Revolutionary period. The second Jonathan Trumbull was a Harvard graduate, an aide-de-camp 
to General Washington in 1780, and after the war was a member of Congress, Speaker of the 
House of Representatives, Second Congress, United States Senator in 1795, and Governor 
of Connecticut from 1798 until the time of his death. His brother was the well-known 
painter, John Trumbull. 

Mr. Grosvenor Silliman Hubbard was born in Hanover, N. H., October 10th, 1842. He 
was educated at Dartmouth College, Yale, and Columbia College Law Schools, and has practiced 
his profession in New York for many years. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Lawyers', 
University and New York Yacht clubs, the Bar Association, Dartmouth Alumni Association, New 
England Society and the Sons of the Revolution. His city residence is in West Fifty-fifth Street 

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THOMAS H. HUBBARD 

THE sixteenth Governor of the State of Maine, elected in 1849, and again in 1850, was Dr. 
John Hubbard. His ancestors were pioneers of the State of New Hampshire, and those 
from whom he was immediately descended moved into the Colony of Maine, and helped 
to establish the village of Redfield. His father was a medical practitioner, Dr. John Hubbard, and 
his mother was Olive Wilson. The father owned large property and was a man of prominence, 
serving at one time as a representative in the General Court of Massachusetts when Maine was 
part of Massachusetts. Dr. John Hubbard, Junior, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1816, 
and was subsequently made an M. D. by the University of Pennsylvania, and became eminent as a 
physician and surgeon. In 1843, he was elected to the State Senate of Maine, and six years later 
became Governor of that State. He gave much attention to the cause of education, and it was 
during his administration that the Maine Liquor Law was first enacted. In 1857 and 1858, Dr. 
Hubbard was a special agent of the United States Treasury Department to inspect Custom Houses. 
In 1859, President Buchanan appointed him a commissioner, under the reciprocity treaty between 
the United States and England, to settle the fisheries disputes. Dr. Hubbard married, in 1825, 
Sarah H. Barrett, of Dresden, Me., a granddaughter of Oliver Barrett, one of the minute men at 
Lexington, who was killed at the second battle of Stillwater during the Saratoga campaign of the 
Revolutionary War. 

General Thomas H. Hubbard, the son of Dr. John and Sarah H. Hubbard, was born in 
Hallowell, Me., December 20th, 1838, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1857. Taking up 
the study of law, he was admitted to practice in the courts of the State of Maine in i860. The 
following year, he took a further course of study in the Law School of Albany, N. Y., and in May, 
1 86 1, was admitted to practice in New York. With the opening of the Civil War, Mr. Hubbard 
returned to his native State and joined the Twenty-Fifth Maine Regiment, with the commission of 
First Lieutenant and Adjutant. He served with the regiment during the year for which it had been 
mustered in, and part of the time was Assistant Adjutant-General of the brigade to which he was 
attached. When his term of service had expired, he recruited for the Thirtieth Maine Volunteer 
Infantry, of which he was made Lieutenant-Colonel. The regiment took part in the Red River 
expedition, and was present at the battles of Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, Monett's Bluff and 
other engagements, and was employed in the engineering work of that campaign. In 1864, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Hubbard was commissioned Colonel of his regiment, and his command was 
transferred to the Army of the Potomac. In Virginia, he took part in the Shenandoah Valley 
campaign of 1864-65, being at times in command of his brigade. He saw further service in 1865 
in Georgia, and the same year received the brevet rank of Brigadier-General in recognition of his 
faithful service and gallantry. 

After the termination of his military service, General Hubbard returned to New York City 
and resumed the practice of law. For a short time he was associated with the late Charles A. 
Rapallo, afterwards a judge of the Court of Appeals. In 1867, he entered the law firm of Barney, 
Butler & Parsons, which some years later was succeeded by the firm of Butler, Stillman & 
Hubbard. For many years General Hubbard has been chiefly engaged in railroad management, 
and is a vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, president of the Houston & Texas Central 
and Mexican International Railroad companies and of several corporations allied to the Southern 
Pacific Company, and is also a director of the Wabash Railroad Company. 1 

In 1868, General Hubbard married Sibyl A. Fahnestock, of Harrisburg, Pa. Three children 
of this marriage survive. The family reside at 16 West Fifty-eighth Street. General Hubbard is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Union League, City, Lawyers', Riding and Republican clubs, the 
Downtown Association and the New England Society, as well as of the Bar Association and the 
New York State Bar Association. His other affiliations include membership in the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 

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CHARLES BULKLEY HUBBELL 

ACCORDING to well-supported tradition, the Hubbell family is descended from a Danish 
nobleman, Harold Hubbell, who came to England with King Canute in 1016 and received 
estates in Northumberland, with the fortress of Haroldstone. He died in 1035; two of his 
sons fell at the battle of Hastings, and the third, Hugo Hubbell, driven from the North County, 
settled on the estates of Hunsborg and Horstone, in Rutlandshire. The family lost its estates 
in the wars of York and Lancaster, and Andrew Hubbell subsequently became a merchant 
of Plymouth, where he died in 151 5. Richard Hubbell, 1627-1699, his descendant, came 
to New England about 1645. In 1647, he took the oath at New Haven, settled at Guilford, 
Conn., in 1665, was a freeman of Fairfield in 1669, and a man of substance, his estate 
being appraised at eight hundred and sixteen pounds. His wife was a daughter of John Meigs, 
who came to America about 1640 with his father, Vincent Meigs, of Dorsetshire. John Meigs 
lived in East Guilford, Conn., and was a freeman of that place in 1657. 

In the second generation, Mr. Charles Bulkley Hubbell's ancestor, Richard Hubbell, 1654- 
1738, of Stratfield, held many public offices and married Rebecca Morehouse. The silver com- 
munion service now used by the Congregational Church, at Fairfield, Conn., was his gift. His 
elder brother, John Hubbell, was a Lieutenant in the expedition against the Indians after the 
Schenectady massacre. The great-great-grandfather of the present Mr. Hubbell was Captain 
Eleazar Hubbell, 1700- 1770, of Stratfield and New Fairfield, his wife, Abigail Burr, being of 
the same family as Aaron Burr. Next in line of descent were Eleazar Hubbell, 1749-1810, of 
Jericho, Vt., and his wife, Anna Noble. The family was engaged in the West India trade and 
Eleazer Hubbell and his brother during the Revolution captured a British brig off the town of 
Newfield, using one of their own vessels. The present Mr. Hubbell's grandparents were Major 
Lyman Hubbell, 1768-1859, of Williamstown, Mass., and his wife, Louisa Rossiter, daughter of 
Nathan and Hannah (Tuttle) Rossiter. 

Dr. Charles Lyman Hubbell, 1827- 1890, son of Lyman and Louisa (Rossiter) Hubbell, was 
a well-known physician of Troy, N. Y. In 1852, he married Julia E. Bulkley, daughter of Ger- 
shom Taintor Bulkley, of Williamstown, Mass. The Bulkley family descends from the Reverend 
Peter Bulkley, a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, the first minister of Concord, 
Mass., who contributed one-sixth of the volumes that comprised the original library of Harvard 
College. Gershom Bulkley graduated in one of the first classes at Harvard, married the daughter 
of Charles Chauncy, its second president, and gave to the college the ground on which Gore 
Hall now stands. He was the first Surgeon-General of Connecticut. 

Mr. Charles Bulkley Hubbell, the eldest son of Dr. Charles Lyman Hubbell, was born in 
Williamstown, Mass., July 20th, 1853. He was educated at Williams College, from which insti- 
tution he was graduated in the class of 1874. At college he was a noted athlete, being a 
member of the University crew, and was the first student of Williams College to win honors 
in intercollegiate athletic sports. After completing a course of study at law, he was admitted to 
practice, and has since been an active and prominent member of the bar in New York. His 
wife, Emily Allen Chandler, was a daughter of the Honorable William A. Chandler, of Connec- 
ticut, and is a direct descendant of Gurdon Saltonstall, an early Governor of Connecticut. 
Mr. Hubbell's marriage took place in 1879. Their family consists of three daughters. The country 
home of the family is at Brookside Farm, Williamstown, Mass., a place that was owned by 
Captain Absalom Blair, one of Mr. Hubbell's ancestors, in 1764. 

Mr. Hubbell has long taken a great interest in educational matters, has been for 
several years a member of the Board of Education of New York and is now its president. He 
has served as a trustee of Williams College, and is at present the president of its Alumni Asso- 
ciation in New York. He is a member of the New England Society, the Bar Association, the Sons 
of the Revolution, the Society ot Colonial Wars and the University Club. 

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CHARLES I. HUDSON 

ALTHOUGH one of the successful men of affairs in New York of the present day, 
Mr. Hudson's immediate ancestry was identified with the learned professions and the 
world of letters. His paternal grandfather was a clergyman in Bradford, England, and his 
father, Isaac N. Hudson, who was born in England and came to this country in 1830, entered the 
ranks'of American journalism, becoming one of the best known newspaper writers and managers 
of the period preceding the Civil War. He was connected with leading papers in various parts of 
the country, including California, whither he went soon after the gold discoveries and the great 
development of the Pacific Coast. His wife, to whom he was married in 1851, was a New York 
lady of established family, Cornelia A. Bogert Haight, daughter of John Edward Haight, a 
well-known New York merchant of that period. 

Mr. Charles I. Hudson was their eldest son, and was born in this city August 20th, 1852. 
He received his early education at schools in this city, but, determining to follow a business career, 
he went into Wall Street while still a mere lad and began his active life as a junior employee of 
S. M. Mills & Co., at that time one of the most prominent brokerage houses in the city. The 
period at which Mr. Hudson thus made his debut was one of more active and excited speculation 
than the country had ever seen before or since. The years succeeding the Civil War produced 
also some of the largest speculators that ever appeared in Wall Street, and the record of those days 
is one of gigantic operations, which attracted the attention of the entire country. Mr. Hudson 
from the outset manifested an aptitude for the profession he had chosen, and not only was his 
advancement rapid, but he made the acquaintance and secured the friendship of a number of the 
most prominent financiers and speculative operators. Having also been prudent and successful in 
his personal affairs, he purchased a seat in the New York Stock Exchange in 1874 and entered the 
brokerage business on his own account. In 1876, Mr. Hudson established the firm of C. I. Hudson 
& Co. ; his partner at the outset being Henry N. Smith, a gentleman of great prominence in Wall 
Street, and who at one time was the partner of the famous Jay Gould. While Mr. Hudson has 
been its head throughout, the composition of the partnership has undergone several changes, but 
the same style has been retained. The present partners are Mr. Hudson and A. H. DeForrest, 
also a member of the Exchange. 

Mr. Hudson has taken an active place not only in banking and brokerage fields, but in the 
management of the Stock Exchange. As a candidate on an independent ticket, he was in 1891 
chosen one of the governors of that institution for a term of four years and was again elected in 
1896. He is noted for his original and far-sighted ideas in business, an instance of which is 
afforded by the part he took in introducing the securities of large industrial corporations upon the 
Stock Exchange and making them features of the Wall Street market. Appreciating the 
possibilities such organizations held forth to the members of the Exchange as vehicles for 
investment and speculation, he was personally instrumental in having the shares of some of the 
first companies of this kind admitted to regular quotation and made such securities a specialty 
with his firm, which for this reason, as well as for the generally wise policy of its head, acquired 
an enormous business. 

Outside of Wall Street, Mr. Hudson has few interests. In 1888, he was an organizer of the 
Fourteenth Street Bank and one of its directors for some years. His clubs include the Manhattan, 
Colonial, Democratic, New York Athletic, Riding, Larchmont Yacht and American Jersey Cattle 
clubs. His country home is The Ledges, a handsome place among the Thousand Islands of the 
St. Lawrence, and he was one of the organizers and a director of the Thousand Island Club and is a 
member of the St. Lawrence River Association. 

In 1876, Mr. Hudson married Sarah E. Kierstede, of Scranton, Pa., a lady descended from 
New York Dutch families, the famous Anneke Jans being among her ancestors. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hudson have four children, Percy Kierstede, Hendrick, Hans Kierstede and Charles Alan Hudson. 



GEORGE HUNTINGTON HULL 

IN the early records of the New England Colonies appeared the names of the five brothers of 
the Hull family, John, George, Richard, Joseph and Robert, natives of Derbyshire, England, 
who, with their descendants, early attained prominence in the Colonies. Richard Hull, who 
resided in Dorchester, Mass., in 1634, was the founder of that branch of the family to which the 
subject of this sketch belongs. Moving to New Haven, in 1639, he became a representative to the 
General Court of Connecticut, and died in 1662. Dr. John Hull, his son, was born in New Haven 
in 1640. He resided in Stratford, 1661-68, was one of the original twelve settlers of Pawgassett, 
now Derby, and afterwards resided in Wallingford, where he died. He was a selectman, 1677- 
80-83-87, a member of the General Assembly, and received a grant of seven hundred acres of 
land in Wallingford for his services as surgeon in King Philip's War. Dr. Benjamin Hull, his 
son, 1 672- 1 77 1, was a prominent physician in Wallingford. His son, Dr. John Hull, was born 
in Wallingford in 1702 and married Sarah Ives in 1727. Dr. Zephaniah Hull, their son, 1728-1760, 
married Hannah Doolittle in 1749. He practiced medicine in Bethlehem, where he attained to a 
great influence. Dr. Titus Hull, their son, was born at Bethlehem in 175 1. He married, second, 
Olive (Lewis) Parmelee in 1778. He was a surgeon in the War of the Revolution and moved 
to New York State in 1807. The Reverend Leverett Hull, son of the last named, was born in Beth- 
lehem, Conn., in 1796, graduated from Hamilton College in 1824, and from Auburn Theological 
Seminary. He spent his life in the ministry in New York State and in Ohio, whither he moved 
in 1844, dying there in 1852. He married, in 1830, for his second wife, Sarah Lord, of Rome, N. Y. 

Mr. George Huntington Hull, son of the Reverend Leverett Hull and Sarah Lord, was born 
in Dansville, N. Y., in 1840, and was taken to Ohio with his parents in 1844. He was educated 
in Oakfield and Alexandria, N. Y., and then went into mercantile life in Cincinnati. At the 
beginning of the Civil War, he was a member of the Cincinnati Zouaves, the first company to 
leave for the war on President Lincoln's call for troops, and afterwards was in the United States 
Quartermaster's office in Cincinnati. Returning to civil life, he joined a mercantile firm in Cincin- 
nati. In 1871, he established an iron business in Louisville, Ky., and in 1890, removing to New 
York, founded the American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Company, and has since been its president. 

In 1877, Mr. Hull married Lucia Eugene Houston, of Louisville, Ky., daughter of Judge 
Russell and Grizelda (Polk) Houston. On both sides, Mrs. Hull is descended from families of 
importance in the Southern States. On the paternal side, her grandparents were David and 
Hannah (Regan) Houston. Her maternal grandfather, Dr. William Julius Polk, whose wife was 
Mary L. Long, belonged to a race which sprang from noble ancestors in Europe and has been 
of prominence in the United States. The name of Polk, originally spelt Pollock, is traced to 
Fulbert, the Saxon, Tempore Malcom III., of Scotland, who held the great feudal barony of 
Pollok in Renfrewshire. From him came a long line of Barons de Poliok. A branch of this 
family was established in the North of Ireland, by Sir Robert de Pollok, one of whose descendants, 
Robert Bruce Pollok, with his wife, Magdalen Tasker, and six sons and two daughters, came to 
Somerset County, Md., about 1680. John Pollock, or Polk, son of Robert Pollok, married Joanna 
Knox, and their son, William Polk, removed to North Carolina and married, first, Priscilla Roberts. 
One of William Polk's sons, Ezekiel Polk, was the grandfather of James Knox Polk, President of 
the United States. Mrs. Hull's ancestor was another son of William Polk. General Thomas 
Polk, who was prominent in the Mecklenburg Declaration, was with Washington at Brandywine 
and Valley Forge, and married Susan Spratt. Colonel William Polk, his son, was also in the 
Revolutionary Army and married, first, Grizelda Gilchrist, by whom he was the father of Dr. 
William Julius Polk, who was Mrs. Hull's grandfather. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hull make their residence in Tuxedo Park. He is a member of the Union 
League, Lawyers' and Tuxedo clubs, the Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of the American 
Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 



RICHARD HOWLAND HUNT 

ANCESTORS of this gentleman figured prominently in the public affairs of the country, 
while his immediate family have been identified with the contemporary development of 
art in the United States. Mr. Hunt's father was one of the foremost architects of America, 
and his uncle had a leading place among distinguished American painters. John Hunt, the founder 
of this interesting American family, came from England and settled in Connecticut, where he 
married a daughter of John Webster, the fifth Governor of that Colony. His son, Jonathan Hunt, 
from whom the branch of the family to which this refers is descended, was born in 1637, and 
moved from Connecticut to Northampton, Mass., in 1670. He was a freeman in 1662, a deacon of 
the church and a representative to the General Court. The son of Jonathan Hunt and his wife, 
Clemence (Hosmer) Hunt, was Jonathan Hunt, of Northampton, 1665- 1738, who married Martha 
Williams, daughter of Samuel and Theoda (Park) Williams, and his grandson was Samuel Hunt, 
1703-1770, who married Ann Ellsworth, daughter of John and Esther Ellsworth, of Windsor, Conn. 

In the third generation after Jonathan Hunt, of Northampton, came the Honorable Jonathan 
Hunt, of Vermont, the great-grandfather of Mr. Richard Howland Hunt. Jonathan Hunt was 
born in 1738, and early in life removed to Vermont, where he became prominent in public affairs. 
In 1780, he was a member of a committee appointed to consider plans for the union of New York 
and Vermont, was one of the claimants to lands in Vermont which had been ceded to New York, 
was sheriff of Windham County, an associate censor in 1786 to revise the State Constitution, 
and afterwards Lieutenant-Governor, dying in 1823. Jonathan Hunt, son of Lieutenant-Governor 
Hunt, was born in 1787. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1807, became a prominent 
lawyer, was a representative to the State Legislature at an early age and a Member of Congress, 
1827-32, dying at Washington during his term of office. His wife was Jane Marie Leavitt. 
Their sons were Richard M. Hunt, the architect, and William M. Hunt, the painter. 

Richard Morris Hunt, father of Mr. Richard Howland Hunt, was born at Brattleboro, Vt., in 
1828, and died in Newport, R. I., in 1895. Graduating from the Boston High School in 1843, he 
went to Europe the same year and studied architecture in Geneva, Paris and elsewhere. In 1855, 
he returned to the United States, where he soon took rank as one of the greatest architects of his 
generation, attaining an international reputation. Among his many notable works are, the Lenox 
Library Building, the Presbyterian Hospital, The New York Tribune Building, the William K. 
Vanderbilt, Ogden Mills, Elbridge T. Gerry, John Jacob Astor and Henry G. Marquand houses in 
New York; the Cornelius Vanderbilt, Ogden Goelet and O. H. P. Belmont residences in Newport; 
the Vanderbilt place at Biltmore, N. C. ; the Marquand chapel at Princeton College; the Divinity 
School Building at Yale College, and the Vanderbilt mausoleum on Staten Island. 

He received many professional honors from all parts of the world, and a public memorial to 
him is soon to be erected in Central Park, New York. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal 
by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1893; in 1894, was elected an associate member of 
the Academie des Beaux Arts; was an honorary member of the Central Society of French 
Architects, the Architects' Society of Vienna, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Academy 
of St. Luke in Rome, and received the Cross of the Legion of Honor, of France. His wife, 
Catharine Howland, survives her distinguished husband and resides at 178 Madison Avenue. 

Mr. Richard Howland Hunt is their son, and was born at Paris, France, in 1862. He was 
educated at the Institute of Technology, and, finishing his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts at 
Paris, with a view to following his father's profession, has gained individual distinction as an 
architect. In 1885, Mr. Hunt married Pearl Carley, daughter of Francis D. Carley, of this city, and 
his wife, who was Grace Chess. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt have three children, Richard Carley, Frank 
Carley and Jonathan Hunt. Mr. Hunt belongs to the American Institute of Architects and the 
Architectural League and other professional bodies, and is a member of the Players and Racquet 
clubs and the Century Association. 



COLLIS POTTER HUNTINGTON 

STARTING upon the voyage to New England in 1633, Simon Huntington, who was born 
in Norwich, England, died on the way and was buried at sea. His widow, whose 
maiden name was Margaret Barnet, landed in Boston with her three sons, Christopher, 
Simon and Samuel, and settled in Roxbury, afterwards removing to Windsor, Conn., where she 
married again, and with which town some of the Huntington family were long identified. Simon 
Huntington, the second son of this family, was born in England in 1629, and grew to manhood in 
this country. One of the first settlers of the town of Norwich, he was a deacon of the church, 
1660-96, a representative to the General Court in 1674 and 1685, and died there in 1706. By his 
wife, Sarah Clark, who was the daughter of Joseph Clark, of Windsor, he left a large family. 

Simon Huntington was the great-great-great-grandfather of Mr. Collis Potter Huntington. 
His son, Samuel, who was born in Norwich in 1665, died in 1717. Removing to Lebanon in 
1700, he was a large landholder, a Lieutenant of the militia and held many public offices. He 
married, in 1686, Mary Clark, daughter of William Clark, of Wethersfield. Their son, John, who 
was born in 1706 and married Mehitable Metcalf, was the great-grandfather of Mr. C. P. 
Huntington, whose grandparents* were Joseph Huntington, 1739-1820, and Rachel Preston. The 
father of Mr. Huntington was William Huntington, who was born in 1784, married Elizabeth 
Vincent and lived in Walcottville, where he was a manufacturer. 

One of the most distinguished members of this historic family was the Honorable Samuel 
Huntington, who represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration 
of Independence, being afterwards Chief Justice and Governor of the State. The family also 
furnished many Revolutionary soldiers. Major-General Jabez Huntington, 1719-1786, graduated 
from Yale College in 1741, was frequently a member of the Legislature, a Speaker of the House 
and member of the Governor's Council. His son, Ebenezer Huntington, 1754- 1834, graduated 
from Yale College in the class of 1771 and was a Lieutenant-Colonel, Major and Adjutant-General 
during the War of the Revolution, General of the State Militia in 1792, and a member of the 
National House of Representatives in 1810 and in 1817. 

Mr. Collis Potter Huntington illustrates in his career the qualities inherent in the strong New 
England race of which he is a descendant. In his case, the ability and energy characteristic of the 
family were directed into the new channels opened by the country's material expansion, his fame 
resting upon his success in the conception and execution of enterprises that rank among the greatest 
public works of the century. Mr. Huntington was born in Harwinton, Litchfield County, Conn., 
October 22d, 1821. After receiving a substantial education, he went into business at an early age, 
and in 1849 joined the exodus to the Pacific coast, where he established himself in business, becom- 
ing one of the most influential merchants of California. In association with Mark Hopkins, Leland 
Stanford and Charles Crocker, he constructed the Central Pacific Railroad, and has maintained a 
dominant influence in the subsequent railroad operations which led to the building of the Southern 
Pacific system, and to the concentration of the great railroad properties of that section of the 
country under the corporate title of the Southern Pacific Company. He is president of the 
Southern Pacific Company, and also of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. 

Since 1880, he has made New York his permanent home. His residence, at the corner of 
Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street, is distinguished for both its architectural features and the 
character of its interior decorations. He also possesses a summer home at Throgg's Neck, on 
Long Island Sound, a feature of which is the extensive green-houses. Mr. Huntington's devotion 
to his business interests is proverbial and his capacity for work is remarkable. His tastes, apart 
from his absorbing occupations, are entirely domestic, but he is a member of the Union League 
Club and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History 
and the American Geographical Society. His town residence contains a choice collection of 
paintings, and he is also a discriminating collector of books. 



DANIEL HUNTINGTON 

BOTH the paternal and maternal ancestry of Mr. Daniel Huntington is traced back to Simon 
Huntington, 1629-1706, of Norwich, Conn., one of the three brothers whose father, Simon 
Huntington, died at sea in 1633 while on the way to New England. In successive genera- 
tions from the second Simon Huntington, the ancestors of Mr. Daniel Huntington were: Daniel, 
1676—1741, and his wife, Rachel Wolcott; Benjamin, 1736-1800, and his wife, Anne Huntington; 
and Benjamin, 1777- 1850, and his wife, Faith Trumbull Huntington, daughter of General Jedediah 
Huntington. The first Benjamin Huntington graduated from Yale College in 1761. He was a 
member of the Connecticut Committee of Safety from 1775 to 1778, and of the Continental Con- 
gress from 1780 to 1784 and in 1787-88. In 1789, he was a member of the first Congress under 
the Constitution, a State Senator from 1781 to 1799, Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court from 
1793 to 1799, and was also chosen the first Mayor of Norwich, Conn., when it became a city, in 
1784. The second Benjamin Huntington was a well-known broker in New York. 

Mr. Huntington's mother also traced her ancestry through another line to Simon Huntington. 
She was sixth in descent from Simon Huntington, of Norwich, Conn., her ancestor being Simon 
Huntington, 1659-1736, a brother of Daniel, the ancestor of her husband. This Simon Huntington 
married Lydia Gager, daughter of John Gager, whose grandfather came to America in 1630. Their 
son was Joshua Huntington, 1698-1745, and their grandson, Gen&ral Jabez Huntington, 1719-1786, 
was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly, Major-General of the militia and member of 
the Committee of Safety. His first wife, the grandmother of Faith Trumbull Huntington, was 
Elizabeth Backus, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Tracy) Backus. Jedediah Huntington, 1743- 
1818, son of General Huntington, graduated from Harvard College in 1763. He was active in the 
War of the Revolution, attaining the rank of Brigadier-General and brevet Major-General in the 
Continental Army. He was afterwards Treasurer of Connecticut, delegate to the State Convention 
which adopted the Federal constitution, and collector of the port of New London. His second wife, 
Ann Moore, daughter of Thomas Moore, of New York, was the mother of Faith Trumbull Hunt- 
ington. Several sons of Benjamin and Faith Trumbull Huntington became distinguished men. The 
Reverend Dr. Gurdon Huntington, 1818-1875, was an eminent clergyman of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church. Another son, the Reverend Jedediah Vincent Huntington, 181 5-1862, entered the 
ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1841, but afterwards became a Roman Catholic. 

Mr. Daniel Huntington, a son of Benjamin Huntington and his wife, Faith Trumbull Hunt- 
ington, was born in New York, October 14th, 1816. After a course at Hamilton College, in 
1835, he began the study of art in the studio of Professor Samuel F. B. Morse, then president of the 
National Academy of Design. He produced several paintings, which were successful as works of 
art and decided his future career. In 1839, ne went to Europe, resided several years in Rome, 
perfecting himself in his chosen profession. Upon his return to New York, he made portraits and 
genre work his specialties, and soon attained a prominent position among American painters. He 
has painted portraits of many of the most famous American public men of his day, and few of our 
painters have exhibited greater versatility of talent or broader and purer artistic sympathies. In 
1840, Mr. Huntington was elected a member of the National Academy of Design, of which institu- 
tion he was president from 1862 to 1869, and from 1877 to 1892. 

In 1842, Mr. Huntington married Harriet S. Richards, second daughter of Charles and Sarah 
(Henshaw) Richards. Mrs. Huntington's direct ancestors were Lieutenant John Richards, 1666, 
and Captain Guy Richards, 1722, of New London, while she also descends through maternal lines 
from Elder William Brewster and John Alden, of the Mayflower. Mr. and Mrs. Huntington had 
one son, Charles Richards Huntington, of this city, who married Mary Irving, daughter of Edgar 
Irving. Mr. Huntington lives in East Twentieth Street. He is a member of the Century Association, 
the A A 4> club, and the American Geographical Society, and is a trustee of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. 



WILLIAM REED HUNTINGTON, D. D. 

GRACE CHURCH is distinctly the parish of the older New York families, and is, therefore, 
one of the most important charges of the Episcopal Church, not only in New York, but 
in the whole country. For more than fourteen years it has been under the charge of Dr. 
Huntington, who, though now completely identified with New York, is a New Englander by birth 
and early associations, and is a descendant of a race that holds a high place in the annals of 
Massachusetts and Connecticut, and which has furnished many members of prominence in various 
walks of modern American life. The ancestors of this remarkable family were among the early 
Puritan emigrants to Massachusetts, but left the Bay Colony with the first settlers of Connecticut, 
since which time the latter Colony and Commonwealth has never been without distinguished 
representatives of the name. 

William Reed Huntington, D. D., who was born at Lowell, Mass., in 1838, is the son of 
Elisha Huntington, M. D., and his wife, Hannah Hinckley, the latter being a daughter of Joseph 
and Deborah Hinckley, of Marblehead. The Huntington family in New England springs from 
Christopher and Simon Huntington, two brothers who arrived in Boston in 1633, and whose 
father, Simon, died during the voyage from England to the New World. The two took part in 
the founding of the town of Norwich, Conn., in 1660. The brothers had numerous descendants 
in both Connecticut and Massachusetts, some of whom took active parts in the Colonial struggles 
with the French and their savage allies, as well as in the Revolutionary War, while among them 
were numbered many ministers of the gospel; Dr. Huntington himself being the grandson of the 
Reverend Ashahel Huntington, of Topsfield, Mass., who married Alethea Lord, of Abington, 
Conn. Their son, Elisha Huntington, was born in Topsfield in 1796, graduated at Dartmouth 
College in 1815, and at the Medical School of Yale in 182s. He established himself at Lowell, of 
which city he was Mayor for eight terms, and in 1855 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A leader in the medical profession, he served as president of 
the Massachusetts Medical Society, and delivered many addresses before it and other bodies, while, 
as already noted, he took an active part in political life. 

His son, Dr. William Reed Huntington, passed his youth in Lowell, and entered Harvard 
College, from which he was graduated in 1859. He was the poet of his class, and in 1870 was 
again honored by his alma mater as the 4> B K poet for that year. The degree of Doctor 
of Divinity was conferred on him in 1873 by Columbia College, and by Princeton University at its 
sesqui-centennial in 1896. He has also been given the degree of D. C. L. by the University of the 
South. He entered the Protestant Episcopal ministry in 1861, was at first attached to Emmanuel 
Church, Boston, and became the rector of All Saints, Worcester, in 1862. From this post he was 
called to Grace Church, New York, in 1883. To describe Dr. Huntington's labors in this 
distinguished but trying charge would be but to rehearse the progress of the church during the 
past fourteen years. Possessing not only lofty and convincing eloquence as a pulpit orator, Dr. 
Huntington has exercised a marked personal influence among both clergy and laity. His literary 
activity has been considerable, his published writings including, among other books, The Church 
Idea, Conditional Immortality, Causes of the Soul, The Peace of the Church, and A Short History 
of the Book of Common Prayer, and many papers on ecclesiastical and literary subjects. 

In 1865, Dr. Huntington married Theresa, youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Reynolds, of 
Boston, a granddaughter of John Phillips, the first Mayor of Boston, and niece of the orator and 
philanthropist, Wendell Phillips. The children of this marriage are: Francis Cleaveland 
Huntington, a lawyer of this city, and three daughters, Margaret Wendell, Theresa, wife of Royal 
Robbins, of Boston, and Mary Hinckley, wife of William G. Thompson, a lawyer of Boston. Dr. 
Huntington is a member of the Century, University and Harvard clubs, and resides with his family 
in the beautiful rectory of Grace Church, now the only dwelling left in Broadway south of Union 
Square. 

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AUGUSTUS S. HUTCHINS 

NEARLY half a century has elapsed since the family name which this gentleman bears 
became prominent in law and politics in New York. Both his paternal and maternal 
ancestry is derived from illustrious and patriotic Connecticut families. His father, Waldo 
Hutchins, was born in Brooklyn, Conn., in 1823, and was descended from the Puritan founders 
of that commonwealth. Graduated from Amherst College, he was admitted to the bar and 
beginning the practice of his profession in New York, was thereafter identified with this city. 
Becoming an active supporter of the Democratic party, Mr. Hutchins was a member of the State 
Assembly in 1852, and in 1867 was elected to the Constitutional Convention. In 1878, he was 
chosen a Member of Congress from the Westchester County District, his residence being in Kings- 
bridge, and was reelected for two succeeding terms. For many years he was a Park Commissioner, 
and in many ways active in municipal councils. 

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Augustus S. Hutchins was Governor William Walcott 
Ellsworth, of Connecticut. Governor Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Conn., in 1791, and died 
in Hartford, in 1868. Graduated from Yale College in 1810, he studied law in Litchfield and 
Hartford and was admitted to the bar in 181 3, beginning practice in Hartford. In the same year, 
he married Emily Webster, eldest daughter of Noah Webster, the great lexicographer, who was 
descended from John Webster, one of the founders of Hartford and an early Governor of Con- 
necticut ; and on his mother's side from William Bradford, the second Governor of the Plymouth 
Colony. While a student in Yale College, Noah Webster volunteered and served in the Continental 
Army in the Saratoga Campaign. In 18 17, William Walcott Ellsworth became a partner with his 
brother-in-law, Judge Williams, and from 1827 until the time of his death, a period of forty-one 
years, was a professor of law in Trinity College. From 1829 to 1834, he was a Whig Member 
of Congress. In 1838, he was chosen Governor of Connecticut and was reelected for three suc- 
cessive terms. In 1847, he became Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and remained 
on the bench until he was seventy years of age. His twin brother, Henry L. Ellsworth, was 
Commissioner of Patents from 1836 to 1848. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Hutchins was Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth, 1745-1807, who 
studied in Yale College, but was graduated from Princeton in 1766. He was admitted to the bar 
in Hartford, in 1771, and was State's Attorney in 1775, being in the following year a representative 
from Windsor, in the General Assembly. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1 777, 
a member of the Governor's Council 1780-84, Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court 1784-87, 
and in 1 787 a member of the Federal Convention at Philadelphia. He was one of the Senators 
for Connecticut in the first United States Congress, and a devoted supporter of Washington's 
administration. In 1 796, he was appointed, by Washington, Chief Justice of the United States 
Supreme Court, and in 1 799 went abroad as one of the Envoys Extraordinary of the United 
States to negotiate a treaty with France. Upon his return from Europe in 1800, he resigned 
from the bench, but in 1 807 was appointed Chief Justice of Connecticut. 

Mr. Augustus S. Hutchins is the eldest son of Waldo Hutchins, and was born in New 
York in 1856. Educated in Amherst College, he was graduated from that institution in the 
class of 1879 and supplemented his collegiate course by a study of law, after which he entered 
upon the practice of his profession in New York. The Hutchins family having a very large 
interest in the Second Avenue Railroad Company, Mr. Hutchins has for many years been the 
counsel for that company, has been the legal representative of other corporations, and is also 
vice-president of the Metropolitan Savings Bank. He is unmarried and resides in the old family 
homestead in Kingsbridge. He is a member of the Manhattan Club, the Bar Association and the 
New England Society. His brother, Waldo J. Hutchins, is a graduate from Yale College, and a 
lawyer ; another brother, William E. Hutchins, was formerly president of the North River Fire 
Insurance Company. 

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EDWIN FRANCIS HYDE 

NORWICH, Conn., was settled in 1660, by a company 01 proprietors, principally from 
Saybrook and New London, and included the founders of several families of distinction. 
Among them was William Hyde, the ancestor of the Hyde family, who came to 
America with the Reverend Thomas Hooker, and lived successively in Newton, Mass., Hartford, 
Saybrook and Norwich, where he died, in 1681. His daughter, Hester, and her husband, 
John Post, accompanied him to Norwich, as well as his son, Samuel, who was born at Hart- 
ford, in 1637, and died in 1677. Samuel's son, John Hyde, of Norwich, 1667-1727, married his 
second cousin, Experience Abel, daughter of Caleb Abel, and their son, Captain James Hyde, 
1707-1793, also married a cousin, Sarah Marshall, daughter of Abijah and Abial (Cuff) Marshall. 

Captain James Hyde, of Norwich, 1752-1809, the son of the first James Hyde, was an 
officer in the Continental Army, throughout the Revolutionary War. In civil life, he was a 
man of considerable prominence and attained more than local distinction. His wife, whom he 
married in 1774, was Martha Nevins Lathrop, who was born in Norwich, in 1756, her father 
and mother, Nevins and Mary Lathrop, being prominent residents of that place in the early 
part of the eighteenth century. Her grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Simon Lathrop, commanded 
a Connecticut regiment at the siege of Louisburg, and was in charge of that fortress after its 
capture. Their son, the grandfather of Mr. Edwin Francis Hyde, was Erastus Hyde, who was 
born in Norwich, in 1775. He lived in Norwich until after he had arrived at full age, and 
then, soon after 1800, removed to Middlebury, Vt. Subsequently, he lived at Mystic and 
Groton, Conn. His wife, whom he married in 1797, was Fanny Bell, born in 1775, the 
daughter of Captain Joseph Bell, of Stonington, Conn. Edwin Hyde, son of Erastus Hyde, 
was born at Groton, Conn., in 1812. Early in life he came to New York and entered upon 
business life, becoming in time one of the most prosperous merchants of the city. His wife 
was Elizabeth Alvina Mead, whom he married in 1833. She was born in Belleville, N. J., and 
was the daughter of Ralph Mead, a prominent merchant of New York. The firm of Ralph 
Mead & Co. was one of the most substantial of its kind in the city ; in its successive forms 
it occupied the same location in Coenties Slip for over seventy years. 

Edwin Hyde and his wife, Elizabeth Alvina, had a family of nine sons. Augustus Lord 
Hyde, the eldest, was born in 1835 ; the second son, Ralph Mead Hyde, was born in 1837, 
and died in 1839 ; the third, also named Ralph Mead, was born in 1839 ; Edwin Francis 
Hyde was born in 1842 ; Frederick Erastus Hyde was born in 1844 ; Clarence Melville Hyde 
was born in 1846 ; Edmund Janes Hyde was born in 1848, and died in 1849 ; Herbert Morti- 
mer Hyde was born in 1850; and Samuel Mead Hyde was born in 1853. Several of this 
family have been prominent in New York. Augustus L. Hyde, the eldest son, married Miss 
St. John, lives in East Eighteenth Street, and has one son and one daughter. Ralph Mead 
Hyde is a member of the New England Society and the Union League Club. Frederick Erastus 
Hyde is a well-known physician, residing in West Fifty-third Street, and is a member of the 
Metropolitan Club. Clarence Melville Hyde is a graduate of Columbia College, a lawyer and 
a member of the Metropolitan Club, and married a Miss Babbitt. 

Mr. Edwin Francis Hyde, the third surviving son of this interesting family, has been 
prominent in financial circles. He is now vice-president of the Central Trust Company, of 
New York. He married Marie E. Brown, daughter of Albert N. Brown, and lives at 835 Fifth 
Avenue. He is a member of the Bar Association, the Century Association, the Downtown 
Association, the American Geographical Society, and the New England Society, the Metropolitan, 
City, Lawyers', Union League, Riding and Presbyterian clubs, and is a patron of the Metroplitan 
Museum of Art. He is interested in the progress of orchestral music, and has been for ten 
years president of the Philharmonic Society of New York. He is a member of many benevo- 
lent and scientific societies, and is an elder and trustee of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. 

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HENRY BALDWIN HYDE 

SEVERAL families bearing the name of Hyde have been settled in this country since the 
Colonial period, and can trace their origin to undoubted English ancestry. It is not 
certain, however, that they have all had a common progenitor, at least so far as researches 
in modern historical times have revealed. Among the first Hydes to come to this country was 
Samuel Hyde, who was settled in Newtown (Cambridge), Mass., in 1640. About the same 
time, his brother Jonathan arrived. Humphrey Hyde came to Fairfield, Conn., in 1665. John 
Hyde immigrated in 1750, and went to Richmond, Va., where many of his descendants have been 
people of importance. William Hyde, the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, undoubtedly 
belonged to the same family as Samuel and Jonathan Hyde, who were in Massachusetts in 1640. 
He came of a worthy English family, and in England was among the followers of the Reverend 
Thomas Hooker, immigrating to this country as one of the band of Colonists which that 
eminent divine brought over in 1633. First he settled in Newtown, Mass., where he lived for 
a few years. But when the Reverend Mr. Hooker organized that famous migration that resulted 
in the settlement of the Hartford Colony in 1636, William Hyde accompanied him. 

In Hartford, William Hyde took up a considerable section of land, and became one of the 
leading men of the new settlement. He prospered in worldly affairs, and had much to do with 
the management of the Colony. Upon the monument in the old cemetery of Hartford, Conn., 
his name appears among those of the original settlers. The land which he owned remained in 
the possession of his descendants for several generations. When the town of Saybrook was 
established, he removed to that place, and afterwards was one of the pioneers engaged in the first 
settlement of the town of Norwich. Samuel Hyde, son of William Hyde, the pioneer, was born 
in Hartford, about 1637. He removed to Norwich in 1660, where he was engaged in farming, and 
where he died in 1677. His wife, whom he married in 1659, was Jane Lee, of East Saybrook, 
daughter of Thomas Lee. 

The son of Samuel Hyde and his wife, Jane Lee, was Thomas Hyde, who was born in 
Norwich in 1673, the fourth son in his father's family, was a farmer, and died in 1755. Mary 
Backus, his wife, was a daughter of Stephen Backus and Sarah Gardner, who belonged to the first 
company of settlers in Norwich. In the next generation, Abner Hyde, who was born in Norwich 
in 1706, the third son of Thomas Hyde, married Jerusha Huntington, daughter of Captain James 
Huntington and his wife, Priscilla Miller. Jerusha Huntington was a granddaughter of the pioneers, 
Deacon Simon Huntington and Sarah Clark, of Norwich. Abner Hyde and his wife settled at 
West Farms, Norwich, Conn., where she died in 1733. His second wife, the ancestress of the 
subject of this sketch, was Mehitable Smith, second daughter of Captain Obadiah Smith and 
Martha Abel. The paternal grandfather of Mehitable Smith was Edward Smith, of New London. 
Her mother was the second daughter of Joshua Abel, one of the first settlers of Norwich. 

Asa Hyde, the great-grandfather of Mr. Henry Baldwin Hyde, was born in Norwich in 
1742, and died in 1812. His wife was Lucy Rowland. Mr. Hyde's grandfather was Wilkes 
Hyde, of Catskill, N. Y., where he died in 1856, and his grandmother was Sarah Hazen, daughter 
of Jacob Hazen, of Franklin, Conn. ; his father was Henry Hazen Hyde, born in Catskill, N. Y. 
in 1805, and his mother was Lucy Baldwin Beach, who was born in 1807, and died in 1846, 
daughter of the Reverend James Beach and Hannah C. Baldwin, of Winsted, Conn. 

Mr. Henry Baldwin Hyde, the second son in his father's family, was born February 
5th, 1844. He has been connected with the insurance business during the greater part of his life, 
and is now president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. He married Anna Fitch, lives in 
East Fortieth Street, and has a son, James Hazen Hyde, who is a student in Harvard University. 
He belongs to the Union, Union League, Lawyers', South Side Sportsmen's, Riding and West- 
minster Kennel clubs, and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. 



J. E. HINDON HYDE 

ONE of the band of Colonists brought over to America by the Reverend Thomas Hooker, 
William Hyde, the ancestor of Mr. J. E. Hindon Hyde, is first recorded in Hartford, 
Conn., in 1636. For a short time before going to Hartford he lived in Boston and 
vicinity, and subsequently settled in Norwich, in which place he died in 1681. He was one 
of the original proprietors of Norwich in 1660 and frequently a selectman of that town. Samuel 
Hyde, of Norwich, son of William Hyde, was born in Hartford about 1637 and died in Norwich 
about 1677, having gone to that place with his father. He was a prosperous man and married 
Jane Lee, daughter of Thomas Lee, of Lynn, England, who sailed from England in 1641, but 
died on the voyage, his widow and children settling in Saybrook. John Hyde, of Norwich, 
who was born in 1667 and died in 1727, succeeded to the estate of his father, Samuel. He 
married, in 1698, his second cousin, Experience Abel, daughter of Caleb and Margaret 
(Post) Abel. 

In the next generation, James Hyde, of Norwich, was born in 1707 and became the 
great-great-grandfather of Mr. J. E. Hindon Hyde. He was a leading shipmaster and one of the 
influential men in Norwich, where he lived throughout his life. In 1743, he married his third 
cousin, Sarah Marshall, daughter of Abijah Marshall. He died in 1793, preceded by his wife in 
1773, leaving a family of six children. Both he and his wife are buried in the old cemetery in 
Norwich. Ebenezer Hyde, in the following generation, was born in Norwich in 1748 and died 
there in 1816. His first wife, whom he married in 1752, and who became the great-grand- 
mother of the present Mr. Hyde, was Chloe Ellsworth, daughter of Daniel and Mary Ellsworth, 
of Ellington, Conn. He married, second, in 1747, Phoebe Huntington, daughter of Peter 
Huntington, and third, in 1799, Elizabeth Peck. By his first wife he had two sons, the 
youngest of whom, John Ellsworth Hyde, was born in Norwich in 1781 and became one of 
the leading importers and wholesale merchants in New York City during the first half of the 
present century. His wife was Maria Little, daughter of Jonathan Little, of Lebanon, Conn., 
who was his third consin. He died in New York in 1844. 

The father of Mr. J. E. Hindon Hyde was John James Hyde, son of John E. Hyde. He 
was born in New York in 18 18 and died in St. Servan, France, in 1889. He succeeded to his 
father's business as importer and was one of the foremost merchants in his line of business 
about the middle of the present century. He married Maria L. Card, daughter of William 
Card. Her father was a wealty grain merchant, and at one time owned one of the largest 
fleets of vessels that plied upon the Hudson River. When John J. Hyde died, he left two sons 
and two daughters. 

The elder son of this family, Mr. J. E. Hindon Hyde, was born in New York, April 
13th, 1856, and was graduated from Columbia College in 1876, and from the Columbia Law 
School, with the degree of LL. B., in 1878. He lives in West Eleventh Street and is a member 
of the Metropolitan Club. In 1889, he married Ellen Elizabeth Hulings Williams, daughter of 
Goodwin G. Williams, of Baltimore, a member of one of the oldest families on the eastern 
shore of Virginia. The first ancestors of this historic Williams family were settled in Virginia 
in the earliest Colonial period. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde have one daughter, Helen Elizabeth Williams 
Hyde, and one son, John James Hindo.i Hyde. 

The younger son of John James Hyde is William H. Hyde. He was born in New 
York in 1858. He married Mary Boyd Potter, daughter of the Right Reverend Henry 
Codman Potter, Bishop of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde have a daughter, Sylvia Hyde. 
The sisters of Mr. Hyde are C. Emily Hyde and Eva M. (Hyde) Chase, wife of Leslie Chase. 
His widowed mother and her unmarried daughter live in Waverly Place when in New York, 
but in late years they have spent considerable time at their European residence in St. Servan, 
France. 

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GEORGE LANDON INGRAHAM 

ONE of the most eminent and most wealthy merchants of New York, in the closing 
years of the eighteenth century, was Daniel Phoenix, whose name is also conspicuous 
on the roll of those who served the city in an official capacity. He was the first 
City Treasurer and Chamberlain, being appointed to office in 1789, and held the position for twenty 
years. Daniel Phoenix was the son of Alexander Phoenix, who was born in 1726. His great- 
grandfather was Alexander Phcenix, who came to New York in 1640, and who was a younger son 
of Sir John Fenwick, head of a distinguished Northumbrian family. 

Daniel Phcenix was born about 1737 and died in 1812. He was twice married; first to 
Elizabeth Treadwell and afterwards to Elizabeth Piatt, and had a large family of children. The 
Reverend Alexander Phcenix, 1777-1863, who graduated from Columbia College in 1794, became 
pastor of the Congregational Church at Chicopee, Mass., and died in New York, was the only one 
of the sons who left male descendants. Rebecca Phcenix, one of the daughters of Daniel Phcenix, 
married Eliphalet Williams, of Northampton, Mass., and another daughter, Jennette Phcenix, 
married Richard Riker, the famous District Attorney and Recorder, of New York. The remaining 
daughter, Elizabeth Phcenix, married Nathaniel Ingraham, and was the mother of Judge Daniel P. 
Ingraham, and the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. 

The Honorable Daniel Phcenix Ingraham, who was named after his maternal grandfather, 
was born in New York, April 22A, 1800, and died December 12th, 1881. He was educated in a 
private school in Morristown, N. J., and at the age of thirteen entered Columbia College, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1817. He then began the study of law in the office of his uncle, 
the Honorable Richard Riker, Recorder of New York City. Admitted to practice in due course, 
he was for many years one of the best known lawyers in the city. For a time, he was interested 
in politics and in 1835 was an assistant alderman from the Twelfth Ward, being elected an alder- 
man the following year, and again in 1837. In 1838, Governor Marcy appointed him a Judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas, to fill a vacancy on the bench, and in the election of 1843, he was 
elected to that place for a full term. 

Ten years later, he was chosen Chief Justice of the Court, which position he held until 
1858. In 1857, he was elected to succeed Judge Mitchell, as a Justice of the Supreme Court, and 
was reelected in 1865. In 1870, upon the reorganization of the Judiciary under the State Consti- 
tution, adopted in 1869, Governor John T. Hoffman appointed him Presiding Justice of the Supreme 
Court for the First Department, and while holding that position many important cases came before 
him. For many years Judge Ingraham belonged to the New York Historical Society and the Amer- 
ican Geographical Society. He was a member of the Reformed Dutch Church for fifty years and one 
of the elders of the Collegiate Dutch Society of New York. He married Mary Landon, daughter of 
George Landon, of Guilford, Conn. 

The Honorable George Landon Ingraham is the second son of Judge Daniel Phcenix Ingra- 
ham. He is a native of New York, born August 1st, 1847. ' n 1869, he was graduated from 
the Columbia College Law School, and admitted to practice in the same year. After successfully 
pursuing his profession before the courts of New York for some years, he was, in 1882, elected a 
Judge of the Superior Court of this city. In 1887, he was designated by the Governor to sit in the 
Supreme Court, and upon the death of Judge Brady of that court, in 1891, was appointed to the 
vacancy. In the following November, Judge Ingraham was nominated and elected a Justice of the 
Supreme Court, which position he now holds. When the Appellate Division of the Supreme 
Court was organized, in 1895, he was designated by Governor Morton as one of the justices of that 
court in the First Department. Judge Ingraham married Miss Lent, and has one son, Phcenix 
Ingraham. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, New York Yacht and New York 
Athletic clubs. Arthur Ingraham, the youngest son of the late Judge Daniel P. Ingraham and 
brother of Judge George L. Ingraham, was graduated from Columbia College in 1870. 



HUGH MARTIN INMAN 

SOUTHERN interests and the Southern element are naturally of the greatest importance in 
New York. Mr. Inman's father, the late John Hamilton Inman, was a New Yorker by 
adoption for over twenty-five years, and was identified in every way with this city. 
Throughout the whole country he was known as having taken an exceptionally prominent part in 
inaugurating and shaping the marvelous advance which Southern commerce and industry have 
displayed in the past two quarters of a century. 

Born in Jefferson County, Tenn., in 1844, the outbreak of the war between the States found 
John H. Inman a youth of seventeen. Prior to this, he had already shown his business ability, and 
his first employment was as a clerk in a bank, of which one of his uncles was president, in a 
Georgia town, becoming assistant cashier. The great convulsion interrupted his financial education 
and career, and he entered the army of the Confederate States; the next four years of his life being 
spent in military service in the First Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry, which terminated only with 
the disbandment of the Southern forces. Under these circumstances, and without capital save his 
ability and force of character, he came to New York in the autumn of 1865, almost at the 
conclusion of the hostilities between the States, and began a commercial career of uninterrupted 
success. He chose the cotton business as his field, making his start at the foot of the ladder of 
commercial life. Mr. Inman's early struggles were, however, not of long duration. He was soon 
in independent circumstances, and before many years he had established the firm of which he was 
the head till his death, in 1896, and which became the leading house of its kind and, financially, 
one of the strongest in New York. 

Success of this kind has not been uncommon in the metropolis. Each generation of New 
York merchants can show similar instances. The exceptional and striking feature in the late 
John H. Inman's life is in the fact that he was one of the very first to appreciate the possibilities 
which the mineral wealth and other undeveloped resources of his native section afforded, and that 
his efforts were successfully employed in bringing to it the capital which has diversified Southern 
industries and developed its latent powers. As a necessary incident to this, he was closely 
identified with Southern railroad and other industrial interests, but in all directions his influence 
was potent in shaping the destiny of the New South. 

While not a politician in the ordinary sense, John H. Inman took an active and beneficial 
interest in public affairs, and was the trusted adviser of many of the leading public men, both in 
New York and throughout the various Southern States. He consistently refused many tenders of 
public office, but accepted a position on the Rapid Transit Commission, which laborious post he 
filled with marked wisdom and ability from the time the commission was first established to the 
date of his lamented death. His tastes were eminently domestic and he joined only two clubs, 
the Manhattan and Metropolitan. The handsome family residence at 874 Fifth Avenue, one of the 
most costly and finished in all its features in the entire Lenox Hill district, was completed under 
his personal supervision only a short time before his decease. He was deeply interested in many 
forms of religious and philanthropic work, and was unostentatious and eminently practical in his 
many benefactions of a private character. He was almost from the time he first resided in New 
York a member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which Dr. John Hall is pastor. In 
1870, the late Mr. Inman married Margaret McKinney Coffin, of Tennessee. Their children were 
six in number: Hugh Martin Inman, John Hamilton Inman, Jr., Frederick Clark Inman and 
Charles Chade Inman, and Lucy and Nannie Coffin Inman. 

Mr. Hugh Martin Inman, the eldest son and now the head of the family, graduated at the 
Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in the class of 1896. The death of his father called 
him at an early age to the responsibilities and cares which the vast interests of such an estate 
involve, and to this task he devotes his energies. Mr. Inman is a member of the Metropolitan 
and St. Anthony clubs. 



JOHN BUSTEED IRELAND 

THE family of Ireland traces its descent to Sir John de Ireland, one of the followers ot William 
the Conqueror, at the battle of Hastings. In the course of time his descendants became 
established in the southern part of Ireland, William Ireland, having married, about \6}O t 
Margaret Decourcy, only sister of Almericus Decourcy, Earl of Kinsdale. John Ireland, born at 
Dundannon, Black Rock, County Cork, came to America and, marrying Judith Lawrence, of 
Newtown, Long Island, became the father of John Lawrence Ireland, of New York. 

John L. Ireland, after graduating from Columbia College, married Mary Floyd, born at 
Mastic, Suffolk County, N. Y., a granddaughter of General William Floyd, one of the most 
famous New York Revolutionary patriots, and for a few years subsequently resided in Steuben 
County, N. Y., on an estate inherited from the family of his mother, and there Mr. John B. Ireland 
was born. His early days were, however, spent in New York, his father having returned to this 
city, where he was for many years a prominent figure in society. Mr. Ireland graduated from the 
University of the City of New York, and was admitted to the bar, but has not for many years 
engaged in the active practice of his profession. 

In addition to direct descent from a race distinguished in the history of the British Islands, 
Mr. Ireland descends on the maternal side, from both his mother and grandmother, from ancestors 
of the highest consequence in the Colonial history of New York, and conspicuous in the foundation 
of the State. His great-grandfather, Mayor Jonathan Lawrence, was a member of the Provincial 
Congress of 1775-87, and took an active and patriotic part in the proceedings which attached New 
York *o the cause of the other Colonies. After the Revolution, he was a member of the first 
Senate of the State of New York, representing Long Island in that body. Another great-grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch was General William Floyd, an active patriot of the 
Revolutionary period, a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1783, and a signer of 
the Declaration of Independence. 

In 1863, Mr. John B. Ireland married Adelia Duane Pell, born in the City of New York, the 
daughter of Robert Livingston Pell. Mrs. Ireland's family is also of Revolutionary extraction. 
Her great-great-grandfather was the celebrated Robert Livingston, the last lord of the manor of 
Livingston, a leading patriot in the revolt against England. One of her great-grandfathers was 
Colonel Robert Troup, who was conspicuous in the battles of Long Island, Stillwater and Saratoga, 
and who, after the war, was a leader of the New York bar. On the paternal side, her great- 
grandfather was Judge James Duane, a member of the Provincial Congress from 1774 to 1784, a 
member of the New York Senate, Mayor of New York, 1 784-1789, and the first Judge of the 
United States District Court in New York. The Robert Livingston Pell place, a large estate at 
Esopus, belongs to Mrs. Ireland, who inherited it from her father. There are seven children of 
this union, John Decourcy, Robert Livingston, Marie Louisa, Augustus Floyd, Adelia Avena, Laura 
Duane and James Duane Ireland. 

Among the historical and artistic treasures in Mr. Ireland's possession are a portrait of 
Lafayette, presented by its subject to Miss Duane, daughter of Judge James Duane, and a portrait of 
Alexander Hamilton, also a gift to Colonel Troup, who was Hamilton's college companion and 
friend. The town residence of the Ireland family is 15 East Forty-seventh Street, and, in addition 
to the Pell estate at Esopus, Mr. Ireland owns two handsome residences on Long Island, one 
Rosedale, at Brookhaven, built by his father, the late John L. Ireland, which includes three hundred 
acres of ground, and another small place of fifty acres at West Islip. Mr. Ireland's club is the 
conservative Union. He is also a member of the Sons of the Revolution and St. Nicholas Society, 
and of the Church Club of New York. As a young man, he remained abroad six years, explored 
every country of Europe and the Levant, and extended his journey to India, in which country he 
spent two years, returning to Europe by way of the Cape of Good Hope. The journal of this 
tour was published in i860, under the title of Wall Street to Cashmere. 



ADRIAN ISEL1N 

ISAAC Iselin, father of Mr. Adrian Iselin, was a prominent and successful merchant of New York 
in the early part of the present century. For a time he was engaged in business by himself, 
but after the War of 1812 was associated with Henry C. de Rham, under the firm name of 
de Rham, Iselin & Moore. While on a visit to Europe, in 1837, he was accidentally drowned, near 
Geneva. His wife was the youngest daughter of the junior partner of the well-known mercantile 
house of Rossier & Roulet. 

Mr. Adrian Iselin, who was born in New York, is one of the sons that survived Isaac Iselin 
and his wife. For many years during his early business career he was engaged in importing with 
his brother, William Iselin, being one of the most successful merchants of New York in the middle 
of the century. After retiring from the importing trade, he established the banking house of Adrian 
Iselin & Co., but has been entirely out of active business since 1883. In 1845, he married 
Eleanora O'Donnell, daughter of Columbus O'Donnell, of Baltimore. Her father was at the head of 
one of the foremost families of that city, and was a leading financier of Maryland, being connected 
with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and other important corporations. Mr. and Mrs. Iselin cele- 
brated their golden wedding in December, 1895. Mrs. Iselin's death occurred November 27th, 1897. 
Adrian Iselin, Jr., the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Iselin, married Miss Caylus. He is at the 
head of the banking house of Adrian Iselin & Co., and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, 
Knickerbocker, Riding and New York Yacht clubs and the Century Association. His residence is 
in East Twenty-sixth Street. William E. Iselin, the second son, was graduated from Columbia 
College in 1869, married Alice Rogers Jones and is engaged in the wholesale dry goods business. 
He lives in upper Fifth Avenue and at Quaker Ridge Farm, New Rochelle, and is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Union, Knickerbocker, Rockaway Hunt, New York Yacht, Riding and other 
clubs. Columbus O'Donnell Iselin, the third son, is associated in the banking business with his 
brother. He married Edith Jones and lives in West Fifty-second Street. He is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht and Riding clubs and other social organiza- 
tions. C. Oliver Iselin, the youngest son, is the noted yachtsman, who has been especially before 
the public of late years as one of the owners of the Vigilant and the Defender. He graduated from 
Columbia College in the class of 1877, and is a member of the Union, Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, 
Reform, Riding, New York Yacht and Larchmont Yacht clubs. He has been twice married. His 
first wife was a daughter of William Garner, who was drowned on the yacht Mohawk in New 
York Harbor, in 1876. His present wife was Hope Goddard, daughter of Colonel William 
Goddard, of Providence, R. I. His home is All View, in New Rochelle. 

The eldest daughter of the family is Eleanora, wife of Colonel Delancey A. Kane. The other 
daughters, Georgie and Emilie Iselin, are unmarried. The town house of the family is in Madison 
Square, and they also have a home, Soucie, in New Rochelle. Mr. Iselin has given much, in time 
and money, to the development of New Rochelle. With his wife he built and permanently endowed 
the Church of St. Gabriel, in that place, and by her will Mrs. Iselin left a large bequest to the 
church. They also gave to the parish a handsome building for a school and furnished it complete, 
so that it is now one of the best equipped educational institutions of its kind in the country. Mr. 
Iselin established the present system of water-works in New Rochelle, and has been in other 
ways a benefactor of the town. He belongs to the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Union, Union League, 
Knickerbocker, Racquet, City, Riding, Reform, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, New York Yacht 
and New York Athletic clubs, the Country Club of Westchester County, the Downtown Asso- 
ciation, the Century Association and the National Academy of Design, and is a patron of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. He has a box at the 
Metropolitan Opera House, having been long treasurer and director of the corporation owning the 
opera house, and was one of the patrons of the Patriarchs' Ball during the existence of that 
social organization. For many years he was the Consul of the Swiss Republic in New York. 

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WILLIAM BRADLEY ISHAM 

ONLY two branches of the Isham family exist in this country, one of which was estab- 
lished in New England and the other in Virginia. The ancestor of the New England 
branch, that to which the New York Ishams belong, was John Isham, of Barnstable, 
Mass., who was a native of England. He came from the Old World to the transatlantic Colonies 
in the latter part of the seventeenth century from Northamptonshire and made his abode for 
the greater part of his life, in the Cape District, as it has always been called, in Massachusetts. 
He died at Barnstable in 1713. His wife, whom he married in 1670, was Jane Parker, the 
daughter of Robert Parker, of Barnstable. She was born in 1664 and died seven years after 
the decease of her husband. The second son of John Isham was Isaac Isham, of Barnstable, 
who was born in 1682 and died in 1771, having married, in 1716, Thankful Lumbert, daughter 
of Thomas Lumbert, Jr. 

In the next generation of the family in America, John Isham, second of the name, the 
son of Isaac Isham, was born in Barnstable, 1721, and became a resident of Colchester, Conn., 
where he married, in 1751, Dorothy Foote, daughter of Ephraim Foote, of Colchester. During 
the French and Indian Wars, he was Captain of a company of Colonial militia and was also 
engaged in the disastrous expedition sent from New England against the French possessions in 
the West Indies. His son, Samuel Isham, was born in 1752 and died in 1827, and was the 
father of Charles Isham, of Maiden, Ulster County, N. Y., who was born at Farmington, 
Hartford, Conn., August 20th, 1784, and died in 1856. Charles Isham married, in 18 14, Flora 
Bradley, daughter of Judge William Bradley, of Hartford, Conn. 

Mr. William Bradley Isham, second son of Charles and Flora (Bradley) Isham, was born 
in Maiden, N. Y., in 1827. He has been a resident of New York for many years and has 
been engaged in the banking business. He is vice-president of the Bank of the Metropolis, 
in this city, and is president of the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company. In 1852, Mr. 
Isham married Julia Burhans, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Peck Burhans, of Warrensburg, 
N. Y. The city residence of the family is in East Sixty-first Street, near Fifth Avenue, and 
their country home is on Kingsbridge Road, Washington Heights. Mr. Isham is a member of 
the Metropolitan and Riding clubs, the Downtown Association, the New England Society and 
the National Academy of Design, and is a patron of the American Museum of Natural History, 

Mr. Isham has three sons. The eldest, Charles Isham, was born in 185 3, and was 
graduated from Harvard University in 1876 with the degree of B. A. He married Mary Lincoln, 
daughter of the Honorable Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, and granddaughter of President 
Abraham Lincoln. His city residence is in East Sixty-sixth Street. He is a member of the 
Century Association, the Bar Association, the Harvard and University clubs, the American 
Geographical Society and the Sons of the Revolution. Samuel Isham, the second son, born 
in 1855, was graduated from Yale College in 187s and is a well-known artist. He is a member 
of the Century Association, the Metropolitan, University, Riding and Players clubs, the New 
England Society, the Yale Alumni Association and the Architectural League. William Burhans 
Isham, the third son, was born in 1857 and graduated from Princeton College in 1879. He 
js engaged in business with his father. His clubs are the Metropolitan and University, and 
he also belongs to the Downtown Association. 

Charles H. Isham, the younger son of Charles and Flora (Bradley) Isham, was born in 
1829 and is engaged in mercantile pursuits. He married, in 1861, Joanna Muller, daughter of 
Adrian H. Muller, of this city, and has two sons, Charles Bradley and F. De Forrest Isham, 
and an only daughter, Joanna M. Isham. He lives in East Thirty-seventh Street and belongs 
to the Union League Club and the New England Society and is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. The only daughter of Charles and Flora (Bradley) Isham and sister of the 
gentlemen referred to in this article, is Flora E. Isham, who is unmarried. 



BRAYTON IVES 

AMONG the pioneers of New England in the seventeenth century, were members of the Ives 
family that was of ancient renown in the old country. The first of the name who appeared 
on this side of the Atlantic was William Ives, who landed in Massachusetts and settled in 
Boston, where he remained for several years. He joined in that famous exodus from the Massachu- 
setts Colony to Connecticut, and helped to found the city of New Haven. From him have sprung 
members of the family who in many generations have been distinguished. Three of his descend- 
ants, Levi, Eli and Charles L. Ives, father, son and grandson, all of whom were resident in 
New Haven, were eminent physicians, and connected with the medical department of Yale College. 
Combined, their professional lives covered nearly a century and a half. The Reverend Dr. Levi S. 
Ives, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and afterwards a Roman Catholic theologian and 
educator, came of the same stock, and so also did Lieutenant-Commander Thomas B. Ives, of the 
United States Navy, who bore an active and useful part in naval operations during the Civil War. 

Born in Farmington, Conn., in 1840, General Brayton Ives, who is the conspicuous repre- 
sentative of his family in the present generation, was graduated from Yale College in the class 
of 1861. The piping times of war called him to action immediately after the completion of his 
college career, and he quickly changed the cloister for the camp. Entering the army as Adjutant 
of the Fifth Connecticut Infantry, he went to the front at once, and served with distinction to the 
end of the war. In 1861, he was commissioned a Captain, and the next year served as Assistant 
Adjutant-General, with the rank of Captain, on the staff of General O. S. Terry. In 1864, he 
became a Major in the First Connecticut Cavalry, and was successively promoted to be Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Colonel in the same regiment. During that time he served under Generals Custer 
and Sheridan. When the war closed he held the rank of Brevet Brigadier-General at the age of 
twenty-four, being one of the youngest officers in the service with that high rank. 

Coming to New York after the war, General Ives entered Wall Street, and in 1867 became a 
stock broker. He has long been recognized as one of the leading financiers of the metropolis 
in this generation. One of the prime promoters of the movement that led to the establishment 
of the Stock Exchange, he was vice-president of that organization, 1876-77, president, 1878-79, and 
a member of the Governing Committee for thirteen years. After being twenty-two years in Wall 
Street, he retired in 1889, and the following year took the presidency of the Western National Bank, 
a position that he held several years. As a student of finance, he is an accepted authority, and 
especially has an expert knowledge of railroad finance. For many years he was president of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and has been a director in the Mercantile Trust Company, the 
United States Guarantee Company, and the New York Stock Exchange Building Company. He is 
also chairman of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. 

In private life General Ives is known as a patron of art and literature. He is a discriminat- 
ing collector of books, pictures and bric-a-brac, and has written a great deal upon art and allied 
subjects. His collection of pictures which he sold a few years ago was one of the finest and 
most carefully selected in the city. A collection of Japanese swords that he made, and that is 
now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is regarded as one of the best of the half a dozen similar 
collections of importance in this country. 

In 1867, General Ives married Eleanor A. Bissell, daughter of the Reverend B. S. Bissell, of 
Norwalk, Conn., thus connecting himself with one of the pioneer families of that State. His son, 
Sherwood Bissell Ives, was graduated from Yale University in 1893, and is a physician. He also 
has three unmarried daughters, Winifred, Eunice and Frances H. Ives. The city home of the 
family is in East Thirty-fourth Street, and their summer residence in Seabright, N. J. General 
Ives is a member of the New England Society, the American Geographical Society, the Century 
Association, and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and belongs to the Metropolitan, Union 
League, Grolier, Players, Riding, University and New York Yacht clubs. 

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JOSEPH COOKE JACKSON 

FEW Americans can claim more illustrious ancestry than General Joseph C. Jackson. Many 
citizens of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, conspicuous in public service for 
nearly three hundred years, including the Wolcotts, Huntingtons and Pitkins, of 
Connecticut, are his lineal ancestors. On his father's side, General Jackson traces descent from 
Colonel Philip Pieterse Schuyler, magistrate of Albany, in 1656 ; from Colonel John Brinckerhoff, 
of Revolutionary fame, whose house, at Fishkill, was General Washington's headquarters, and 
from the Reverend Benjamin Van der Linde. The Jacksons are an ancient English family. The 
Honorable John P. Jackson, of New Jersey, the father of General Jackson, graduated with first 
honors from Princeton College, studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and practiced in New Jersey. 
He was instrumental in organizing the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation, and the Jersey 
City Ferry companies, and was Speaker of the State Legislature. 

General Jackson's mother was Elizabeth Wolcott, daughter of the Honorable Frederick 
Wolcott, of Litchfield, Conn. The progenitor of the Wolcott family in America, Henry 
Wolcott, born in 1578, left Tolland, Somersetshire, England, in 1628. Among his numerous 
descendants were Roger Wolcott, Colonial Governor of Connecticut ; Major-General and 
Governor Oliver Wolcott ; Governor Oliver Wolcott, second, Secretary of the Treasury in 
Washington's and John Adams' administrations, and Judge Frederick Wolcott, son of Oliver 
Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Major-General of the Connecticut Militia, 
and Governor. It was to Governor Wolcott's house, in Litchfield, that the famous leaden 
statue of King George III., torn from its pedestal in Bowling Green, New York, was taken, 
and there moulded into bullets, by his son, Frederick, and others. Major-General Jabez 
Huntington, Commander-in-Chief of the Connecticut Militia, at the capture of Louisburg, in 
1758 was a maternal great-grandfather of General Jackson. 

General Joseph Cooke Jackson was born in Newark, N. J., August 5th, 1835. He 
attended Colonel Kingsley's Military School, at West Point, graduated from Phillips Academy, 
Andover, Mass., in 1853 ; from Yale College, in 1857 ; from the New York University Law 
School, in 1858, and from Harvard Law School, in i860, receiving the degree of LL. B. from 
both New York and Harvard Universities. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was Second 
Lieutenant in the First New Jersey Volunteers, and became aide to General Philip Kearny, was 
on the staff of Major-General W. B. Franklin, and subsequently was made Captain and aide-de- 
camp of United States Volunteers, for gallant conduct during the Seven Days' battles before 
Richmond. In 1862, he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twenty-Sixth New Jersey 
Volunteers, and was brevetted Colonel "for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of 
Fredericksburg, Va.," and Brigadier-General for a like reason in 1865. He was United States 
Commissioner of Naval Credits, in 1864, but resumed the practice of law, in New York, and, 
in 1870 and 1871, was Assistant United States District Attorney. 

In 1864, he married Katharine Perkins Day, daughter of the Honorable Calvin Day, of 
Hartford, Conn., a man of distinguished character, and a direct descendant of Robert Day, 
who came to America in 1634. Mrs. Jackson's mother was Catherine Seymour, also of Hart- 
ford, Conn., daughter of Charles Seymour, and granddaughter of Captain Charles Seymour, of 
the Revolution. Among her ancestors are Governor William Bradford, Governor John Haynes, 
Governor George Wyllys, Governor Thomas Dudley, Governor John Webster, Governor William 
Pitkin, Judge William Pitkin, his father, and the Honorable William Pitkin, his grandfather, 
first Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut ; the Reverend John Wareham, William Whiting, 
Treasurer of the Colony, and President Thomas Clap, of Yale College. She is also a descendant 
of Mabel Harlakenden, wife of Governor John Haynes. The children of General Jackson are 
Joseph C. Jackson, Jr., John Day Jackson, both graduates of Yale ; Katharine Seymour Jackson, 
and Elizabeth Huntington Wolcott Jackson. The family residence is 138 East Thirty-fourth Street. 



D. WILLIS JAMES 

DANIEL JAMES, the father of Mr. D. Willis James, was a leading merchant of New York 
and Liverpool, England, for more than fifty years. He began life with the present cen- 
tury, having been born in 1801. His first mercantile experience was with the metal house 
of Phelps & Peck, and he became a partner in the celebrated firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., which 
succeeded Phelps & Peck. About 183 1 , he went to Europe and lived there for the remainder 
of his life as a member of Phelps, James & Co., who were the English partners of the New York 
house. Throughout his long career, he was recognized as a business man of the highest type, 
public-spirited and deeply interested in philanthropic causes. He died at Beaconsfield, near 
Liverpool, England, in 1876, and left five children. Three sons have made their homes in England, 
and his daughter, Olivia P. James, became the wife of Robert Hoe. 

On his mother's side, Mr. James is descended from a family of position in New York, and 
also from distinguished Colonial ancestors in Connecticut. His mother was Elizabeth Woodbridge 
Phelps, daughter of Anson Greene Phelps, senior member of Phelps, Dodge & Co., and one of New 
York's famous philanthropists in the last generation. Her mother, Olivia Eggleston, was a daughter 
of Elihu and Elizabeth (Olcott) Eggleston, of Middletown, Conn., a descendant of the Olcott and 
Eggleston families, which were established in the Connecticut Colony in its earliest period. The 
Phelps family goes back to George Phelps, of Tewksbury, England, who was born about 1605 and 
came to New England in 1630, being at first a resident of Dorchester, Mass., and then of Windsor, 
Conn., at its settlement in 163s. His second wife, the ancestress of that branch of the family to 
which Mr. James belongs, was Frances Dewey. The subsequent generations down to Anson 
Greene Phelps were John Phelps, 1651-1741, and his wife, Sarah Buckland; Thomas Phelps, 
1687-1750, and his wife, Hannah Phelps; Thomas Phelps, 1711-1777, and his wife, Margaret 
Watson, daughter of John and Sarah (Steele) Watson; and Thomas Phelps, 1741-1789, and his 
wife, Dorothy Lamb Woodbridge, daughter of Haynes and Elizabeth (Griswold) Woodbridge, who 
were the parents of Anson Greene Phelps. 

The second Thomas Phelps served in the Continental Army. His wife, Dorothy Lamb 
Woodbridge, was descended from the Woodbridge, Griswold, Haynes and Wyllys families. Her 
father was the son of the Reverend Timothy Woodbridge, of Hartford, who married Mabel Wyllys, 
daughter of the Honorable Samuel Wyllys, secretary of Connecticut, and a granddaughter of Gov- 
ernor John Haynes. The Reverend Timothy Woodbridge was the son of the Reverend John 
Woodbridge, of Newbury, Mass., and of his wife, Mercy Dudley, daughter of Governor Thomas 
Dudley, of Massachusetts. Elizabeth Griswold, the wife of Haynes Woodbridge and grandmother 
of Anson Greene Phelps, was a daughter of Samuel Griswold, 1684-1777, a representative to the 
General Assembly in 1732 and a son of Thomas Griswold, 1658-1727, and Hester Drake, who was 
a granddaughter of the Honorable Henry Wolcott. Thomas Griswold was the son of George 
Griswold, 1633-1704, and a grandson of Edward Griswold, who came from Kenilworth, Warwick- 
shire, in 1639, settled in Windsor and was associated with his brother, Governor Matthew Griswold. 

Mr. D. Willis James was born in Liverpool, England, April 15, 1832, and has been connected 
with the business house with which his father was identified. His wife was Ellen S. Curtiss. The 
city residence of the family is at Park Avenue, corner of Thirty-ninth Street, and their country 
home is Onunda, Madison, N. J. Mr. James belongs to the Metropolitan, City, Riding, Reform, 
AA$ and Morris County Golf clubs, the Century Association, the Downtown Association and the 
American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National 
Academy of Design and American Museum of Natural History. Mr. and Mrs. James have one son, 
Arthur Curtiss James, who married Harriet Eddy Parsons, and lives in Park Avenue. He is a grad- 
uate of Amherst College, class of 1889, and a member of the Metropolitan, University, City, Riding, 
Ai$, Morristown, Morris County Golf, New York Yacht and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht 
clubs and the Downtown Association. 

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THOMAS LEMUEL JAMES 

ORIGINALLY of Welsh extraction, the family of which General Thomas L. James is the 
representative, has been long established in America. Mr. James was born in Utica, 
N. Y., March 29th, 1831. He attended school in that city and then entered the printing 
office of Wesley Bailey, the veteran abolitionist editor. The year before he became of age, he went 
into business as part proprietor of The Madison County Journal, a Whig newspaper in Hamilton, 
N. Y. He was active and prominent in politics, and when the Republican party was formed gave 
his adherence to it and supported John C. Fremont for the presidency in 1856. For two years, 
1856-58, he was connected with the administration of the State canals. 

In 1861, Mr. James was appointed to a post under the Collector of the Port of New York 
and removed to this city, with which he has since been identified. He was soon promoted, and 
when Thomas Murphy became Collector, was made Deputy Collector. In March, 1873, 
President Grant appointed him Postmaster of New York, and four years later President Hayes 
tendered him the position of Collector of the Port, and afterwards that of Postmaster General, but 
he declined both offices. In March, 1881, President Garfield made him Postmaster General, and 
when President Arthur succeeded to the presidency, Mr. James was retained in that position, but 
soon resigned the office and returned to private life, after twenty years of arduous and successful 
public service. During his incumbency of the office of Postmaster General, he introduced many 
reforms in the management of the post-office department, reducing the annual deficiency and 
making the department self-sustaining. He was particularly active in unearthing and correcting 
abuses that had long existed in the service, more particularly the Star Route frauds, and raised the 
whole department to a higher plane of efficiency than it had ever before attained. Since his 
retirement to private life, Mr. James has been president of the Lincoln National Bank, a position 
that he assumed in January, 1882. He is also president of the Lincoln State Deposit Company, 
and is connected with other large corporations. 

Mr. James married, in 1852, Emily I. Freeburn, who is descended from Ethan Allen, the 
famous American Revolutionary General, and is also a descendant of that branch of the Lamb 
family of which Charles Lamb, the essayist, was a member. One of Mr. James' daughters, Ellen 
M. James, married Henry G. Pearson, for many years Postmaster of New York. Another daughter, 
Harriet Weed James, is unmarried. Mr. James is a member of the Union League and many other 
clubs. His residence is in Highwood, N. J. Hamilton College conferred upon him the degree of 
A. M. in 1862, and Madison University gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1882. St. John's College, 
of Fordham, N. Y., and the College of St. Francis Xavier have also conferred upon him the degree 
of LL. D. 

Colonel Charles F. James, the son of the Honorable Thomas L. James, was born in Hamilton, 
N. Y., July 12th, 1856, and has displayed an hereditary talent for public affairs and finance. He 
entered the College of the City of New York in 1873, but completed his education in Madison, 
now Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y., graduating from that institution in 1876, and subse- 
quently receiving the degree of A. M. and Ph. D. Attending the law department of Columbia 
College, he received his degree of LL. B. in 1879, was called to the bar and was appointed counsel 
to the New York State Commissioners of Emigration. Subsequently he was Assistant United 
States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York under General Stewart L. Woodford, 
and then Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city under Judges Andrews and Lacombe. Latterly 
he has been engaged in private practice, his most recent professional association being as a 
member of the firm of Dittenhoefer, Gerber & James. In 1893, he organized the Franklin National 
Bank, and as vice-president and cashier managed the affairs of that institution. In 1897, he became 
president, succeeding the Honorable Ellis H. Roberts, who was appointed Treasurer of the United 
States. He is president of the St. David's Society, and is a member of the Union League Club, the 
$ T A fraternity, the New York Athletic Club and the American Geographical Society. 

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JOSEPH EDWARD JANVRIN, M. D. 

FOR many centuries the family of Janvrin held possessions in the Island of Jersey, its ancestry 
being traced back to the Crusades. The first of the name in America was Captain John 
(Jean) Janvrin, who was a ship owner of St. Helier, Jersey. He came on one of his own 
vessels to Portsmouth, N. H., and married, in 1706, Elizabeth Knight, daughter of John Knight, 
an officer in the Indian wars. Captain Janvrin died in 1 71 8. His eldest son, John, was graduated 
from Harvard College in 1728. His son, William Janvrin, grandfather of the subject of this article, 
married Abigail Adams, daughter of Dr. Joseph Adams, of Portsmouth. 

Dr. Adams, a graduate of Harvard in 1745, was a son of the Reverend Joseph Adams, who 
also graduated from Harvard in i7ioand removed from Braintree, Mass., in 1715, to Newington, 
where he became minister and married the widow of Captain Janvrin in 1720. His pastorate 
lasted sixty-eight years, till his death in 1783. He was a great-grandson of Henry Adams, of 
Braintree, who descended from the Ap Adams family of Wales. Dr. Joseph Adams was a cousin 
of both President John Adams and Samuel Adams. Through the Bass and Adams family 
marriages, Dr. Janvrin is descended from John Alden. He is also descended from Governors 
Thomas Dudley and Simon Bradstreet, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and from Major Ezekiel 
Gilman, of Exeter, who was prominent at the capture of Louisburg in 1745. Joseph Adams 
Janvrin, son of William and Abigail Adams Janvrin and father of Dr. Janvrin, was a landowner at 
Exeter, N. H., and held many public positions. His wife was Lydia Ann Colcord, daughter of 
George Colcord, and a descendant of Edward Colcord, a founder of Exeter in 1638. 

Mr. Joseph Edward Janvrin was born at Exeter, January 13th, 1839, graduated at Phillips 
Exeter Academy in 1857 and began the study of medicine with Dr. William Gilman Perry in his 
native town. In 1 861, he temporarily abandoned it and entered the Second New Hampshire 
Infantry, serving as Assistant Surgeon in the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac under 
Generals Burnside and Hooker. In December, 1862, he was transferred to the Fifteenth New 
Hampshire Regiment, with which he served in the Department of the Gulf under General Banks, 
becoming Acting Surgeon of his command, and was mustered out in 1863. Resuming his studies, 
he entered the medical department of Dartmouth College and became a pupil of Professor E. R. 
Peaslee, graduating in 1864 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in this city. 

For a short time he was assistant surgeon in the Emory Hospital, Washington, D. C, 
but in 1865 returned to New York and became associated with Dr. Peaslee, and has held 
notable professional offices and appointments, being president of the New York County Medical 
Association, and has been professionally connected with the Demilt Dispensary, the Woman's 
Hospital, New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, Orphans' Home and the Asylum of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church. He is ex-president of the New York Obstetrical Society and is a member of 
many national and international medical bodies. Dr. Janvrin has also written a large number of 
papers on professional topics, many of which have commanded international attention. 

In 1881, Dr. Janvrin married Laura L. La Wall, daughter of the late Cyrus La Wall, of 
Easton, Pa. Mrs. Janvrin's grandfather was an officer in the Revolution, as were two ancestors on 
her mother's side, Colonel Robert Scott, of Pennsylvania, and John Schureman, of New Jersey. 
Dr. and Mrs. Janvrin have two children, Edmund Randolph Peaslee Janvrin and Marguerite 
La Wall Janvrin. Their residence is 191 Madison Avenue. Dr. Janvrin is a member of the Union 
League Club, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic. 

The Janvrin arms are: Azure, a chevron argent between two bezants or. in chief and a 
fleur-de-lys of the second in base, surmounted by an escutcheon quarterly, first; the arms as above, 
the chevron charged with a crescent gules; second; argent, three escallops gules; third; gules a 
mullet argent, on a chief of the second an arm erect couped at elbow, vested azure, cuffed argent, 
hand gules; fourth; argent on a chief sable three griffins' heads erased argent. Crest; a griffin's 
head couped between the wings or. Motto, Labor ipse voluptas. 

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JOHN CLARKSON JAY, M. D. 

WHEN Chief Justice John Jay went abroad in 1794 to negotiate "Jay's Treaty," he was 
accompanied by his eldest son, Peter Augustus Jay, as his private secretary. The son 
was born in Elizabethtown, N. J., January 24th, 1776, and graduated from Columbia 
College in 1794. His ancestry and connections are given in the sketch pertaining to Colonel 
William Jay, who is descended from a younger branch. The main line of the family is transmitted 
from Augustus Jay and Chief Justice John Jay through Peter Augustus Jay, who became a lawyer 
and achieved high rank at the New York bar. In 1816, he was a member of the Assembly, held 
the office of Recorder of New York City in 18 19, and was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention in 1827. Columbia College selected him as a trustee in 1812-17, and again in 1823-43, 
and part of the time he was chairman of the board. The New York Historical Society made him 
its president for three years, 1840-43. Harvard College gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1831, 
and Columbia conferred the same honor in 1835. He was a man of great learning and an 
accomplished jurist. When in the Assembly he had the honor, with his brother William, of 
introducing the first bill for the abolishment of slavery in New York. His wife, Mary Rutherfurd 
Clarkson, who married Peter A. Jay in 1807, was a daughter of General Matthew Clarkson, 
1759-1825, the patriot of the Revolution, and a great-granddaughter of the first Matthew Clarkson, 
who was secretary of the Province for thirteen years. She was also a granddaughter of Abraham 
de Peyster. 

The father of the present Doctor Jay was the first Doctor John Clarkson Jay, the eldest 
Of their family of eight children. Born in 1808 and graduated from Columbia College in 1827 and 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1831, he was a successful practitioner and an 
accomplished scientist. He devoted much time to the study of conchology and became an expert 
on that subject, writing many essays and several books upon it. His valuable collection was 
purchased after his death by Catherine L. Wolfe and presented to the American Museum of Natural 
History, where it is kept intact as the Jay collection. Doctor Jay was one of the founders of the 
Lyceum of Natural History, afterwards the National Academy of Science, and was its treasurer from 
1836 to 1843. He was also one of the founders of the New York Yacht Club, of which he was the 
first secretary. His wife was Laura Prime, daughter of Nathaniel Prime, the famous New York 
merchant, descended from Mark Prime, who came from England to Massachusetts about 1638. 

Dr. John Clarkson Jay of the present generation was their youngest son. He was educated 
at the Dudley Collegiate Institute, Northampton, Mass., Charlier's French school in New York, the 
Columbia College Grammar School, Columbia College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
graduating from the latter in 1865. During the Civil War, he served in the Seventy-First 
Regiment, New York State Militia, and was also Acting-Assistant Surgeon at the United States 
Army hospitals in Washington and New Orleans. After the war he studied in Vienna and Prague, 
and, returning, began the practice of his profession in New York. From 1869 to 1871, he was. 
attending physician to the New York Dispensary, from 1880 to 1892, was attending physician 
to the out-patient department of the New York Hospital, was one of the founders of the New 
York Free Dispensary for sick children, and since 1892 has been an examiner of lunacy in the 
State of New York. 

Doctor Jay is a member of the Medical Society of the City and that of the County of New 
York, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, the City Club, the Century Association, the Union 
League Club and the Sons of the Revolution. He has translated several important medical works 
from the French and German. 

The wife of Doctor Jay, whom he married in 1872, was Harriette Arnold Vinton, daughter 
of Major-General David H. Vinton, U. S. A. The residence of Doctor and Mrs. Jay is at 54 West 
Forty-seventh Street. They have two children, Edith Van Cortlandt Jay and John Clarkson Jay, 
Jr., who is a student at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. 

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WILLIAM JAY 

PIERRE JAY, a wealthy Protestant merchant of La Rochelle, France, was the ancestor of a 
family which, for two hundred years, has been the accepted representative of the 
Huguenots in America, and which has furnished men of the highest eminence to their 
adopted country. At the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, Pierre Jay and his 
family escaped to England. One of his sons, Augustus Jay, born in 1665, was absent on a voyage 
to the African Coast, and returned to France in ignorance of the blow which had fallen on his 
coreligionists. He, however, made his way to New York in the same year and established 
himself there. His wealth, education and personal presence made Augustus Jay a man of mark, 
and his position was further raised by his marriage, in 1697, to Anne Maria Bayard, daughter of 
Balthazer Bayard and his wife, Maria Lockermans, a grandniece of Governor Stuyvesant. He 
died in New York in 1751. His son Peter, born in 1704, bought in 1745 a large estate near Rye, in 
Westchester County, and married Mary Van Cortlandt, daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt and Eve 
Philipse, the family thus from the very commencement allying itself with the most prominent 
representatives of social importance and culture in the city. 

The eighth child of this marriage was the celebrated John Jay. Born in 174=;, he was 
graduated at Kings (now Columbia) College in 1764, and was called to the bar in 1768. In 1774, 
he married Sarah Livingston, daughter of Governor William Livingston, of New Jersey. In the 
struggle with the mother country, he took part from the first, being a delegate to the Continental 
Congress of 1774 and that of 1775- While a member of the latter, he was elected to the New 
York Provincial Congress and drafted the first constitution of the State. In 1778, he was president 
of Congress; in 1780 became Minister to Spain, and in 1782 was one of the Commissioners who 
negotiated the peace between the United States and Great Britain. He cooperated with Hamilton 
and Madison in the authorship of The Federalist, and on the adoption of the Constitution, in 
1789, was appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States in 1794. While still Chief 
Justice, he was Envoy to England, and completed his political career by service as Governor of 
New York from 1798 to 1801, resigning the Chief Justiceship to become Governor. The remainder 
of his life, till his death, in 1829, was passed at the mansion he had built, Bedford House, Katonah, 
N. Y., an estate inherited from his Van Cortlandt ancestors. This house is still inhabited by his 
descendants and belongs to Colonel William Jay. 

Judge William Jay, his second son, 1 789-1858, was a graduate of Yale in 1807 and became a 
prominent jurist and philanthropist. He was a judge of Westchester County from 1818 to 1835, 
was one of the earliest and most active opponents of slavery, and by his writings contributed 
greatly to making that question one of public conscience. He married Augusta, daughter of John 
McVicker, whose family had long been prominent in the metropolis. 

The late Honorable John Jay, the only son of this alliance, was born in 181 7, and followed 
his father's example in his hostility to slavery, and his advocacy of philanthropic causes. He was 
United States Minister to Austria from 1869 to 1875, and took an active part in promoting reform 
of the civil service. He married Eleanor Kingsland Field, daughter of Hickson W. Field, and died 
in 1894, his career having been one of devotion to duty as a citizen and Christian. 

Colonel William Jay, his only son, was born in 1841, entered the United States Army, served 
throughout the Rebellion, being on the staff of General George B. Meade, the Commander of the 
Army of the Potomac, and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel by brevet. Resigning from the 
army, he was called to the bar and is in active practice in New York. Colonel Jay married Lucy 
Oelrichs, daughter of Henry Oelrichs, a leading New York merchant. He is a vestryman of Trinity 
Church, a position which he is the fifth in line of his family to occupy, his ancestor, Augustus Jay, 
having been one of the early members ot the vestry. One prominent sport owes much of its 
prestige in New York to Colonel Jay's efforts. He was one of the first members of the Coaching 
Club and was its president from 1876 to 1896. 



FREDERICK BEACH JENNINGS 

FROM Joshua Jennings, the American pioneer, have sprung many families, which have been 
prominent and influential in the State of Connecticut, where their common ancestor 
originally settled, and in other parts of the United States. Joshua Jennings was born in 
England about 1620 and came to this country when he was nearly twenty-five years of age. 
Settling first in Hartford, he afterwards removed to Fairfield, where he died in 1674. In each of 
the five successive generations from Joshua Jennings to Mr. Frederick Beach Jennings came an 
Isaac Jennings. The Isaac Jennings of the second American generation was born in 1663 and died 
in 1746. The next Isaac Jennings was born in 1692, and the third Isaac Jennings, 1743-1819, was 
a prosperous farmer and manufacturer of Fairfield. During the War of the Revolution, he served 
as a Lieutenant. His wife was Abigail Gould, 1754-1795, daughter of Colonel Abraham Gould, of 
Fairfield, and descended from Major Nathan Gould or Gold, one of the early settlers of Connecticut. 
Isaac Jennings, the grandfather of Mr. Frederick Beach Jennings, was born in Fairfield in 
1788, was a resident of Derby, Conn., and afterwards of Oberlin, O., where he died in 1874. 
Educated as a physician, he received the degree of M. D. and engaged in practice at Derby. He 
was best known as a writer upon medical and allied subjects, especially regarding hygiene. His 
published works included Medical Reform, The Philosophy of Human Life, The Tree of Life and 
Orthopathy. The wife of Dr. Isaac Jennings was Anne Beach, daughter of Eliakim Beach, of 
Trumbull, Conn. 

The Reverend Isaac Jennings, son of Dr. Isaac Jennings, was the father of Mr. Frederick 
Beach Jennings. He was born in Fairfield in 1816, but removed to Derby with his parents in 1822. 
Graduated from Yale College in 1837, he taught school in Washington, Conn., and then had charge 
of the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven for one year. While teaching in New Haven he 
studied theology and afterwards attended the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., from which 
institution he was graduated in 1842. Settled at first over the Second Congregational Church of 
Akron, O., in 1843, he became pastor of the First Church in Stamford, Conn., in 1847, and pastor 
of the First Church of Christ in Bennington, Vt., in 1853. He traveled in Europe in 1859 and 
wrote much for publication, his principal work being a book entitled Memorials of a Century. His 
wife, whom he married in Mansfield, O., in 1847, was Sophia Day, daughter of Matthias Day. 

Mr. Frederick Beach Jennings was born in Bennington, Vt., in 1853. Prepared for college 
in the local academy, he went to Williams College, from which institution he was graduated in 
1872 and of which he subsequently became a trustee. Taking up the study of law in the Dane 
Law School of Harvard University, he was graduated therefrom with the degree of LL. B. in 1874, 
and the following year was graduated from the Law School of New York University with the 
same degree, taking at his graduation first prize for the best essay. The same year he was 
admitted to practice and established the firm of Jennings & Russell, and is now a member of the 
firm of Stetson, Tracy, Jennings & Russell. He is the counsel of the Erie Railroad Company, as 
well as of various other railroads and corporations. He is also interested in business enterprises 
and is an officer and member of the board of directors of various corporations, including several 
railroad companies, a bank and other financial and business organizations. 

In 1880, Mr. Jennings married Laura Hall Park, daughter of the Honorable Trenor W. Park, 
of North Bennington, Vt., and granddaughter of former Governor Hiland Hall, of Vermont. Mr. 
and Mrs. Jennings have four children, Percy Hall, Elizabeth, Frederic B., Jr., and Edward Phelps 
Jennings. The city residence of the family is at 86 Park Avenue, and their summer home is 
Fairview, North Bennington, Vt. Mr. Jennings is a member of the University, Metropolitan, 
Union League, A K E, New York Athletic, University Athletic, Racquet and City clubs, the 
Century Association, the Country Club of Westchester County, the Downtown Association, the 
Williams College Alumni Association, the New England Society and the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art. He is also a member and one of the executive committee of the Bar Association. 



WALTER JENNINGS 

JOSHUA JENNINGS, who emigrated to this country from England, about 1645, and settled in 
Hartford; Isaac Jennings, of Hartford ; Isaac Jennings, of Fairfield ; and Lieutenant Isaac 
Jennings, of Fairfield, were the ancestors in the first four American generations of the 
Jennings family. In the fifth generation, Captain Abraham Gould Jennings, the grandfather 
of Mr. Walter Jennings, was born in Fairfield, in 1781. Early in life he went to sea, and finally 
had command of large ships sailing between New York and Europe, being thus engaged until 
after the War of 1812. Subsequently he was in the trade with China, and after 1835, owned, 
among other mercantile interests, a large share in a line of vessels sailing between New York and 
Charleston, S. C. 

The mother of Abraham Gould Jennings, whom his father, Isaac Jennings, married in 1770, 
was Abigail Gould, the daughter of Colonel Abraham Gould, who was killed by the British at the 
Battle of Ridgefield, in 1777. The Gould, or Gold, family descended from Nathan Gold, who 
came from St. Edmundsbury, England, to Fairfield, Conn., in 1675. He was educated and 
wealthy, and took a prominent position in the Colony, being one of the petitioners for the charter 
of Connecticut, in 1674, and an assistant and member of the Governor's Council, in 1657-94. His 
son, Nathan Gould, Jr., was town clerk of Fairfield, in 1684-1706, town clerk and Deputy- 
Governor, 1706-24, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in 1712. His wife was a daughter of 
Lieutenant-Governor John Talcott, of Connecticut, and his grandson, Colonel Abraham Gould, was 
the fifth son of Samuel Gould. The wife of Colonel Abraham Gould and mother of Abigail (Gould) 
Jennings was Elizabeth Burr, daughter of Captain John Burr. The wife of Captain Abraham Gould 
Jennings, whom he married in Fairfield, in 1807, was Anna Burr. She was the daughter of Peter 
Burr, one of the largest landholders in Fairfield. The first American ancestor of Anna (Burr) 
Jennings was Jehu Burr, 1600-1672, one of the early settlers of Fairfield, in 1644. He came to this 
country with Governor John Winthrop, in 1630, settling first in Roxbury, Mass., but in 1636, was 
one of the founders of Agawam, now Springfield, Mass. After taking up his residence in Connec- 
ticut, he was a representative to the General Court, from the town of Fairfield. 

Oliver Burr Jennings, the father of Mr. Walter Jennings, was the son of Captain Abraham 
(Gould) Jennings and his wife, Anna Burr. He was born in Fairfield, in 1825, received an 
academic education, and began business life in Bridgeport, Conn. He remained there for several 
years, and came to New York City, in 1843. In 1849, he was among the pioneers who went to 
California, and there entered into mercantile business, becoming senior member of the firm of 
Jennings & Brewster. In 1865, he returned to New York and was associated with the Messrs. 
Rockefeller and others in the petroleum business, being one of the directors of the Standard Oil 
Company. His summer home was an estate in his native town, Fairfield, Conn. His wife was 
Esther Judson Goodsell, daughter of David Judson Goodsell, of Tiffin, O. When he died, in 1893, 
he left five children : Annie Burr, Walter, Helen Goodsell, the wife of Dr. Walter B. James ; 
Emma Brewster, who married Hugh D. Auchincloss, and Oliver Gould Jennings. Mrs. Oliver B. 
Jennings and her eldest daughter reside in the old family home in Park Avenue. 

Mr. Walter Jennings, the eldest son of Oliver Burr Jennings, was born in San Francisco, in 
1858. Prepared for college at Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., he was graduated 
from Yale University in the class of 1880, and from Columbia College Law School, in 1882, being 
admitted to the bar in the same year. He has since been mainly occupied with the care of the 
family property, although he is also actively identified with the Standard Oil Company. In 1891, 
Mr. Jennings married Jean Pollock Brown, and they have one son, Oliver Burr Jennings. Mr. 
Jennings belongs to the Metropolitan, University, University Athletic, New York Yacht, and St. 
Andrews Golf clubs, the Country Club, of Westchester County, the Downtown Association, the 
Yale Alumni Association, and the New England Society. His home is in East Forty-first Street, 
nea^ Fifth Avenue, and his country residence is at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. 



WILLIAM TRAVERS JEROME 

THE name of Jerome, as well as the family which bears it, is of French origin, but it 
was for many centuries established in the Isle of Wight, England. Many wills and 
conveyances bearing the signatures of its members who resided in that part of England 
are preserved in the public records of the County of Hampshire, and in the archives of the 
Bishopric of Winchester, among them being a will dated 1503, which was executed by one 
Henricus Jerome de Wallop. Representatives of the name were also found among the early 
settlers of the New England Colonies. The grandfather of Mr. William Travers Jerome was Isaac 
Jerome, who was born at Stockbridge, Mass. He removed to New York State early in the present 
century, becoming a prominent and influential citizen of the central portion of the State. He 
married Aurora Murray, born at Ballston, N. Y., who was a member of a family possessing a dis- 
tinguished Revolutionary record. Her father, Reuben Murray, was a Lieutenant in the New York 
State service during the contest, while another ancestor, Major Lebbens Ball, served throughout 
the Revolutionary War in one of the regiments of the Massachusetts Line in the Continental service. 
He was a descendant of Francis Ball, who came to New England in the infancy of the Colonies and 
settled at Springfield, Mass., in 1644. 

Lawrence Roscoe Jerome, father of Mr. William Travers Jerome, was born of this parentage 
at Pompey, N. Y. Becoming a successful man of business at an early age, he made New 
York City his home some time prior to the beginning of the Civil War, and was for many years one 
of the foremost figures in both the financial and social circles of the metropolis. He pursued the 
profession of a banker and broker with talent and success, and was long identified with Wall Street 
affairs, , and interested in some of the largest enterprises of his day. Possessing exceptional 
personal qualities and geniality of character, he was one.of the natural leaders of a group of famous 
club men and wits whose reputation has never been equaled in New York. The name borne by 
his son, the subject of this article, commemorates the warm personal and business friendship which 
existed between Lawrence R. Jerome and the celebrated William Riggin Travers, the noted 
financier, sportsman and man of the world. Lawrence R. Jerome was also a prominent patron of 
sport, and was associated with his equally well-known brother, the late Leonard Jerome, with 
William R. Travers, the elder August Belmont, and others of similar prominence in the creation of 
Jerome Park, and in the formation of the American Jockey Club, the organization which first 
gave character and standing to the American turf, and attracted the interest and support of the 
wealth and fashion of New York to the sport. He took a leading part in yachting and other higher 
forms of amusements, and ranked as a power in the most select club circles. The daughter of his 
brother Leonard, Jennie Jerome, married the late Lord Randolph Churchill, the English statesman, 
who was brother of the late and uncle of the present Duke of Marlborough. Lady Randolph 
Churchill has been one of the most prominent American women who married Englishmen of rank. 
Lawrence R. Jerome married Katharine Hall, of Palmyra, N. Y. 

Mr. William Travers Jerome was born in New York City in 1859. He was educated at 
schools in this city, and at Loney, Switzerland, and was graduated with degree of A. M. from 
Amherst College. He then entered the Law School of Columbia College, and was graduated 
LL. B. from that institution in 1884. He was admitted to the bar of New York, and has since 
pursued the practice of his profession with success. For three years Mr. Jerome served as 
Assistant District Attorney of New York County, and was engaged, both officially and as an 
advocate, in many of the most famous trials which have occupied the courts in recent years. His 
political and legal ability made him a prominent actor in the proceedings by which the corruption 
of the city departments was exposed in 1894, and soon afterwards he was elected to the bench 
of one of the city's tribunals. In 1888, Mr. Jerome married Lavinia Howe, of Elizabeth, N.J. 
They have one son, William Travers Jerome, Jr. Mr. Jerome is a member of the Union, 
City and Nineteenth Century clubs. 

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JAMES RILEY JESUP 

BROOM HALL, near Sheffield, England, was the seat of the family to which Edward Jesup, 
the pioneer of the American branch, belonged. He was one of the founders of Stamford, 
Conn., but moved to Westchester County, N. Y. Among the records at Albany is an 
Indian deed for a tract of land purchased by Edward Jesup and another in 1664. Edward Jesup, 
his son, 1663-1732, was born at West Farms, N. Y., but became a freeman of Fairfield, Conn., and 
about 1720 moved to Stamford. He married Elizabeth Hyde, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(Harvey) Hyde. The third Edward Jesup, 1697-1750, born at Fairfield, was a Captain of militia 
and married Sarah Blackback. Ebenezer Jesup, 1739-1812, their son, graduated from Yale in 1760, 
became a physician, and was a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army. By his first wife, Eleanor 
Andrews, he was the father of Ebenezer Jesup, second of the name, 1767-18SI. The latter was 
a merchant in Saugatuck, Conn., and from 1832 to 1837 was president of the Bridgeport Bank. He 
was also a director of the Fairfield County Bank in Norwalk, and a Major in the Revolution. In 
1790, he married Sarah Wright, daughter of Obadiah Wright and Sarah Adams, of Norwalk. 
The father of Obadiah Wright was Dennis Wright, who was one of the first settlers of Oyster 
Bay, Long Island. 

William Henry Jesup, grandfather of Mr. James R. Jesup, was the son of the second Ebenezer 
Jesup. He was born in Saugatuck, now Westport, Conn., in 1791. Educated in Lebanon, now 
Goshen, New London County, at an early age he became associated with his father in business. 
Removing to New York before he had reached middle age, he successfully engaged in business in 
Wall Street. His first wife was Charity Burr Sherwood, daughter of the Honorable Samuel B. 
Sherwood, of Saugatuck, Conn. She was born in 1794 and died in 1816. His second wife, the 
grandmother of Mr. James R. Jessup, was Mary Hannah Riley, whom he married in 1818. She 
was the daughter of Appleton Riley and Mary Griswold, of Goshen, Conn. Her father was the 
son of John Riley and Lucy Case. The wife of the Honorable Horatio Seymour, United States 
Senator from Vermont in 1821, was a cousin of Appleton Riley. 

John Riley, ancestor of Mary H. Riley, came to Connecticut in 1645; his descendant and 
namesake, John Riley, father of Appleton Riley, was a wealthy land owner in New Jersey. During 
the War of the Revolution, several of the family were in command of privateers which were fitted 
out at Connecticut ports. The mother of Mary Hannah (Riley) Jesup was a member of the cele- 
brated Griswold family and directly descended from Edward Griswold, who came with his brother, 
Matthew Griswold, from England in 1639 and settled in Windsor, Conn. ; the line of descent from 
Edward Griswold to Mary (Griswold) Riley was through George Griswold, who was born in 
England, and settled in Windsor, Conn.; George Griswold, born in 167 1; Zaccheus Griswold, 
who was born in 1705 and married, for his second wife, his cousin, Mary Griswold, daughter of 
Frances Griswold and Giles Griswold, who married Mary Stanley in 1762. 

James Riley Jesup, Sr., the father of the subject of this sketch and the son of William Henry 
Jesup and Mary Hannah Riley, was born in Saugatuck, Conn., in 18 19. Prepared for college in the 
academy at Wilton, he entered Yale College and was graduated from that institution with the 
degree of A. B. in 1840. Beginning the study of law in the office of the Honorable Eliphalet Swift, 
of Westport, he was admitted to the bar in Fairfield County in 1843. Soon after he moved to New 
York, where he made his home for the rest of his life and became a leading member of the bar. In 

1848, he married Mary Black, daughter of William and Phoebe C. (Heyer) Black. 

Mr. James Riley Jesup, Jr., the eldest child in his father's family, was born in Brooklyn in 

1849. He has been occupied in financial affairs throughout his business career, has been for many 
years senior member of the firm of Jesup & Lamont, stock brokers, and is a member of the New York 
Stock Exchange. In 1877, he married Mary E. Lamont, daughter of Charles A. Lamont, of New 
York. His city residence is at 555 Fifth Avenue, and he is a member of the Tuxedo Club. He is 
also a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 

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MORRIS KETCHUM JESUP 

WESTERN Connecticut was the residence of the successive generations of the Jesup 
family from Edward Jesup, the emigrant of the seventeenth century, down to the 
last generation. On the preceding page of this volume the family line is traced 
from Edward to Ebenezer Jesup, of Fairfield, 1 767-1 851, the second of that name, who was the 
grandfather of the eminent banker and citizen of New York, referred to in this article. 

Charles Jesup, 1796-1837, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Wright) Jesup, was the father of 
Mr. Morris K. Jesup. He was born in Saugatuck, Conn., and after graduating from Yale 
College in 18 14, traveled in Europe and engaged successfully in business, while he was also 
deeply interested in religious matters. In 1821, he married Abigail Sherwood, daughter of the 
Honorable Samuel B. Sherwood, 1767-1833, a leading lawyer of Fairfield County, Conn., and a 
Member of Congress in the session of 1817-1819. His father was the Reverend Samuel Sherwood 
and his grandfather, who was also named Samuel Sherwood, married Jane Burr, sister of the 
Reverend Aaron Burr, the first president of Princeton College. 

Mr. Morris Ketchum Jesup was born at Westport, Conn., June 21st, 1850. In 1842, his 
widowed mother removed with her family of children to New York, and her son, Morris K., 
entered the office of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, of the Paterson Locomotive Works, where 
he received his preparatory business training. In 1852, he formed the firm of Clark & Jesup, 
and in 1856 founded the banking house of M. K. Jesup & Co. The latter firm has been in 
continuous and successful existence from that time to the present day, although its name has 
been varied. It became successively Jesup, Paton & Co., and John Paton & Co., and more 
recently was changed to Cuyler, Morgan & Co., Mr. Jesup being a special partner. During 
his business career, Mr. Jesup has been a director of many large corporations, and through his 
connections abroad, has done much to secure the investment of European capital in the United 
States. During the Civil War he warmly supported the Union cause and was treasurer of the 
Christian Commission. Since 1863, he has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and 
is now its first vice-president. 

Much of Mr. Jesup's attention has been devoted to religion and charity. He was a 
founder of the Young Men's Christian Association, was its president in 1872 and is at the 
present time one of its trustees. He is president of the New York Mission and Tract Society, 
of the American Sunday School Union and the Five Points House of Industry, vice-president 
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and of the Institute for the 
Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, treasurer of the Slater Fund for the education of freedmen 
and a trustee of the Half Orphan Asylum. He presented Jesup Hall to the Union Theological 
Seminary. 

Education and science have also been objects of Mr. Jesup's labors, which have been recog- 
nized by Yale and Williams Colleges, both of these institutions having conferred the degree of 
M. A. upon him. He is a trustee of the American Geographical Society, and in 1881 was elected 
president of the American Museum of Natural History, having been one of its founders. To 
it he presented the superb Jesup collection illustrating the woods of the United States, while 
he took a leading part in securing the enactment of laws in this State for the preservation of 
its forests, having through his efforts enlisted the support of the Chamber of Commerce in the 
movement. Mr. Jesup is a member of the Metropolitan, Century, University, New York Yacht 
and other leading clubs, the Sons of the Revolution and the New England Society. 

In 1851, Mr. Jesup married Maria Van Antwerp De Witt, daughter of the Reverend 
Thomas De Witt, the distinguished minister of the Collegiate Dutch Church and a member of one 
of the oldest Colonial families. Mrs. Jesup, like her husband, takes a warm interest in religious 
and philanthropic work. Their city residence is in Madison Avenue and their country home, 
Belvoir Terrace, Lenox, Mass. 

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HUGH JUDGE JEWETT 

NEAR Glenville, Md., is an estate known as Lansdowne with a venerable stone homestead 
which for several generations has been in the possession of the Jewett family. The bearers 
of that name are descended from Joseph Jewett, who, belonging to a good family in the 
West Riding of Yorkshire, came to America in 1639 and was one of the first settlers of Rowley, 
Mass. In 1650, and the ten succeeding years, he represented that town in the General Court of 
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

One branch of the family became established in Maryland over a hundred years ago, and 
to it the subject of this article belongs. His father, John Jewett, of Glenville, Md., married 
Susanna Judge, daughter of Hugh Judge, of Philadelphia. She belonged to an old Quaker family 
and was herself distinguished as a preacher in the Society of Friends. Several of the sons of this 
marriage became men of great prominence. The eldest son, the Honorable Thomas L. Jewett, 
was a leading lawyer and Judge in Ohio, and became president of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & 
St. Louis Railroad and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. His brother, Isaac 
W. Jewett, was a prominent business man in Baltimore, Md., and president of the Potomac Fire 
Insurance Company. A third brother, the Honorable Joshua H. Jewett, settled in Kentucky, and 
was a Member of Congress for several terms immediately before the Civil War. 

The Honorable Hugh Judge Jewett is another of these remarkable brothers. Born in Glen- 
ville, Md., July 1st, 1817, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1838. Removing to Ohio, 
he practiced for ten years in St. Clairsville and then established himself in Zanesville. He attained 
high political distinction in Ohio, being elected to the State Senate in 1853 and was appointed 
United States District Attorney by President Pierce. In 1861 and 1863, he was nominated for 
Governor and was a candidate for the United States Senatorship. In 1872, he was elected Member 
of Congress for the Columbus, Ohio, district. 

About 1852, he became interested in the financial and railroad affairs to which much of his 
life has been devoted. In that year he became president of the Muskingum branch of the Ohio 
State Bank and later was the founder of and partner in a banking firm in Zanesville. Made a 
director of the Ohio Central Railroad in 1853, he became its president in 1857. In 1868, he was 
elected president of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis, the Little Miami and the Columbus & Xenia 
railroads, and was interested in the construction of the Kansas Pacific and other Western lines. In 
1874, he removed to New York City, and became president of the Erie Railway, was appointed its 
receiver in 1875, and when the property was reorganized as the New York, Lake Erie & Western 
Railroad was president of that company until 1884. He was also a director of the Western Union 
Telegraph Company and other large corporations. Since 1884, he has practically retired from 
active business and spends much of his time at Glenville, Hartford County, Md., on his ancestral 
estate. In early life, he married Sarah J. Ellis, daughter of Judge Ellis, of St. Clairsville, two sons 
of this marriage, John Ellis and George Monypenny Jewett, living to maturity. In 1853, he mar- 
ried, for his second wife, Sarah Elizabeth Guthrie. She was the daughter of Julius Chappell Guthrie 
and descended from the Colonial Governor, Thomas Welles, from the Reverend Abraham Pierson, 
first president of Yale College, and from the Bradley, Buckingham, Hawley, Huntington and Sturgis 
families. Mr. Jewett is a member of the Union, Metropolitan and City clubs. 

Mr. Jewett's only son by his second marriage is William Kennon Jewett. His two daugh- 
ters are Helen Pamelia and Sarah Guthrie Jewett. William Kennon Jewett was graduated from 
Williams College in 1879. In October, 1881, he married Patty Kyle Stuart, daughter of 
George Hay Stuart, of Philadelphia, a prominent merchant and philanthropist in that city. Among 
her ancestors are the Dennison, Stanton and Spaulding families of New England. William Kennon 
Jewett resides at New Brighton, Staten Island, and is president of the Staten Island Cricket and 
Baseball Club. He belongs to the Ohio Society, the University, University Athletic and 
2 4> clubs, and the Williams College Alumni Association. 

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EDWARD RODOLPH JOHNES 

UNTIL the year 1891, there stood in the town of Southampton, Long Island, an historic 
dwelling built in 1650 by Edward Johnes, one of the first settlers of that place, the house 
having been occupied continuously by his descendants up to 1835. The family from 
which he sprang was established in the counties of Berks, Salop and Somerset, as well as in 
London, Sir Francis Johnes, who was Lord Mayor of that city in 1620, being of the Johnes of 
Claverly, Salop. The coat of arms borne by the American branch of the family is that confirmed 
by the Heralds College in 1610, and is a golden lion passant, between three gold crosses, formee 
fitchee, on a blue shield, with a gold chief; the crest being a golden lion rampant, supporting a blue 
anchor with gold flukes, and the motto, Vince Malum Bono. Edward Johnes sailed to America 
with Winthrop, in 1629, and settled in Charlestown, Mass. He was an office-holder and land 
owner in Charlestown, and is described in the early town records with the prefix " Mr.", which in 
those days implied social importance. In 1640, he married Annie, daughter of George Griggs, who 
in 1635 came from Landen, Bucks County, in the Hopewell ; in 1644 he sold his land in 
Charlestown and removed to Southampton, where he built the old home and died in 1659. 

The Reverend Timothy Johnes, D. D., grandson of the pioneer, was the son of Samuel 
Johnes, of Southampton, who entertained Governor Lovelace in 1669 when he made a tour 
through Long Island. Timothy Johnes was born in 1717 and graduated from Yale College, which 
in 1782 conferred upon him the degree of D. D. He became minister of the Presbyterian Church 
in Morristown, N. J. He died in 1794, leaving by his second wife, Kesiah Ludlow Johnes, a son, 
William Johnes, 1 755-1 836, who was a Captain in the Continental Army, fought at the battle of 
Springfield, and married Charlotte Pierson, a descendant of the Reverend Abram Pierson, who 
landed at Boston in 1639. Charles Alexander Johnes, son of William Johnes, was born in 1796 
and became a merchant in New York and Newburgh, and Mayor of the latter place. He married 
Sarah Middlebrook Pettit, a descendant of a Huguenot family which migrated to Long Island in 
1683. Their son, William Pierson Johnes, married Anna Louisa Gold, of Whitesboro, N. Y., whose 
grandfather, Thomas R. Gold, was distinguished in State politics and as a Member of Congress for 
twenty years, being also the agent of the United States for the Six Nations. He was the legal 
adviser, in America, of Louis Philippe. 

Mr. Edward Rodolph Johnes, the son of this marriage, was born in Whitesboro, N. Y., in 
1852. His father dying in 1853, his mother married the Reverend J. S. Shipman, D. D., rector 
of Christ Church, New York City, and his early days were spent in Mobile, Ala., and Lexington, 
Ky. He entered Yale College, being graduated in 1873, and was a member of the Skull and Bones 
Society and the class poet. After a year spent in foreign travel, he entered the Columbia Law 
School, and was called to the bar in 1876. Mr. Johnes married Winifred Wallace Tinker, of Erie, 
Pa., a lady of literary taste and ability. Both Mr. and Mrs. Johnes have written many poems, 
stories and essays which have appeared in the leading periodicals. They have two children, 
Edward Gold and Raymond Middlebrook Johnes. 

Among Mr. Johnes' artistic treasures are many old family portraits and two pictures 
presented to his great-grandfather, Thomas R. Gold, by Louis Philippe. He has, in addition, a 
choice collection of paintings, and is a connoisseur of art. During his travels abroad, he enjoyed 
the distinction of being presented at three foreign courts, those of France, Greece and Egypt. A 
short time since, the Government of Venezuela decorated him with the Order of the Liberator 
Bolivar, of the grade bestowed on foreign ambassadors. This honor was in recognition of his 
services to that Republic through a pamphlet, in which he pointed out the applicability of the 
Monroe Doctrine to the boundary dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain, and which was 
published some years in advance of the enunciation of similar views by President Cleveland and 
Secretary of State OIney. Mr. Johnes is a member of the University, St. Nicholas, Colonial and 
other clubs. 

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BRADISH JOHNSON 

FOR three generations the family represented by the gentleman whom we are now considering 
has held a prominent position in both New York and Louisiana. William M. Johnson, 
grandfather of Mr. Bradish Johnson, was a native of Nova Scotia, who came to the 
United States at an early age and became an eminent merchant and manufacturer in this city, being 
respected for his wealth, influence and high personal integrity. In addition to his possessions 
here, he acquired large property and commercial interests in the South, owning several plantations 
near New Orleans, La. 

He married Sarah Rice, a member of the leading Boston family of that name. Their son, 
Bradish Johnson, Sr., was born, in 1811, at Woodlawn Plantation, a beautiful place on the 
Mississippi River some distance below the City of New Orleans, and which was renowned as one 
of the finest places of its kind in the State, or, indeed, in the entire Southwestern section of the 
United States. Bradish Johnson, Sr., was for many years a prominent figure in the business and 
social worlds, both in New York and New Orleans, spending portions of each year in either city. 
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was residing on his plantation in Louisiana, and in the early 
days of the great struggle, considerably before President Lincoln had issued the proclamation of 
emancipation, he voluntarily freed his many slaves. 

It is also related of him that when the United States fleet engaged in the capture of New 
Orleans came up the Mississippi to where his plantation was, he at once raised the national flag 
and kept it flying as long as the war lasted. His New York residence was the dignified mansion 
at Twenty-first Street and Fifth Avenue long occupied as a club house by the Lotos Club prior to 
its removal up-town. He retired from active business cares of all kinds some years before his 
death, which occurred in 1892, at Bayshore, Long Island. 

His wife, born Louisa A. Lawrence, was a member of the distinguished and ancient New 
York family of that name, which has been identified with the Province and State from the earliest 
days of its settlement. She was a granddaughter of Jonathan Lawrence, one of the most active 
supporters of the patriotic cause in New York during the American Revolution. He was not only 
a member of the New York Provincial Congress in 1775-7, Dut became Major of the Queens 
County Militia in 1775, Lieutenant-Colonel of the New York State forces in 1780, and Captain of 
Sappers and Miners in 1792. Through his mother, the subject of this article is thus connected by 
blood or intermarriage with many of the most prominent and respected old New York and Long 
Island families, while his Lawrence ancestry also extends back to European progenitors who were 
numbered among the nobility and gentry of England. 

Mr. Bradish Johnson is the son of the late Bradish Johnson, Sr., and his wife, Louisa 
(Lawrence) Johnson, and was born in New York in 1851. He was educated in Europe, which he 
has revisited on several occasions, making extended journeys in all its various countries. Mr. 
Johnson has not adopted any profession, but finds ample scope for his ability in the care and 
management of the large property interests left by his father in this and other portions of the 
United States, his duties in this connection indeed occupying the major portion of his attention. 
In 1877, he married Aimee Elizabeth Gaillard, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have two 
sons, Bradish Gaillard Johnson and Aymar Johnson, and a daughter, Aimee Gaillard Johnson. 
Their town residence is 102 Fifth Avenue, with a country seat at East Islip, Long Island, and they 
have also passed a considerable portion of their time in travel, not only in Europe, but in the 
United States as well. 

Mr. Johnson has taken an active, though not a conspicuous, part in social and club life in the 
city of his birth. He was a member of the Patriarchs, and belongs to the Union and Metropolitan 
clubs, and to the South Side Club of Long Island. He is a member of the St. Nicholas Society and 
of the Sons of the American Revolution, being very active in the latter patriotic body, of which 
he is a trustee. 

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EASTMAN JOHNSON 

ONE of the foremost American genre and portrait painters in this generation, Mr. Eastman 
Johnson, was born, in 1824, in Lovell, near Fryeburg, Me. His father, Philip C. Johnson, 
was for many years Secretary of State of Maine. In 184s, he removed to Washington to 
accept a place in the navy department and held that position until his death. His first wife was 
Mary Kimball Chandler and his second wife, Mrs. Mary (Washington) James, a sister of Richard 
Washington and among the nearest of kin of the surviving relatives of George Washington. 

As a young man, Mr. Eastman Johnson began the practice of his profession by the execution 
of portraits in black and white in Maine. While residing with his parents in Washington, he 
drew portraits of Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams and other statesmen of that period and also 
of Mrs. Dolly Madison, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and other ladies. From 1846 to 1849 he was in 
Boston, where he made portraits of Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Sumner and other celeb- 
rities. Going abroad in 1849, he entered the Royal Academy of Dusseldorf, then studied with 
Leutze and afterwards spent four years at The Hague. Then he sent home his first important 
pictures, The Savoyard, The Card Players and others. He finished his European experience in Paris, 
and then returned home in 1856, residing in Washington in the winter, but passing the summers of 
two years among the Northwestern Indians, of whom he made many important studies. After 
establishing himself in New York he painted pictures of American life, and his Old Kentucky 
Home, in 1858, fully established his reputation. In recent years, he has devoted himself almost 
entirely to portraiture. Among his most important works have been portraits of President Grover 
Cleveland, President Chester A. Arthur, President Benjamin Harrison, the Reverend Dr. James 
McCosh and the Honorable William M. Evarts. Some of his most important genre works have 
been The Old Stage Coach, Milton Dictating to his Daughters, and The Wandering Fiddler. 

The wife of Mr. Johnson, whom he married in 1869, was Elizabeth Williams Buckley. Her 
father was Phineas Henry Buckley, born in 1800, and her mother Phoebe McCoun, daughter of 
Townsend and Sarah McCoun, of Troy, N. Y. The grandfather of Mrs. Johnson was Thomas 
Buckley, who was born in Bristol, R. I., in 1771, and, removing to New York, engaged in mer- 
cantile life, being president of the Bank of North America and connected with many charitable 
institutions. His wife, whom he married in 1793, was Anna Lawrence, daughter of John L. and 
Ann (Burling) Lawrence, among whose ancestors were the wife of Sir George Carteret, who in 
Colonial times was Governor of Virginia, and Judge Lawrence, of Bay Side, Long Island, who 
married, in Revolutionary times, the sister of the Earl of Effingham. 

The Buckleys in America came from the Buckleys of Lancashire, England. The earliest 
ancestor was John de Buckley, whose son, Geoffrey Buckley, was slain at the battle of Eversham in 
1265. The Buckleys of New York had their direct origin from Phineas Buckley, a cadet of the 
Lancashire family and a native of London. He was a trader to the West Indies and the North 
American Provinces, and came to Philadelphia in 1713, where he married Sarah Hugg, daughter of 
Elias Hugg, of Gloucester County, N. J. William Buckley, son of Phineas Buckley, was born in 
Philadelphia in 171 5, was educated there, made several voyages to the West Indies and then in 
1741, having married Ruth Leach, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Leach, of Newport, settled there 
in mercantile business and died in 17S9. Phineas Buckley, son of William Buckley, and great- 
grandfather of Mrs. Johnson, was born in Bristol, R. I., in 1742 and died in 1826. He was a 
prominent member of the Society of Friends. His second wife, the mother of his son, Thomas, 
Mrs. Johnson's grandfather, was Mary Shipley, daughter of Thomas and Mary Shipley, of Brandy- 
wine, N. J. 

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson live in West Fifty-fifth Street. They have one daughter, Ethel East- 
man Johnson, who married Alfred Ronald Conkling. They belong to the Tuxedo colony. Mr. 
Johnson is a member of the Union League, Century and Players clubs, is a patron of the Metropoli- 
tan Museum of Art and has been a member of the National Academy of Design since i860. 

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SHIPLEY JONES 

PATERNAL ancestors of Mr. Shipley Jones were prominent in the foundation and 
early government of the Province of Pennsylvania, while the lines of his descent in 
England are from illustrious personages. His grandfather was Isaac C. Jones, of 
Philadelphia, and his father Samuel Tonkin Jones, of the same city. Isaac C. Jones married 
Hannah Firth, daughter of Ezra Firth, of Salem County, N. J. Her mother was Elizabeth Car- 
penter, daughter of Judge Preston Carpenter and granddaughter of Samuel Carpenter, Jr., of 
Philadelphia. Her great-grandmother was Hannah Preston, daughter of Samuel Preston, Mayor 
of Philadelphia in 171 1 and Treasurer of Pennsylvania, 1714-43, and whose mother was Rachel 
Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, the companion of Penn in the foundation of the Colony in 
1683, and Deputy Governor, descended in the twenty-fifth generation from Alfred the Great, 
Edward the elder, King of England, and Henry I., of France, as well as from the Barons de 
Wake, the Princess Joan Plantagenet, " Fair Maid of Kent," and the Earls of Kent. 

On the maternal side, Mr. Jones' American ancestors include the Thomas family, of 
Maryland, and the Ludlows of New York. His mother, the wife of Samuel Tonkin Jones, was 
Martha Mary Thomas, daughter of Philip Thomas, of Maryland, 1783- 1848, whose wife, Frances 
Mary Ludlow, was the daughter of James Ludlow, of New York, and his wife, Elizabeth Harrison, 
of Newport, R. I. Samuel Thomas, of Anne Arundel County, Md., 1655-1743, was eighteenth 
in descent from Llewelen, the Great Prince of North Wales, who died in 1240, and whose second 
wife was the Lady Joan Plantagenet, daughter of King John. In succeeding generations the 
line is traced through the Lords of Gower and Barons Mowbray. Samuel Thomas married 
Mary Hutchins, and their son, Philip Thomas, 1694- 1763, married for his second wife, in 1724, 
Ann Chew, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Chew. Their grandson, Philip Thomas, of Rock- 
land, Crest County, Md., married Sarah Margaret Weems, daughter of William and Catharine 
(Crumpton) Weems, of Weems Forest, great-grandparents of Mr. Shipley Jones. 

The Ludlow family, from which Mr. Jones descends through his maternal grandmother, 
Frances Mary (Ludlow) Thomas, was founded in America by Gabriel Ludlow, who came to 
New York in the seventeenth century. He married Sarah Hanmer, in 1697, and had a number 
of sons, all of whom married daughters of prominent citizens of that day. His tenth child, 
James Ludlow, born in New York, and graduated from Kings College, now Columbia Uni- 
versity, was the great-grandfather of Mr. Jones. Elizabeth Harrison, wife of James Ludlow and 
mother of Frances Mary (Ludlow) Thomas, was the daughter of Peter Harrison, collector of the 
port of New Haven, whose wife, Elizabeth Pelham, was the great-granddaughter of Benedict 
Arnold, the first Governor of Rhode Island. 

Samuel Tonkin Jones, Mr. Shipley Jones' father, married first, Sarah Margaret Thomas, and 
second, her younger sister, Martha Mary Thomas. Another sister, Catharine Ann Thomas, 
married William B. Bend, of New York, and a fourth sister was Elizabeth Frances Thomas. 
Ludlow Thomas, a brother, married Mary S. Thompson and another brother, Philip Thomas, 
married Anna Ellen Raymond. 

Mr. Shipley Jones was the third child of his father's second marriage. He was born in 
New York, and was graduated from Columbia College, in 1869, with the degree of A. B., receiving 
later the degree of A. M. He is a stock broker by profession, and his home is The Cedars, 
New Brighton, Staten Island. He is a member of the Metropolitan club, and of the Society of 
Colonial Wars and other organizations. Of Mr. Jones' immediate relatives, his half sister, the 
only child of his father's first marriage, is Frances Mary Jones, who married the late Richard 
M. Pell, and after his death became the wife of Louis T. Hoyt. His eldest sister, Sarah Margaret 
Jones, married Henry Beadel, and has two children, Henry Ludlow and Gerald Woodward 
Beadel. His younger sister, Elizabeth Ludlow Jones, married John Dash Van Buren, and has 
two sons, John Dash, Jr., and Maurice Pelham Van Buren. 

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CHARLES CONOVER KALBFLEISCH 

NOTWITHSTANDING their comparatively small number, the original Holland settlers of 
New York have left a remarkably distinct impression on the course of American history 
and on the character of the American people. Valuable as this element has been, it 
received no reinforcement from the mother country from the date of the English occupation of the 
New Netherland, and but few instances can be cited of further additions to the population of the 
United States from the same source. Mr. Kalbfleisch's family furnishes one of the few exceptions, 
and supplies in the record of its founder an example of the force of character, patriotism and other 
qualities which are so noticeable in Americans of Dutch blood, and which have been so influ- 
ential in shaping the destinies of the metropolis. 

The late Martin Kalbfleisch, the grandfather of Mr. Charles C. Kalbfleisch, was born at 
Flushing, in the Netherland province of Zeeland, in 1804, and received a thorough education in his 
native place. In after life, he was distinguished for a knowledge of languages, for a wide 
acquaintance with literature and for a devotion, whether in private or public station, to the cause 
of education. In 1822, he sailed to the Dutch East Indies on an American ship, and through this 
association imbibed a desire to make the United States his home. This he put into execution in 
1826, when he came to New York, where, after a few years, his integrity, energy and ability 
enabled him to found a manufactory of chemicals in Harlem. Some years afterwards, he removed 
his business to Connecticut, but in 1842 located his works at Greenpoint, Long Island. His 
manufacturing interests soon became one of the most important concerns of the kind in the 
country, and some years afterwards he relinquished their care to his sons and retired from business, 
partly to enjoy his well-earned fortune, but more especially to devote his time to the public service. 
His interest in this connection began in Brooklyn. Soon after he established his works at Green- 
point, he secured for that district, partly at his own expense, its first free school facilities. In 185 1, 
he was Supervisor of Bushwick, Kings County, afterwards part of the City of Brooklyn. In 1853, 
he was president of the commission which arranged the consolidation of the old town of 
Williamsburgh with the City of Brooklyn, and in 1854 was Democratic candidate for the Mayoralty 
of the consolidated city, but was defeated at the polls by a narrow majority. From 185s to 1861, 
he was a member of the Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn, and was three times president of the 
board; in the last above mentioned year he was elected Mayor, his service in that office being 
followed in 1862 by a term as Representative in Congress, and in 1867 by a second election as 
Mayor of Brooklyn. In addition to his various public positions, Martin Kalbfleisch was prominent 
among the founders, and as a director of many of the largest and most successful banks, trust 
companies and insurance corporations of his adopted city, was universally regarded as a leader of 
the business world, and in the performance of every duty earned and retained the entire respect 
and confidence of the community. 

By his marriage with Elizabeth Harvey, a lady of English birth, Martin Kalbfleisch had 
several sons, who were prominent in business and social life in New York and Brooklyn. One of 
them was Charles Henry Kalbfleisch, the father of the subject of this article. He became a 
member of the firm of Martin Kalbfleisch's Sons, the house founded by his father. He married 
Josephine Conover, of New York, and had a son, Mr. Charles Conover Kalbfleisch, and a daughter, 
Josephine, who, in 1895, married John Howard Adams, of this city. 

Mr. Charles Conover Kalbfleisch was born in this city July 30th, 1868. He graduated 
from Columbia University in the class of 1891, receiving, in the following year, the degree of 
A. M., and was graduated from the law school of the same institution in 1893, being admitted to 
the bar in the same year, and has since then been engaged in the practice of his profession. In 
October, 1897, Mr. Kalbfleisch married, at Babylon, Long Island, his cousin, Maud Kalbfleisch, 
daughter of Franklin H. Kalbfleisch. Mr. Kalbfleisch is a member of the Bar Association, the 
Columbia College Alumni Association, The Players and The Grolier Club. 

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DELANCEY ASTOR. KANE 

UP to the time, under Queen Elizabeth and her successors, when the native families 
were deprived of their lands, what is now County Londonderry and part of County 
Antrim, Ireland, were known as the O'Kanes country and were held by the ancient noble 
family of that name. From this possession the Kane family, distinguished in American records, 
derives its origin. Their ancestry is traced from Evanne O'Kane, whose son, Bernard, married 
Martha O'Hara, daughter of Captain O'Hara and granddaughter of O'Neil, of Shane's Castle, County 
Antrim. Their eldest son, John O'Kane, born in 1734, came to this country in 1752. 

John O'Kane, in America, dropped the prefix from his name and was known as Kane. At 
the time of the Revolution, he resided on his estate, Sharyvogne, Dutchess County, N. Y., and 
being a Royalist, was included in the confiscation directed against supporters of that cause. 
Losing all his property, he returned to England with his brother, Captain Kane, who had served in 
the Royalist forces during the Revolution. His wife was Sybil Kent, daughter of the 
Reverend Elisha Kent, who was a graduate of Yale in 1729, filled several pulpits in Putnam County, 
N. Y., and elsewhere, and died in 1776. His wife, Abigail Morse, was daughter of the Reverend 
Joseph Morse, of Derby, Conn., 1679- 1732, who graduated at Harvard in 1699 and was one of the 
first five to receive an honorary degree from Yale. He was descended from John Moss, one of the 
founders of New Haven and a representative in the early Connecticut Legislature. The wife of 
the Reverend Joseph Moss was Abigail Russell, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Russell, of 
Hadley, Mass., and a descendant of John Russell, who came to Massachusetts in 1636, and who, 
for sixteen years, sheltered the regicides Goffe and Whalley in his house at Hadley. 

The children of John and Sybil (Kent) Kane were six in number. Their eldest son, John 
Kane, was a famous New York merchant, and his sons were J. Grenville Kane, long the secretary 
of the Union Club, and Pierre G. Kane, who married Edith Brevoort. The second son, Elisha 
Kane, married Alida, daughter of General Robert Van Rensselaer, and the third son, Oliver, grand- 
father of Colonel Delancey Astor Kane, married Eliza Clark, daughter of John Green Clark, of 
Providence, R. I. Of the daughters of John and Sybil Kane, Abigail married Dr. John Prescott 
Lawrence, Adeline married Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and Sarah married Thomas Morris, son 
of Robert Morris, the Revolutionary financier. Among the descendants of the family's different 
branches have been many men of distinction, including Judge John K. Kane of the United States 
District Court in Pennsylvania, Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer, and General Thomas 
Lawrence Kane, Commander of the Pennsylvania Bucktail Brigade in the Civil War. 

Oliver Kane and his wife Eliza (Clark) Kane were the parents of Delancey Kane, of 
Newport, R. I. The latter married Louisa Langdon, daughter of Walter Langdon and his wife, 
Dorothea Astor, daughter of John Jacob Astor, the first of that name in America. Walter Lang- 
don's father, John Langdon, was Governor of New Hampshire and United States Senator. 

Colonel Delancey Astor Kane is the son of Delancey Kane, of Newport, and his wife, 
Louisa Langdon, and was born at Newport, R. I., in 1844. He was graduated from the United 
States Military Academy, West Point, in 1868, and was a Lieutenant, First Cavalry, United 
States Army, from 1868 to 1870. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and 
graduated in 1873 from the Law Department of Columbia College, New York. In 1872, Colonel 
Kane married Eleanora Iselin, daughter of Adrian Iselin, of this city, their only child being Delancey 
Iselin Kane. Colonel Kane's city residence is 7 West Thirty-fifth Street, and he has a country 
place at New Rochelle, N. Y. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, 
Country, Coaching, New York Yacht and Larchmont Yacht clubs. 

The brothers of Colonel Kane are S. Nicholson Kane, John lnnes Kane, who married Annie 
C. Schermerhorn, and Woodbury Kane. Another brother, Walter Langdon Kane, married Mary 
Rotch Hunter, of Newport, where he died in 1896. His sisters are Louise Langdon and Sybil 
Kent Kane and Emily A., wife of Augustus Jay. 



JOHN KEAN 

DURING the Revolutionary period, John Kean, the great-grandfather of the above gentle- 
man, was a leading patriot of South Carolina, where he was born about 1756. He was 
an officer in the Revolutionary Army, and being taken prisoner, was confined on a prison 
ship in Charleston harbor. After the war, he was a Member of Congress from South Carolina from 
1785 to 1787, and although he represented a Southern constituency, voted against the extension 
of slavery into the Northwestern territory. Removing to Philadelphia, he became cashier of the 
Bank of the United States. In 1786, he married Susan Livingston, 1759-1831, daughter of Peter 
Van Brugh Livingston, 1710-1793, the son of Philip Livingston, second Lord of Livingston Manor. 
The wife of Peter Van Brugh Livingston was Mary Alexander, daughter of James Alexander, 
Surveyor-General of East Jersey, member of the King's Council and Attorney-General of New York, 
whose wife, Maria (Spratt) Provoost, was the daughter of John Spratt and Marie de Peyster, and 
widow of Samuel Provoost. 

Peter Philip James Kean, the son of John Kean and his wife, Susan Livingston, was the 
grandfather of the present Mr. John Kean. He was born in 1788, was Major of the New Jersey 
militia, and died in 1828. He married Sarah Morris, daughter of General Jacob Morris, who was 
born in Morrisania in 1755, served during the Revolution as aide-de-camp to General Charles Lee, 
and died at his estate, Butternuts, Otsego County, N. Y., in 1844. General Morris was the son 
of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a grandson of Lewis Morris, 
1671-1746, Chief Justice of New York and New Jersey, and Governor of New Jersey in 1736. The 
founder of the family in this country was Richard Morris, who received the royal grant of 
Morrisania, Westchester County, N. Y. One of the daughters of Peter Philip James and Sarah 
(Morris) Kean, and an aunt of the present Mr. John Kean, was Julia Kean, who married Hamilton 
Fish, of New York, Governor, Senator and Secretary of State of the United States. 

John Kean, second of the name, and father of Mr. John Kean of the present genera- 
tion, was born in 1814. He resided on the family estate, Ursino, Elizabeth, N. J., and was 
president of the Elizabethtown Gas Company, and vice-president of the Central Railroad Company, 
of New Jersey. He married Lucy Halsted, daughter of Caleb Halsted, a well-known New 
York merchant. Mrs. Kean survived her husband, and resides in East Fifty-sixth Street and at 
Ursino. The eldest son of this marriage, Peter Philip Kean, died young, in 1849, and the eldest 
daughter, Caroline Morris, who married George Lockhart Rives, of New York, died in 1887. The 
surviving children of the family are Susan Livingston, John, Julian Halsted, Christine, Lucy Halsted, 
Hamilton Fish, Elizabeth d'Hauteville and Alexander Livingston Kean. 

Mr. John Kean, the eldest surviving son, was born at Ursino, N. J., in 1852. He was 
graduated from Yale College in 1876, and has been engaged in the banking business and connected 
with financial affairs in this city, being now vice-president of the Manhattan Trust Company. Mr. 
Kean resides at Ursino, and is a member of the Metropolitan, University and Essex County Country 
clubs, the Downtown Association and the Metropolitan Club, of Washington. Julian Halsted 
Kean, the second son, was born in 1 8^4, was graduated from Yale in 1876, and is a member of the 
New York bar. He belongs to the Metropolitan, University, Players and Riding clubs, and the 
Downtown Association. Hamilton Fish Kean, the third son, was born in 1862, and in 1888 
married Katharine Taylor Winthrop. He has two children, John and Robert Winthrop Kean. 
He resides in Park Avenue, and is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, St. 
Anthony and other clubs. Alexander Livingston Kean, the youngest son, was born in 1866. He 
is a member of the Metropolitan and other clubs. The eldest surviving daughter of the family, 
Christine Kean, married W. Emlen Roosevelt. The other daughters are unmarried. 

The arms of the Kean family are: Argent, a chevron sable, between two doves, sable. 
The crest is a griffin's head proper, couped, with an olive branch in its beak. Motto: Mea Gloria 
Fides. 



EDWARD KELLY 

ONE of the direct ancestors of Mr. Edward Kelly was a member of the Irish Parliament in 
1585, and the family is one of the most ancient and honorable in Ireland. The 
grandfather of Mr. Kelly was Thomas Boye O' Kelly, of Mullaghmore. During the reign 
of Queen Elizabeth the Mullaghmore branch of the family was deprived of much of its property. 
As a consequence, the head of the house moved to the North of Ireland and purchased an estate, 
still in the hands of his descendants. The ancestors of the O'Kellys for many generations were 
buried in the Abbey of Killconnel, which they founded in the fourteenth century, the first abbot 
having been Hugh O'Kelly, of Mullaghmore. In 1798, the grandfather of Mr. Edward Kelly took 
part in the political troubles which occasioned much disturbance in Ireland at that period and 
changed his name from O'Kelly to Kelly. 

The late Eugene Kelly was born in County Tyrone, in 1806, and at the age of twenty-four 
came to the United States. When he landed in New York he had a small capital, and became a 
clerk in the mercantile house of Donnelly Bros. After a few years, he removed to Maysville, Ky., 
and went into business, but later on established himself in St. Louis. When the California 
excitement began, he saw the opportunity and went to San Francisco in the latter part of 1849, 
opening a mercantile establishment there in partnership with Joseph A. Donohoe, Daniel T. 
Murphy and Adam Grant. After ten years of prosperous business, the firm dissolved, and Mr. 
Kelly took part in founding the Pacific Coast banking house of Donohoe, Ralston & Co., in San 
Francisco, and the firm of Eugene Kelly & Co., in New York. For nearly thirty-five years this 
business was continued, until, in 1894, Eugene Kelly retired and the house was dissolved. He was 
a factor in railroad business and banking for a third of a century. He founded the Southern Bank of 
the State of Georgia and contributed largely to the rebuilding of the town hall of Charleston, S. C, 
after the war. He was a director in the National Park Bank, the Bank of New York, the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society, the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, and the Title Guarantee and Trust 
Company; while he was also connected with many other corporations of the greatest importance 
in the financial and railroad world. 

He held an important position in the social life of the metropolis. A generous supporter of 
charity and education, he was one of the original life members of the National Academy of Design, 
for thirteen years a member of the Board of Education, a patron of the American Museum of 
Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. 
In 1884, he was Elector-at-Large and chairman of the Electoral College of the State. In the 
Roman Catholic Church, of which he was a member, he was a prominent layman, being one of 
the founders of the Catholic University of America, and a director until his death. He was also a 
trustee of Seton Hall College and a member of the committees which had oversight of the 
construction of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Washington Memorial Arch and the Bartholdi Statue 
of Liberty erected in New York harbor. 

The first wife of Eugene Kelly was a Miss Donnelly, who died in 1848. His daughter, 
Eugenia, by his marriage, became the wife of James A. G. Beales, of New York. In 1857, he 
married Margaret Hughes, niece of Archbishop John Hughes, and four sons by this marriage 
survived him — Eugene, Edward, Thomas Hughes and Robert J. Kelly. 

Mr. Edward Kelly, the son of Eugene Kelly, was born in New York in 1863, and was 
educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, England. He was engaged in the banking business 
with the firm of Eugene Kelly & Co., from 1881, and was a partner from 1885 till its dissolution in 
1894. He is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a life member of the American 
Geographical Society, and also a member of various social clubs, and of the sheriffs jury, 
succeeding his father in that position. In 1882, Mr. Kelly married Helen Mitchell Pearsall, of the 
old Long Island family of that name. He has had three children: Helen Margaret Angela, born in 
1884; Eugene Edward, who was born in 1890 and died in 1893, and Eugenia, born in 1895. 



JOHN STEWART KENNEDY 

NEW YORK owes much to its adopted citizens of Scottish birth. In the early history of 
the city many of its most enterprising settlers came from Scotland, and contributed by 
their energy and thrift to the commercial and industrial growth of the metropolis. After 
the close of the Revolutionary War, young men of the same nationality took a conspicuous part 
in the commercial activities of New York in that period. Since that time, also, others from the 
land of the thistle have followed in the footsteps of those who preceded them in earlier times. 

Mr. John Stewart Kennedy is a conspicuous representative of that large and influential class 
of business men, and of patriotic citizens, who, of Scottish birth, have made this city the field of 
their activities and the scene of their successes. Mr. Kennedy was born near Glasgow, Scotland, 
on the banks of the River Clyde, in 1830. His father was John Kennedy and his mother Isabella 
Stewart. His family on both the paternal and maternal side were of good old Presbyterian stock. 
He was the sixth of a family of nine children, and received his elementary education in the Glasgow 
public schools. Early imbued with the importance of self-reliance and industry as indispensable 
factors of success in life, he began his business career in a shipping office in Glasgow, when he 
was thirteen years of age. After an apprenticeship of four years, he entered the office of an iron 
and coal company, where he remained for three years longer. During all this time he applied 
himself closely to his books and acquired a substantial education. 

In 1850, Mr. Kennedy made his first visit to this country, traveling in Canada and the United 
States, in the interests of a firm engaged extensively in the iron trade. Establishing his head- 
quarters in New York, he remained in America about two years and then returned to England and 
took charge of the Glasgow house of the firm with which he was connected. Four years later, he 
came back to New York and for the next ten years was a partner in the firm of M. K. Jesup & Co., 
of New York, and Jesup, Kennedy & Co., of Chicago. In 1867, he retired temporarily from 
business, and spent a year in Europe in travel and recreation. The following year he returned to 
New York and established the firm of J. S. Kennedy & Co., which he conducted with uninterrupted 
prosperity until 1883, when he permanently retired, leaving the business to be carried on by his 
partners under the name of J. Kennedy Tod & Co. In addition to his business as merchant and 
banker, Mr. Kennedy was engaged in important railroad enterprises, serving as president, vice- 
president, director, receiver or trustee of many large corporations. Among other financial 
institutions and railroad companies, in which he has been a director, are: The National Bank of 
Commerce, the Manhattan Company's Bank, the Central Trust Company, the New York, Chicago 
& St. Louis Railroad Company, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company, and 
the New Brunswick Railroad Company. 

Few citizens of New York have manifested a deeper public interset in the benevolent 
institutions of the city than Mr. Kennedy, or have been more open-handed in their benefactions. 
He is president of the Presbyterian Hospital, the Lenox Library and the board of trustees of the 
American Bible House of Constantinople, vice-president of the New York Historical Society, 
trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Society for the Ruptured and Crippled, 
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Theological Seminary of Princeton, N. J., and 
manager of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The 
United Charities Building, at the corner of Twenty-second Street and Fourth Avenue, was built by 
him at his own expense, for the headquarters of the charity organizations of New York. 

Mr. Kennedy married Emma Baker, daughter of Cornelius Baker. He lives in West Fifty- 
seventh Street, and his summer home is Kenarden Lodge, in Bar Harbor, Me. He is a member of 
the Metropolitan, Union League, Century, South Side Sportsmen's, Reform, Grolier, City, New York 
Yacht and Riding clubs, the Downtown Association, the American Geographical Society and the 
Mendelssohn Glee Club, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy 
of Design and the American Museum of Natural History. 

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WILLIAM KENT 

THOMAS KENT was probably a brother of Richard Kent, of Old Newberry, Mass., who 
came to America in the Mary and John from Gloucester, England, in 1638. Thomas 
was a resident of Gloucester, Mass., in 1644, and became the ancestor of an American 
family remarkable for the eminent professional men it has produced. His eldest son, Samuel Kent, 
was the father of John Kent, who settled in Suffield, Conn., about 1680, where he married Abigail 
Dudley, a daughter of William Dudley, of Saybrook, and had a family of nine children. The 
Reverend Elisha Kent, 1704- 1776, the youngest son of John Kent, was graduated from Yale College 
in 1729. He became a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Newtown, Conn., but about 1740 
moved to Dutchess County, now Putnam County, N. Y., and was minister of a church there. 
He has had many illustrious descendants, among them Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the Arctic explorer, 
Chancellor James Kent and the present generations of Kanes, well known in New York. 

The wife of Reverend Elisha Kent was a daughter of Reverend Joseph Moss, of Derby, 
and their son, Moss Kent, 1733-1794, graduated from Yale College in 1752, and was admitted to 
the bar in Dutchess County in 1755. About the time of the Revolutionary War, he removed to 
Green Farms and afterwards to Lansingburgh, N. Y., where he was a justice and surrogate. He 
had two sons, the younger, Moss Kent, Jr., State Senator and Member of Congress, dying 
unmarried. The eldest son of Moss Kent was the famous James Kent, Chancellor of the State of 
New York, the great-grandfather of Mr. William Kent. He was born in 1763, and spent his 
childhood, from 1768 to 1772, with his grandfather, Dr. Uriah Rogers, of Norwalk, Conn. He was 
elected to the New York Legislature in 1790, 1792 and 1796. Previous to 1798, he was Professor 
of Law in Columbia College. In 1796, Governor John Jay appointed him a Master-in-Chancery; in 
1797, he was a Recorder of the City of New York; in 1798, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
State, and in 1804, its Chief Justice. He became Chancellor in 1814, and held that office until 1823. 
During his judicial career, he resided in Albany, but returning to New York, again became 
Professor in Columbia College and engaged in private practice. For many years he was president 
of the New York Historical Society. He was the author of Kent's Commentaries on American 
Law, a work found in the library of every American lawyer. 

Judge William Kent, son of Chancellor Kent, was born in Albany, in 1802. Graduated 
from Union College, he became a lawyer in New York, a Judge of the Circuit Court, 1841-45, 
and a Professor in Harvard College Law School, 1846-47. He returned to practice in New 
York in 1847, dying in Fishkill in 1861. The son of Judge William Kent was James Kent, who 
was born in 1830, studied law in his father's office, was admitted to the bar in 1851 and resided 
throughout his life in Fishkill-on-the-Hudson. 

His son, Mr. William Kent, is descended on the maternal side from several early Connec- 
ticut and New York families. His great-great-grandfather, Moss Kent, married Hannah Rogers, a 
daughter of Dr. Uriah Rogers, of Connecticut. The wife of Chancellor Kent was Elizabeth Bailey, 
daughter of Colonel John Bailey, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and his wife, Altie Van Wyck, daughter 
of Theodore Van Wyck. Their son was the Honorable Theodorus Bailey, Member of Congress, 
1 793- 1 797 and 1799-1803, United States Senator in 1803 and Postmaster of New York. The 
grandmother of Mr. Kent, wife of Judge William Kent, was Helen Riggs, daughter of Caleb S. 
Riggs and granddaughter of Colonel William Burnet of the Continental Army. 

Mr. William Kent was born in Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, March 19th, 1858. After graduating 
from Columbia College, he studied law and entered upon the practice of his profession in New 
York. He married, in 1881, Emily Lorillard, daughter of Pierre Lorillard. The children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Kent are William, Jr., Emily Lorillard, Peter Lorillard and Richard Kent. The residence 
of the family is at Tuxedo Park. Mr. Kent is a member of the Bar Association, the Columbia 
College Alumni Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Union, Country and 
New York Yacht clubs. 

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JOSEPH FREDERIC KERNOCHAN 

MORE than twenty-five years ago, Joseph Kernochan was a famous merchant in New 
York. He was of Scottish birth, a member of a good family, and came to this country 
in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Soon after 1800, he was a clerk in the 
store of Thomas Powell, in Newburgh, N. Y. One of his fellow-clerks was Henry Parrish, a 
nephew of Thomas Powell, and the intimacy that sprang up between the two young man ulti- 
mately resulted in the establishment of one of the great dry goods houses of New York City in the 
early part of the present century. In 1833, only fourteen years after he had come to New York, 
Mr. Kernochan was able to retire with one of the largest fortunes of that day to his credit. He 
was a public-spirited man, interested in municipal affairs, and concerned in the highest social, 
literary and educational interests of the city. He was president of the Fulton Bank, and connected 
with other corporations, and was one of the earliest members of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. 
He married Margaret Seymour. She was a niece of Thomas Powell, and a cousin of her husband's 
subsequent partners, Henry and Daniel Parrish. 

Mr. Joseph Frederic Kernochan is the son of Joseph and Margaret (Seymour) Kernochan. 
Born in New York, he was graduated from Yale College, in 1863, and from the Law School of 
Columbia College, in 1865. He has been engaged in the practice of law. His wife, whom he 
married in 1869, was Mary Stuart Whitney, a daughter of William Whitney and Mary Stuart 
McVickar. The father of Mrs. Kernochan was born in 1816, and died in 1862. His wife was a 
daughter of James and Eweretta (Constable) McVickar, of Constableville, N. Y. James McVickar 
was a brother of the Reverend John McVickar, who was a professor in Columbia College for fifty- 
one years and a son of John McVickar and Abigail Moore, of Newtown, Long Island. Abigail 
Moore was a daughter of John Moore, granddaughter of Benjamin and Anna (Sackett) Moore, 
great-granddaughter of Samuel and Mary (Read) Moore, and the great-great-granddaughter of the 
Reverend John Moore, the first minister of Newtown. The father of Mrs. Kernochan was a son of 
the famous New York merchant, Stephen Whitney, and his wife, Harriet Suydam, daughter of 
Hendrick and Phoebe (Skidmore) Suydam, of Hallet's Cove, N. Y. Stephen Whitney was in the 
fifth generation of descent from Henry Whitney, one of the first settlers in Connecticut and Long 
Island. Mr. and Mrs. Kernochan have a town house in Madison Square, and their summer home 
is at the Highlands of Navesink, N. J. They have three children, Eweretta, Mary S. W. and 
Frederic Kernochan. Mr. Kernochan is a member of the Tuxedo, University, City and Yale clubs, 
the Bar Association and the Downtown Association. 

James P. Kernochan, another son of Joseph Kernochan, was born in New York, in October, 
1831. Inheriting wealth from his father, he never actively engaged in business, but devoted his 
time to the management of his own property and the John Rutgers Marshall, the Lorillard, the 
Gasquet and the Spencer estates. Besides his town house, at 384 Fifth Avenue, he owned a 
beautiful country place at Ochre Point, Newport, and large tracts of real estate in New York. He 
was a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Riding, and Meadow 
Brook Hunt clubs, and was a member of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church. He died as 
a result of an accident, March, 1897. His wife, who survived him, was Catherine Lorillard, 
daughter of Peter Lorillard. Her mother was Catherine A. Griswold, daughter of Nathaniel L. 
Griswold, of the great china importing house of W. L. & George Griswold. Her grandfather was 
Peter A. Lorillard, who was born in 1763 and died in 1843, and her grandmother was Maria 
Dorothea Schultz. Her great-grandparents were Peter Lorillard and his wife, Catherine Moore, 
sister of Blazius Moore. James Lorillard Kernochan, son of James P. Kernochan, married Eloise 
Stevenson, has a country home, The Meadows, in Hempstead, Long Island, and a summer 
residence in Newport. He is a member of the Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, New York Yacht, 
Riding and Meadow Brook Hunt clubs, and of the American Geographical Society. His sister, 
Catherine Lorillard, is the wife of Herbert C. Pell. 

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HENRY SCANLAN KERR 

ON the paternal side, Mr. Henry S. Kerr is descended from an English family. His 
grandfather was George Kerr, a native of England, who came to this country in the early 
part of the present century. He settled in the West, and there his descendants have 
attained distinction in professional and public life, and have been eminently successful in business 
pursuits. William H. Kerr, son of George Kerr and father of the gentleman whose family is here 
under consideration, was for many years Prosecuting Attorney of Ohio. On his mother's side, 
Mr. Kerr is descended from one of the old families of Ireland. His mother was Harriet Scanlan, 
daughter of Stephen Scanlan, of Ireland, and his wife, Mary Hardy. Stephen Scanlan and his wife 
were for a long time residents of Canada. A sister of Harriet Scanlan is the wife of Charles T. 
Wing, of New York. Stephen Scanlan was a member of the family to which Tvrone Power, the 
celebrated Irish comedian and dramatist, belonged. He was a cousin of Tyrone Power and second 
cousin of the present Sir William Tyrone Power, member of Parliament, who was the eldest son 
of Tyrone Power, the actor. His maternal ancestors were of an old family of Waterford. 

Mr. Kerr is a native of Cincinnati, O., having been born in that citv, September 4th, 
1865. His early education was secured in the Chickering Institute, of Cincinnati. He then 
completed a course of study in the Montgomery Bell Academy, in Nashville, Tenn., and was 
graduated from that institution with first honors and as valedictorian of his class. Coming to New 
York, he engaged in business pursuits, entering the office of his uncle, Charles T. Wing, in 
Wall Street. There he remained from 1885 until 1892. In the last-mentioned year, he joined in 
organizing the firm of Redmond, Kerr & Co., of Wall Street, of which he is now one of the active 
partners. Interested in military affairs, he enlisted in Squadron A of the National Guard of the 
State of New York soon after coming to this city, and served six years. During that time, he had 
practical military experience with his command in the Buffalo and the Brooklyn railroad riots and 
on other occasions. He attained to the rank of First Sergeant and received his honorable discharge 
in 1894. 

On October 16th, 1895, Mr. Kerr married Olive Grace, daughter of John W. Grace, of 
New York. The father of Mrs. Kerr is a member of the firm of W. R. Grace & Co., South 
American importers and shipping merchants. He is the brother of former Mayor William R. 
Grace, being the second son of his father's family, and was the founder of the San Francisco 
branch of the Grace mercantile house. He belongs to one of the ancient and honorable families of 
Ireland. His father, James Grace, of Queens County, Ireland, was born in 1794 and lived at 
Sheffield House, where John W. Grace was born, in 1836. The wife of James Grace, whom he 
married in 1827, was Ellen Mary Russell, daughter of Michael Russell, of Ninagh, County Tip- 
perary. The Russell family is one of the well-known Protestant families of Ireland. James Grace 
died at Farranville House in 1869. He was the son of John Grace and Alice Horenden, John Grace 
being the great-grandson of Michael Grace, of Gracefield, 1682-1760, and Mary Galwey, daughter 
of John Galwey, of Lota House, County Cork. The Grace family was originally of Norman extrac- 
tion, and in the early centuries its members were large landholders in Queens County. Being 
devoted Catholics, they lost their possessions when Ireland was subjugated by the English, but 
they have still remained residents of the country with which their ancestors and themselves have 
been so conspicuously identified. 

Mr. and Mrs. Kerr have one son, Henry Grace Kerr, who was born August 15th, 1896. 
Their residence is in East Seventy-fifth Street, at the corner of Madison Avenue, but they spend 
the summer months at their country place in Great Neck, Long Island. Mr. Kerr is a member 
of several of the leading clubs, including the Union League, Union and Racquet. Gentlemanly 
sports engage his attention to some extent, and he is a member of the New York Yacht Club and 
the Country Club of Westchester County. For several years he has been a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and as a loyal son of Ohio is a member of the Ohio Society. 

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ALEXANDER PHCENIX KETCHUM 

ON both sides of the house, Colonel Alexander Phoenix Ketchum and his brother, Edgar 
Ketchum, trace their ancestry from illustrious New York families. Their paternal 
grandparents were John Jauncey Ketchum and Susanna Jauncey, who were nearly 
related, having descended from Guleyn Vigne, one of the first settlers of New Amsterdam, who 
came to this country in the first decades of the seventeenth century. The son of Guleyn Vigne was 
Jean Vigne, the first male child born in New Amsterdam of European parents. The date of his 
birth has been set down as 1614, and his father owned a farm near Wall Street, then a suburb of 
the town of New Amsterdam, which property the son inherited. Jean Vigne also owned a large 
windmill, was a brewer as well as a farmer, and was one of the great burghers of the city and 
held several times the honorable position of a schepen. His three sisters were wedded by 
representatives of prominent Dutch families of that period. Maria married Abraham Verplank, 
ancestor of the famous New York family of that name which has had many notable represen- 
tatives in the history of the State. Christiana became the wife of Dirk Volckersten, and 
Rachel was the second wife of Cornelis Van Tienhoven. 

It is from Cornelis Van Tienhoven and his wife Rachel that the Ketchums are descended, 
Sarah Van Tienhoven, their daughter, becoming the wife of John Jauncey, the father of John Jauncey 
Ketchum. Cornelis Van Tienhoven was an important member of the settlement of New 
Amsterdam. He was secretary under Governor William Kieft, and was retained in that position 
under Governor Peter Stuyvesant; was one of the first surveyors of the village, appointed in 1647; 
was sent by Stuyvesant as one of his representatives to The Hague in 1648, and was appointed to 
the office of sheriff in 1650. The mother of Colonel Ketchum was Elizabeth Phoenix, daughter of 
the Reverend Alexander Phoenix and Patty Ingraham. Alexander Phoenix was the eldest surviving 
son of Daniel Phoenix. To those who have studied the early social and political history of New 
York City, the name of Daniel Phoenix is sufficiently familiar, for he held many conspicuous and 
honorable positions. He was born about 1737, and as merchant and city officer played an active 
part in the commercial and public life of the city during and after the Revolutionary period. He was 
a man of wealth, for those days, and his reputation for financial ability and probity was such 
among his fellow citizens that he was selected by them to be their first city treasurer and their first 
city chamberlain when the municipality assumed its present form. For twenty years he held those 
posts and discharged their duties in a manner that commanded the admiration and the approval of 
the entire community. He was also a leading member of the Chamber of Commerce, and when 
General Washington entered the city, on November 26th, 1783, after the evacuation by the British 
troops, Mr. Phoenix headed the delegation that welcomed the Commander-in-Chief of the American 
forces. He died in 1812 and left several children, one of whom was the mother of Judge Daniel P. 
Ingraham, while another was the wife of the famous Richard Riker, the Recorder of New York 
City. The Reverend Alexander Phoenix was born in 1777 and graduated from Columbia College in 
1794. He was pastor of the Congregational Church of Chicopee for many years and died in 
New York City, in 1863. 

Edgar Ketchum, Sr., who married Elizabeth Phoenix, was born in 18 11. He was a lawyer 
and a man of public affairs, at one time public administrator, for twelve years United States Loan 
Commissioner, Collector of Internal Revenue during President Lincoln's administration, and 
Register in Bankruptcy from 1867 to the time of his death, in 1882. Much of his time was devoted 
to educational and benevolent undertakings, and he was prominently identified with the 
administration of the public school system in the city, of which he was a great benefactor. During 
many years, he was president of the board of managers of the House of Refuge on Randall's Island. 
The Harlem Presbyterian Church, the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Harlem, the American 
Missionary Society, the Harlem Library and the Hampton Institute, for the education and training 
of colored youth, were also objects of his intelligent and benevolent attention. Mr. Ketchum had 

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four sons and one daughter. The daughter of his family, Susan Ketchum, married the Reverend 
S. Bourne. 

Colonel Alexander Phoenix Ketchum, the eldest son of Edgar Ketchum, was born in New 
Haven, Conn., May nth, 1839. He was educated in the public schools, and graduated from the 
College of the City of New York with the degree of B. A. in 1858. In 1861, he received the 
degree of M. A., from his alma mater, and the same year was graduated from the Albany Law 
School with the degree of LL. B. When Fort Sumter was fired upon, he answered the call for 
troops, and was assigned to a place on the staff of General Rufus Saxton, Military Governor of 
South Carolina. Subsequently transferred to the staff of General O. O. Howard, he served until 
1867, when he resigned from the army. In 1869, President Grant appointed him an assessor of 
internal revenue, from which position he was promoted to be collector of internal revenue, and in 
1874 was appointed general appraiser in the customs department of the port of New York. 
During the administration of President Chester A. Arthur, in 1883, he again entered the service of 
the National Government and was made chief appraiser at New York, a position that he held for 
several years. 

Colonel Ketchum left the public service to devote himself to the practice of law. He was 
admitted to the bar in i860, and is now one of the leading lawyers of the metropolis. Interested 
in religious and educational matters, he was one of the promoters of the New York Collegiate 
Institute, and has been an active worker in the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a 
member of the Republican Club of New York, and of the Harlem Republican Club, the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Bar Association of New York ; was president of the 
Presbyterian Social Union, and has been for several years president of the City College Club. His 
membership in other social organizations includes the Larchmont Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, New York 
Yacht, Quill and AA$ clubs, the New England Society, and the American Museum of Natural 
History. He is also a member of the Board of Education of New York, having been originally 
appointed a commissioner by Mayor William L. Strong, to fill an unexpired term in that 
body, and was afterwards reappointed for the full term of three years. His residence is in Mount 
Morris Park West. 

Edgar Ketchum, the second son of Edgar Ketchum, Sr., was born in New York, July 15th, 
1840, and graduated from the College of the City of New York in i860. He studied law in his 
father's office and afterwards in the Columbia College Law School, from which he was graduated, 
in 1862, with the degree of LL. B., and was admitted to the bar. The degree of A. M. was 
conferred upon him by his alma mater in 1863. But the practice of law was set aside by the call 
to battle, and he went to the front as an officer of the Regular Army, having previously served in 
the ranks of New York's celebrated Seventh Regiment. Appointed by the President an officer in 
the Signal Corps, he served in the Army of the James before Richmond, and took a conspicuous 
part in the second Fort Fisher expedition, and the capture of Fort Anderson and Wilmington, N. C. 
His gallant conduct twice brought him promotion, and in that campaign he served on the staff of 
Generals A. H. Terry, C. J. Paine, John M. Schofield and Jacob D. Cox. At the close of the Civil 
War, he formed the decision of leaving the army and was honorably discharged from the service 
with the rank of Captain. 

Returning to civil life, he began the practice of law, to which he has devoted himself ever 
since. He renewed his connection with the Seventh Regiment, but was soon afterwards appointed 
Chief Engineer, with the rank of Major, in the First Brigade, First Division, New York National 
Guard. Resigning that position after three years of service, he gave up military life. He is still, 
however, connected with many social and military organizations, being a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion, the War Veterans of the Seventh Regiment, Post Lafayette, G. A. R., 
the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and the Veteran Signal Corps Association. He married 
Angelica S. Anderson, daughter of Smith W. Anderson, and granddaughter of James Anderson, in 
1870, and has two children, one son and one daughter. He lives in the northern part of the city, in 
a house that stands upon part of the Anderson ancestral estate. 



EDWARD KING 

HISTORY has awarded to Rufus King one of the highest places among American statesmen 
and patriots of the period which succeeded the Revolution. Born at Scarborough, Me., 
in 1755, the son of a merchant, Richard King, he graduated at Harvard in 1777, and in 
the following year served as aide to General Glover in an expedition to Rhode Island. In 1784-86, 
he was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Congress of the Confederation, and had the honor of 
proposing the immediate prohibition of slavery in the Northwest territory. He acted on the 
commission which settled the boundary between Massachusetts and New York, and in 1787 was 
one of the Massachusetts delegation to the convention which framed the Constitution of the United 
States. In 1786, he married Mary, daughter of the patriotic New York merchant, John Alsop, who 
had been a member of the first Continental Congress in 1 774-76. of the New York Provincial 
Congresses of 1775-76, and the Committee of Safety in 1775. Removing to New York in 1788, 
Rufus King, who was already one of the champions of Federalism, found his adopted State no less 
ready than Massachusetts had been to bestow its honors on him. In 1789, it elected him, with 
General Schuyler, as its first United States Senators, and in 1796 he became Minister to England, 
where he remained till 1803. After ten years passed in private life, he was, in 18 13, a second time 
elected a Senator by the State of New York, and was again chosen in 1819. When in the Senate, 
he combated slavery and opposed the Missouri Compromise. Appointed Minister to England 
once more, in 1825, he was forced by failing health to resign the position and returned to New 
York to die in 1827, after devoting fifty years of honorable and successful service to his country, 
leaving a name second to none among the patriots of that portion of our history as a nation. 

His sons were John Alsop King, Governor of New York in 1857; Charles King, president 
of Columbia College, and James Gore King, the famous banker. The latter, Mr. Edward King's 
father, was born in New York in 1791, and died in 1853. He was educated in Europe, and in 
181 3 married Sarah Rogers Gracie, daughter of Archibald Gracie. Between 1818 and 1824, he 
resided in Liverpool, engaged in the American trade, but returned to New York to become a 
partner in the banking house of Prime, Ward & King. He was a Member of Congress in 1849, 
and was president of the Chamber of Commerce, while his services to the mercantile community 
are too numerous for rehearsal. One instance, however, must be mentioned. After the panic of 
1837 and the suspension of specie payments, he went to London, and by his influence and ability 
induced the Bank of England to advance five million dollars in gold to his firm, which was the 
basis for the resumption of specie payments throughout the United States. 

Mr. Edward King is the son of James Gore King and his wife, Sarah Rogers Gracie, and 
was born at the family country seat, Highwood, Weehawken, N. J., in 1833. He graduated from 
Harvard, and has been president of the Harvard Club of New York. Mr. King engaged in 
banking, and served as president of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1873, he was called to the 
presidency of the Union Trust Company, at a time when that institution's affairs were in a critical 
state. Under Mr. King's management, its position was soon restored and its present prosperity 
attained. He has taken no active part in public life, but has lent his influence in aid of the 
Government, giving assistance as well as expert counsel to the secretaries of the United States 
Treasury on occasions of difficulty with the national finances. 

Mr. King is president of the St. Nicholas Society, and is a member of the Century 
Association, the Harvard and University clubs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 
National Academy of Design. He is also a member and treasurer of the board of trustees of 
the New York Public Library, Astor-Lenox-Tilden Foundations, and a governor of the New York 
Hospital. His residence in town is 1 University Place, and he has a country seat at Grymes Hill, 
Staten Island. He married, in early life, Isabella Ramsey Cochrane, niece of Dean Ramsey, of 
Edinburgh, and some years after her death contracted a second marriage with Elizabeth Fisher, 
of Philadelphia. 

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ISAAC LEWIS KIP 

IN the earliest annals of New Netherland, the name of Kip holds an honorable and distinguished 
place. Even before the first permanent settlements of the Hollanders were made on the shores 
of the Hudson, members of this notable old Dutch family took an active part in the work of 
exploration. Hendrick Kype was among the associates who, in 1594, dispatched an expedition 
from Holland for the purpose of discovering a northeast passage from Europe to the Indies, and on 
the failure of this attempt sent Hendrick Hudson upon his fruitful voyage to America in 1609. It 
will be remembered that the purpose of Hudson's exploration was to open up a sea route to the 
Pacific, and that his first impressions of our noble bay and the great river beyond were that they 
answered the object of his search. Disappointed in this respect, the accounts which Hudson 
brought back, however, led to the resolution of the Dutch West India Company to colonize 
New Netherland. In this, as in earlier efforts, Hendrick Kype took part, and in 1635 came to the 
infant settlement of New Amsterdam. He shortly, however, returned to the old country. 

The De Kype family, from whom have come the Kips who have held high position in New 
York, formerly lived near Alencon, Bretagne, France. Ruloff Kype, grandson of Ruloff De Kype, 
who fell in battle in 1562, settled in Amsterdam, and Hendrick Kype, the American pioneer, was 
his son, born in 1576. Hendrick Kype had three sons, who remained in this country, Hendrick, 
Jacob and Isaac. Hendrick married a daughter of Nacasius de Sille. Jacob Kip is referred to 
on the following page of this volume as the ancestor of another branch of this historic family. 
From Isaac Kype, or Kip as the name finally became, is derived the branch of the family that 
has been represented in New York's social and business affairs in the present generation by the 
gentleman who is the subject of this sketch. 

Isaac Kype ranked among the larger land owners in the beginnings of our city's history. He 
obtained a grant of a large tract, which included the site of the present City Hall Park, and the first 
name of the Nassau Street of to-day was Kip Street, in his honor. His son, Jacobus Kip, was born 
here in 1666 and also became the possessor of large estates. In conjunction with his brother 
Henry, he purchased from the Indians a large tract on the east side of the Hudson, comprehending 
within its limits the present village of Rhinebeck. Isaac Kip, son of Jacobus Kip, was born in New 
York in 1696, and married Cornelia Lewis, daughter of Leonard Lewis, a leading merchant and 
alderman of the city from 1696 to 1700. Their son, Leonard Kip, was the father of Isaac Lewis 
Kip, who, born in 1767, was a lawyer of eminence in the period succeeding the Revolution. He 
became the professional partner of Judge Brockholst Livingston, but was afterwards appointed to 
an office in the Court of Chancery of the State, holding that position under Chancellors Livingston, 
Lansing and Kent. 

The wife of Isaac Lewis Kip, first of the name, was Sarah Smith, daughter of Colonel Smith, 
of Powles Hook. Their son, Leonard W. Kip, also became a lawyer of high rank in his profes- 
sion. He was noted as an authority upon real estate titles in New York, but at the same time 
gave much attention to the cause of philanthropy and education, taking a prominent place in 
bodies devoted to those purposes. The University of the City of New York was among the 
institutions which were benefited by his unselfish labors, and for a number of years he was a 
member of its board of council. 

Dr. Isaac Lewis Kip, son of Leonard W. Kip, was born in New York. He received his 
early education here and was graduated from the University of the City of New York, his 
academical training being followed by a course of study in, and a medical degree from, the medical 
department of the same institution. Dr. Kip, however, engaged in the active practice of his pro- 
fession for a few years only, but was for some time connected in a professional capacity with the 
Mutual Life Insurance Company. He married Cornelia Brady, daughter of the Honorable William 
V. Brady, who was Mayor of New York in 1847. Their two children are Adelaide, who married 
Philip Rhinelander, and William V. B. Kip. The residence of Dr. Kip is in Fifth Avenue. 



LAWRENCE KIP 

THE remote ancestor of the New York family, now under consideration, was Ruloff de 
Kuype, a French knight. From him descended Hendrick Hendrickzen Kip, who arrived 
at New Amsterdam prior to 1643. He was one of the foremost men of the Colony in 
character, as well as in birth, and in 1645 stoutly refused to do honor to the tyrannical Governor 
Kieft, but became a member of Governor Stuyvesant's Council of nine men, in 1647, and schepen 
of the infant town in 1656. His three sons, of whom Jacob Kip was the eldest, were included in 
the census taken under the orders of Stuyvesant, as among the twenty burghers or greater citizens 
of the place. In i6s4, Jacob Kip married Maria de la Montague, daughter of Dr. Johannes de la 
Montague, and in 1655 built a house, famous in the annals of New York as the original of the 
historic Kip mansion, on the farm fronting on the East River, at or about the present Thirty-fifth 
Street, and which has given the name of Kip's Bay to that part of the city. Over the door was 
carved in stone the family arms — a gold chevron, between two sealed griffins, on a blue shield, the 
crest being a demi-griffin, holding a cross and the motto Nulla Vestigia. 

Colonel Lawrence Kip descends in direct line from the New Amsterdam Patrician, his 
paternal grandfather being Leonard Kip, 1 774-1846, and who married Maria Ingraham, 1784-1876, 
daughter of Duncan Ingraham, of Philadelphia. Colonel Kip's father, the Right Reverend William 
Ingraham Kip, D. D., was one of the offspring of this marriage, and was born in New York in 
181 1, graduated at Yale in 1831 , and, after studying law, devoted himself to the ministry. He was 
ordained Deacon in 1835, and in 1838 became Rector of St. Paul's, Albany, and in 1853 was 
consecrated Bishop of California. He married Maria Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of Isaac 
Lawrence, 1768-1841, and his wife, Cornelia Beach, this alliance making him a relative of the many 
leading families with which the Lawrences are connected. Bishop Kip was one of the most 
eminent clergymen in the United States, and a man of great executive ability. 

The family connection, to which Colonel Kip belongs, includes on both sides relatives 
distinguished in all stations in life. Bishop Burgess, of Maine, was an uncle of the subject of this 
article, and the celebrated Noah Webster was a great uncle, while a maternal cousin was 
Commodore Ingraham, of the United States Navy, the hero of the Koszta incident in 1853, and 
afterwards an Admiral in the Confederate service. Another uncle was the Honorable William 
Beach Lawrence, Governor of Rhode Island. 

Born in Morristown, N. J., Mr. Lawrence Kip was educated at the Churchill Military School, 
Sing Sing, and in 1853 was appointed from California as a cadet at West Point, receiving the 
commission of Second Lieutenant of Artillery in 1857. He served through the Civil War on 
General Sheridan's staff, becoming Captain in 1866, and received brevets of Major and Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1865 for gallantry at Five Forks, but resigned in 1867. In 1864, Colonel Kip married 
Eva Lorillard, daughter of Peter Lorillard and Catherine Griswold Lorillard. The issue of this 
marriage have been two children, Edith Kip McCreery and Lorillard Kip, the latter of whom died 
in June, 1896. 

Colonel Kip, while active in society and as a sportsman, inherits literary tastes and ability. 
His father. Bishop Kip, was famous as a theological writer, and some years ago published an 
interesting record of California, Early Days of My Episcopate. His relative, Bishop Burgess, and 
an uncle, Leonard Kip, of Albany, were also authors, and he has published an account of his own 
military experiences, under the title of Army Life on the Pacific. Colonel Kip has also been deeply 
interested in every effort to raise the character of the American turf, is president of the Coney 
Island Jockey Club, and identified with other organizations of like character, and has owned many 
road and track horses. He was one of the Patriarchs, his clubs being the Metropolitan, Union, 
Tuxedo, Suburban and Riding and Driving. Colonel Kip is also prominent among the supporters 
of the National Horse Show Association, of which he is vice-president, and has won many 
prizes with his own horses. 

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GUSTAV EDWARD KISSEL 

A GRAND-UNCLE of the gentleman referred to in this article was one of the most prominent 
civic magistrates of Frankfort-on-the-Main a century ago. When Frankfort ranked as one 
of the free cities of Germany and held an important place in the politics and history of the 
country as a free community, he was burgomaster and one of its leading citizens, being a 
representative and descendant of an ancient burgher family, which had been well known for 
several centuries, not only in the city of Frankfort, but throughout the Palatinate of the Rhine and 
the surrounding districts. 

The father of Mr. Gustav E. Kissel, Gustav Hermann Kissel, was one of the leading 
merchants of New York in the first half of this century. He was born in Frankfort, Germany, May 
nth, 1810, came here in early life and attained wealth and social and business prominence, dying 
on Staten Island, July 23d, 1876, at his country seat in the village of New Brighton, where the 
name of a street now commemorates the residence of the family in the place. At the time of his 
death, Mr. Kissel had been a citizen of New York for forty years. He was one of the early 
abolitionists, becoming an advocate of that cause immediately after arriving in this country, and 
was intimately associated with its leading upholders. During the Civil War, he was an 
enthusiastic supporter of the Union cause, taking part in all the movements instituted by the 
leading citizens of the metropolis to that end, and in many ways rendered efficient service to the 
national Government, sometimes at great personal as well as pecuniary sacrifice to himself. When, 
in 1863, the draft rioters were in possession of the city, he opened his house to persecuted negroes 
and gave them refuge till the disturbance was quelled and order restored in the city, and was in all 
ways a patriotic citizen. 

The mother of Mr. Gustav E. Kissel was Charlotte Anne Stimson, daughter of Dr. Jeremy 
Stimson, one of the most distinguished physicians of the City of Boston half a century ago. She 
was married to Mr. Kissel soon after his arrival in this country. Of the children of this marriage, 
Eleanora married Dr. F. P. Kinnicutt, a leading physician of New York; Godfrey married a 
daughter of Dexter Bradford, of Boston, and Rudolph Hermann married a daughter of G. T. 
Morgan. Mr. Gustav Edward Kissel, the second child and the oldest son of Gustav Hermann and 
Charlotte Anne (Stimson) Kissel, was born in New York, September 30th, 1854. His early 
education was secured at the celebrated private schools of Dr. Charlier and J. H. Morse, of New 
York. After his preparatory instruction was completed, he was sent abroad for further study. He 
first, for some time, attended the academy at Lausanne, Switzerland, and then matriculated at 
the University of Heidelberg, in Germany, where he remained for three years. Returning 
to this country, he entered upon the business pursuits which have now engaged his attention for 
nearly twenty years. Finance and banking possessed unusual attractions for him, and shortly 
before he was twenty-five years of age, in 1879, he entered Wall Street in the firm of Kessler 
& Co., the New York branch of an international banking house which had been in existence in 
Europe for many years, and which possesses extensive connections in Germany and Switzerland. 
As partner of this establishment, Mr. Kissel has been constantly engaged in business operations of 
the largest character and has personally gained a position among the most respected and 
prominent representatives of his profession. He has also contributed efficiently to making 
investments in American corporations and other securities popular in Europe. 

In 1884, Mr. Kissel married Caroline Thorn, daughter of William K. Thorn. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kissel live at 15 West Sixteenth Street, and also have a country house at Morristown, N. J., 
where they spend a portion of each year. They have four children, William Thorn, Dorothea, 
Louise Baring and Jeannette Kissel. In his club memberships Mr. Kissel includes the Union, 
Knickerbocker, Century, Racquet, Morristown, Reform and City. He is a member of the 
Downtown Association, of the Chamber of Commerce, and a trustee of the American Geographical 
Society and the American Museum of Natural History. 



GOUVERNEUR KORTRIGHT 

FOR two centuries the Kortrights and the Gouverneurs have ranked among the leading 
families of New York. They have intermarried with each other, and with the Ver Plancks, 
Tillotsons, Lawrences, Livingstons and other great Colonial families. Kortrvk, a Flemish 
town on the river Lys, gave its name to the family. The ancestors of the Kortrights were 
Protestants, of Flanders. In the religious troubles that vexed that country three hundred years 
ago, Sebastian, or Bastiaen, Van Kortryk went to Leerdam to escape persecution, and settled 
there. His two sons, Jan and Michiel, came to New Amsterdam in 1663. They first settled upon 
Governor Stuyvesant's bowery, but afterwards removed to Harlem. From them have descended all 
the Kortright or Courtright families of New York and New Jersey. 

Cornells Jansen Kortright, the ancestor of Mr. Gouverneur Kortright, was born in Beest, 
Gelderland, in 1645. He came to this country with his father, Jan Bastiaensen, in 1663. His wife, 
whom he married in 1665, was Metje Elyessen, daughter of Bastiaen Elyessen. He was a member 
of the troop of horse, and died in 1689, leaving four children, Johannes, Laurens, Aefie and 
Annettie. His eldest son, Johannes Cornelissen Kortright, who was born in 1673 and died in 1711, 
married Wyntje Dyckman, and their son, Nicholas Kortright, who married Elizabeth Van Huyse, 
daughter of Eide Van Huyse, was a constable and collector of the town of Harlem. 

Lawrence Cornelisen Kortright, the second son of Cornells Jansen Kortright, was the 
ancestor of that branch of the family which Mr. Gouverneur Kortright represents. He was born 
in 1 68 1, and was a constable of Harlem in 1708. His wife, whom he married in 1703, was 
Helena Benson, daughter of Captain John Benson, who was of an old New York family. The 
oldest son of this union, born in 1704, was Cornelius Kortright, who married, in 1730, 
Hester Cannon, daughter of John Cannon, another New York merchant, who was an assistant 
alderman, 1738-40, and whose death occurred in 1762. Cornelius Kortright died in 1743, as the 
result of an accident, and his widow survived until 1784. Three sons and three daughters were of 
this family. The youngest son, Cornelius Kortright, married a Miss Hendricks, a wealthy lady of 
the Island of Santa Cruz. Maria Kortright married John W. Hanson. Helena Kortright married 
Abraham Brasher, and Elizabeth Kortright married William R. Van Cortlandt. 

Lawrence Kortright, eldest son of Cornelius and Hester (Cannon) Kortright, was a noted 
merchant of New York a hundred years ago, being associated with Luke Van Ranst and Isaac 
Sears. He was a large owner in several privateers in the French War, and one of the original 
incorporators of the Chamber of Commerce in 1770. The town of Kortright, N. Y., where he had 
purchased large tracts of land intending to found a manor, was named for him. His death occurred 
in 1794. His wife was Hannah Aspinwall. One of his daughters married James Monroe, after- 
wards President of the United States, and another became the wife of Nicholas Gouverneur, of the 
great commission house of Gouverneur, Kortright & Co., after whom Gouverneur Street and 
Gouverneur Lane were named. The only son of Lawrence Kortright was Captain John Kortright, 
whose wife was Catherine Seaman, who, after the death of her first husband, became the 
second wife of Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston. Captain John Kortright was a member of 
the St. George's Society in 1789. His children were John L., Edmund, Robert and Gouverneur; 
Eliza M., who married Nicholas Cruger, and Hester Mary, who married Billop B. Seaman. 
Edmund Kortright married Miss Shaw. Robert Kortright became a physician. Gouverneur Kort- 
right married Miss Allaire, of a Winchester, Va., family. 

Mr. Gouverneur Kortright, head of this historic family in the present generation, lives in 
East Fifty-sixth Street. He married Therese White, descended from Peregrine White, who 
was born on the Mayflower in the harbor of Plymouth in 1620. Mr. Kortright belongs to the 
Metropolitan, Racquet and Knickerbocker clubs, and his interest in gentlemanly sports is indicated 
by his membership in the New York and Larchmont Yacht clubs. His summer residence is The 
Moorings, in Newport. He has one daughter, Alice Gouverneur Kortright. 

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PERCIVAL KUHNE 

NEAR the City of Magdeburg, Germany, is an estate which for hundreds of years has been the 
property of Mr. Kuhne's ancestors. The latter's grandfather, John Frederick Kuhne, was 
born there in 1792. In 181 4, he joined the German Army and fought at the battle of 
Waterloo, where he was severely wounded. He was decorated and rewarded for bravery, and 
died in Magdeburg in 1855. His musical ability was of the highest order, and he followed music — 
not as a profession — but from love of art. Richard Wagner, who in early life pursued his musical 
studies in Magdeburg, became one of Herr Kuhne's intimate friends, and the violin owned and used 
by Wagner at that time is still among the possessions of the Kuhne family. 

The late Frederick Kuhne, his son, born at Magdeburg in 1824, was for over thirty years a 
leading representative of the Germans in this city, where he arrived in 185 1. He was a trained 
financier and established the banking house of Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne, in which, till his death 
in Paris, France, in 1890, he maintained an active and leading interest. By reason of his wide 
connection with the social and business world, and his ability and exceptional energy, he gave the 
firm that high standing in international and domestic finance which it still retains. Prior to the 
foundation of the German Empire, he represented, for over sixteen years, fifteen of the separate 
German States as their Consul-General in New York, and was decorated by the various princes in 
recognition of his services, in several instances conferring upon him the rank of Chevalier. He 
enjoyed the confidence of many illustrious personages, and was honored by audiences with the 
Emperor William I. and the Emperor Frederick, and was frequently entertained by the Grand Duke 
of Saxe-Weimar, with whom he maintained a warm friendship. He was prominent in many of 
our financial institutions, being among the founders of the German-American and Lincoln National 
banks, while he was for twenty years vice-president of the Citizens' Savings Bank. Becoming an 
American citizen, he took a patriotic and prominent share both in municipal and national politics. 
He was several times offered the nomination for Mayor, and was an elector at the election of Grant, 
and again at the election of Hayes; while he was warmly interested in educational questions, and 
at the time of his death was a school commissioner and a governor of the city institutions at 
Randall's Island. He was an original member of the" Union League, and belonged to many social 
organizations. His wife, the mother of the present Mr. Kuhne, was Ellen Josephine Miller, born 
in New York in 1833. 

Mr. Percival Kuhne, their son, was born in New York, April 6th, 1861. He attended the 
University of the City of New York, and then continued his studies in Germany. Upon his return, 
he entered the paternal banking house, in which, on his father's death, he succeeded to the place 
held by his father, both in New York and in Leipzig, Germany. He is a member of the Chamber 
of Commerce, and has taken an active part in several large financial institutions; among others, 
being one of the organizers and a trustee of the Colonial Trust Company. He is a veteran of the 
Seventh Regiment, a member of Holland Lodge, No. 8, F. A. M., and belongs to the Metropolitan, 
Union League, City and Military clubs, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York 
Botanical Garden, and many other organizations. 

In 1893, Mr. Kuhne married Lillian Middleton Kerr, granddaughter of John Kerr, the founder 
and first president of the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Railroad Company. Mrs. Kuhne is also a 
granddaughter of Addison Smith, whose mother was Margaret Worthington, a lineal descendant 
of Nicholas Worthington, who took the oath of allegiance in 1678. The Worthington family is 
traced back in Burke's Landed Gentry to Henry III. 

Mr. Kuhne's visits to Europe have naturally been frequent and he has received many social 
attentions. Mr. and Mrs. Kuhne were the only American guests present at the wedding 
of Princess Helen of Orleans to the Duke D'Aosta, in July, 1895, at Kingston, near London. 
Besides the Orleans family, all the English royal family except the Queen were present on 
this interesting occasion. 

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EDWARD R. LADEW 

LITTLE difficulty exists in tracing the family which this gentleman represents to a Huguenot 
origin. In fact, the name itself suggests an ancestry of that character. For a number of 
generations, the ancestors of Mr. Edward R. Ladew resided in the town of Mount Pleasant, 
Ulster County, N. Y., the locality taking from them the name of Ladew's Corners, by which 
it was known from an early date in the present century. It was there that Abraham D. Ladew, 
grandfather of the subject of this article, lived and was successfully engaged in business, having an 
interest in leather manufactories at various points in that section. 

His son, Harvey Smith Ladew, was born at Ladew's Corners in 1826. He attended the local 
schools and at an early age acquired a thorough knowledge of the art of tanning in his fathers 
establishment. In 1866, he came to New York to represent the family enterprise in the metropolitan 
market. He also became a member of the firm of Hoyt Brothers, and when the name of that estab- 
lishment was changed to J. B. Hoyt & Co., was one of the principals. In 1884, he became asso- 
ciated with Daniel S. Fayerweather, under the style of Fayerweather & Ladew, which attained the 
position of the most important firm in the " Swamp" district of New York, and which controlled a 
large portion of the leather product of the entire United States, and had important interests in all parts 
of the country. Daniel S. Fayerweather is remembered by the bequest of his great wealth to a large 
number of colleges and institutions of learning. His partner, Harvey Smith Ladew, was a mer- 
chant of the old school and wielded great influence in mercantile circles until his death in 1888. 
He married, in 1849, Rebecca, daughter of Reuben Krom, and had two sons, Edward H. and Joseph 
Harvey Ladew, and a daughter, Louise, who married John Townsend Williams. They have two 
sons, Harvey Ladew and John Townsend Williams, Jr. 

Mr. Edward R. Ladew, the eldest son of Harvey Smith Ladew, was born in New York City, 
February 18th, 1855. He was educated at the Charlier Institute and the Anthon Grammar School in 
this city. He then entered business life and acquired a practical knowledge of the mechanical 
processes of the industry with which his family was identified. After a time he became a member 
of the firm of J. B. Hoyt & Co., and later of Fayerweather & Ladew, taking the position of acting 
manager of the latter. Since his father's death, in 1888, he had been in partnership with his 
brother. He was active in the foundation of the United States Leather Company, one of the 
largest and most important business enterprises in the United States, and was elected vice-president 
of that corporation. He is also connected with, and is a director in, a number of business, financial 
and fiduciary companies. 

In 1886, Mr. Ladew married Louise B. Wall, daughter of Charles Wall, one of whose ances- 
tors was William Wall, the last Mayor of Williamsburgh, prior to its consolidation with Brooklyn. 
Their children are: Harvey S. and Elsie Wall Ladew. Mr. Ladew is a noted sportsman, has shot 
large game in many countries and is greatly interested in yachting, being a member of the New 
York, Larchmont, American, Atlantic and Hempstead Harbor Yacht clubs, and is owner of the 
steam yacht Orienta. His social clubs include the Union League, Fulton, Hide and Leather, and 
the Liederkranz Society. The family residence is in East Sixty-seventh Street, near Central Park. 
Their country seat is Elsinore, Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, which was once owned by William 
E. Burton, the famous actor and manager. The place now comprises, among other features, a 
remarkable collection of blooded live stock of all kinds, including horses, dogs of several breeds, 
sheep and high grade poultry. Mrs. Ladew gives this portion of the establishment her personal 
supervision. Many prizes and awards have been taken at horse shows, fairs and exhibitions by 
the owners of Elsinore, which is regarded as one of the most perfectly appointed places of the kind 
in the vicinity of New York. The house also contains a large number of trophies of the chase from 
various parts of the world, nearly all the specimens having been shot by Mr. Ladew or his friends, 
as well as a remarkable collection of weapons of all countries and ages, to the gathering of which 
their owner has devoted much time and attention. 



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DANIEL SCOTT LAMONT 

SPRUNG from Scotch ancestry, whose lineage has been traced back to the year 1250, the 
Honorable Daniel Scott Lamont has achieved success in political life and in financial affairs. 
His ancestors came to this country in the early part of the present century and took up 
their residence in Delaware County, N. Y. His paternal grandparents were Daniel and Margaret 
Lamont, and those on the maternal side, Andrew and Helen J. Scott. His father and mother, 
John B. Lamont and Elizabeth Scott, after their marriage, removed from Delaware County to Cort- 
land County, N. Y. John B. Lamont, who died quite recently, was a merchant at McGrawville, 
N. Y. His son, Mr. Daniel S. Lamont, was born in the town of Cortlandville, Cortland County, 
N. Y., February 9th, 1851. He was taught in the local schools and at the New York Central 
Academy in McGrawville, and in 1868 entered Union College, in the class of 1872. 

He did not, however, complete his course, but after pursuing it for two years, left college to 
accept an appointment as a deputy clerk of the New York Assembly and subsequently became 
Chief Clerk of the State Department when the Honorable John Bigelow was Secretary of State. 
He became active in the Democratic party of the State during the years of the Honorable Samuel J. 
Tilden's governorship, and had the confidence of that gentleman to such an extent that during the 
interesting years from 1874 to 1882, he was actively connected with the affairs of his party. 
From the State Department he retired to take up editorial work on the staff of The Albany Argus, 
then controlled by Daniel Manning, of which paper he became one of the owners. While in that 
position, he came into relations with the Honorable Grover Cleveland, who was then Governor 
of the State, and who offered Mr. Lamont a position as Military Secretary on his staff with the 
rank of Colonel. Shortly after, Mr. Lamont became Grover Cleveland's private secretary, holding 
that position as long as the latter retained the Governorship of New York. 

When Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States, in 1884, Mr. Lamont 
went to Washington with him as his private secretary. In the larger field of national affairs, he 
displayed the same qualities that had brought him into prominence at Albany, and won a national 
reputation as one of the ablest private secretaries of the Executive who had ever entered the White 
House. When the first administration of President Cleveland was at an end, Mr. Lamont became 
associated with the Honorable William C. Whitney and other capitalists in the manage- 
ment of the Metropolitan Traction Company and other corporations in this city. In 1892, he 
contributed much by his labors to the reelection of Grover Cleveland to the Presidency and to the 
success of the Democratic party in the general election of that year. In the formation of the new 
Cabinet, in 1893, Mr. Lamont was named Secretary of War, and held that portfolio throughout 
President Cleveland's second term of office. He was in that office eminently successful in the 
administration of the business of the War Department. 

Since the close of President Cleveland's last term, in 1897, Mr. Lamont has remained in 
private life. He has, however, been mentioned for the Governorship of the State of New York, 
for the mayoralty of the city, and for a seat in the United States Senate. But to the present, he 
devotes his attention to business affairs. In the summer of 1897, he was elected to the vice- 
presidency of the Northern Pacific Railway Company and is president of the Northern Pacific 
Express Company. He is also a director in the Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Railroad Com- 
pany, the Monongah Railway Company, the National Union Bank and the American Surety 
Company. For some years past, his home has been in New York, save when residing in Wash- 
ington on account of his public duties. He lives at 26 West Fifty-third Street. He married 
Juliet Kinney, daughter of Orson A. Kinney, of McGrawville, Cortland County, N. Y., their 
family consisting of four young daughters. 

Mr. Lamont is a member of the Metropolitan, Colonial, Lotos, Lawyers' and Democratic 
clubs, and the Union Alumni Association, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
Union College conferred upon him the degree of A. M., in 1886. 

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FRANCIS G. LAN DON 

FORTUNE and position in the social world of New York have never been any bar to the 
performance on the part of their possessors of useful and energetic service to the city 
and to the community at large. The gentleman to whom this article is devoted is an 
exemplar of the facts just referred to. The possessor of an honored family name, identified with 
the leading religious and benevolent interests of the metropolis, as well as with its most important 
business and financial organizations, and enjoying an extensive connection among the best social 
elements of the metropolis, joined to cultivated tastes and to sufficient means to gratify them at 
will, he has devoted his time and attention to the performance of duties of an exacting character in 
connection with an organization which has made itself a matter of pride to the city of his birth, 
and which, in addition to this, is a real bulwark of the entire community under the reign of 
law and liberty. 

Mr. Landon's father, the late Charles Griswold Landon, was a descendant of English 
ancestors, whose settlement in the town of Southold, Long Island, dates back to 1640. In the 
course of time, some of its representatives became allied with old and notable Connecticut families, 
and took up their residence in that State. Charles Griswold Landon was born at Guilford, Conn., 
in 1818. He engaged in business in New Haven, but in 1842 came to New York, and was, for 
some years, a partner in the firm of S. B. Chittenden and its successor, George Bliss & Co., 
becoming finally head of the wholesale house of Charles G. Landon & Co. He was long identified 
with Grace Church Parish, of which he was the senior warden for many years, and was noted for 
his devotion to religious and benevolent work. He was a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, and 
among other positions of prominence which he held in the business and financial world was that 
of a director in the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the Greenwich Savings Bank, the Central Trust 
Company and the Bank of America. He married, in 1849, Susan H. Gordon, daughter of Charles 
Gordon, of Virginia, and a descendant of the Hunt, Hunters and other distinguished families of 
the Old Dominion. She died in 1885. The children of this marriage were Henry H., Edward 
H., and Francis G. Landon ; Annie, the wife of L. Townsend Howes, and Mary G., wife of 
Dallas Bache Pratt. Mr. Landon died in New York City in 1893. 

Mr. Francis G. Landon was born in New York, in 1859, ar, d a f ter completing his 
preparatory education at schools in this city, became an undergraduate at Princeton College, 
receiving his degree in the class of 188 1. He has not engaged in active business, and has devoted 
himself, so far as cares of that nature are concerned, to the management of his property. He is a 
member of a number of the leading athletic and social organizations of the city, including the 
Racquet, New York Athletic and University clubs, as well as of the Calumet Club, the Country 
Club of Westchester County, the Princeton Club, and others of similar character and objects,, 
and has been active in furthering their interests. 

It is, however, with the staff of the famous Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard, 
that Mr. Landon has been most intimately identified. He joined the organization as a private in 
1882, and was successively promoted to the various minor grades of military rank, in this notable 
regiment, up to that of First Sergeant of his company, the duties of which he assumed in 1887. He 
was distinguished from the beginning of his military service with the Seventh as a keen and 
enthusiastic soldier, and when, in 1891, a vacancy occurred in the position of Adjutant of the 
regiment, he was selected for that very responsible and exacting post. The honor was the 
more signal because the custom had invariably been to appoint a commissioned officer as Adjutant. 
Since April, 1895, he has been Captain of Company I of the Seventh. 

Mr. Landon is to a rational extent a devotee of athletic and outdoor sport. He is also noted 
as an amateur actor of considerable versatility and talent, and has taken part, with great success, 
in a number of entertainments of that character. In May, 1897, Mr. Landon married Mary Hornor 
Toel, daughter of William Toel, of this city. 

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WOODBURY LANGDON 

NEW HAMPSHIRE, the establishment of which as a Colony followed that of Massachusetts 
by only a few years, attracted some of the best elements of the original Puritan emigra- 
tion. Among the families of this class which made it their home none have had a more 
notable position from the earliest times down to the present day than the Langdons. The first 
representative of that name in America crossed the ocean with the early Puritan emigration, since 
which time his descendants have held an honorable and distinguished place in New England's 
annals, while several of them have attained to national distinction by the prominent part that they 
have taken in public affairs. Tobias Langdon, who settled at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1662, 
became a selectman of the town two years later, and was otherwise locally prominent. He was 
the ancestor of Mr. Woodbury Langdon, who is the ninth in descent from the original Puritan 
immigrant of his name. 

Mr. Langdon's progenitors were long identified with the town of Portsmouth, N. H., 
where several generations of the family were leading merchants. His great-grandfather, Wood- 
bury Langdon, was an ardent patriot during the Revolution, and was one of the leading men 
who brought New Hampshire into line in the struggle for independence. He was also, after 
the peace, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, serving from 1786 to 1789. The 
patriot's brother, John Langdon, was also a strong figure in the Revolutionary annals of New 
Hampshire, and after independence was achieved became Governor of the State for two terms, and a 
United States Senator. The present Mr. Langdon's father was also named Woodbury, and was 
a prominent merchant of Portsmouth, having large shipping interests in the days when America's 
merchant marine was a powerful factor in international commerce. His wife was Frances Cutter, 
daughter of Jacob Cutter, of Portsmouth, the Cutter family being of old New Hampshire descent, 
and of high social prominence. 

Born October 22A, 1836, in the town where his family had been eminent for so many 
generations, Mr. Woodbury Langdon was educated at the celebrated Portsmouth Grammar School, 
in which some of the most famous men of New England received their training. He prepared 
for a college course, and only abandoned that intention because of his preference for a business 
career. He accordingly entered a Boston mercantile house at an early age, and in 1863 came to 
New York in charge of its business in this city. Since that date, Mr. Langdon has been most 
notably identified with the larger mercantile interests of New York. Among other positions of a 
prominent character in the financial world, he is a director of the New York Life Insurance Com- 
pany, the National Bank of Commerce, the Central National Bank, and the German American 
Insurance Company. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce for many years, has 
served on the executive committee of the organization since 1888, and has been active in con- 
serving the interests with which that important commercial organization is chiefly concerned. 

In spite of the many responsibilities his business entails, Mr. Langdon has taken part in 
movements for the advancement of the city's interests. He has not been active in politics in the 
ordinary sense, and yet has recognized the duty which leading citizens of his own character and 
influence owe to the community at large. Tenders of public office he has often refused, but was 
prevailed upon to accept the position of a member of the Rapid Transit Commission. He is a 
Republican in national affairs, and is a member and served as vice-president of the Union 
League Club. In early life, he married Edith Eustis Pugh, daughter of David B. Pugh. She died 
some years since, and in 1896 Mr. Langdon contracted a second alliance, espousing Elizabeth 
Langdon Elwyn, daughter of Alfred L. Elwyn, of Philadelphia. 

Besides the Union League, Mr. Langdon belongs to the Lawyers' and New York Athletic 
clubs, and was one of the founders, having long been an officer also, of the Merchants' Club. 
His town house is in West Forty-fifth Street, and he also has a country place at Fox Point, 
Newington, N. H. 



CHARLES LANIER 

WHEN John Washington, the great-grandfather of the first President of the United 
States, came to America from England, in 1655, he was accompanied by several 
friends, chief among whom was Thomas Lanier, a Huguenot refugee from France. 
They settled in Westmoreland County, Va., and in due course of time Thomas Lanier married 
a daughter of John Washington. From this couple have descended the Laniers in this country, 
who can claim a Colonial lineage. Sidney Lanier, the poet, was of this family, and other 
members of it have been distinguished in professional and commercial life. During the 
Revolutionary War, James Lanier, the great-grandfather of Mr. Charles Lanier, was a Captain 
of cavalry, in Colonel William Washington's Regiment, and a planter of considerable means, 
of which he gave freely to the patriot cause. In the War of 181 2, his son, Alexander 
Chalmers Lanier, served under Harrison, and died as a result of his military service. 

A son of Major Alexander Chalmers Lanier was James F. D. Lanier, for thirty years one 
of the leading bankers of New York. He was born, in 1800, at Washington, Beaufort County, 
N. C, and was educated in an academy at Newport, Ky., and in private schools. An 
appointment to the military academy at West Point was declined for family reasons, the death 
of his father having imbued his mother's mind with a deep seated aversion to military life. 
He graduated from the Transylvania Law School, in 1823, and began the practice of his 
profession in Madison, Ind. The same year he received the appointment of assistant clerk of 
the Indiana House of Representatives, and, in 1827, became the chief clerk of that body. In 
1833, he assisted in organizing the Madison branch of the State Bank of Indiana, and was its 
first president. His genius for finance showed itself in this new position, and, in 1847, he 
was sent to London to arrange the settlement of the State debt of Indiana, a delicate mission, 
which he successfully accomplished. Two years later he removed to New York City, and, 
with Richard H. Winslow, started the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co., primarily for the 
promotion of Western railroad interests, and afterwards for a general banking business. Mr. 
Lanier was always a public spirited and a patriotic man, and during the Civil War gave the 
government and the State of Indiana much practical assistance. He died in New York, in 1881. 

The mother of Mr. Charles Lanier, wife of James F. D. Lanier, was Elizabeth Gardner, a 
member of one of the historic families of the State of Kentucky. She had seven children, five 
daughters and two sons. Mr. Charles Lanier was born in Madison, Ind., January 19th, 1837, 
and educated in New Haven, Conn. At the age of twenty-three, he was admitted to member- 
ship in the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co., and is now the head of that house. He has 
been a director in many corporations, such as the West Shore Railroad, the Central Railroad of 
New Jersey, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Central Trust Company, the Central 
and South American Telegraph Company, the National Bank of Commerce, and others. 

Mr. Lanier married Sarah Egleston, daughter of the late Thomas Egleston. He belongs 
to the Tuxedo, Union, Metropolitan, Union League, Knickerbocker, Players, Riding, Lawyers', 
Aldine, New York Yacht, and Mendelssohn clubs, the Century Association, and the New 
England Society ; is a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, and a supporter of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Geographical Society. His city home is in 
East Thirty-seventh Street, and his country seat is Allen Winden, Lenox, Mass. He has a 
family of one son and three daughters. His eldest daughter, Sarah Egleston, married Francis 
C. Lawrance, Jr., and died April 20th, 1893 ; Fannie L. is the wife of Francis R. Appleton ; 
Elizabeth G. is the wife of George E. Turnure. The son of Mr. Lanier is James F. D. Lanier, 
who was born in New York, in 1858, and was educated at Princeton University, graduating 
in 1880. He is engaged in the banking business, being a member of the firm of Winslow, 
Lanier & Co. His wife was Harriet A. Bishop. He belongs to the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, 
Union, Knickerbocker, Meadowbrook Hunt, Princeton, Calumet and Racquet clubs. 

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CHARLES PERCY LATTING 

IN the fifteenth century, Pierre Lettin, who was the earliest known ancestor of the Lettin or 
Latting, family, lived at Malines, Flanders. His son, grandson and great-grandson, who in 
three successive generations bore the name of Jean Lettin, were secretaries and registrars 
of the Supreme Tribunal of Malines. John Lettin, in 1567, driven from his native land by the 
persecutions instigated by the Duke of Alva, settled in Norwich, England, where he died in 1640. 
From this John Lettin was descended Richard Lettin, Lattin or Latting, who in 1638 came from 
England to this country. First, he went to Concord, Mass., removed in 1646 to Fairfield, Conn., 
in 1653 came to Hempstead, Long Island, in 1661 settled in Huntington, and two years after 
removed to Oyster Bay. At Oyster Bay, he purchased from the Matinnecock Indians a large tract 
of land, where he established his family upon an estate that was named Lattingtown. 

Josias Latting, son of Richard Latting and Joana Ireland, the head of the family in the next 
generation, was born in Concord, Mass., in 1641, and married, in 1667, Sarah Wright, daughter of 
Nicholas Wright. He resided at Oyster Bay, Huntington and Matinnecock, Long Island, was the 
owner of extensive landed property and held many public offices. William Latting, son of Joseph 
and Mary (Butler) Latting, 1739-1812, married Sarah Carpenter, daughter of Zeno Carpenter. He 
was a great-grandson of Richard Latting, the pioneer. Charles Latting, the grandfather of Mr. Charles 
Percy Latting, was the fifth in descent from Richard Latting. Most of his life was passed in 
mercantile pursuits, in association with his brothers in the firm of Latting & Deall, shipping 
merchants. His wife was Elizabeth Frost, daughter of Stephen Frost. 

John J. Latting, the father of Mr. Charles Percy Latting, was a well-known lawyer, geneal- 
ogist and litterateur of the generation that is just passing away. He was born in Lattingtown, Long 
Island, in 18 19, prepared for college in the Oyster Bay Academy, and entered Middlebury College, 
Vermont, in 1835, graduating in 1837. Studying law in the office of Francis B. Cutting, he was 
admitted to the bar in 1842. He began practice with Charles B. Moore, afterwards entered the 
firm of Cutting, Moore & Latting, then was successively associated with Lathrop S. Eddy and Caleb 
S. Woodhull, and a member of the firm of Wakeman, Latting & Phelps. In 1885, he retired 
and went to Europe, where he spent some time in travel. He died in New York in 1890. 

The mother of Mr. Charles Percy Latting was Harriet A. Emerson, daughter of the 
Reverend Brown Emerson, of Salem, Mass. The father of Mrs. Latting was born in Ashley, 
Mass., in 1778, and died in Salem in 1872. Graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1802, he was 
ordained in 1805 as the colleague of the Reverend Daniel Hopkins, in the old South Church of 
Salem, remaining there until his death, a period of sixty-seven years, being sole pastor from 18 16 to 
1849. The mother of Mrs. Latting was Mary Hopkins, daughter of the Reverend Daniel Hopkins, 
the immediate predecessor of her husband in the pastorate of the old South Church. Daniel 
Hopkins was graduated from Yale College, in 1758, was a member of the Provincial Congress 
in 1775, and one of the leading Congregational ministers of Eastern Massachusetts in his 
generation. He was the great-grandson of Edward Hopkins, of Shrewsbury, England, an 
eminent merchant of London, who came to Boston in 1637. 

Mr. Charles Percy Latting is the eldest child of his father's family. He was born in New 
York, May 28th, 1850. His brothers are Walter S. and Arthur D. Latting, and his sister is Harriet 
Emerson van Benthuysen, widow of Clarence R. van Benthuysen, of Albany. Two sisters, Grace 
Vernon and Alice Maud Latting, died in infancy. Mr. Latting is a graduate of Yale College, in the 
class of 1873, is a lawyer, and has held the office of United States Loan Commissioner for 
many years. His clubs are the University and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and he also belongs 
to the Sons of the Revolution and the Bar Association of New York. He married Isabella W. 
Carter, daughter of James Carter, of Aberdeen, Scotland, and has three children, Helen Leslie, 
Emerson and Charles Percy Latting, Jr. He lives in West Thirty-eighth Street and has a country 
residence, Werah House, on the old family property in Lattingtown, Long Island. 



EDWARD LAUTERBACH 

NEAR the historic city of Nuremburg, in the hill country of Bavaria, is the town of 
Burgkundstadt, the acknowledged centre for many years of the Liberal party of Germany. 
Mr. Lauterbach's family were for more than four centuries among the leading professional 
men and merchants of this community. One of the most prominent of the number was Aaron 
Wolfgang Lauterbach, 17=52-1826, a graduate of the University of Prague, and noted for his 
erudition, as well as for a remarkable share of wit and humor. Solon Lauterbach, the father of the 
subject of this article, was the youngest of his six children, and was born in 1806. Of an adven- 
turous spirit, and chafing under the political tyranny which oppressed Germany at that era, and 
which finally led to the Revolution of 1848, he left his ancestral home for this country in 1840, 
dying in New York in i860. His wife, Mina Rosenbaum, was a member of a family noted for 
their intellectual gifts, a quality which she inherited to a remarkable degree. Her memory for 
poetry was particularly retentive, and she was noted as a Shakespearian scholar. She died in 1890, 
leaving three children, of whom Mr. Edward Lauterbach is the eldest. 

Mr. Edward Lauterbach was born in New York in 1844, and was educated at the College 
of the City of New York, graduating in the class of 1864 with high honors. He has been for some 
time vice-president of the alumni of his alma mater and takes an active interest in its welfare, 
and is also a member of $ B K. In 1870, Mr. Lauterbach married Amanda Friedman, daughter 
of Arnold Friedman, a retired merchant of this city. The Friedman family was also of prominence 
in the same portion of Bavaria from which Mr. Lauterbach's ancestors came. They were for 
generations respected and wealthy merchants, Aaron Friedman, 1740-1824, her great-great-grand- 
father, having been the owner of the baronial castle of Kunds, at Burgkundstadt, from 
which fortress the place took its name. Mrs. Lauterbach's grandparents, Samuel Friedman, 
1796-1880, and Sarah (Greis) Friedman, 1800-1872, were noted for their philanthropy and benev- 
olence, having endowed the school of the district in which they lived, while Madame Friedman, 
at her death, bequeathed all her personal fortune to the poor of her city. Mrs. Lauterbach's 
mother, Wilhemina Straubel Friedman, was the daughter of Frederick Straubel, of Green Bay, 
Wis., whose wife belonged to a titled Saxon family. Mr. and Mrs. Lauterbach have four children: 
a son, Alfred, now an Assistant District Attorney of the County of New York, who took the 
degree of B. A. at Columbia in 1890, and LL. B. at the New York Law School in 1892, and three 
daughters, Edith, Florence and Alice. Florence is a graduate of the law school of the University 
of the City of New York, in 1897. Possessing a well trained voice, Mrs. Lauterbach has utilized it 
for the advantage of the many charities with which she is connected, and others. She also has been 
instrumental, after years of effort, in securing the passage of philanthropic measures, such as the 
laws known as the Mercantile Bill and the Anti-Sweaters' Bill, regulating beneficially the employ- 
ment of certain industrial classes. 

Admitted to the bar of this city soon after his graduation from college, Mr. Lauterbach 
has been distinguished not only in its practice and for the possession of forensic and political 
oratorical powers, but as a law maker, having drafted and secured the adoption of many important 
public measures. While not an active politician, he takes a deep interest in public affairs, and was 
honored in 1894 by election as a delegate at. large to the New York Constitutional Convention. 
He is also a leader in the Republican party in the city and State of New York, and for two 
years, 1895-1897, was the Chairman of the County Committee of the party in this city, and in 
1896 was a delegate at large for New York to the National Convention at St. Louis, which nominated 
Mr. McKinley. He has been professionally and personally associated with the largest financial 
and commercial enterprises of the country and with the leaders of contemporary business and 
finance in New York. Though closely occupied with his profession and with the care of vast 
interests, Mr. Lauterbach finds rest and relaxation in society, and is noted for his devotion to 
music and the drama. 

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ABRAHAM RIKER LAWRENCE 

IT has been said of the Lawrences that " they were related to all that was most illustrious in 
England, to the ambitious Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the favorite courtier of Queen 
Elizabeth, and to Sir Philip Sidney, who refused a throne." The earliest ancestor of this 
family, of whom there is an authentic record, was Sir Robert Lawrence, of Ashton Hall, Lancashire, 
who accompanied King Richard Cceur de Lion to Palestine, and was the first to plant his standard 
on the walls of Acre in 1191. His grandson, Sir James Lawrence, in the time of Henry III., married 
Matilda Washington. Among the descendants of this marriage were Sir John Lawrence, who, in 
the reign of Henry VII., was the owner of thirty-four manors; Henry Lawrence, a member of the 
Long Parliament, and William Lawrence, the friend of Milton. 

The family was one of the first of distinction to send its representatives from England to the 
New World. Three sons of William Lawrence came to the American Colonies. John and William 
arrived in the ship Planter, and Thomas Lawrence, the youngest brother, afterwards joined them. 
They went first to New England, where their kinsman, Henry Lawrence, had received with Lord 
Say and Seal, Lord Brooke, Saltonstall and others a large grant of land in Connecticut, from 
which the settlement of Saybrook originated. Later they came to New Netherland and became 
landowners, men of wealth and influence in the Province. John Lawrence was Mayor of New 
York from 1673 to 1675, and again in 1691, and was a Justice of the Supreme Court and a 
member of the Governor's Council from 1672 to 1679. He left no male descendants. 

Captain William Lawrence was the head of the patentees of Flushing, Long Island, in 1645, 
a magistrate under the Dutch administration, and a military officer under the English Government. 
He was the ancestor of Captain James Lawrence, U. S. N., commander of the frigate Chesapeake in 
its memorable action with the British ship Shannon in 1813, whose dying words, "Don't give up 
the ship," have become immortal, and whose tomb is now a conspicuous feature of the graveyard 
of Trinity Church, New York. 

Major Thomas Lawrence, the youngest of the three brothers, was the chief patentee of 
Newtown, Long Island, and commander of the Queens County forces in 1689. His son William 
was a member of Jacob Leisler's Committee of Safety in 1689, and a Councillor of the Province in 
1690, and from 1702 to 1706. Another son of Thomas, Captain John Lawrence, was the sheriff of 
Queens County. He married Deborah Woodhull, daughter of the patentee of Brookhaven, and 
died in 1729. One of his sons, John Lawrence, was a Judge of the Province, and married Patience 
Sackett and had a large family, the descendants of which have been prominent in New York. The 
eldest son, John Lawrence, alderman of the Dock Ward, married Catherine, daughter of the 
Honorable Philip Livingston, and died without issue. William Lawrence, the fifth son of John and 
Patience, was for many years a magistrate of Queens County. His grandson, the Honorable 
William Beach Lawrence, was prominent in political life, being Charge d' Affaires in London in 
1827-28, and later was Governor of Rhode Island. His son is the Honorable Isaac Lawrence. 
Captain Thomas Lawrence, the sixth son of John and Patience Lawrence, commanded the ship 
Tartar during the French War, and was a Judge in Queens County. His son, Lieutenant Nathaniel 
Lawrence, distinguished himself in the Revolution. He was a member of the convention which 
ratified the Constitution of the United States, was four times a member of Assembly, and Attorney- 
General of the State of New York. He also left no male descendants. 

Jonathan Lawrence, the eighth son of John and Patience, was a conspicuous patriot. He 
was so successful as a merchant that he had accumulated a large fortune at thirty-four years of age. 
He lost all his possessions during the Revolution, but became a wealthy man again before his death 
in 1812. He was a Major in the Continental Army, a member of the Provincial Congresses of 1775, 
1776 and 1777, a member of the convention which formulated the Constitution of this State in 
1776-77, and a member of the State Senate from 1777 to 1783. Three sons of Jonathan Lawrence 
became conspicuous in State and national affairs. Samuel was a county Judge and member of 

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Congress. William was a soldier in the War of 1812, a county Judge and Member of Con- 
gress. Another son was the Honorable John L. Lawrence, who was born in 1785 and was one 
of the leaders of the New York bar. He also entered the diplomatic service of the United States, 
and was Secretary of Legation at Stockholm in 1814, and later Charge d' Affaires. He was a member 
of Assembly, the State Senate, and of the Constitutional Convention of 1821, president of the 
Croton Aqueduct Board in 1842, and Comptroller of New York City at the time of his death in 
1849. He was also, for many years, treasurer of Columbia College. 

The Honorable Abraham R. Lawrence, Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, is a son 
of the Honorable John L. Lawrence. On his mother's side he comes of an ancestry fully as 
renowned as that of his father. His mother was Sarah Augusta Smith, only daughter of General 
John Smith, of St. George's Manor, Long Island, and a granddaughter of General Nathaniel Wood- 
hull. General John Smith, whose wife was the only child of General Woodhull, was a descendant 
of Colonel William Smith, who was Governor of Tangier, Justice of the Supreme Court, and Chief 
Justice of the Province of New York, Judge of the Court of Admiralty for New York, New Jersey 
and Connecticut, member of the Governor's Council from 1691 to 1704, received the grant of 
St. George's Manor 1693, and was Governor of New York, pro tempore, 1701, after the death of 
Lord Bellomont. Born in 1756, General John Smith served in the Revolution and was a member 
of the Assembly from 1784 to 1800. In 1788 he was a member of the Convention which framed 
the Constitution of the United States. He was a member of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and 
Eighth Congresses. In 1804, he succeeded General John Armstrong in the United States Senate, 
was elected for another term in 1807, and died in 18 16. 

General Woodhull was the great-grandson of Richard Woodhull, the patentee of Brook- 
haven, Long Island. He was a Major under General Abercrombie at Ticonderoga in the French 
and Indian War, and a Colonel in the army which invaded Canada in 1760. Later he was a 
member of Assembly. In 1775, he was commissioned Brigadier-General of the Suffolk and 
Queens County troops. After the battle of Long Island he was captured by the British forces, 
by whom he was killed when a prisoner. He was three times President of the Provincial Con- 
gress, and presided over the meeting which ratified the Declaration of Independence. His wife 
was Ruth, daughter of Nicoll Floyd, and sister of General William Floyd, signer of the 
Declaration of Independence. 

Justice Abraham R. Lawrence was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1867. 
He has been a member of the New York bar for more than half a century, was elected a Justice 
of the Supreme Court in 1873, was reelected in 1888, and is considered one of the ablest mem- 
bers of the judiciary. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, Century, Bar Association, 
Manhattan and other clubs. In i860, Judge Lawrence married Eliza Miner, only daughter of 
Dr. William Miner, and granddaughter of Dr. William Westcott Miner, a leading New York 
physician. The Miner family is descended from Lieutenant Thomas Miner, one of the founders 
of New London, whose son, Clement Miner, was born at New London, and whose grandson, 
also, William Miner, of Lyme, Conn., a well-known patriot of the American Revolution, was 
the father of Dr. William Westcott Miner. Mrs. Lawrence's mother was Julia Caroline 
Williams, a daughter of Cornelius T. Williams, of Rosemount, an estate that at the beginning 
of the century extended from the present Fourteenth Street to Twentieth Street, and from 
what is now Fifth Avenue to the limits of the Stuyvesant Farm, or about the line of Third 
Avenue. 

Judge and Mrs. Lawrence have two children, William Miner Lawrence and Ruth 
Lawrence. William M. Lawrence at one time represented the Eleventh Assembly District of 
this city in the Legislature. He married Lavinia Oliver, of this city, and has two children, 
Oliver Lawrence and Clement Miner Lawrence. Judge Lawrence's residence is at 285 Lexington 
Avenue. The arms of the Lawrence family, taken from the seal of Thomas Lawrence, its first 
American ancestor, are described as follows : Argent, a cross raguly gules. Crest, a demi-turbot 
in pale argent, the tail upwards. Motto: Qtiaero Invenio. 



JOHN L. LAWRENCE 

'"T^HAT branch of the famous Lawrence family, of which Mr. John L. Lawrence is a represen- 
tative in the present generation, is directly descended from John Lawrence, who was the 
■■• chief burgess of St. Albans, England, in 1553, and Mayor of that city, 1567-75. It is now 
generally agreed by genealogists that this John Lawrence was the father of William Lawrence, 
who in 1559 married Katerin Beaumont, the grandfather of John Lawrence, who married, in 1586, 
Margaret Robertes, and the great-grandfather of Thomas Lawrence, who married, in 1609, Joane 
Anterbus, daughter of Walter and Jane (Arnolde) Anterbus or Antrobus. 

Captain William Lawrence, the first American ancestor of Mr. John L. Lawrence, was the son 
of Thomas and Joane (Anterbus) Lawrence. Born in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, in 1622, 
he came to New England in 1635, was one of the eighteen original incorporators of Flushing, Long 
Island, in 1655, afterwards a magistrate, in 1657 a deputy to the council, in 1665 Captain of the 
Queens County militia and in 1673 schout or sheriff of Flushing. He died in 1679. His wife was 
Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Richard Smith. Joseph Lawrence, his son, born 1666, was an ensign 
of the New York provincial troops. Tradition says that he married Mary Townley, daughter of 
Colonel Richard Townley, of New Jersey. 

Richard Lawrence, 1691-1781, son of Joseph Lawrence, married, in 1717, Hannah Bowne, 
daughter of Samuel and Mary Bowne. Their son, John Lawrence, 1732-94, married, in 1755, Ann 
Burling, daughter of John and Ann Burling. John Burling Lawrence, grandfather of Mr. John 
L. Lawrence, was the son of John and Ann (Burling) Lawrence. Born in 1774, he became a 
leading merchant at the head of the house of Lawrence, Keese & Co. His death occurred in 1844. 
His wife was Hannah Newbold, daughter of Caleb Newbold, of Philadelphia, by his wife, Sarah 
Haines, of New Jersey. Alfred Newbold Lawrence, 1813-1884, father of Mr. John L. Lawrence, had 
a long and successful business career, being a dry goods merchant and a wholesale druggist. 

The mother of Mr. John L. Lawrence was Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of the Honorable 
John L. Lawrence. She was descended in the sixth generation from Thomas Lawrence, a brother 
of William Lawrence, the ancestor of her husband, and himself a pioneer to this country in the 
early part of the seventeenth century. Thomas Lawrence was born in England in 1619, and was a 
patentee of Middleburgh, now Newtown, Long Island, in 1655. His son, John Lawrence, who 
married a daughter of Richard Woodhull, was a Captain in the Queens County Regiment and sheriff 
of the county in 1698. His grandson, John Lawrence, who married Patience Sackett, daughter of 
Joseph Sackett, was for many years a county magistrate. His great-grandson, Jonathan Lawrence, 
born in 1737, was a merchant of New York, a Captain of the militia, a Revolutionary patriot, 
a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775-6-7, a member of the Constitutional Convention, 
Major of the Queens and Suffolk County militia, and a member of the New York State Senate, 
'777" 8 3- The Honorable John L. Lawrence, maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 
was the son of Jonathan Lawrence, by his wife, Ruth Riker. He was born in 1785 and became 
one of the distinguished public men of the last generation, being engaged in the diplomatic service 
of the United States, a member of the New York Assembly, member of the State Constitutional 
Convention in 1821, Presidential elector in 1840, State Senator 1847-49, Comptroller of New York 
City in 1850 and treasurer of Columbia College. His wife was Sarah Augusta Tangier, daughter of 
General John Smith, of St. George's Manor, Suffolk County. 

Mr. John L. Lawrence was born June 22d, 1857. His residence is upon the ancestral estate 
in Lawrence, Long Island. He belongs to the Calumet, Rockaway Hunt and Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Yacht clubs. He married, in 1895, Alice Warner Work, daughter of I. Henry Work and 
Marie P. Warner. On her mother's side, Mrs. Lawrence is directly descended from William Brad- 
ford, who came on the Mayflower in 1620, and was the first Governor of the Plymouth Colony. 
He has one sister, Hannah Newbold Lawrence. The coat of arms of the Lawrence family is a 
fish's tail, with the motto, Qiiccro Invenio. 

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LE0N1DAS MOREAU LAWSON 

ENGLISH and Dutch families are both conspicuous in the Lawson genealogy, and among 
them occur several names of distinction in our national history. General Robert Lawson, 
of Virginia, was a prominent patriot and an eminent Revolutionary officer. He entered 
the Continental service as Major, in 1775, and in 1777 became Colonel in command of a brigade of 
Virginia troops, which served under General Nathaniel Greene at the battle of Guilford. He also 
rendered important service to Patrick Henry and to Thomas Jefferson, when the latter was 
Governor of Virginia, in 1778-79, the fact being prominently mentioned by Jefferson's biographers. 
His son, the Reverend Jeremiah Lawson, went early in life from Virginia to Kentucky, settling in 
Mason County. After Missouri had been annexed to the United States, through the Louisiana 
purchase, he removed thither with his family, in 1804, being one of the earliest American pioneers 
of the State. He was a noted clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Mississippi 
Valley, and died at Cincinnati, in 1862, aged ninety. William Lawson, eldest son of the Reverend 
Mr. Lawson, was the father of Colonel Leonidas M. Lawson. He settled in the Boone's Lick 
country, now Howard County, Mo., and married Phcebe Kanslor. Her family was founded in 
America by Philip Kanslor, who emigrated from Holland in 1750, settled at Albany, N. Y., and 
served in the French and Indian War, and the Revolution. His son, John Kanslor, moved to 
Kentucky, in 1798, and was the father of Phcebe (Kanslor) Lawson. 

Mr. Leonidas Moreau Lawson was born of this parentage, in Howard County, Mo. He was 
named for his father's brother, Leonidas Moreau Lawson, M. D., 1812-1864. Dr. Lawson was a 
graduate of the medical department of Transylvania University, in which he became a professor, 
and was sent by his alma mater to Germany, France and England, in 1846, to investigate the 
progress of medical science. He was also a professor in the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati, 
the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, and the University of Louisiana, and was a 
voluminous writer on medical topics. His daughter, Louise Lawson, is the distinguished sculptor. 

His namesake, Colonel L. M. Lawson, graduated at seventeen years of age from the 
University of Missouri, and for two years was professor of Greek and Latin at the William Jewell 
College, Liberty, Mo. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and removed to Western 
Missouri, where he became interested in railroad construction. In i860, he was elected to the 
Missouri Legislature on the Bell and Everett ticket, and, being a strong Union man, defeated a 
plan of the majority of the members to carry the State out of the Union by means of a militia bill. 
In 1861, he was offered by Governor Gamble the command of the Twelfth Missouri Cavalry. He 
refused this and served throughout the war on the staff of General James Craig. 

After the war, Colonel Lawson again resumed the practice of the law, but became interested 
in railroad and business enterprises. He was a founder and first president of the State National 
Bank, in St. Joseph, and participated in organizing the German Savings Bank, Merchants Insurance 
Company, and other corporations. He founded the St. Joseph Law Library Association, and was 
its president for several years. He was also one of the chief promoters of the St. Joseph & Denver 
City Railroad, afterwards the St. Joseph & Western, and of the St. Louis & St. Joseph Railroad, of 
which latter he was president. In 1868, with his brother-in-law, Robert W. Donnell, he 
established the banking house of Donnell, Lawson & Co., in New York, and in 1874-1878 was the 
firm's resident partner in London. In 1873, he organized the Kansas City Water-Works Company. 

Colonel Lawson married Theodosia Thornton, youngest daughter of Colonel John Thornton, 
of Missouri, and has two sons : William Thornton Lawson, the elder, graduated from Columbia 
University, in 1882, studied at the University of Berlin, and then graduated from the law depart- 
ment of Columbia. Leonidas M. Lawson, Jr., is a student in the medical department of Columbia. 
The family residence is in East Sixty-seventh Street. Colonel Lawson is a member of the Union, 
University, Union League, Manhattan, New York Yacht, Reform, and United Service clubs, and of 
the Downtown Association, the Southern Society, and other prominent bodies. 

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JOHN BROOKS LEAVITT 

BEARERS of the Leavitt name were among the Puritans of Massachusetts. John Leavitt, 
from Norfolk, England, settled at Hingham in 1628, and his son, John Leavitt, established 
himself in the town of Suffield, Hartford County, Conn. It was there that Mr. John Brooks 
Leavitt's grandfather, the Honorable Humphrey Howe Leavitt, was born in 1796. The family 
removed to Ohio in 1800, and Humphrey Howe Leavitt, having received a classical education, was 
admitted to the bar in 1815- He first practiced at Cadiz, Harrison County, O., but removed to 
Steubenville, where he was elected prosecuting attorney and served in the Ohio Legislature and 
Senate. In 1830, he became a Representative in Congress, serving for two terms. He was an 
admirer and prominent supporter of President Andrew Jackson, by whom he was appointed Judge 
of the United States Court for Ohio in 1834. In a short memoir written for his children he refers to 
a seat in Congress as " positively irksome and repulsive," adding "In times of party division, it is 
impossible for anyone in Congress to preserve a conscience void of offense toward God and at the 
same time to bear true allegiance to the party by which he has been elected. The member must 
vote with his party irrespective of the public good or expect to be visited with the fiercest 
denunciation." For thirty-seven years this upright and accomplished lawyer graced the Federal 
bench and decided cases of vital importance to the country, one of his noteworthy opinions being 
in the famous habeas corpus case of Clement L. Valandingham. Judge Leavitt was also an 
eminent member of the Presbyterian communion and served as delegate to eleven sessions of its 
general assembly. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Jefferson College. He 
married Marie Antoinette McDowell, daughter of Dr. John McDowell, provost of the University of 
Pennsylvania and Governor of that State. Judge Leavitt died at Springfield, O., in 1872. 

His son, the Reverend John McDowell Leavitt, D. D., LL. D., was born at Steubenville, O., 
in 1824, graduated at Jefferson College in 1841 and studied law. After a few years of practice, his 
inclinations turned to the church and he was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church in 
1862. His educational talent was promply recognized, and he became a professor in Kenyon 
College, O., and was afterwards one of the faculty of the University of Ohio, which institution in 
1874 conferred on him the degree of LL. D. He was subsequently the second president of Lehigh 
University, Bethlehem, Pa., and has filled the same office at St. John's College, Annapolis, Md. 
Doctor Leavitt's contributions to literature have been numerous, though only a few of his works 
can be mentioned, among them being: Hymns to Our King, Faith and other Poems, Reasons for 
Faith in the Nineteenth Century. He also edited The Church Review, and founded and edited 
The International Review. Doctor Leavitt married Bithia Brooks, of Cincinnati, daughter of 
Moses Brooks, born near Huntington, N. J., and his wife, Lydia (Ransom) Brooks, who was a 
granddaughter of Captain Samuel Ransom, slain at the Wyoming massacre in 1778. 

Mr John Brooks Leavitt is the offspring of this marriage, and was born at Cincinnati, O., in 
1849. He graduated from Kenyon College, O., in 1868, and from the law department of Columbia 
College, of this city, in 1871. Mr. Leavitt has pursued his profession with success, taking at the 
same time a warm interest in politics and literature. He is the author of a legal work, Law of 
Negligence, and a frequent contributor to the periodicals. In 1896, the degree of LL. D. was 
conferred upon him by Kenyon College. His wife was Mary Keith, born at Churchtown, 
Lancaster County, Pa., a lady who also springs from a family of unmixed American descent. 
Among Mrs. Leavitt's ancestors on her mother's side was Elisha Boudinot, Judge of the Supreme 
Court of New Jersey, brother of Elias Boudinot, president of Congress and the first lawyer 
admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Mrs. Leavitt and her family possess 
portraits of their ancestors of great interest. 

Mr. Leavitt is a member of the University, City, Lawyers' and Church clubs and the New 
England Society. He resides at 44 Stuyvesant Street, and belongs to the Onteora Club, in the 
Catskill Mountains. 

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LEWIS CASS LEDYARD 

ORIGINALLY the name of Ledyard was Welsh and the family is a branch of the Llwyds or 
Lloyds, who trace their ancestry to the early Britons who fought with Arthur against the 
Saxon Kings. John Ledyard, the first of the name in America, was a gentleman of con- 
siderable means and of good family, a native of Bristol, England, and in middle life a resident of 
London. He came to Southold, Long Island, in 17 17, and there was engaged first as a teacher and 
then as a trader. He prospered in business and married Deborah, a daughter of Judge Benjamin 
Youngs, of Southold, and a granddaughter of the Reverend John Youngs, a devoted minister, who 
led a company of Colonists, in 1638, from Norfolkshire, England, to settle the place that they 
called Southold. 

John Ledyard moved to Groton, Conn., in 1727 and became one of the influential men of the 
Colony. He was a justice of the peace, 1731-49, auditor of the Superior Court in 1741, a deputy to 
the General Assembly, 1742-49, one of the Committee of War in 1754 and otherwise active in the 
administration of Colonial affairs. The second generation of Ledyards figured prominently in the 
Revolution and the name is indissolubly connected with one of the most tragic events of the war, 
the massacre at Fort Griswold, on the banks of the Thames River in Groton, September, 1781. 
Colonel William Ledyard, the fourth son of John Ledyard, with his nephew, Captain Youngs Led- 
yard, and others of the family were killed by a British foray that was organized and conducted 
by Benedict Arnold. More than twenty Ledyards participated in the engagement. 

The New York Ledyards are descended from the original John Ledyard through his second 
son, Youngs Ledyard, 1731-1762, who was a shipmaster and died mysteriously on one of his voy- 
ages to the West Indies. Benedict Arnold sailed with him as clerk on that last voyage, and there 
has always remained a suspicion that he knew more about the disappearance of his superior than 
ever was revealed. Youngs Ledyard, in 1748, married Aurelia Avery, of Groton, and their third 
child and second son was Benjamin Ledyard, born in Groton, March 6th, 1753. He was brought 
up in the family of his grandfather in Hartford and then engaged in business in New York. He 
served in the army during the War of the Revolution, and attained to the rank of Major. After the 
war he renewed his commercial pursuits, was one of the founders of the Order of the Cincinnati in 
1783 and was specially active in opening up and developing the unoccupied lands in the interior of 
New York State. 

Benjamin Ledyard, Jr., 1779-1812, the eldest son of Major Ledyard, married Susan French 
Livingston, daughter of Brockholst Livingston, an aide to General Alexander Hamilton in the Revo- 
tion, and later Justice of the Superior Court of New York State and Judge of the Supreme Court of the 
United States. His only son was Henry Ledyard, father of Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard. Born in New 
York, March 5th, 18 12, Henry Ledyard was a man of high culture. He entered the diplomatic 
service of the United States and was attached to the American Embassy in Paris when the Honor- 
able Lewis Cass was Minister to France. In 1839, he was made Secretary of Legation and in 1842 
was Charge d' Affaires. After 1844, he withdrew entirely from public affairs. 

Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard is the second son of Henry Ledyard. His mother was a daughter 
of the Honorable Lewis Cass, the Michigan statesman, and thus, on both sides of his house, he 
descends through a notable line of American ancestors. He was born in Detroit, April 4th, 185 1, 
graduated from Harvard in 1872 and entered the legal profession. In 1878, he married Gertrude 
Prince, daughter of Colonel William E. Prince. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman, owner of the 
schooner Montauk and Vice-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. By virtue of his ancestry 
he is a member of the New England Society and the Sons of the Revolution. His clubs include the 
Metropolitan, Union, Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Harvard, University and Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Yacht, and he is a member of the Century Association, the Downtown Association and 
the Bar Association. His city residence is in Lexington Avenue and he has a summer home in 
Gibbs Avenue, Newport. He has one son, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr. 

359 



FREDERICK HOWARD LEE 

THE Lees, as a family, have been known as devoted churchmen and supporters of the 
reigning families of England from time immemorial. They were adherents of the 
Plantagnets, and then of the Tudors and Stewarts, and so on down to the dynasty of the 
present day. They have had bestowed upon them lands and titles and have occupied influential 
positions in church and State. In 1674, King Charles II. created Sir Edward Henry Lee, Earl of 
Litchfield, and the title and estates descended through many generations of male heirs, but are now 
in possession of descendants of the female line, Lord Arthur Lee Dillon, in the last generation, 
whose grandfather, an Irish peer, married a daughter of the second Earl of Litchfield and who 
assumed the name of Lee, being the head of the family in Ditchley, Oxfordshire. 

John Lee, who was a native of Colchester, Essex County, England, where he was born in 
1620, came to America in 1634, went to Connecticut and subsequently was a member of the second 
company that went from Hartford to settle in Farmington in 164 1. In 1658, he married Mary Hart, 
daughter of Stephen Hart, and died in 1690, having had a family of six children, from whom have 
sprung most of the Lees of New England and New York. John Lee, Jr. , the eldest son of the pioneer, 
lived and died at Farmington and from him have come the Lees of Harwinton, Granby, and Kent. 
Mary Lee, the eldest daughter of the family, married Stephen Upson, of Waterbury, and from that 
alliance have come the Upsons and their descendants of Connecticut. Thomas Lee, the third son 
of the family, lived and died at Farmington; his descendants are among the Lees of Massachusetts 
and Vermont. One of his sons removed to Canada, near Niagara. 

Stephen Lee, the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was the the third child and second 
son of John Lee, the pioneer. From him have come the Lees of New Britain, Berlin and 
Kensington, Conn. Captain Stephen Lee, as he was called, had two sons, Isaac and Josiah. The 
eldest son was a doctor of much celebrity in Middletown, Conn., and vicinity; his sons were Isaac 
Lee, Jr., Stephen, Jacob and Josiah Lee. Stephen Lee went to Lenox and established a branch of 
the family there. Josiah Lee, who commanded a privateer in the War of the Revolution, was 
captured and carried to England and kept in prison several years. 

William Henry Lee, the New York merchant, father of Mr. Frederick H. Lee, was descended 
from Colonel Isaac Lee, of the Stephen Lee branch of this family. He was born in New Britain in 
1818. Early in life he went to Troy, N. Y., and engaged in business. A few years later he came 
to New York and entered the firm of J. R. J affray & Co., and in 1845 established the importing 
and jobbing firm of Lee & Case, a firm subsequently known as William H. Lee & Co., Lee, Bliss 
& Co., and Lee, Tweedy & Co. Mr. Lee was one of the enterprising merchants of the last 
generation and a very public spirited man. He was one of the charter members of the Union 
League Club, an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, for many years a warden of St. 
Thomas' Church, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the New England Society 
and the American Geographical Society, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History. 
In 1893, he removed to Hartford, Conn., where he had long maintained his summer home, and died 
there in 1895. 

Mr. Frederick Howard Lee, son of William Henry Lee, was born in New York, November 
10th, 1859, and educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and in Columbia College, 
graduating from Columbia in 1882. He has been in business life as a partner in the house 
that his father established. He is a member of the Racquet and New York clubs, the Larchmont 
Yacht Club, and the Columbia College Alumni Association, and became a member of Troop A, 
N. G., S. N. Y., in 1889. His country residence is at the Lee homestead, in Hartford, Conn. 
Another member of the family is Charles Northam Lee, a brother of Mr. Frederick H. Lee, who 
lives in West Seventy-eighth Street, and is a member of the Seventh Regiment Veteran Club and 
the New England Society. The mother of Frederick H. and Charles Northam Lee, was Miss 
Northam, of an old and respected Connecticut family. She is still living in Hartford. 

360 



JAMES PARRISH LEE 

DURING the reign of Charles I., Richard Lee, of Shropshire, England, came to Virginia as 
Secretary of the Colony and one of the Privy Council. Descended from the Coton branch 
of the family, his ancestor in the fourteenth century was Roger Lee, who married Margaret 
Astley. In 1646, he was a magistrate of York County, and frequently represented York and North- 
umberland Counties in the House of Burgesses. In the second generation came Richard Lee, 1647- 
1714, member of the Governor's Council, in 1676-80-83-88-92-98, and member of the House of 
Burgesses in 1677. His wife was Letitia Corbin, daughter of Henry Corbin and Alice Eltonhead. 

The last named Richard Lee had, among other children, Philip, Thomas and Henry. The 
eldest of these, Philip Lee, of Westmoreland County, 168 1-1744, moved to Maryland in 1700, 
became a member of the Governor's Council and a justice of the peace and was the ancestor of the 
Maryland line of the family. The second son, Thomas Lee, was the father of Richard Henry Lee 
and Francis Lightfoot Lee, signers of the Declaration of Independence. To Richard Henry Lee 
belongs the honor of being the mover in Congress of the Declaration of Independence. Upon June 
7th, 1776, he proposed the following resolution, the original of which is preserved in the archives 
of State at Washington: " Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free 
and independent States: that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown and that all 
political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dis- 
solved." In pursuance of this resolution, the Declaration of Independence was afterwards drafted. 
The third of the three sons of Richard Lee was the grandfather of Major " Light Horse Harry" Lee, of 
Revolutionary fame, and the great-grandfather of General Robert E. Lee, who is too well known to 
need special mention. Among the writings of " Light Horse Harry " Lee occurs the well-known 
eulogium " First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 

Thomas Lee, son of Philip Lee, of Westmoreland, died in 1749, having married Christiana 
Sim, daughter of Dr. Patrick Sim and Mary Brooke, of Maryland. His son, Governor Thomas Sim 
Lee, 1745-1819, was a member of the Provincial Council of Maryland in 1777, Governor in 1779 and 
1792 and a member of the Continental Congress, 1763-64. His wife was Mary Digges, daughter 
of Ignatius Digges and Elizabeth Parkham. John Lee, ofNeedwood, 1 788-1 871, grandfather of Mr. 
James Parrish Lee, was educated in Harvard and, in 1823-25, was a Member of Congress. His wife 
was Harriet Carroll, daughter of Charles Carroll and Harriet Chew. His son, Dr. Charles Carroll 
Lee, 1839-1893, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 
1859, served on the medical staff of the Union Army during the Civil War, and after the war had a 
large private practice and was a professor in the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. He was presi- 
dent of the Medical Society of the County of New York at the time of his death in 1893. His wife 
was Helen Parrish, of Philadelphia, their children being Sarah Redwood, Richard Henry, Thomas 
Sim, James Parrish, Charles Carroll, Mary Helen, Helen and Mary Digges Lee. Mrs. Lee survived 
her husband and is now living in Tuxedo Park. 

On the female side, Mr. Lee goes back to other illustrious ancestors. Henry Corbin, father 
of Letitia Corbin, who married the second Richard Lee, came to Virginia in 1654, and was a burgess 
in 1659, a justice of the peace and a member of the Governor's Council. He was a son of Thomas 
Corbin, of Hall End, England, and descended from Robert Corbin, who gave lands to the Abbey of 
Ealesworth in the twelfth century. The great-grandmother of Mr. Lee was Mary Digges, descended 
from Edward Digges, proprietor of the Bellfield estate, Auditor-General of the Colony and Gov- 
ernor, 1656-58. Harriet Carroll, grandmother of Mr. Lee, was a descendant of the Carroll and Chew 
families. Her father was Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

Mr. James Parrish Lee was born in New York, June 6th, 1870. Both he and his brother, Dr. 
Thomas Sim Lee, were educated in Harvard University, graduating in the class of 189 1. He is a 
lawyer by profession. In 1896, he married Clara Lothrop Lincoln, only daughter of Lowell and 
Clara A. (Lothrop) Lincoln. 

361 



MARSHALL CLIFFORD LEFFERTS 

SOME short distance north of Hoorn, in the Province of North Holland, is the village of 
Haughwout. There the American ancestor of the Lefferts family, Leffert Pietersen 
Van Haughwout, was born. Coming to this country in 1660, he settled in Midwout 
(Flatbush), Long Island, served on the grand jury in 1688, was a constable in 1692 and an 
assessor in 1703. He died in 1704. His wife was Abigail, daughter of Auke Janse Van Nuyse. 

Jacobus Leffert, 1686-1768, head of the family in the second generation, in 1715 was on the 
roll of the militia company of Flatbush, and in 1727 was one of the three freeholders of Brooklyn 
to defend their patent. His wife was Janetje, daughter of Nicholas, or Claes, Barrentse Blom. 
Leffert Lefferts, 1727-1804, son of Jacobus Leffert, was a farmer in Bedford, one of the freeholders 
of Brooklyn, 1756-76, town clerk 1761-76, and assistant justice 1761-77. He married Dorothy, 
daughter of John Cowenhoven. John Lefferts, 1763-1812, great-grandfather of Mr. Marshall C. 
Lefferts, was a farmer of Bedford and in 1790 married Sarah, daughter of Rem and Ida Cowenhoven. 
His son, Leffert Lefferts, 1 791—1868, married Amelia Ann Cozine, daughter of Judge John Cozine, 
of New York, and became the father of Colonel Marshall Lefferts. 

Colonel Lefferts, 1821-1876, educated in the public schools, was first a civil engineer, but 
after a few years became a partner in an importing house. For eleven years following 1849, he 
was president of the New York, New England & New York State Telegraph Company. After 
that, he owned several telegraph patents, was connected with the Western Union Telegraph 
Company as electrical engineer, organized the Commercial News Department of the Western Union 
Company in 1867, and was president of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company from 1869 to the 
time of his death. Joining the famous New York Seventh Regiment in 185 1 as a private, he became 
its Lieutenant-Colonel the next year and Colonel in 1859. When the Civil War broke out, he led 
his regiment to the front in 1861 and again saw service with it in 1862 and 1863, when he was 
Military Governor at Frederick, Md. After the war, he resigned his command, but was for several 
years commander of the veteran corps of the regiment. Colonel Lefferts left seven children: 
George M. Lefferts, a practicing physician of New York; William H. Lefferts, of the firm of 
Morewood & Co.; Marshall C. Lefferts, the subject of this sketch; Frederick R. Lefferts, 
treasurer of the Celluloid Company; Grace Lefferts, who married Frederick R. Hutton, Professor 
of Mechanical Engineering in Columbia University; Mary E. Lefferts, who married Dwight A. 
Jones, of Englewood, N. J., a practicing lawyer in New York; and Louis E. Lefferts, president of 
the Penrhyn Slate Company. 

Mr. Marshall Clifford Lefferts was born in New York in 1848, and was educated in the 
local schools, from which he went to the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City 
of New York. Leaving the academy before graduating, he was early engaged in the supply 
department of the American Telegraph Company, which was afterwards merged into the Western 
Union Telegraph Company, and later he became connected with the Gold and Stock Telegraph 
Company with his father, leaving it in 1872 to take a position in the Celluloid Manufacturing 
Company. Since 1890, he has been president of the Celluloid Company. Mr. Lefferts has never 
taken any active part in public life, although in 1892 he was invited and accepted a place upon the 
famous Committee of Seventy. 

The chief relaxation of Mr. Lefferts from the cares of business is in his library of early printed 
books of English literature and Americana, which ranks high among the private libraries of this 
country. In 1878, Mr. Lefferts married Carrie Ella Baker, daughter of Peter C. Baker, of New 
York, and Malvina L. Carpenter. He has three children: Franklin B. Lefferts, a student in the 
School of Mines of Columbia University; Mary C. Lefferts, and Marshall C. Lefferts, Jr. He lives 
in East Sixty-fifth Street, and spends the summer in Cedarhurst, L. I., where he has a country seat. 
He is a member of the Union League, Grolier and Rockaway Hunt clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, 
the Chamber of Commerce and other social and commercial organizations. 

362 



FRANCIS H. LEGGETT 

IN Westchester County, New York, the name of Leggett's Point, which projects into the 
Sound, recalls a family that has been resident for about two hundred and fifty years in that 
place. The Leggetts were formerly seated in Gloucestershire, England, and were of ancient 
descent, the tradition being that their family name was derived from an ancestor who was a papal 
legate. This is indicated by their arms, which are described as : ermine, a lion rampant gules; 
crest, a pope's mitre upheld by the claws of a lion, gules. 

As early as 1661, Gabriel Leggett came to this country, having previously emigrated from 
England to Barbadoes. He settled at Westchester, N. Y., and bought a place which has remained 
in the hands of his descendants to our days. He married Elizabeth Richardson, daughter of John 
Richardson, one of the joint patentees of the Planting Neck, as it was called, by which alliance a 
large amount of property came into his possession. He was for years an official of Westchester, 
and his descendants have always been prominent in that section and in New York. Among the 
notable ones were Thomas Leggett, who was driven from his estate by the Tories in the Revolu- 
tion, but after the war had ended, made a fortune in New York City. His sons were among the 
noted New York merchants of the early portion of the century. One of them, Samuel Leggett, 
was president of the old Franklin Bank, and president of the first gas company of the city, in 1823. 
Major Abraham Leggett, of another branch of the family, served as an officer of the Revolutionary 
Army, and was an original member of the Cincinnati. His son, William Leggett, was associated 
with William Cullen Bryant, in the management of The Evening Post. A son of Samuel Leggett 
married a daughter of Wager Hull, a descendant of Admiral Sir Wager Hull, of the English Navy, 
and one of his granddaughters was the philanthropic Sarah H. Leggett, who established the Home 
for Working Women, and the Fifth Avenue Reading Room. 

Mr. Francis H. Leggett descends from Gabriel Leggett, through William, one of the latter's 
sons, who resided at Mt. Pleasant, N. Y., in the early part of the eighteenth century. His son, 
Ezekiel, was the father of Abraham Leggett, and grandfather of a second Abraham Leggett, born 
in 1805, who was the father of Mr. Francis H. Leggett. Abraham Leggett was long one of the 
leading merchants of New York City. For half a century he carried on a large wholesale business 
on Front Street, and was one of the founders of the Old Market Bank, now the Market and Fulton 
National Bank. 

Mr. Francis H. Leggett was born in New York, March 27th, 1840, and after a substantial 
academic education, entered a business house. After five years of experience, he embarked in 
business on his own account, in 1862, in partnership with an older brother, as wholesale 
merchants. This relationship continued for eight years, and then, in 1870, Mr. Leggett joined 
with another and younger brother in organizing the firm of Francis H. Leggett & Company. 
Although his brother, Theodore Leggett, died in 1883, the firm's name has remained unchanged to 
this day, and it has grown into an extremely large establishment, occupying the large building on 
West Broadway and Franklin Street, which is a landmark in the downtown section of the city. 

Mr. Leggett still remains in active business life at the head of the concern he started twenty- 
seven years ago. He, however, has other business interests, being a director of the Home 
Insurance Company and a trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank. For twelve years he was a 
director of the National Park Bank, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Produce 
Exchange, Mercantile Exchange and Cotton Exchange. He belongs to the Union League, 
Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Merchants, Riding and Grolier clubs, and other artistic, literary and scientific 
institutions, and is a working member and one of the vice-presidents of the council of the Charity 
Organization Society. In 1895, Mr. Leggett was married at Paris, France, to Besse (MacLeod) 
Sturges, a lady descended from the distinguished Scotch family of MacLeod, which has also been 
prominent in the United States. Besides his city residence at 21 West Thirty-fourth Street, Mr. 
Leggett has a country seat, Ridgely, at Stone Ridge, Ulster County, N. Y. 

363 



EUGENE LENTILHON 

OF mingled French and English ancestry, the Lentilhons of New York trace their lineage 
to the Lentilhon and de Tours families of France, and to the Leaycrafts and Smiths of 
England. The Lentilhon ancestor, who was born about 1700, married a Mademoiselle 
Repon, from Bulla, in Switzerland, and had several children. His son, Antoine Lentilhon, 1732- 
1805, married Popon des Tours. Their son, Jean Marie Joseph Lentilhon, 1773-1839, married, in 
Virieux, Catherine Barthelemie Pauline, daughter of Claude Antoine Gerbes de Tours. The Gerbes 
de Tours family was of Spanish origin, but was established before the eighteenth century in the 
village of Tours, near St. Didier, Rochefort. Antoine Gerbes de Tours held that fief and married 
Jeanne du Poyet, heiress of the fief of Le Poyet. Jean Marie Gerbes de Tours, son of Antoine 
Gerbes de Tours, was notary royal and judge chatelaine of St. Didier, and died before 1772, having 
married Jeanne de Cossu. Their son, Claude Antoine Gerbes de Tours, father of Catherine 
Barthelemie Pauline de Tours, born in 1739, was guillotined by the Revolutionists in 1793. His 
wife was Laurence de Flon, daughter of Francois de Flon and his wife, Catherine Soviche. 

Two sons were born to Jean Marie Joseph Lentilhon and his wife, Catherine Barthelemie 
Pauline de Tours. From these two sons the Lentilhon family of New York is descended. The 
eldest son, Antoine Lentilhon, married Eliza Leaycraft Smith. They had no son, but their four 
daughters married, respectively, Herman Ten Eyck Foster, Peter Vandervoort King, Henry Oothout 
and John Garven Dale. The second son, Eugene Lentilhon, was the ancestor of that branch of the 
family under consideration here. He was born in Lyons, France, in December, 1810, and became a 
merchant in New York, where he died in 1879. In 1836, he married Emily Louisa Smith, who was 
born in 18 19 and died in 1869. She was the daughter of Gamaliel and Mary Riker (Leaycraft) 
Smith. Her father, Gamaliel Smith, was born in Suffield, Conn., in 1774, and died on the Island of 
Santa Cruz in 1823. He was a descendant of the Reverend Henry Smith, a Puritan clergyman, 
who, in 1638, became the first minister of the church in Wethersfield, Conn., and died in 1648. 
Mary Riker Leaycraft, the mother of Emily Louisa (Smith) Lentilhon, was the daughter of John and 
Elizabeth (Haldane) Leaycraft. Her paternal ancestor was Christopher Leaycraft, who, in 1647, 
was a member of the Governor's Council in the Bermudas. John Leaycraft was the son of Viner 
Leaycraft and his wife, Elizabeth Codwise. Eugene Lentilhon and his wife, Emily Louisa Smith, 
had seven children: Antonia Eliza, Joseph, Eugene Louis, Pauline de Tours, Jean de Tours, Edward 
Smith and William Augustus Lentilhon. Joseph Lentilhon, the eldest son, 1839-1895, was a 
Captain in the Seventh Regiment. He married Zella Trelawny Detmold, and had nine children. 

Eugene Lentilhon is the eldest son of the late Joseph Lentilhon, and the representative in 
lineal descent of the family. A graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, he 
married Rose Paret Buchanan, daughter of James A. Buchanan, and has a son, Eugene Lentilhon, 
the third of the name. The other children of Joseph Lentilhon are: Zella, who married Charles 
Brewster Wheeler, U. S. A. ; Emily Louisa, who married John Parkin Gilford, and has two 
daughters, Emily L. and Almy Gilford; Marie de Tours, who married Chester Clark Boynton, and 
also has two daughters; Joseph, who married Louise Everett; Pauline Leonie; Edward Detmold; 
Antoinette de Tours, deceased, and Minna Lentilhon. 

Eugene Louis Lentilhon, the second son of Eugene Lentilhon, 1810-1879, married Ida M. 
Ward and has two children, Ida Ward and Herbert D. Ward Lentilhon. His residence is Virieux 
sur Mer, Far Rockaway, Long Island. Jean de Tours Lentilhon, the third son, died in 1850. 
Edward Smith Lentilhon, |the fourth son, married Emily Swan, daughter of Edward H. Swan, 
of Oyster Bay, Long Island. She died in 1890. William Augustus Lentilhon, the youngest son, 
married, in 1884, Julia Catherine Rodewald, and has one daughter, Julia Mac Neill Lentilhon. He 
resides in New Brighton, Staten Island. Antonia Eliza, the eldest daughter of Eugene and Emily 
Louisa (Smith) Lentilhon, married Edward Fesser, of Cuba. The second daughter, Pauline de 
Tours Lentilhon, is unmarried. 

364 



JEFFERSON M. LEVY 

IT was in early Colonial days, during the seventeenth century, that the ancestors of Mr. Jefferson 
M. Levy came to America. Some of them settled in New York and others in Pennsylvania 
and Rhode Island, but both branches of the family maintained intimate relations from that time 
to the present. Representatives of the name acquired land in New York as early as 166s. When 
the Revolution came, the men of the family were active patriots. The great-grandfather of Mr. 
Jefferson M. Levy was one of the signers of the non-imp Oftation agreement, the original of which 
is in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, and he was one of the five commissioners appointed by the 
Colonial Congress to sign the money notes issued by its authority. Jonas Philips, his great- 
grandfather on the maternal side, served with distinction during the Revolutionary War. The 
grandmother of Mr. Levy, who is buried at Monticello, Va., was a woman of remarkable beauty 
and went abroad shortly after the Revolution. Being presented at the court of St. James, she 
created a sensation and was called the American beauty. 

Several generations of Mr. Levy's relatives have distinguished themselves in the service of 
their country. His uncle, Commodore Uriah P. Levy, was at the time of his death, in 1862, the 
ranking officer in the United States Navy. He had a brilliant career in the navy and distinguished 
himself in the War of 1812. He was finally captured by the British in the battle of the Argus and 
Pelican and held a prisoner for eighteen months, until the close of the war. In 1822, at Dubardeau 
Inlet, he performed a notable act of bravery, saving many lives during a furious gale. The Emperor 
of Brazil urged him to enter the navy of that country, but he declined the honor. He was instru- 
mental in abolishing flogging in the United States Navy, and in fact was called the Father of the 
Seamen of the Navy. The bronze statue of Jefferson, by David D'Angiers, that stands n the old 
Hall of Representatives in the Capitol at Washington, was presented by Commodore Levy to the 
United States in 1834. 

After the death of Thomas Jefferson, Commodore Levy purchased the historic house and 
estate of Monticello, the home of the great Democrat. The mansion, which was begun by 
Jefferson in 1764 and finished in 1771, is one of the finest of its date, modeled somewhat after the 
Petit Trianon of Versailles. It stands in a commanding position on a small plateau, elevated some 
three hundred feet above the surrounding country and five hundred feet above the level of the sea. 
The estate embraces five hundred acres of park land, gardens and lawns. It is now the property 
of Mr. Jefferson M. Levy, who inherited it from his uncle, Commodore Levy. 

The father of Mr. Jefferson M. Levy was Captain J. P. Levy, a brilliant naval officer. During 
the Mexican War, he commanded the United States ship America, and did noteworthy service in 
the siege of Vera Cruz. When that city surrendered to the United States forces, General 
Scott appointed him Captain of the Port. Captain Levy died in 1883. 

Mr. Jefferson M. Levy was born in New York. His early education was under the direction 
of private tutors, after which he entered the University of the City of New York, and was 
graduated with honors. For more than twenty years he has been a prominent member of the New 
York bar, and also has large interests in real estate. Mr. Levy is a pronounced Democrat in 
politics. In 1 89 1, the Democratic nomination for Congress from a New York City district was 
offered to him, but he declined the honor. During the presidential campaign of 1892, he was an 
active worker in the Virginia League of Democratic Club, and as chairman of that organization 
contributed much towards the election of President Cleveland. He was the first vice-president of 
the Young Men's Democratic Club of New York. Mr. Levy is a member of the Manhattan, Reform, 
Commonwealth, New York Yacht and Democratic clubs, the Southern Society, the Sons of the 
Revolution, the New York Historical Society, the Westmoreland Club of Virginia and the 
Sandowne Park Club of England. His city residence is at 66 East Thirty-fourth Street, and he also 
occupies the historic house at Monticello. He is a generous patron of music, and in 1897 was one 
of the largest subscribers to the fund for the support of opera in the Metropolitan Opera House. 

365 



WILLIAM LIBBEY 

JOHN LIBBEY, who was born in England about 1602, came to America about 1630 and 
settled near what is now Scarborough, Me. During King Philip's War, he and his family 
were compelled to flee to Portsmouth, N. H., and then to Boston for safety. Subsequently 
they returned to Maine, and there he accumulated a competency before he died, at the age of 
eighty. Anthony Libbey, son of the pioneer John Libbey, was born in Scarborough about 1649, 
and lived in his native town and in Falmouth, N. H., where he died in 1718. His son, Isaac, 
who was born about 1690, in Hampton, N. H., spent most of his life in Rye and took an active 
part in the settlement of the town of Epsom. His grandson, Reuben Libbey, who was born in 
Rye in 1734, served a year in the Continental Army, in 1776, and died in Albany in 1820. 

In the next generation Samuel Libbey, born in Rye in 1757, during the Revolution, 
was a soldier in a New Hampshire Regiment and was present at the surrender of General Bur- 
goyne. He also went on several privateering cruises, in which he was generally successful, but on 
two occasions was made a prisoner. William Seavey Libbey, the son of Samuel Libbey and 
the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Rye, N. H., in 1787. His mother was 
Mehitable Seavey, daughter of William and Ruth (Moses) Seavey, of Rye. During the early 
years of his life he lived in Salem, Mass., but subsequently removed to Newburgh, N. Y., 
and then to New Brighton, Staten Island, where he died in 1869. His first wife was Sarah 
Farrington, daughter of Deacon Daniel and Sarah Farrington, of Windsor, Vt. She died in 1826, 
and he afterwards married Elizabeth Winfield, daughter of Dr. Richard Winfield, of New York. 
William Libbey, son of the foregoing, was born in Newburgh, N. Y., March 7th, 1820. 
Prepared for college, circumstances compelled him to forego a college career and to engage in 
business. When he was fifteen years of age he entered a jobbing dry goods house in New 
York and remained about seven years. Continuing in this line of trade, in 1850 he became 
a member of the firm of Hastings, Libbey & Forbey, and subsequently was a member 
of the firm of William Libbey & Graef, which had branches in Philadelphia, and in Dresden 
and Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. In 1859, he became associated as partner and general manager 
with Alexander T. Stewart, and was at the time of Mr. Stewart's death his sole surviving 
partner. After that event, in 1876, he was associated with ex-Judge Henry Hilton in the great 
dry goods house for a few years, when he retired from active business. He was an executor 
of Mr. Stewart's will, was for many years a director of the National Bank of Commerce, the 
New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad and the American Pig Iron Storage Warrant Com- 
pany, a member of the executive committee of the New York Historical Society, a trustee of the 
Sun Insurance Company and the United States Trust Company, and of Princeton University and 
Theological Seminary, a life member of the New England Society and American Geographical 
Society and connected with many charitable institutions. His contributions to charity and edu- 
cation were munificent, and he was especially a generous benefactor of Princeton University. 
His residence on Washington Heights still remains one of the finest estates upon that part 
of Manhattan Island. 

In 1850, Mr. Libbey married Elizabeth Marsh, of Louisiana, daughter of Jonas Marsh and 
Elizabeth Morse. His eldest son, William, married Mary Elizabeth Green, daughter of Professor 
William Henry Green, of Princeton, N. J., and is a professor in Princeton University. Jonas Marsh 
Libbey, the second son of William Libbey, was born in Ridgewood, N. J., in 1857. He was 
graduated from Princeton, in 1877, and from 1877 to 1884 was editor and proprietor of The 
Princeton Review. He is a member of the Union League, Larchmont Yacht, Authors' and 
Press clubs and of the New England Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
Frederick A. Libbey, the youngest son of William Libbey, was born in Jersey City, in 
i860, graduated from Princeton in 1883, and married Helen Irving Dennis, of Wilkes Barre, Pa., 
in 1890. He lives at Montclair. N. J., and is engaged in business in New York. 

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JOHNSTON LIVINGSTON 

AMONG the families in the United States descended from the ancient nobility of Eng- 
land and Scotland, none have a more distinct title, or a lineage more clearly 
traced, than that of Livingston. The immediate ancestor of the American family was 
the Reverend John Livingston, of Ancram-in-Teviotdale, who was born in 1603, and who, 
from religious persecution, went or was exiled to Holland. He married Janet Fleming, 
daughter of Bartholomew Fleming, of Edinburgh, and died in 1672. He was the son of the Rev- 
erend William Livingston, minister at Lanark, and Agnes Livingston, and a maternal grandson 
of the Reverend Alexander Livingston, minister at Monyabrook, and his wife, Barbara Livingston, 
daughter of William Livingston, of Kilsyth. William Livingston was descended in the seventh 
generation through the Livingstons and Erskines, from James I. of Scotland and Lady Jane Beau- 
fort, by their daughter, Princess Janette Stuart and her second husband, James Douglas. 

According to the authority of Burke, in his Vicissitudes of Families, the house of Liv- 
ingston was founded in Scotland by Levingus, who is said to have been of noble Hungarian 
descent and settled in West Lothian toward the end of the eleventh century. Burke says: 
"Amongst the chief historical families of Scotland few have risen at various periods to greater 
power or higher honors, or have possessed more extensive estates than the Livingstons." The 
representation of the main line eventually merged in the younger branch of Callender, which had 
risen to great power by its acquisition of the ancient Thanedom of Callender, or Calynter. The 
Livingstons and the Callenders married with the most illustrious houses of Scotland, even the 
cadet branches following this aristocratic rule. To Robert Livingston, son of the Reverend John 
Livingston, Queen Anne granted a tract of land in the Province of New York, which became the 
Manor of Livingston. He was born in 1651, came to America in 1673 and died in 1728. His wife 
was Alida (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer, daughter of Philip Pieterse Schuyler. 

Mr. Johnston Livingston is descended in direct male line from the first Robert Livingston 
through the eldest son, Philip Livingston, 1686- 1749, second Lord of the Manor, and his wife, Cath- 
arine Van Brugh, daughter of Peter Van Brugh, Mayor of Albany, and Robert Livingston, 1708- 
1790, the third Lord of the Manor, and his first wife, Mary Tong, daughter of Walter Tong and 
great-granddaughter of Rip Van Dam. The grandfather of Mr. Johnston Livingston was Robert 
Cambridge Livingston, 1741-1794, who married Alice Swift, daughter of John Swift, of Phila- 
delphia. His parents were John Swift Livingston, 1785-1867, and Anna M. N. Thompson, 
daughter of Adjutant William T. Thompson, of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolution. 

Mr. Johnston Livingston, the eldest surviving son of John Swift Livingston, was born in 
1817. He was educated in Union College and has been identified with important railroad interests. 
In 1 85 1, he married Sylvia Livingston, daughter of Henry W. Livingston and Caroline De Grasse 
De Pau. Mrs. Livingston's father was a son of Henry W. Livingston and Mary M. Allen, grand- 
daughter of Chief Justice William Allen, of Pennsylvania. The parents of the first Henry W. 
Livingston were Walter Livingston and Cornelia Schuyler, and his grandparents were Robert 
Livingston, third Lord of the Manor, and Mrs. Gertrude Schuyler, his second wife. The town 
residence of Mr. Johnston Livingston is in Fifth Avenue, and his country home is the ancient 
Livingston Manor House in Tivoli-on-Hudson. He is a member of the Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, 
Union, Union League and other clubs, the St. Nicholas Society and the Union College Alumni 
Association. His eldest daughter, Carola Livingston, is the wife of the Count de Laugier-Villars. 
Another daughter, Estelle Livingston, is the wife of Geraldyn Redmond. 

Another branch of this historic family is that represented at the present time by John 
Henry Livingston, the son of Clermont Livingston, who died in 1895. The descent of John Henry 
Livingston represents a union of the lines of the three Lords of the Livingston Manors, namely, 
of Robert, the first proprietor of Clermont; of Robert, nephew of Robert, the first Lord, who 
married Margaretta, daughter of Colonel Schuyler; and further through her mother, of Gilbert 

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Livingston, third son of the first Lord, who married Cornelia Beekman, daughter of Colonel Henry 
Beekman, and aunt of Margaret, wife of Judge Robert R. Livingston, of Clermont. Philip 
Livingston, the younger son of the second Lord of the Manor, was the signer of the Declaration 
of Independence, and married Christiana Ten Broeck, daughter of Richard Ten Broeck. 

Their son, Philip P. Livingston, who married Sarah Johnston, had a family of ten children, 
among whom was Edward P. Livingston, who was born on the Island of Jamaica, was Lieutenant- 
Governor of the State in 1831, and was the father of Clermont Livingston. The wife of Edward P. 
Livingston was Elizabeth Stevens -Livingston, a daughter of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston and 
his wife, Mary Stevens. Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was a son of Judge Robert R. Livings- 
ton, and grandson of Robert Livingston, the first proprietor of Clermont Manor. He was a 
delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, was one of the committee that drew up the Declara- 
tion of Independence, was Secretary of New York State during the Revolution, and afterwards 
became its Chancellor. Clermont Livingston was born at Clermont, Columbia County, in 1817, and 
made that his home throughout his life. He married Cornelia Livingston, daughter of Herman 
Livingston, of Oak Hill. The grandfather of Cornelia Livingston was John Livingston, of Oak 
Hill, a son of Robert Livingston, the third and last Lord of the Manor. The only son of Clermont 
and Cornelia Livingston is John Henry Livingston, who is a graduate from Columbia College in 
the class of 1869, and who, with his daughter, Katharine L. Livingston, is now the lineal represen- 
tative of this branch of the family. 

The eldest son of John Swift Livingston and Anna M. N. Thompson, already referred to in 
this article, was the second Robert Cambridge Livingston, who was born in 1812, and married 
Maria B. Murray, daughter of James B. Murray, 1790- 1860, and Maria Bronson, daughter of Isaac 
Bronson, a surgeon in the Revolutionary War, and a distinguished banker of New York. James 
B. Murray was the son of John B. Murray, a soldier of the Revolution, and a grandson of John 
Murray, a surgeon of the British Navy, and a descendant from the Archduke de Moravia. Maria 
B. Murray traced her descent to the Bronsons and other pioneer New England families. 

Robert Cambridge Livingston, son of Robert Cambridge Livingston and Maria B. Murray, 
died in 1895. His widow, who was Maria Whitney, survived him, and lives in Islip, Long Island. 
Mrs. Livingston is a daughter of Henry Whitney and granddaughter of Stephen Whitney, the great 
New York merchant of the last generation. Her mother was Maria Lucy Fitch, a member of the 
famous Connecticut family of that name. Her grandmother was Phoebe Suydam, of the New York 
Suydam family. Through her father, Mrs. Livingston is directly descended from Henry Whitney, 
who founded the family in Huntington, Long Island, soon after 1620. Mrs. Livingston has seven 
children, Robert Cambridge Livingston, who is a member of the Knickerbocker Club; John 
Griswold, Henry Whitney, Maud Maria, Johnston, Louis and Caroline Livingston. 

Maturin Livingston, who died in New York in 1888, at the age of seventy-three years, 
was at the time of his death the head of another branch of this family. He was the 
youngest son of Maturin Livingston, who was at one time Recorder of the city. The 
senior Maturin Livingston was the son of Robert James Livingston and his wife, Susan Smith, 
sister of Judge William Smith, the historian of New York. Robert James Livingston was the son 
of James Livingston and Elizabeth Kierstede, and grandson of Robert Livingston and Margaretta 
Schuyler. The wife of the senior Maturin Livingston was Margaret Lewis, daughter of General 
Morgan Lewis, soldier, Attorney-General, Chief Justice and Governor, and his wife, Gertrude 
Livingston, daughter of Judge Robert Livingston. 

The widow of the second Maturin Livingston was Ruth Baylies, of Taunton, Mass., a 
descendant of Nicholas Baylies, of England, who came to Massachusetts early in the eighteenth 
century. She now lives in East Sixty-ninth Street, and has two daughters, her only children. 
One of her daughters is Mrs. Ogden Mills. The other married in 1880 William George Cavendish- 
Bentinck, the son of George Augustus Cavendish-Bentinck, Judge-Advocate General, and the 
grandson of General Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck and his wife, Lady Mary Lowther, daughter 
of the first Earl of Lonsdale. Mrs. Cavendish-Bentinck lives in London. 

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PHILIP LIVINGSTON 

REPRESENTING one of the important branches of the great Livingston family of New York, 
which has borne such a conspicuous part in the social and political affairs of New York 
City and State for more than two centuries, Mr. Philip Livingston is directly descended 
in the fifth generation from Philip Livingston, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1716- 
1778, whose name he bears, and from that Philip Livingston's wife, Christina Ten Broeck. In 
generations further back, his lineage goes to Philip Livingston, the second Lord of the Manor, and 
his wife, Catharine Van Brugh, and Robert Livingston, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, to 
whom full reference will be found on other pages of this volume. 

Philip Philip Livingston, of Livingston Manor, son of Philip Livingston, the signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, was the great-grandfather of Mr. Philip Livingston of this generation. 
He was born in Albany, and died in New York in 1787. His wife was Sarah Johnston, of the 
Island of Jamaica, in the West Indies. His son, Philip Henry Livingston, of Livingston Manor, 
married Maria Livingston, granddaughter of Robert Livingston, third Lord of the Manor. He was 
the father of a large family of children, among whom was Livingston Livingston, who was born at 
Livingston Manor, Tivoli, N. Y. ; he was a well-known lawyer and referee, and died in Rome, 
Italy, in 1872. He was the father of the Mr. Philip Livingston who is the subject of this sketch. 

The wife of Livingston Livingston, whom he married in 1859, was Mary C. Williamson, 
daughter of the Honorable William D. Williamson, of Bangor, Me., 1779-1846, historian, statesman 
and man of public affairs. Graduated from Brown University in 1804, he began to practice law 
in 1807. For eight years after 1808, he served as attorney for Hancock County and was a 
member of the Massachusetts Senate, 1816-20, the territory of Maine being at that time part of 
the State of Massachusetts. When Maine became a separate State, William D. Williamson was 
president of the first State Senate in 1820, and after the resignation of Governor William King 
was acting Governor. In 1821-23, he was a Member of Congress;, in 1824-40, a probate judge 
for his county, and in 1838-41, bank commissioner for the State. He wrote much upon historical 
subjects, and was a member of several historical and literary societies in New York and elsewhere. 

Mr. Philip Livingston was born in New York, November 9th, 1861. When his father 
gave up the practice of law and went abroad to travel, he took his young son with him, 
who thus enjoyed the advantages of foreign life at an early age. After his father's death, the son 
was prepared for college at the Cutler School in New York and, matriculating at Harvard, grad- 
uated from that institution in the class of 1884. Pursuing his studies further in the Law School of 
Columbia University, he was graduated in 1887 and admitted to the bar in the same year. After 
spending several years in the offices of Anderson & Man, Davies & Rapallo and Turner, McClure & 
Rolston, he entered into partnership with Guy Van Amringe, son of Dean Van Amringe of Colum- 
bia University, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. 

In 1890, Mr. Livingston married Juliet B. Morris, youngest daughter of the late William H. 
Morris, of Morrisania. The father of Mrs. Livingston was a grandson of Brigadier-General Lewis 
Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and great-great-grandson of Lewis Morris, the 
first Governor of the Province of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Livingston have a country home in 
Morristown, N. J. While a student at Harvard College, Mr. Livingston was a member of the 
Hasty Pudding Club and vice-commodore of the Harvard Canoe Club, and is now commodore of 
the Mt. Desert Canoe Club, treasurer of the Upper East Side Association, one of the board of gov- 
ernors of the Sons of the Revolution and also of the Society of Colonial Wars, a trustee of the 
A Chapter of the A <t> Fraternity, a former vice-president of the A 3> Club, an honorary mem- 
ber of Company K, Seventh Regiment, National Guard State New York, and a life member of the 
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, A *, Morris 
County Golf and Morristown clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, the St. Andrews Society and the 
Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors. 

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WILLISTON BENEDICT LOCKWOOD 

AS his name indicates, Mr. Williston Benedict Lockwood is descended from two families 
which have been prominent in Connecticut ever since the first settlement of that part of 
the country. The Lockwoods and the Benedicts were both intimately associated with the 
foundation of Fairfield, Norwalk and other towns of the Colony. The remote American paternal 
ancestor of the gentleman named above, Robert Lockwood, a native of England, came to this 
country as a member of one of the earliest bands of Colonists, about 1630. Landing in 
Massachusetts, he settled first in Watertown, of which place he was made freeman in 1636. Ten 
years thereafter, he moved to Fairfield, Conn., being a freeman of that town in 1652, a Sergeant in 
1657, and died there in 1658. His son, Ephraim Lockwood, who was born in Watertown, Mass., 
in 1641, became a resident of Norwalk, Conn., where he married, in 1665, Mercy Sention, or, as 
the name is now written, St. John, and was made a freeman in 1667. 

In the succeeding generations, the paternal ancestors of Mr. Williston Benedict Lockwood 
were: Deacon Joseph Lockwood and his wife, Mary Wood, daughter of John Wood, of Stamford; 
Joseph Lockwood and his wife, Rebecca Rogers, of Huntington, Long Island, and Ebenezer 
Lockwood and his wife, Mary Godfrey. The son of Ebenezer and Mary Godfrey Lockwood, and 
the grandfather of the present Mr. Lockwood, was Benjamin Lockwood, who was born in 
Norwalk, Conn., in 1777, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1852. During the last twenty years of 
his life, he was a resident of Brooklyn, and engaged in business in New York. His wife. Elizabeth 
Kellogg, whom he married in 1803, was a native of Norwalk, Conn., where she was born in 1785, 
and was a daughter of Jarvis and Hannah (Meeker) Kellogg. 

Le Grand Lockwood, the father of Mr. W. B. Lockwood, was born in Norwalk, Conn., in 
1820. His life was spent in New York City, where he became one of the leading bankers of the 
last generation, a man of wealth and influential in the highest financial circles. He died in 1872. 
His wife, the mother of the subject of this article, was Anna Louise Benedict, who was born in 
Norwalk, Conn., in 1823, the daughter of Seth Williston Benedict and his wife, Fanny Roe 
Benedict. On both her father's and her mother's side, Mrs. Le Grand Lockwood was descended 
from Thomas Benedict, the pioneer of the Benedict family in America. Her father, who was a son 
of Nathaniel Benedict, was in the seventh generation of descent from Thomas Benedict, who came 
from England to America in 1638, and settled in Norwalk, Conn., in 1663. Her mother, Fanny 
Roe Benedict, was a daughter of William Benedict, son of Nathaniel Benedict, who was the 
grandfather of her husband, Seth Williston Benedict, she and her husband thus being cousins. 

Mr. Williston Benedict Lockwood was born in New York, March 19th, 1846. He was 
educated in schools in New York and abroad, and afterwards at Yale College. When he was 
nineteen years of age, he, however, commenced the business career with which he has since been 
closely identified. His first experiences were in the office of his father's banking house, Lockwood 
& Co., in 1865. He remained there for eight years. From 1873 until 1879, he was in the stock 
brokerage business by himself. In 1879, he became connected with the house of R. P. Flower & 
Co., and is now with that firm, being a member of the New York Stock Exchange. 

In 1869, Mr. Lockwood married Janet Isabel Dominick, of New York, who was born in 
1 85 1. The father of Mrs. Lockwood was James W. Dominick, a descendant of one of the oldest 
New York families, whose ancestor, George Dominique, was a Huguenot emigrant early in the 
eighteenth century. He was an early vestryman of Trinity Church, and Dominick Street was 
named for him. Mrs. Lockwood's mother was Mary Wells, of a well-known Hartford family. Mr. 
and Mrs. Lockwood reside at 125 West Fifty-eighth Street. Their children are Louise, the wife of 
Aldred K. Warren, son of the Reverend E. Walpole Warren and grandson of Samuel Warren, the 
author of Ten Thousand A Year; Bertha Day Lockwood and Isabel Dominick Lockwood. Mr. 
Lockwood is a member of the Union League, Lotos and New York Athletic clubs, of the New 
England Society and the Sons of the Revolution. 

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WALTER SETH LOGAN 

THE valley of the Shepaug River, in Western Connecticut, is a region of picturesque beauty, 
inhabited by a population of pure New England blood. Among its old towns is 
Washington, Litchfield County, founded by Connecticut soldiers in the Revolutionary 
War, who gave to the settlement the name of their illustrious commander. Mr. Logan comes of 
a family whose members were among the original settlers of the place, and have resided in 
Washington and its vicinity for several generations. Mr. Logan was born there in the year 
1847. Seth S. Logan, his father, and his mother, Serene (Hollister) Logan, were both natives of 
the same town, as were also his paternal grandparents, Matthew Logan and Laura (Sanford) 
Logan, and those on the maternal side, who were Sherman Hollister and Patty (Nettleton) 
Hollister. The family names, Logan, Hollister, Sanford, Nettleton and Sherman, have throughout 
Connecticut's history been borne by many distinguished men. The famous Sherman family was 
closely connected with the Hollisters by numerous intermarriages. 

After graduating at Yale College, in the class of 1870, Mr. Walter S. Logan chose the 
law as his vocation, studying his profession at the Law School of Harvard College, and in the 
law department of Columbia College, New York, and has the unusual honor of holding degrees 
from Yale, Harvard and Columbia; that of A. M. having been conferred by Yale, and LL. B. by 
both of the other two institutions. He made this city his permanent home, and, entering on 
the active practice of his profession, rapidly acquired and retains a distinguished position at the 
bar. He is first vice-president of the New York State Bar Association and chairman of the local 
council of the American Bar Association, and was on the committee of the former body which 
memorialized the President in regard to a permanent International Tribunal. An address which 
he delivered before the Arbitration Conference in 1896 was widely quoted and commended, 
being noted with great approval by the British Ambassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote. 

In 1875, Mr. Logan was married to Eliza Preston Kenyon, daughter of Pardon Whitman 
Kenyon and Jeannette (Kelsey) Kenyon, of Brooklyn. Their children are three in number, 
and are named respectively, Hollister Logan, Janette Logan and Walter Seth Logan, Jr. The 
family reside at 260 West Seventy-second Street, and Mr. Logan owns a country residence, The 
Homestead, at his native place, Washington, Conn. 

A public-spirited citizen, and convinced as to the duties which citizenship implies, Mr. 
Logan has taken an active part in politics, and has unselfishly devoted time and attention to 
movements designed to further the cause of good government. He is an active member of the 
Civil Service Reform Association, serving on important committees of that organization, and 
being an effective speaker, he is often called on to address political meetings in municipal and 
national campaigns. Public office, however, has never had attraction for him, and his usefulness 
has thus far been confined to the practical advocacy of clean politics. His club connections are 
largely of a political character, including the Manhattan, Democratic, Patria and Reform clubs. 
He was one of the originators of the latter, and contributed greatly to its success. 

Mr. Logan has, of course, traveled extensively, both abroad and in the United States. 
He is a member of the St. Stephen's Club, in London, and of the Cosmos, of Washington, D. C. 
The social organizations with which he is connected are numerous, and embrace the Lawyers' 
Club, as well as the Colonial, Lotos, Nineteenth Century, Adirondack League, New York 
Athletic, and Hamilton, of Brooklyn. His tastes for sport are in the direction of yachting, and 
he is a member of the New York Yacht Club, while membership in the Sons of the Revolution, 
the Society of Colonial Wars and the Order of Patriots and Founders of America, attests his 
descent from patriotic ancestors. He is a member of the Historical Society, the Geographical 
Society and many other bodies devoted to science, art and literature. He is much interested 
in Mexico, has delivered several notable addresses on the history and law of that country, and 
is now engaged in the preparation of a History of Mexico Since the War of Independence. 



G. WEAVER LOPER. 

THE rocky coast of New England gave to the country the naval heroes who made the United 
States flag respected on the ocean and the navigators who carried our commerce into all 
quarters. Mr. Loper's ancestry is of this race, his family name being one of the oldest in 
New London County, Conn. Through a maternal ancestor, he descends from Edmund Fanning, 
who came in 1662 from Ireland to New London, and a little later to Stonington, where he became 
a landowner and the progenitor of a family distinguished in American naval annals. Among his 
descendants were Edmund Fanning, a famous early American navigator, and Nathaniel Fanning, 
who served as midshipman on the Bonhomme Richard and commanded the main top in the 
famous action with the British frigate Serapis. His gallantry is commemorated in an autographic 
letter of John Paul Jones. Becoming a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, he died in 1805. 

The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Captain Richard Fanning Loper, a nephew 
of Lieutenant Fanning. He was born at Stonington, in the first year of this century. He chose 
the sea as a profession, and before his majority was a Captain. In 1831, he left the ocean, became 
a resident of Philadelphia and founded a shipbuilding establishment, which grew into one of the 
largest in the country, over 400 vessels having been built at the works from Captain Loper's 
designs. He was also an inventor and a prominent and respected citizen of Philadelphia, occupying 
many positions of trust, including the presidency of the Philadelphia & Trenton Railroad. In 1870, 
Captain Loper retired from business and removed to his native town, dying in New York 
City in 1880. 

Captain Loper's services to the Government of his country deserve detailed record. In 1846, 
he was consulted by the War Department in regard to building boats for the landing of General 
Scott's army on the Mexican coast. Other experts had declared that it would be impossible to 
build the desired craft, in less than three months. Captain Loper, however, declared his readiness 
to complete the work within the requisite time and furnished the vessels in about thirty days, their 
prompt arrival at the scene of operations ensuring the capture of Vera Cruz. For his services he 
received the thanks of the Secretary of War, General Maury. In 1861, he was again called upon 
to help the Government in the transportation service, and lent efficient aid, for which he was 
thanked by Generals Burnside and Ingalls and by President Lincoln. In both cases his knowledge 
and skill were given to his country gratuitously and from motives of patriotism. 

The wife of Captain Loper was Margaret Mercer, a native of Philadelphia, and among their 
children was William H. Loper, who married Annie Weaver, daughter of George J. Weaver and 
his wife, Emily (Fitler) Weaver, both of whom were members of Philadelphia families of wealth 
and influence. 

Mr. G. Weaver Loper is the son of William H. and Annie (Weaver) Loper. He was born in 
New York, in 1858, and received his education at private academies in this city and Philadelphia. 
He entered business, became a manufacturer, and has been prominent in many industrial and 
financial undertakings of the largest scope in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New York. Mr. Loper 
was married, in 1879, t0 Fannie Gordon, the children of this union being two minor sons, G. 
Gordon Loper and G. Weaver Loper, Jr. Mr. Loper's tastes for sport naturally take the direction 
of yachting, in which he is an expert. His grandfather, Captain Loper, was a famous yachtsman, 
joining the New York Yacht Club in 1855 and owning such famous old-time prize-winners as the 
schooner America, the Magic, Josephine and Palmer. Mr. Loper was recently the owner of the 
steam yacht Avenel, and has served as Rear Commodore of the American Yacht Club. He is also 
a member of the New York Yacht Club and of the Seawanhaka-Corinthian, Larchmont and 
Eastern Yacht clubs. His family residence is }6 West Fifty-eighth Street. Mr. Loper is a member 
of many of the prominent clubs, including the Metropolitan, Union League, Country, Calumet, 
Racquet and the Downtown Association ; the Pendennis, of Louisville; the Queen City and 
Country, of Cincinnati, and the Union League, of Philadelphia. 



DANIEL LORD 

THOMAS LORD, who was born in England about 1 585, was the American founder of the 
Lord family, the records of which, in the mother country, are traceable upon the 
Hundred Rolls, and other documents back to the thirteenth century. The family was 
probably of Norman origin, as indicated by the use, in the ancient records and muniments in which 
they figure, of the words, de Laward alias Lord, as the name was at times found written in 
various places where mention is made of its possessors during the middle ages. 

Thomas Lord, the founder of the American branch of the family to which attention is called 
in this article, sailed from London in 1635, accompanied by his wife Dorothy and his children, 
Thomas, Ann, William, John, Robert, Aymie and Dorothy. He first established himself at 
Newtown, as it was then called, but which afterwards became known as Cambridge, Mass., where 
his eldest son, Richard Lord, born in 161 1, who preceded his father, had already settled as early 
as 1632. In 1635, Thomas Lord and his family formed part of the large company which was 
led by the Reverend Thomas Hooker, pastor of the town of Newtown, to form a new settle- 
ment on the Connecticut River, and thus he became an original proprietor and one of the first 
settlers of the town of Hartford, the part of the modern city still called Lord's Hill taking its 
name from his family. He died there prior to the decease of his wife, which, as stated in the 
records of the place, occurred in 1675. William Lord, the fourth child of Thomas Lord, was 
born in England in 1623, and was a lad of about twelve years of age when he came to this country 
with his parents. He settled at Saybrook, Conn., and became a large landowner both there and 
at Lyme, in the same Colony. He was a man of remarkably strong character and possessed 
unusual scholarly attainments for the generation in which he lived. His relations with the Indians 
were most friendly, and his influence over them was marked. He was referred to by Chapeto, the 
famous Indian chief, as his " very loving friend," and similar relations continued with the celebrated 
Uncas, Chapeto's son. On many occasions he was instrumental in saving the Colonists from 
attacks by the aborigines. William Lord's elder sister, Ann, married Thomas Stanton, who, in the 
early history of New England, was Interpreter-General of the United Colonies. 

Thomas Lord, the second son of William, was born in December, 1645, at Lyme, married 
Mary Lee in 1693 and died in 1730. Their third son, Joseph, born in 1697, married Abigail 
Comstock in 1724, and their son, Captain Daniel Lord, born in 1736, married Elizabeth Lord, 
granddaughter of Thomas and Mary (Lee) Lord and daughter of Thomas and Esther (Marvin) 
Lord. Captain Daniel Lord and his wife, Elizabeth Lord, were, therefore, first cousins. Dr. 
Daniel Lord, the second of that name and the son of Captain Daniel, was the great-grandfather 
of the present Mr. Daniel Lord, of New York. He studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Mather, of 
Lyme, one of a noted family of physicians, and had more than a local reputation as an excellent 
physician and admirable instructor. He married Phcebe Crary, of Stonington, two of whose 
brothers, Peter and Edward Crary, afterwards became influential merchants in New York. Their 
only child was Daniel Lord, the third bearer of that name, who was born at Stonington, Conn., 
and was the grandfather of the present head of the family. 

Daniel Lord, the third of the name, was graduated from Yale College in 18 14, and in 1846 
received from the same institution the degree of LL. D. He studied law with George Griffin, a 
distinguished advocate at thr New York bar at that period. Admitted to the bar in 1817, he 
rapidly rose to be one of its leaders and acquired the reputation of being the first commercial 
lawyer of the country. On the sixteenth of May, 1818, he married Susan, second daughter of 
Lockwood De Forest, of the old New York family of that name, which is often referred to in these 
pages, its members being related to many persons of prominence in the city's history. He died in 
New York, March 4th, 1868, leaving a reputation of great ability, absolute integrity and striking 
devotion to his profession. 

Daniel De Forest Lord, his eldest son, was born April 17th, 1819. He also followed the 



profession of his father and became a prominent member of the bar in this city. He married 
October 15th, 1845, Mary Howard Butler, daughter of the Honorable Benjamin F. Butler, who 
during the first half of the present century was a distinguished lawyer of New York and was at 
one time Attorney-General of the United States in the Cabinet of President Van Buren. The 
brothers and sisters of Daniel De Forest Lord were Phcebe Lucretia, who married Henry Day, both 
of whom are now dead; John Crary Lord, who married Margaret Hawley, daughter of Gideon 
Hawley, of Albany, and died some years ago, his widow still surviving; James Couper Lord, 
who died in 1869, having married Margaret Hunter Brown, daughter of James Brown, then the 
head of the well-known firm of New York bankers, Brown Bros. & Co. ; Sarah, who married 
Henry C. Howells and is the only child of Daniel Lord now living; Edward Crary Lord, who 
married Cornelia Livingston, both of whom are now dead; and George De Forest Lord, who 
married Frances T. Shelton. 

George De Forest Lord was also a lawyer of prominence and a member of the law firm of 
Lord, Day & Lord, established by his father and continued by the members of the family. He was 
born in New York in 1833, and was graduated with high honors from Yale College, in the class of 
1854, and also from the Harvard College Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a member of the Twenty-Second Regiment, and as First 
Lieutenant of Company G, was in service at the front. He died in 1892. Daniel De Forest Lord 
died at his country home, Sosiego, in Lawrence, Long Island, November 10th, 1894. 

Mr. Daniel Lord, whose name is at the head of this article, is the elder son of the late 
Daniel De Forest Lord. He was born in this city in 1846, was graduated from Columbia Col- 
lege in the class of 1866, was admitted to the bar in 1868 and became a member of the firm of 
Lord, Day & Lord, and in the same year married Silvie Livingston Bolton. He has had two 
children, Fanny Bolton and Daniel Lord. His son graduated from Yale University in the class of 
1892, and was preparing for admission to the bar in the office of Lord, Day & Lord at the time of 
his sudden death in 1893, which terminated a career of great promise and put an end to the name 
of Daniel Lord, which had been conspicuously borne by some member of this distinguished family 
for six generations and during a period of over one hundred and fifty years. Mr. Lord's daughter, 
Fanny Bolton Lord, is still living. 

Mr. Daniel Lord is now the senior member of the firm of Lord, Day & Lord. The business 
conducted by the firm was begun by the grandfather of the present members in 181 7, and is still 
continued by them, thus making it one of the oldest firms in the city, either in the law or other 
vocations, as it has had a continuous existence of over eighty years, during which time it has been 
under the guidance of the members of one family, and has represented interests intimately 
associated with the development of the city's prosperity. Mr. Lord's town residence is in Ninth 
Street, just east of Fifth Avenue, while his country home is at Lawrence, where he has erected 
a new house on the site formerly occupied by his father, which he calls by the same name, 
Sosiego. Mr. Lord belongs to the Metropolitan, Union, University, Union League, New York, 
Athletic, Lawyers', Downtown, Rockaway Hunt, Lawrence and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht 
clubs, the Bar Association, the Columbia College Alumni Association, and the Sons of the Revolu- 
tion and is a fellow of the National Academy of Design. He has never taken a prominent part 
in politics or held any public elective office, though at all times he has been deeply interested 
in public matters and has lent his influence to the support of proper measures for the public good. 
Franklin Butler Lord, brother of Daniel Lord and his pari -er in the law firm of Lord, 
Day & Lord, was born in New York, September 18th, 1850, and is a graduate of Columbia 
College. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and since that time has been in active practice. 
In 1875, he married Josephine Gillet, daughter of Joseph Giliet, and has had four children, 
Franklin Butler, Jr., Howard, who died young, Edward Crary and George De Forest Lord. His 
residence is at Lawrence, Long Island, and he is a member of the University, Century, Lawyers', 
Rockaway Hunt and Lawrence clubs, and of the Columbia College Alumni Association, the 
Bar Association, the Downtown Association and the Sons of the Revolution. 

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PIERRE LORILLARD 

ABOUT the beginning of the American Revolution, the Lorillard family was established in 
this country. It is of French origin, and its representatives came from Montpelier, in 
the department of the Herault, France. Being Huguenots, the Lorillards were obliged to 
leave their native land to escape persecution, and migrated to Holland and afterwards to the New 
World. Peter Lorillard, the founder of the New York branch of the family, settled in Hackensack, 
N. J., and was killed by the Hessians during the Revolution. His wife was Catharine Moore, 
sister of Blazius Moore, and they had a large family, among them the brothers, Peter A., George 
and Jacob. Peter A. Lorillard, 1763-1843, married in 1789 Maria Dorothea Schultz, daughter of 
Major Schultz, of the Continental Army. Their children were: Maria Dorothea, born in 
1790, married Thomas A. Ronalds; Catherine, born 1792, married Captain W. A. Spencer, U. S. N. ; 
Peter, born in 1796; Dorothea Ann, born 1797, married John David Wolfe; and Eleanor Eliza, 
born 1801, who became the second wife of Captain Spencer, after the decease of her sister. 

George Lorillard, brother of Peter A. Lorillard, joined the latter in establishing the great 
tobacco manufactory now carried on by the P. Lorillard Company. He became the owner of 
considerable real estate in New York, much of which is still held by the family. 

Peter Lorillard, son of Peter A. Lorillard, was born in 1796, and married Catherine Griswold, 
daughter of Nathaniel L. Griswold, who was in the fifth generation of direct descent from 
Nathaniel Griswold, the first magistrate of the Saybrook, Conn., Colony, and his wife, Anna 
Wolcott, daughter of Henry Wolcott, the first of the Wolcott family, of Connecticut. Thus the 
Lorillards of this branch in the present generation trace their lineage to several famous Colonial 
families of New England and to noble ancestors in the old country. Peter Lorillard was a man of 
great public spirit. He died in Saratoga in 1867. Of his children, Catherine Lorillard married 
James P. Kernochan, who died in 1897; Mary Lorillard married Henry L. Barbey; Eva Lorillard 
became the wife of Colonel Lawrence Kip; Jacob Lorillard married Frances A. Uhlhorn; Louis L. 
Lorillard married Katharine, daughter of Gilbert L. Beekman; and George L. Lorillard married late 
in life and left no children. 

Mr. Pierre Lorillard, son of Peter Lorillard, the third, born October 13th, 1833, was the eldest 
of his father's family. One of Mr. Lorillard's most notable social achievements was the founding 
of Tuxedo Park. He also fitted out, in connection with the French Government, the two Charnay 
Franco-American archaeological expeditions to explore the ancient cities of Central America and 
Yucatan, for which France made him Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and in 1883 an officer of 
that order. He has gained an international reputation as a breeder and owner of thoroughbred 
horses. His stables at Rancocas, N. J., were among the most important in the United States, and 
the winning of the Derby by his American-bred horse, Iroquois, is still remembered. His clubs 
include the Union, Knickerbocker and Racquet. Mr. Lorillard now makes his home principally 
in England, his interests in connection with the English turf absorbing most of his time, but he 
still maintains a residence in Tuxedo Park. 

In 1858, Mr. Lorillard married Emily Taylor, daughter of Dr. Isaac E. Taylor, a celebrated 
New York physician, and one of the founders of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. His 
children are: Emily, who married William Kent, great-grandson of Chancellor James Kent; Pierre, 
Jr., and Maude Louise, who married Thomas Suffern Tailer, son of Edwin N. Tailer. His second 
son, Griswold N. Lorillard, died at the age of twenty-five without issue. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., 
eldest son of Mr. Pierre Lorillard, was born in New York, January 28th, i860. He married, in 
1881, Caroline J. Hamilton, daughter of George Hamilton, of Scotland, her mother being a 
daughter of the Reverend Dr. Phillips, of New York. They have two sons, Pierre and Griswold 
Lorillard. The residence of Pierre Lorillard, Jr., is Keewaydin, in Tuxedo Park. He belongs to 
the Union, Knickerbocker, Fencers', Riding and Westminster Kennel clubs, and is also a member 
of the Metropolitan Club, of Washington. 

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SETH LOW 

HOLDING a place among the foremost New Yorkers of the present day, and one of a 
family that has been identified with the metropolis for three-quarters of a century, 
President Seth Low of Columbia University is of New England blood. His ancestors 
were among the early English settlers of Massachusetts, the representative of the family who 
established its New York branch being his grandfather, Seth Low, who was born in Gloucester, 
Mass., in 1782. For two years he was a member of the class of 1808 in Harvard College, 
and subsequently was a clerk in the store of a druggist in Salem, Mass. In 1828, he 
removed to New York, where he engaged in business on his own account, making his residence 
in Brooklyn, of which city, at his death in 1855, he was an honored citizen. His wife was 
Mary Porter, of Topsfield, Mass., whom he married in 1807. 

His eldest son was Abiel Abbot Low, born in Salem in 181 1. Educated in business 
from his youth, at first in Salem and from 1833 to 1840 in the noted American firm of Russell 
& Co., of China, in Canton, he became a leader of New York's commercial interests. On his 
return from China, he organized the House of A. A. Low & Co., which was long a principal 
factor in the country's Eastern trade. Mr. Low was prominent in advancing the material interests 
of New York and was president of the Chamber of Commerce from 1863 to 1866. He resided 
in Brooklyn, and though consistently refusing public office, was active and conspicuous in the 
educational, charitable and religious organizations of that city. He died in January, 1893. His 
wife was Ellen Almira Dow, descended from Richard Dow, an emigrant of 1646, who settled in 
Salisbury, N. H. Her father, Josiah Dow, was an officer in the War of 1812, founded Dow's 
Academy in Wakefield, Mass., and was a merchant of prominence in Salem, Boston and finally 
in New York, being for many years a resident of Brooklyn. 

The Honorable Seth Low, the youngest son of A. A. Low, was born in Brooklyn, 
January 18th, 1850. He received his early education at the Polytechnic Institute of that city, 
entered Columbia College and was graduated in the class of 1870. He then entered his father's 
business house, and in 1875 was admitted to partnership. On the retirement of the senior 
partners, in 1879, Mr. Low and his brothers succeeded to the control of the time-honored concern, 
which was finally wound up in 1888. 

Although he displayed an hereditary talent for business, it was not to be the occupation of 
his life. He had taken a laudable interest in politics, and in 1880 was president of the Young 
Men's Republican Club of Brooklyn. In 1881, he was elected Mayor of Brooklyn as a candidate 
of the Republican and Reform parties and was reelected for a second term. Mr. Low's administra- 
tion marked a new era in municipal affairs, and gave an example that has been fruitful of results 
throughout the country as the first thorough test of the benefits of the divorce of city interests 
from party politics. On retiring from the mayoralty, in 1886, he traveled in Europe for some 
time and then returned to his business duties. Since he has resided in New York, he has 
served as a member of the Rapid Transit Commission, and was one of the commissioners to draft 
the charter of the Greater New York. In 1897, he was the Citizens' Union candidate for Mayor. 

In 1889, Mr. Low was tendered, by the unanimous vote of the trustees of Columbia 
College, the presidency of that venerable institution. Under his administration, Columbia has 
been elevated to the position of a University, its medical and other departments being consolidated 
with the parent body, while its educational scope has been greatly widened and strengthened. It 
is through Mr. Low's efforts, also, that the removal of the University itself to Morningside Heights 
has been provided for, his own munificent gift of the new Low library, as a memorial of his father, 
being only one of the benefits he has conferred upon it. In 1880, Mr. Low married Annie 
Wrae Scollay Curtis, daughter of Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis, of the Supreme Court of the 
United States. Mr. Low's residence is 30 East Sixty-fourth Street, and he is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Century, University, City and other clubs and of many societies, literary and scientific. 

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CHARLES HENRY LUDINGTON 

AMONG the early settlers of Charlestown, Mass., was William Ludington, who removed to 
Branford, Conn., and died in 1662. His son, William, married Martha Rose, and their 
eldest son, Henry, and his wife, Sarah Collins, had a son, William, born in 1702, who 
married Mary Knowles, and whose eldest son was Colonel Henry Ludington, who was born at 
Branford, in 1738, and was the grandfather of Mr. Charles Henry Ludington. 

Henry Ludington removed to Putnam County, N. Y., about 1760, with his parents and his 
uncle, Elisha Ludington. As soon as the Revolution began, he cast his fortunes with the patriot 
cause. He was a Captain of militia in 1773, his commission, signed by Governor Tryon, the 
last Royal Governor of New York, being in the possession of Mr. Charles Henry Ludington, as is 
also his commission as Colonel from the Provincial Congress of New York, which was followed by 
one conferring similar rank from the State of New York, signed by Governor George Clinton. He 
succeeded to the command of the regiment of which Beverly Robinson had been Colonel in 
Dutchess County. Being posted in the northern border of the neutral ground, he was so success- 
ful in thwarting the British plans that a large reward was offered for his capture alive or dead. 
When the British, in April, 1777, burned Danbury, Conn., Colonel Ludington led a portion of the 
Continental forces which attacked the enemy. At the battle of White Plains he was an aide-de- 
camp to General Washington. In civil life he was a member of the Legislature for several terms. 
His death occurred in 1817. In 1760, he married his cousin, Abigail Ludington, daughter of 
Elisha Ludington, son of the third William Ludington. 

Lewis Ludington, the youngest child of Colonel Henry Ludington, was born in 1786, in 
Fredericksburg, Putnam County, N. Y., and died in Kenosha, Wis., in 1857. He removed to 
Carmel, N. Y., in 1816, and was engaged in business there, but in 1839 established the firm of 
Ludington, Burchard & Co., afterwards Ludington & Co., at Milwaukee, Wis. He married Polly 
Townsend, daughter of Samuel Townsend, their children being: Laura, wife of John Hustis; Delia, 
William Edgar, Robert, Charles H., James, Lavinia E., Emily, wife of Victor E. Tull, and Amelia, 
wife of John C. Angell. His son, James Ludington, founded the city of Ludington, Mich. 

Mr. Charles H. Ludington was the third son of Lewis Ludington. He was born in Carmel, 
N. Y., February 1, 1825, and was educated at Carmel Academy, and at the Polytechnic School in 
Owenville, now Croton Falls, Ridgefield, Conn. He came to New York, when seventeen years 
old, and was connected with the firm of Woodward, Otis & Terbell and Johnes, Otis & Co., for 
some years, and ultimately became a partner of the dry goods house of Lathrop & Ludington, after- 
wards Lathrop, Ludington & Co., remaining a member of that latter house until his retirement in 
1868. During the Civil War he assisted in the raising of regiments, and otherwise rendered 
patriotic service to the Union cause. He has been a director in many corporations, and active in 
the management of important public institutions. Mr. Ludington married Josephine L. Noyes, 
daughter of Daniel Rogers Noyes, of Lyme, Conn. Her mother, whose maiden name was Phcebe 
Griffin Lord, was a maternal granddaughter of George and Eve (Dorr) Griffin. Through the latter 
she was a descendant of the Griswold and Wolcott families of Connecticut, and was also a niece 
of the Reverend Edward Dorr Griffin, D. D., President of Williams College, and of George Griffin, 
the eminent New York lawyer. In memory of his wife's mother, Phcebe Griffin (Lord) Noyes, Mr. 
Ludington is now erecting a free library at Lyme, Conn., to be under the control of the Ladies' 
Association of that place. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ludington have three sons and three daughters. The eldest son, Charles H. 
Ludington, Jr., graduated from Yale College in 1887, and married Ethel M. Saltus. The second 
son, William Howard Ludington, graduated from Yale in 1887. The youngest son, Arthur Crosby 
Ludington, is now at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. The city residence of the family has been 
for thirty-six years at 276 Madison Avenue, their country home being in Lyme, Conn. Mr. 
Ludington is a member of the Union League Club and the Century Association. 

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EDWARD PHILIP LIVINGSTON LUDLOW 

IT has been remarked by one of the historians of early New York, that few families in the 
United States, certainly none in this State, can trace their descent back to noble and even 
royal ancestors, with more certainty than the Ludlows. The genealogy descending from 
King Edward I. of England is clear and exact, and the American representatives of the name of 
Ludlow enjoy a distinct relationship with the older feudal baronage of the parent country, as well 
as with some of the most distinguished families of the landed aristocracy which arose after the 
establishment of the Tudor and Stuart dynasties on the throne. It is therefore fitting that the New 
York branch of the Ludlows should have occupied almost from the time of the English occupation 
of New Netherland, a position of the highest importance, and that the marriages of its numerous 
offshoots should have connected it with nearly all the Colonial families of prominence. 

Edward 1. of England, 1272, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Philip III. of France, 
became the father of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Norfolk. Margaret Plantagenet, daughter of 
Thomas Plantagenet, married John, the third Lord Segrave. Elizabeth Segrave, daughter of Lord 
and Lady Segrave, married the fourth Lord Mowbray, whose eldest daughter married the third Lord 
De le Warr. The eldest daughter of the latter married the third Lord West, whose son was the 
seventh Lord De la Warr; his great-granddaughter married Lord Windsor, whose daughter Edith 
married George Ludlow, of Hill Deverill, in Wiltshire. One of his descendants was Edmund 
Ludlow, the famous General of the Parliament in the Civil War, and a favorite Lieutenant of the 
Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. His most conspicuous service was the completion of the 
Conquest of Ireland, begun by Cromwell and Ireton. Notwithstanding his inheritance of Planta- 
genet blood, Edmund Ludlow, a zealous Puritan, did not hesitate to sit as one of the judges at the 
trial, in 1649, of King Charles I., and joined in condemning that unfortunate monarch to death. He 
escaped the fate which overtook the other surviving regicides at the Restoration by withdrawing 
to the Continent and lived almost until the beginning of the eighteenth century, at Vevey, in 
Switzerland, where his dwelling and tomb are still shown. 

Gabriel Ludlow, descended from one of the junior branches of the Ludlow, of Hill Deverill, 
was a soldier in the service of King William III., and commanded the forces of that monarch in the 
Province of New Brunswick during the war with France. He came to New York in 1694, and was 
one of the foremost citizens of the Province. He was the father of a numerous family, his thirteen 
children contracting marriages with other distinguished Colonial families, so that a list of these 
alliances recalls many names of prominence in the past or present social history of New York, 
such as Ver Planck, Livingston, Brockholst, Bogert, Morris and Goelet. One of the most famous of 
his grandsons was Carey Ludlow, a leading merchant of old New York, who built the celebrated 
Ludlow mansion in State Street, facing the Battery, which in his own time and that of his daughter, 
Mrs. Jacob Morton, wife of the eminent merchant of that name, was the centre of the exclusive 
social life of the city. It was there that Lafayette was entertained, in 1824, by a ball, which was 
long regarded as the most magnificent social function New York had witnessed up to that time. 

Mr. Edward Philip Livingston Ludlow is the grandson of Gabriel Ludlow, who was 
Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the forces in the British Province of New Bruns- 
wick. His father, Edward H. Ludlow, married Elizabeth Livingston, daughter of Edward P. 
Livingston, a prominent member of the powerful Livingston connection, and at one time 
Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York. Mr. Ludlow's maternal grandmother was a 
daughter of Chancellor Livingston. He was born in Sing Sing, N. Y., in 1835, was graduated 
from Columbia College, and married Margaret Tonnele Hall, daughter of Valentine Gill Hall, one of 
the most eminent merchants of the metropolis. Their two children are Mrs. Henry Parish, Jr., and 
Edward Hunter Ludlow. Mr. Ludlow has not engaged in business or professional life, and resides 
at 6 East Seventy-sixth Street. He has a country seat in Newport, and another in Tivoli-on-Hudson. 
He was one of the founders of the St. Nicholas Society. 

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ward McAllister 

ONE of the conspicuous figures in the social circles of New York in the present generation was 
Mr. Ward McAllister, who came of an old aristocratic family, first of Pennsylvania and 
then of the South. His direct ancestors were of Scottish origin, belonging to the Allaster 
clan that flourished early in the seventeenth century and of which Allaster McDonald, maternally 
descended from Isabella, sister of King Robert the Bruce, was the progenitor. In 1732, Archibald 
McAllister and his brother Richard, of this family, came from Scotland to Big Spring, Cumberland 
County, Pa. Archibald married Jane McClure, of an old and noble Scottish family, and had several 
children, his son Richard, who founded the town of Hanover, Pa., being one of the distin- 
guished men of York County, a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, one of the Committee of Safety 
in 1775, a member of the Provincial Conference of 1775 and 1776, a member of the Supreme Execu- 
tive Council of the State of Pennsylvania, 1783-84-85-86, a justice of the peace and Justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas. He married Mary Dill, of Dillsburg, and their son, Matthew, grandfather 
of Mr. Ward McAllister, was appointed, by President Washington, United States District] Attorney 
of Georgia, and was also a Judge of the Superior Court of that State. He married a sister of Thomas 
Gibbons, of South Carolina, brother of William Gibbons, member of the First Continental Congress 
and member of the Continental Congresses in 1784 and 1786. 

Matthew Hall McAllister, the father of Mr. Ward McAllister, was a famous lawyer and Judge 
of the United States Circuit Court of California, to which State he went from Georgia in 1850. His 
wife was Louisa Charlotte Cutler, daughter of Benjamin C. and Sarah (Mitchell) Cutler, of Boston. 
The father of Sarah Mitchell was Thomas Mitchell, a Scotch Laird, who married Esther Marion, 
sister of General Francis Marion, the "Swamp Fox." The Marions were French Huguenots, who 
came to this country and settled in the Carolinas. Mr. Ward McAllister was born in Savannah, 
Ga., and lived there until he was sixteen years of age, but was educated in the North. From 1850 
until 1852, he was a resident of San Francisco, where he practiced law with his father. In the latter 
year he came to New York and lived here during the remainder of his life. He died in 1895. 

On her father's side Mrs. McAllister, who became the wife of Mr. Ward McAllister in 1853, > s 
of English origin. Born Sarah Tainter Gibbons, her father was William Gibbons, of Savannah, Ga., 
son of Thomas Gibbons. He was descended from Sir William Gibbons, who came to Barbadoes 
before 1700, his descendants removing to South Carolina and Georgia, where they took rank among 
the leading families. The paternal grandmother of Mrs. McAllister was a Hey ward, sister of Thomas 
Hey ward, of South Carolina, who signed the Declaration of Independence. To this family was 
granted, by the King of England, the Barony of Heyward. The mother of Mrs. McAllister was of 
Massachusetts Puritan descent. Among her lineal ancestors were Governor William Pynchon, of 
Springfield, Mass. ; Captain Richard Lord, of Connecticut; the Reverend Peter Bulkeley, of Concord, 
Mass. ; and Sir Richard Chitwood and Lord Woodhull, of England. Through the Chaunceys, Mrs. 
McAllister traces her descent to the Earls and Dukes of Northumberland and the Dukes of Norfolk, 
and thence to Louis Le Debonaire and Charlemagne, of France, and other kings in that royal line. 

The city residence of Mrs. McAllister is in West Fifty-third Street, and her country place, 
Bayside Farm, is one of the celebrated establishments of Newport. She has three children, Hey- 
ward Hall McAllister, of New York, and Ward McAllister, who is a lawyer of San Francisco, and 
was at one time United States Judge in Alaska. Her daughter, Louise Ward McAllister, is a mem- 
ber of the Society of Colonial Dames and is the Honorary State Regent of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution for New York State. Heyward Hall McAllister is a member of the Union Club 
and the Society of Colonial Wars. The arms of the McAllister family are those of the McDonalds: 
Quarterly first, argent, a lion rampant, gules; second, or., a hand in armor, holding a cross-crosslet, 
fitchee, gules; third, a row-galley, the sails furled, sable; fourth, ayent, a salmon, naiant, in fess, 
proper. The crest is a hand in armor, holding a cross-crosslet, fitchee, gules. The motto is: Ter 
mare per terras. 

379 



DAVID HUNTER McALPIN 

THE McAIpins who have been prominent in New York for more than half a century are of 
Scotch-Irish descent, from the clan Alpin, famous in the history of Scotland. Before the 
time of Cromwell their ancestors settled in Ireland. In common with other families of 
their religious faith they were subjected to persecution at that time, and leaving Ireland removed to 
Scotland and established themselves there. For several generations their descendants remained in 
Scotland, marrying into families of that country. But the grandfather of the subject of this sketch 
turned back towards the ancestral home of his family and, returning to Ireland, settled near the City 
of Belfast. His son, James McAlpin, father of Mr. David Hunter McAIpin, married Jane Hunter and 
came to the United States, establishing himself in business in Dutchess County, N. Y. 

Mr. David Hunter McAlpin was born in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, N. Y., November 
8th, 1816, the fourth in his father's family of eight children. Until 1836, when he was twenty years 
of age, he was engaged in various occupations in and about his native place. Coming then to New 
York, he soon went into business for himself and was so successful that in a few years he was able 
to embark in the tobacco trade. The career of Mr. McAlpin since that time has been one of steady 
progress. In 1857, he became a partner in the firm of John Cornish & Co., manufacturers of 
tobacco, and four years later, buying out his partners, established the firm at the head of which he 
has remained to this day, a period of thirty years, the concern being now for ccrvenience incorpo- 
rated under the title of the D. H. McAlpin Company. 

Mr. McAlpin has for many years held large investments in real estate in New York City and 
elsewhere. He owns the McAlpin factory building in Avenue D, the Alpine, at Broadway 
and Thirty-third Street, and valuable properties in West Twenty-third Street. In 1866, ill health 
compelled him to move into the country for a time and he bought an estate in Morristown, N. J., 
to which property he has been constantly adding, until now it includes about fifteen hundred 
acres of valuable land. His country seat is one of the finest in New Jersey. Mr. McAlpin is a 
director in many corporations, including the Home Insurance Company, Manhattan Life Insurance 
Company, Standard Gas Light Company, Rutgers Fire Insurance Company, Union Trust Company 
and Eleventh Ward Bank of New York and the First National Bank of Morristown, N. J. He is a 
member of the American Geographical Society, a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 
American Museum of Natural History, and a director of the Union Theological Seminary. He has 
been generous in support of religious and charitable works. Olivet Chapel, in Second Street, was 
erected by him in memory of his son, Joseph R. McAlpin. 

In 1845, he married Adelaide Rose, daughter of Joseph Rose, a member of the old Market Street 
Church, now Church of the Sea and Land. The Rose family has been long established in New 
York and gave its name to Rose Street. Mr. McAlpin has had ten children, of whom two died in 
infancy. The eldest son, Edwin A. McAlpin, has been prominent in public life and in military 
affairs. At first a member of the famous Seventh Regiment, he afterwards became a member of the 
Seventy-First and rose to be Colonel of that regiment. Three times he has been a Presidential 
elector. Active in the Republican club movement, he was president of the League of Republican 
■Clubs in New York for four years and was elected president of the National League in 1895. He 
was Adjutant-General of the State during the administration of Governor Levi P. Morton. He 
married Anne Brandreth, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Brandreth. 

The other children of Mr. David H. McAlpin were Joseph Rose McAlpin, who died in 1888; 
George L. McAlpin, who graduated from Yale College in 1879; Frances Adelaide McAlpin, who 
married James Tolman Pyle; Dr. David Hunter McAlpin, Jr., who was graduated from Princeton 
College in 1885, is now in active practice as a physician, and married Emma Rockefeller, daughter 
of William Rockefeller, of this city; William Willet McAlpin; and Charles W. McAlpin, who 
graduated from Princeton in 1888. The youngest son of Mr. McAlpin, John Randolph McAlpin, 
also graduated from Princeton in 1893 and died in the same year. 



JOHN AUGUSTINE McCALL 

IN Albany, the senior John A. McCall was a prominent citizen for fifty years previous to his 
death in 1887. Held in high esteem by his neighbors, he was frequently honored by public 
office. Mr. John A. McCall, the younger, now president of the New York Life Insurance 
Company, was born in Albany in 1849. He attended the Albany public schools, and was gradu- 
ated from the Albany Commercial College in 1868. Starting at once into commercial life, he 
became connected with an Albany business house, and soon after secured a position as book- 
keeper in the general agency for New York and Albany of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance 
Company. This was the beginning of his connection with the life insurance business, and the 
experience he gained in that position practically determined his career. 

Giving up his position as bookkeeper, Mr. McCall engaged for a time in the real estate 
and insurance business, and then became a clerk in the State Insurance Department under Superin- 
tendent George W. Miller. From March, 1870, to May, 1872, when Mr. Miller resigned his 
position, Mr. McCall was employed in the actuarial branch of the department. For more than 
twenty years his connection with the department remained unbroken and was a record of steady 
advancement. In the spring of 1872, he was put in charge of the statistical work of the depart- 
ment's reports, and a few months later became examiner of companies by appointment of the new 
Superintendent, the Honorable O. W. Chapman. In 1876, when the Deputy Superintendent of 
Insurance, William Smythe, became the Acting Superintendent, Mr. McCall was advanced to be the 
Deputy Superintendent, and held that position for seven years under several superintendents. 

Mr. McCall's long service made him thoroughly familiar with many evils that had crept 
into the Insurance Department under previous lax administrations. He also had perfect knowledge 
of the conditions of the different insurance companies doing business in the State, some of which 
were of a dishonest character. To expose fraudulent practices and to reform existing evils in 
the supervision of the insurance business of the State, was a Herculean task, but to this work 
Mr. McCall addressed himself with energy and uncompromising fidelity. Political and other 
influences were brought to bear to stop his investigations, but in spite of all the difficulties that 
were placed in his way, he pushed his work to the end, with the result that many fire insurance 
companies and eighteen life insurance companies of New York State, and fifteen companies outside 
of the State, were forced to go out of business, while three previously prominent officials of insur- 
ance companies were brought to the bar of justice, charged with fraud, and were convicted and 
punished by severe sentences of imprisonment. 

This valuable service to the State won further promotion for Mr. McCall, and when the 
office of Superintendent of Insurance became vacant, in 1883, Governor Grover Cleveland elevated 
him to that position. As was easy to foresee, his administration of the department was a distin- 
guished success. During his term of office, many reforms were instituted and a healthful condition 
of insurance business maintained throughout the State. No insurance company in the Common- 
wealth failed in that time, and the department not only paid the expenses of its maintenance, but 
was able to turn over a handsome sum to the State Treasury. Upon the expiration of his term 
of office, Governor David B. Hill tendered a reappointment to Mr. McCall, but he declined the 
proffer and accepted instead the office of comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. 
In 1892, upon a change in the management of the New York Life Insurance Company, Mr. McCall 
was invited to take the presidency of that institution, and has held the position ever since with 
credit to himself and advantage to the interests of the company. Under his administration, the 
rebuilding and extension of the company's building, at Broadway and Leonard Street, making it 
a conspicuous object in the city's great thoroughfare, has been undertaken and completed. 

Mr. McCall married Mary I. Haran. He lives on the West Side, near Central Park, and 
although the cares of his official position leave him scant time for club life, he belongs to the 
Metropolitan, City, Manhattan, Colonial, Merchants' and Lawyers' clubs. 

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JOHN JAMES McCOOK 

IT is rare that any American family has achieved such notable distinction in its representatives 
in a single generation as has come to the McCooks. The first McCook in the United States 
was George McCook, of Irish blood, and also descended from an old Scottish family. Active 
in an Irish Revolutionary movement, he was forced to take refuge in America. 

The two sons of George McCook were soldiers in the Civil War, and each of them the head 
of a family that furnished some of the most brilliant soldiers to the Union cause. The eldest son, 
Daniel McCook, was born in Canonsburg, Pa., in 1798. He was educated at Jefferson College, 
Pennsylvania, and went to live in Ohio. When the Civil War broke out he was sixty-three years 
of age, but was commissioned a Major, and was killed at Buffington's Island, Ohio, in 1863, when 
opposing a raid of Morgan's guerillas. His wife was Martha Latimer, and nine of his sons 
were in the military or naval service of the United States. Dr. John McCook, the second son of 
George McCook, the pioneer, was born in Canonsburg, Pa., in 1806, and was a volunteer 
surgeon in the Civil War. His wife was Catharine Julia Sheldon, of Hartford, Conn. Five sons 
of this family served in the army or navy. 

"The Fighting McCooks," as they have been called, are further designated as the "tribe 
of Dan" and the "tribe of John." In "the tribe of John " were Major-General Edward M. 
McCook, who served in the Tennessee and Georgia campaigns, was United States Minister to the 
Hawaiian Islands, and afterwards Governor of Colorado Territory; General Anson G. McCook, who 
served in the Army of the Cumberland and in the Atlanta campaign, was a Member of Congress 
from New York, 1877-83, Secretary of the United States Senate, 1888-92, and City Chamberlain of 
New York City in 1897; Reverend Henry C. McCook, a chaplain in the army, and a well-known 
scientist; Roderick S. McCook, naval officer, and Lieutenant John James McCook, afterwards a 
professor in Trinity College. 

"The tribe of Dan" furnished the larger number of "fighting McCooks." Latimer A. 
McCook was surgeon of an Illinois regiment. George W. McCook served in the Mexican War, 
organized several Ohio regiments in the Civil War, and was Attorney-General of the State of Ohio. 
Robert L. McCook attained the rank of Brigadier-General, and was killed during the war. 
Alexander McDowell McCook was a West Point graduate in 1852, and in the Civil War became a 
Major-General. Daniel McCook, Colonel of an Ohio regiment, commanded a brigade in the Army 
of the Cumberland, and was killed at Kenesaw Mountain in 1864. Edwin S. McCook became 
Brevet Brigadier-General and Major-General, and served in the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns. 
Charles M. McCook, a private in an Ohio regiment, was killed at the first battle of Bull Run. 

Colonel John James McCook is the youngest son of "the tribe of Dan." He was born 
May 25th, 184s. When the war broke out he was a student at Kenyon College, and left his books 
to go to the defense of his country. Enlisting in an Ohio regiment, he was promoted to a Lieuten- 
ancy in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry in 1862, and became a Captain and aide-de-camp in 1863. He was 
brevetted Major for gallant conduct at the battle of Shady Grove, Va., in 1864, and was afterwards 
advanced to the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel for gallant services. After the war 
he completed his college course, and studied law at Harvard University, and then came to New 
York, where he has become one of the leading lawyers of the country, having devoted himself 
especially to corporation practice. He is an active and influential Republican, and was offered, but 
declined, the position of Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President McKinley, a place for 
which his legal attainments eminently qualified him. Colonel McCook lives in West Fifty-fourth 
Street. He is a trustee of Princeton University, and a director of many railroad, insurance and 
financial institutions. He is a member of the Metropolitan, City, Union, Union League, A K E, 
University, Riding, Lawyers', Princeton, Harvard, New York Athletic and other clubs, the Bar 
Association of the City of New York, the Downtown Association, the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion, and the American Museum of Natural History. 

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HENRY D. McCORD 

IT is to Scotland that we naturally turn for the ancestry of the McCord family, which is a branch 
of and closely allied to the great Clan of MacDonald, the Lords of the Isles. The New York 
family of the present day, of which the gentleman named above is a prominent representative, 
traces its descent to James McCord, a personage of note in the Highlands of Argyleshire, who was 
born in the early portion of the seventeenth century, about 1620. His son, John, married Sarah 
MacDougall, and their son, James McCord, was born in 1688, and married a kinswoman, Sarah 
McCord. Several of their sons came to New York before the Revolution and settled upon the 
Hudson River, not far above New York City, in which portion of Westchester County their 
descendants have been numerous. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Henry D. McCord was Benjamin McCord, one of the sons of 
James and Sarah, who was born in Scotland in 1742 and who, coming to the New World, settled 
at Scarsdale, Westchester County, where he died in 1807. He was twice married, his second wife 
being Catharine Devoe, of the New York family of that name, and among their children was Jordan 
D. McCord, 177s- 1830. He, like his father, was twice married; his first wife being Eunice H. 
Dusenbury, while the second one was Rachel Tompkins, a highly connected lady, also of an old 
Westchester County family, her uncle being the Honorable Daniel D. Tompkins. The latter, who 
was a native of Scarsdale, was born in 1774 and became Governor of the State, and was elected 
Vice-President of the United States for the two successive terms of President Monroe, from 1817 to 
1825. Lewis McCord, father of Mr. Henry D. McCord, who was the eldest child of Jordan D. and 
Rachel (Tompkins) McCord, was born in 1810, married Nancy Mangam, and died in 1855. 

Their son, Mr. Henry D. McCord, was born at the Village of Sing Sing, New York, September 
15th, 1836. He was educated in the common schools of his native village and had no advantages 
beyond this. Owing to the death of his parents, he was forced at an early age to begin life for 
himself and to depend upon his own exertions. He, however, had displayed, even as a boy, a 
strong inclination for a business life, and consequently, while still very young, began his career 
with a mercantile establishment in his native place. When twenty-one years old, he came to New 
York and formed a connection with a relative, William D. Mangam, whose place of business was 
in lower Broad Street. He remained with Mr. Mangam till the latter's death, in 1870, and then 
succeeded to the business, which, conducted under his name, has grown to be one of the largest 
concerns in the grain trade of the city or the country ; and it is also worthy of note that Mr. McCord's 
place of business is the same in which he started in mercantile life in the metropolis over forty years 
ago. Mr. McCord owes his success in life entirely to his own exertions and to his untiring 
industry. His strength of character asserted itself in his youth, when he voluntarily formed the 
exemplary habits which have since distinguished him in social and business life. While not 
actively connected with temperance work, Mr. McCord is a consistent opponent of the use of 
intoxicants. For several years he was president of the Produce Exchange, of New York, and 
has been active and efficient in all measures to promote or to protect the commercial interests of 
the metropolis. Mr. McCord has never taken an active part in politics, although it has been often 
suggested that nominations equivalent to election, were subject to his acceptance. His devotion 
to the care of his business has, however, caused him, up to the present time, to firmly decline all 
such offers. 

In i860, Mr. McCord married Esther E. Noe, daughter of Richard Q_. Noe, of this city. 
They have a family of three children: William M. McCord, who in 1887 married Helen Washburn; 
Minnie E., now the wife of Charles L. Schwartzwaelder; and Clara Belle, who married, in 
November, 1897, Robert Sherrard Elliot. Mr. McCord's residence is on the west side, at 118 
West Seventy-third Street, and since 1892 he has owned a large estate at Scarborough, N. Y., 
near his native place, on which he has a country house. He is a member of the Colonial Club 
and many social, benevolent and business societies and organizations, 

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HENRY MITCHELL MACCRACKEN 

BORN in Oxford, O., in 1840, the Reverend Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor of New 
York University, formerly the University of the City of New York, inherited from his parents 
a predilection for religious and educational work that has made him one of the distin- 
guished men of his generation. His father, the Reverend John MacCracken, who came of an 
old Scottish family, was a Presbyterian clergyman. His mother, before her marriage, was an 
accomplished teacher and for many years presided over a private school for young ladies in 
Oxford. Two of his great-grandfathers fought for the Colonies in the Revolution, one, Henry 
MacCracken, falling, in 1778, a victim of the Indians and Tories on the Susquehanna; the other, 
Major Samuel Wilson, living after the war in his home near Cincinnati. 

The education of Dr. MacCracken was directed by his father and mother and at an early 
age he became a student in Miami University, being graduated from that institution with the 
degree of B. A., when he was only seventeen years old. Taking up the profession of teaching, 
he was engaged as a classical teacher and as school superintendent for four years. Entering 
upon the study of theology in the Theological Seminary in Xenia, O., and Princeton, N. J., he 
subsequently applied himself to the study of philosophy and history in Tubingen and Berlin, 
Germany, remaining abroad for several years. Before going abroad, he had been pastor of a 
church in Columbus, O., and there and in Toledo, O., spent fifteen years of active work in the 
ministry, taking an interested part in the affairs of the Presbyterian denomination. 

When he was about forty years of age, Dr. MacCracken was called to be Chancellor of 
the Western University of Pennsylvania. His brilliant success in administering the affairs of this 
University gained him wide repute, and in 1884, during the Chancellorship of the Reverend Dr. 
John Hall, he was called to the chair of philosophy in the University of the City of New York. 
Shortly he was advanced to be vice-Chancellor, and in 1891, upon the resignation of Dr. Hall, 
he was made Chancellor, a position that he now holds. During his years of service to the 
University, he has proved himself a worthy successor to his predecessors in the office of Chan- 
cellor, James Matthews, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Gardiner Spring, Isaac Ferris, Howard Crosby 
and John Hall. His energy and persistence, his scholarly attainments and his skill as an 
educator have wrought great changes in the old University, which has displayed a rapid 
development along all lines during the last few years. A graduate seminary and a school of 
pedagogy have been established, the Undergraduate College and the School of Engineering have 
been removed from their old quarters in Washington Square to a new site on University Heights 
and the University, as a whole, is taking its place as one of the most important and most useful 
collegiate institutions in the United States. 

The wife of Dr. MacCracken was Catharine Hubbard, daughter of the Reverend Thomas 
Swan Hubbard, of Vermont, and granddaughter of Dr. Fay, of Vermont. He has two sons, 
John Henry and George Geer MacCracken, and one daughter, Fay N. MacCracken. His eldest 
son is a graduate from the New York University in the class of 1894, and has since been 
a teacher of philosophy in the University College. The residence of the family is on University 
Heights, and in summer time at Overbrook, Pine Hill-in-Catskills. Dr. MacCracken is connected 
with several religious, educational and other societies, being an officer of the Association of 
Colleges in the Middle States, the American Society of Church History, the Society for the 
Prevention of Crime, and the American Tract Society. He has been a prolific writer on 
philosophical, sociological, educational, historical and religious questions, and has published The 
Lives of the Church Leaders and other important works. In 1867, as a delegate from the United 
States, he delivered an important address to the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scot- 
land, in Edinburgh, and in 1884 delivered an historical address at the first meeting of the 
congress of the Scotch-Irish race in Belfast, Ireland. He received the degree of D. D. from 
Wittenburg College, Ohio, and the degree of LL. D. from Miami University. 

384 



NATHANIEL L'HOMMEDIEU McCREADY 

THE ancestors of Mr. Nathaniel L'Hommedieu McCready have been prominent in New York 
City for several generations. In 1772, Thomas McCready, the first of the family in this 
country, came from Scotland and settled in Philadelphia, leaving that place to make his 
home in Westchester, just before the War of the Revolution. The father of Mr. McCready, who 
bore the same name that he gave to his son, was born in New York City, September 4th, 1820, 
and went, while still a young man, to Mobile, Ala., where he was engaged as a clerk in a shipping 
commission house and acquired his first knowledge of business matters. In 1840, he returned to 
his home in New York, ready to go into business for himself and established the shipping and 
commission firm of N. L. McCready & Co., which became one of the leading concerns of its line 
in New York, and at the head of which he remained for a quarter of a century. 

When he retired from this house, in 1865, Mr. McCready continued in an allied business, 
associating himself with Mr. Livingston and Mr. Fox, forming the firm of Livingston, Fox & Co. 
Two years later, he joined with other business associates in establishing the Old Dominion 
Steamship Company, of which he became the president, holding that position for twenty years, 
until the time of his death, in 1887. He was also a director of the Farmers' Loan & Trust 
Company, the Empire City Fire Insurance Company, the Washington Life Insurance Company, 
and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, of which he was at one time president. He 
belonged to the Union and St. Nicholas clubs, was an honorary member of the Marine Society from 
1847, a member of the Reformed Church and a generous contributor to its charities. 

During the war, Mr. McCready rendered great and valuable services to the Government in 
transporting troops and supplies to the front, and after the war, by the foundation of the Old 
Dominion Steamship Company, was among the first to establish friendly commercial relations with 
the South. Mr. McCready, as his name indicates, is connected with one of the most ancient 
families of New York. Benjamin L'Hommedieu was a Huguenot, who was born in La Rochelle 
and came to America in 1686, from Holland. He settled in Greenport, Long Island, and married a 
daughter of Nathaniel Sylvester, of Shelter Island. His eldest son, Benjamin, married Martha, 
daughter of Ezra Bourne, of Sandwich, Mass., and their son, the Honorable Ezra L'Hommedieu, 
was one of the most prominent citizens of New York City during the Revolutionory period, several 
times a Member of Congress, a member of the United States Senate from 1788 until the time of his 
death, in 181 1, and conspicuous in other official positions throughout his long life. 

The wife of Nathaniel L'Hommedieu McCready, Sr., was Carolina Amanda Waldron, a lineal 
descendant from Resolve Waldron, who came over to New Amsterdam in the suite of Governor 
Petrus Stuyvesant in the seventeenth century. Mrs. McCready's grandfather was Brigadier-General 
Mapes, who held the command of the troops on Long Island under Governor DeWitt Clinton 
during the War of 18 12. Dr. Benjamin McCready, for many years a professor in Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, and one of the oldest and most esteemed members of the medical profession in 
New York City, was a brother of Nathaniel L'Hommedieu McCready, Sr. 

Mr. Nathaniel L'Hommedieu McCready of the present generation was the eldest of his 
father's family of five children. Only a sister, Mrs. William Ward Robins, with him survive their 
parent. Mr. McCready is the administrator of his father's estate. He married Jeanneton Borrowe, 
who is a member of the Colonial Dames. He lives at 4 East Seventy-fifth Street and is a graduate 
of Columbia College, belongs to the Tuxedo Club, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, 
University and Country clubs, New York Yacht Club, St. Nicholas Society and of the American 
Geographical Society. Mr. McCready divides his time between this country and France. While 
here, he interests himself in the care of his estate, and in France both Mr. and Mrs. McCready 
devote themselves to outdoor sports. Their favorite amusement is boar hunting, and they have 
brought home many trophies of the chase, and their pack, of which they are justly proud, took 
the first prize a few years ago at the Paris Bench Show. 

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RICHARD ALDRICH McCURDY 

FROM the family of McKirdy, or MacKurerdy, that formerly belonged to the tribes who 
possessed the Western Islands of Scotland under the Crown of Sweden and the Lords of 
the Isles, came the McCurdys. They were the principal possessors of the Island of Bute 
at a very early period. In 1489, James IV. leased the Crown property of Bute, which in 1503 in 
one general charter was assigned to several families, the greatest portion to the MacKurerdys. 
John McCurdy, 1724- 1785, the ancestor of the family in this country, emigrated from Ireland thirty 
years before the Declaration of Independence. His wife, whom he married in 1752, was Anne 
Lord, daughter of Judge Richard Lord, granddaughter of Judge Nathaniel Lynde, great-great- 
granddaughter of William Hyde, of Norwich, a descendant of Thomas Lord, of Hartford, and 
great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Digby, who was a daughter of Everard Digby, descended 
from Sir John Digby, of Eye-Kittleby, County Leicester, England. 

Richard McCurdy, 1759-1857, son of John McCurdy, was the grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch. He graduated from Yale College in 1787, for some years practiced law, but later in 
life managed the estate inherited from his father. Several times he was a representative in the 
Connecticut Legislature. His wife was Ursula Griswold, daughter of Deacon John Griswold, of 
Lyme, Conn., and granddaughter of Governor Matthew Griswold and Ursula Wolcott. The father 
of Mr. Richard Aldrich McCurdy was Robert Henry McCurdy, one of the famous New York mer- 
chants of fifty years and more ago. He was born in 1800 in Lyme, Conn., and died in New York 
in 1880. Prepared to enter Yale College, he changed his plans and came to New York and started 
upon the business career in which he acquired wealth and reputation. Early in his career he made 
the acquaintance of Herman D. Aldrich and the friendship between the two was lifelong and 
devoted. Messrs. McCurdy and Aldrich were sent by their employer to Petersburgh, Va., where 
they opened a branch store and remained for several years. Returning to New York in 1820, they 
soon established the commission dry goods firm of McCurdy & Aldrich, which existed for nearly 
thirty years, before the senior partner retired in 1857. After 1840, the house was known as 
McCurdy, Aldrich & Spencer. During the Civil War, Mr. McCurdy acted as Commissary-General 
in the State of New York and rendered the Government valuable assistance in many ways. He 
was largely interested in all objects of public charity, was an incorporator of the Continental Fire 
Insurance Company and the Mutual Life Insurance Company, a director in the Merchants' Exchange 
Bank and American Exchange National Bank, member of the Chamber of Commerce and one of the 
founders of the Union League Club. 

The mother of Mr. Richard A. McCurdy, whom his father married in 1826, was Gertrude 
Mercer Lee, daughter of Dr. James and Gertrude (Mercer) Lee, of Newark, N. J. She was a niece 
of Chancellor Theodore Frelinghuysen, Mayor of Newark, chancellor of the University of New York, 
Attorney-General of the State of New Jersey, United States Senator, Vice-Presidential candidate 
with Henry Clay in 1844 and president of Rutgers College. She was descended from the Reverend 
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, who came to this country in the first part of the eighteenth cen- 
tury. The children of Robert H. McCurdy and his wife, Gertrude, were: Richard A. and Theodore 
F. McCurdy, Mrs. Gardiner G. Hubbard, Mrs. Elias J. Marsh and Mrs. Charles M. Marsh. 

Mr. Richard Aldrich McCurdy was born January 29th, 1835. Most of his lifetime has been 
spent in connection with the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of which he now president. He 
belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, Manhattan, Morristown and Lawyers' clubs the New 
England Society and the American Museum of Natural History. In 1856, he married Sarah Ellen 
Little, daughter of Charles Coffin Little, of Boston. His daughter, Gertrude Lee McCurdy, is now 
the wife of Louis A. Thebaud. His son, Robert Henry McCurdy, is a graduate from Harvard Col- 
lege in the class of 1881 and married Mary Suckley. He belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, 
University and other clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. McCurdy have a city residence in Fifth. 
Avenue, and a country home in Morris Plains, N. J. 

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JAMES LAWRENCE McKEEVER 

COMMODORE ISAAC McKEEVER, U. S. N., an officer of the War of 1812, was a 
native of Pennsylvania, born in 1793, and entered the navy as midshipman in 1809. 
He attained the rank of Lieutenant during the war with Great Britain, in which he took 
an active part. While commanding a gunboat on Lake Borgne, La., in 1814, he was captured by 
the British forces then advancing on New Orleans. After the war, he became Commander in 
1830, Captain in 1838, and in 1850 was promoted to be Commodore and commanded the Brazilian 
Squadron, being afterwards in charge of the Norfolk, Va., Navy Yard, and dying there in 1856. 
His wife was Mary Flower Gamble, daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Gamble, U. S. N., also an 
officer in the War of 1812, and his wife, Mary Thomson, whose parents were Thomas 
Thomson and Mary Jane Hale. Thomas Thomson, a native of Scotland, came to America before 
the Revolution and was Captain of a Pennsylvania troop. 

General Chauncey McKeever, United States Army, eldest son of Commodore Isaac McKeever, 
has been distinguished in the military service. Born in Baltimore, Md., in 1829, he graduated from 
West Point in 1849 and was commissioned in the Third Artillery. At the opening of the Civil 
War, he was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General, and served as chief of staff to 
General Heintzelman at Bull Run and in the Peninsula. He was promoted to be Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel, Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General, receiving the latter grade from Congress, in 1865, for 
gallant and meritorious service. After further service in the Adjutant-General's department, he 
was retired for age, in 1864. He is a member of the Union and University clubs in this city and 
the Metropolitan Club of Washington. 

Mr. James Lawrence McKeever, of New York, is the second son of Commodore McKeever. 
He was born in Baltimore, Md., October 4th, 1831, and passed some of his earlier years in Brazil. 
He has, however, long been a resident of New York and prominent in the banking profession. He 
married Mary Augusta Townsend, of a patriotic American ancestry, and also of an ancient 
and distinguished English family. 

Mrs. McKeever is the daughter of Robert Townsend and Mary A. Whittemore. Her 
grandfather, Peter Townsend, was the owner of the Sterling Iron Works, and during the Revolu- 
tion rendered important services to the patriotic cause. In his establishment was forged the great 
chain that was stretched across the Hudson below West Point to obstruct the progress of the 
British fleet, and he also cast cannon and anchors for vessels of the American navy, including those 
of the Constitution. On the maternal side, Mrs. McKeever is descended from the Whittemores, 
of Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, near London, where the family has been established since Saxon times. 
Whittemore Hall, at Whittemore, was the original seat of the bearers of the name. Thomas 
Whittemore came to Maiden, Mass., about 1640. His grandson, Captain Samuel Whittemore, of 
Menotomy, now Arlington, Mass., who married Esther Prentice, was an active patriot, and though 
eighty years old, led a company to the Lexington fight, where he was severely wounded. He was 
shot, and bayoneted by the British and left for dead on the field; recovering, he lived fifteen years 
longer. His grandson, Samuel Whittemore, 1774-1835, was Mrs. McKeever's grandfather. He 
was the son of Thomas Whittemore and Ann Cutler, married Jane Tileson and was an influential 
New York merchant in the earlier portion of the present century, being president of the Greenwich 
Bank. The residence of Mr. McKeever is 164 Lexington Avenue, and his country seat is at South- 
ampton, Long Island. He is a member of the Union Club, Downtown Association, Sons of the 
American Revolution and the American Geographical Society. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. McKeever are two sons and two daughters. Their eldest 
son, Robert Townsend McKeever, is well known in connection with transportation matters and 
married Frances C. Webb. The second son, Isaac Chauncey McKeever, is a member of the New 
York Stock Exchange and married Julia Draper. One daughter, Edith McKeever, married Hoffman 
Miller, and the remaining daughter of the family is Marion McKeever. 

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CHARLES FOLLEN McKIM 

OF Scotch-Irish ancestry, the father of Mr. Charles Follen McKim, one of the most accom- 
plished American architects of this generation, was the Reverend James Miller McKim, 
who was early enrolled as one of the leaders in the cause of anti-slavery. Born in 
Carlisle, Pa., November 14th, 18 10, he first studied in Dickinson College, in his native town, but 
completed his education in Princeton College. Choosing the ministry for a profession, he was 
ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Womelsdorf, Pa., in 1835, soon after his graduation 
from college. 

Even before he had become of age he was an Abolitionist, and henceforth his devotion to 
that reform was unreserved and energetic. He was a member of the first convention of aboli- 
tionists, whose deliberations resulted in the formation of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and 
his interest in the cause led him to resign from the work of the ministry in 1836, after only a 
year of pastoral service, in order that he might enter the lecture field, under the auspices of the 
new Anti-Slavery Society which he had assisted in organizing. For the ensuing four years he 
was constantly engaged in promulgating anti-slavery doctrines upon the platform, throughout 
Pennsylvania, and was subjected to the indignities and persecution that were the lot of all 
abolitionists of that day. 

In 1840, Mr. McKim settled in Philadelphia, where he became publishing agent and sub- 
sequently corresponding secretary of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, a connection that 
he maintained for more than a quarter of a century, being in effect the exclusive and responsible 
manager of the society. When the Civil War broke out, he responded to every call of patriotism, 
and throughout the long struggle was particularly active in all movements for upholding the 
Union cause and for caring for the welfare of the liberated slaves, aiding also in the recruiting 
of many of the Pennsylvania regiments. In 1863, he was made corresponding secretary and 
general manager of the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association. In that capacity 
he traveled extensively throughout the South, establishing schools and looking after the 
material interests of the freedmen, and accomplished very notable results. From 1865 to 1869 
he was connected with the American Freedman's Union Commission, and soon after retired from 
public life, after about thirty-five years of unremitting activity. In 1865, he was associated with 
several other gentlemen in founding The New York Nation. His death occurred in West Orange, 
N. J. His wife was Sarah Allibone Speakman, of an old Pennsylvania family. 

Mr. Charles Follen McKim was born in Chester County, Pa., August 24th, 1847. His 
primary education was in the public schools, and then he was sent to Harvard College, where 
he studied in the Lawrence Scientific School for two years, 1866-67. He also studied in Bow- 
doin College. His education in this country was supplemented by study and travel in Europe, 
including a three-years' architectural course at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. Returning to 
the United States, in 1870, he settled in New York and associated himself with W. R. Mead and 
Stanford White in the firm of McKim, Mead & White, that has been foremost in the contem- 
poraneous development of architecture in this country. During more than a quarter of a century 
that it has been in existence, this firm has contributed to the United States some of the most 
notable architectural structures erected in this country. Several examples of their work have 
been referred to elsewhere in this volume. In addition to what is there enumerated, they 
have been the architects of the Columbia University buildings, the New York Life Insurance 
Company's building, the houses of Frederick W. Vanderbilt and Charles L. Tiffany and other 
structures in New York, and the Algonquin Club and Public Library building in Boston, and 
other important buildings elsewhere. 

Mr. McKim married, in 1885, Julia Appleton, of Boston, and lives in West Thirty-fifth 
Street. He is a member of the Century Association, the Metropolitan, University, Racquet, 
Players, City and St. Andrew's Golf clubs, and the Algonquin and Somerset clubs of Boston. 

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ROBERT MACLAY 

AMONG the many clans of Scotland, none have a more ancient or more honorable record than 
the MacLaigs, who can be traced back in the annals of the Highlands many centuries. 
The American Maclays are descended from this clan. Charles Maclay, the head of the 
American branch of the house, came from Scotland to this country in 1734 and settled in Pennsyl- 
vania, where his descendants have been prominent in professional, business and public life. Many 
of them were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. The Honorable William Maclay was one of the 
first United States Senators elected from Pennsylvania. He served only a short term, but made a 
very distinct impress upon the formative legislation of the young republic. He was a sturdy Dem- 
ocrat of the old school, and it has been claimed for him that he should share with Thomas Jefferson 
the honor of being the founder of the Democratic party. 

The founder of the New York branch of the family was the Reverend Dr. Archibald Maclay, 
the grandson of Charles Maclay, the pioneer. He was an eminent Congregational clergyman, and 
came to New York City from Pennsylvania in 1805. Becoming afterwards a Baptist clergyman, he 
was pastor of one church for a period of thirty-two years. For several years he was the vice-presi- 
dent and general agent of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and during the latter part of his life 
was president of the American Bible Union. Two sons of Dr. Archibald Maclay attained to emi- 
nence. Robert H. Maclay studied medicine, and during the greater part of his long life held rank 
among the leading physicians of New York City. He was also president of the New York Savings 
Bank. He married Mary Brown, daughter of William Brown, of Glasgow, Scotland. Another son 
was the Honorable William B. Maclay, who was a Member of Congress in 1842, and for three 
consecutive terms thereafter. 

Mr. Robert Maclay, of this generation, so well known for his interest in public affairs, is 
the eldest son of Dr. Robert H. and his wife, Eliza L. Maclay. He was born in New York City, June 
nth, 1834. Preparing for college in the public schools, he entered the University of the City of 
New York, but at the age of fourteen went to Illinois to complete his education in Judson College, 
graduating from that institution before he was twenty years of age. Returning then to New York 
City, he entered the real estate business. In 1865, he married Georgiana Barmore, whose father, 
Albert Barmore, was the founder and first president of the Knickerbocker Ice Company. As a 
result of this family alliance, Mr. Maclay became interested in the Knickerbocker Ice Company. He 
was elected a director of the corporation, and in 1868 became its vice-president and treasurer. 
When Mr. Barmore died, in 1875, Mr. Maclay was elected president of the company, a position that 
he has ever since retained. He has also been connected with several financial institutions, among 
them the Knickerbocker Trust Company, of which he is president, the Bowery Savings Bank, of 
which he is vice-president, and the People's Bank, of which he is a director. 

The prominence that Mr. Maclay has attained in the business world and his reputation as a 
conservative business man has led to demands upon him for the public service. In 1892, the 
Supreme Court appointed him a member of the Rapid Transit Commission, a position in which he 
served the public faithfully and capably. For many years he has been one of the most influential 
members of the Board of Education, acting as chairman of the building committee of the board, 
and in 1895-96 its president. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the New York 
Historical Society, and belongs to numerous clubs, among them the Manhattan, Metropolitan, 
Grolier and Riding, and is a member of the Downtown Association. He has been officially con- 
nected with several of the clubs to which he belongs, and has served as treasurer of the Manhattan 
Club. He was one of the original incorporators of the Botanical Garden and is a member of the 
advisory committee of the New York University, a trustee of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church 
and a trustee of the Northern Dispensary. He lives at 50 West Fifty-seventh Street, and also has a 
summer residence at Elberon, N. J. His son, Alfred Barmore Maclay, belongs to the Calumet, 
Riding and other clubs and social organizations. 

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GEORGE HAMMOND McLEAN 

HIGHLAND tradition has ascribed the foundation of the powerful Clan of McLean, which 
from immemorial times has inhabited the Island of Mull, on the west coast of Scotland, to 
a famous warrior, Gillian-na-Tuaighe, or Gillian of the Battle-Ax, a weapon of that kind 
having been his constant companion. In fact, Celtic genealogists have carried the Clan's history 
back to fabulous ages, discovering its ultimate ancestor in a certain sage and hero, one Dougall of 
Scone, who flourished in far remote times. The word Gillian signifies servant of St. John, and the 
name assumed by Gillian-na-Tuaighe's family and followers was originally McGillian, and in 
Gaelic they are always designated as the Clan Gillian. Under successive chieftains, their power in 
Mull and the adjacent islands and mainlands increased for many ages, and was not diminished by 
a nominal dependence upon the McDonalds, Lords of the Isles. In fact, the McLeans were allies 
rather than feudal vassals, and were related to the ruling house of the McDonalds; Lachlan McLean, 
the first of the chiefs to establish himself at the historic family stronghold, the castle of Duart, in 
Mull, having married the Lady Margaret, daughter of John McDonald, the first Lord of the Isles. 
The brother of this Lachlan was Eachann, or Hector, McLean, who founded the subordinate division 
of the Clan known as the McLeans of Lochbuy. 

The chiefs of Duart ranked among the most noble Highland families and married daughters of 
the Earl of Douglas, Argyle and other renowned and noble Scottish houses, both Highland and Low- 
land; while their warlike Clan was a participant in all the commotions to which mediaeval Scotland 
was subjected, following the banner of the national hero, Robert Bruce, at Bannockburn, in 1314, 
and joining the army of Islesmen which Donald McDonald, Lord of the Isles, led in 141 1, to 
subjugate the Lowlands, and which was defeated at the battle of Harlow, their chief, Hector Roy 
McLean, being slain there. In 1493, the McDonalds were deprived, by the Scottish King and 
Parliament, of their sovereignty, and the McLeans were then rendered independent. The chief of 
McLean was killed at Flodden Field, in 1513. Feuds with the Campbells of Argyle and the Mc- 
Donalds, their former overlords, followed for some generations ; Lachlan Catanach McLean, of 
Duart, having been assassinated by Campbell, of Calder, brother of the Earl of Argyle, in 1527. 

Sir Lachlan More McLean (Lachlan the Great), who was educated at the Court of King James 
VI., of Scotland, and died in 1602, overcame all rivals, both in war and diplomacy, and raised the 
Clan Gillian to a high position of power and influence. In 1632, the then chief was created a 
baronet, and throughout the wars of the seventeenth century the McLeans were consistent 
supporters of the Stuart cause, fighting under Montrose at Inverlochy and Kilsyth, while, after the 
fall of King Charles' cause, their island possessions were ravaged by the Covenanters. Notwith- 
standing this, they took up arms for Charles II., and fought against Cromwell's veterans, while in 
the Jacobite risings they were conspicuous at Killiecrankie, and in the battles of the Rebellion of 
1745. Later on, many of the Clan became noted for their bravery in the Highland Regiments 
of the British Army, the present Chief, Sir Fitzroy Donald McLean, Baronet, being a veteran 
of the Crimea. 

It has been remarked by the historian of the McLeans, that their devotion to the Stuarts was 
throughout a losing business. Many of the Clan were driven into exile, and America received a 
share of this enforced emigration, the bearers of the name having in this country displayed the 
sterling qualities that have ever marked their race, several of the family being prominent in Colonial 
and Revolutionary history. Among those who came early to this country, were representatives of 
the McLeans of Ardgour, a cadet branch sprung from Lachlan Bronnach, the seventh chief of 
McLean, and from this stock the New York family referred to herein is descended. Their arms are 
those of the Ardgour McLeans, on which are quartered a rampant lion, a castle, a hand grasping a 
cross, and a galley of the Isles with a salmon beneath. The crest is a helmet surmounted by a 
battle-ax between crossed branches of cypress and laurel ; the motto being : Altera Merces. 
Cypress and laurel, it should be mentioned, have ever been the distinctive badge of the Clan 



Gillian, and its war cry or slogan, which was heard in so many Highland battles, was the Celtic 
words Bus na Bcatha, meaning Death or Life. 

In the family Bible possessed by Mr. George Hammond McLean, the births, deaths and 
alliances of the family are preserved with unusual fulness and care. The record of his ancestry in 
this country begins with William McLean, 1679-1749, who, in 1712, married Elizabeth Merrill ; 
his son being Charles, 17 14-1759, who married Mary Carson, in 1743 ; and his grandson, another 
Charles McLean, 17S7-1794, married Elizabeth Swaim, in 1778 ; the son of the last named couple, 
Cornelius McLean, born in 1787, being grandfather of the subject of this article. Cornelius McLean 
married, in 1807, Hannah Hammond, whose father, James Hammond, was a prominent patriot 
and Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Regiment of Westchester County, New York Militia, during 
the American Revolution. 

James Monroe McLean, their third son, was born in New York, in 1818, was educated in 
private schools, and began his business career in the old-time Guardian Fire Insurance Company, 
founded by John Jacob Astor and Robert Lenox. In 1847, he became connected with the Citizens 
Fire Insurance Company, of this city, and took a leading part, by his wise and conservative course, 
in raising it from adversity to a high position, so that it paid large dividends, and its stock 
commanded a marked premium. As secretary and president, Mr. McLean was the active manager 
of the Citizens Fire Insurance Company for almost forty years. Holding a high position in the 
insurance world, and recognized as one of the leading exponents of the profession of underwriter, 
he was elected, in i860, president of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters, serving four years, 
and was a prominent factor in creating harmony among the local insurance organizations, and in 
the establishment of the present New York Fire Department. When the National Board of Fire 
Underwriters was formed, in 1866, his was the only name put forward for president, and he was 
reelected for a second term. On the resignation of Henry Stokes, Mr. McLean was elected 
president of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, of which he had long been a director and a 
leading spirit in its affairs. He was an incorporator and original director of the Manhattan Savings 
Institution, and one of the first board of directors of the National Citizens Bank, and a director and 
vice-president of the Union Trust Company. 

The varied public services of James Monroe McLean included the presidency of the Board 
of Education for four years, and a trusteeship of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge. He was 
also president of the Institution for the Blind, and at his death, in 1890, was a member of the 
leading social organizations of the metropolis, including the Union, St. Nicholas and Manhattan 
clubs, and vice-president of the St. Nicholas Society, of which he had previously been the 
president. In 1840, he married Louisa Theresa Williams, who died in 1857, their two sons being 
Mr. George Hammond McLean and Cornelius McLean, of Mount Vernon, N. Y. 

Mr. George Hammond McLean was born in this city November 24th, 1849. He was 
educated at private schools in New York and Connecticut, and entered Columbia College, and was 
a member of the A "9 fraternity. He was, however, forced to abandon his studies by ill health, 
and spent ten years in Europe. One of the unusual experiences of his travels was several months 
passed on a Russian man-of-war as the guest of the commander. Returning to New York, in 
1882, Mr. McLean entered the Citizens Insurance Company, taking charge of the agency depart- 
ment of its business, and, in 1886, he became the company's vice-president, an office he holds at 
the present time. 

In November, 1879, Mr. McLean married, at Trinity Chapel, Harriet Amelia Dater, 
daughter of Henry Dater, of this city, and has two sons, James Clarence Hammond McLean and 
Alan Dater McLean. Mr. McLean's residence is 126 West Fifty-seventh Street, and he is a member 
of the Metropolitan, St. Nicholas, Calumet, Country, Players, New York Athletic, and Suburban 
Riding and Driving clubs, St. Nicholas Society, the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. He is also a member 
of the Old Guard, of which organization his uncle, the late George Washington McLean, was long 
the Major in command. 

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HARRY WHITNEY McVlCKAR 

THE McVickars are an old Scotch-Irish family, and several branches have attained to 
prominence in New York, One of the first of the name to come to this country was 
Archibald McVickar, the younger son of an Irish gentleman. He was in business in 
New York before the Revolution, being an extensive importer. Two nephews of Archibald 
McVickar were especially prominent in the next generation. John McVickar settled in New 
York when he was seventeen. His brother, Nathaniel McVickar, emigrated in 1798 and mar- 
ried Catharine Bucknor, daughter of a West India merchant, whose wife was a sister of Peter 
Goelet. One of the sons of Nathaniel and Catharine McVickar was William H. McVickar, who 
died in November, 1896, at the age of seventy-eight. In early life he was in business in Wall 
Street. He became one of the most prominent yachtsmen in New York, was one of the incor- 
porators of the New York Yacht Club, and Commodore of the club in 1866. He married Julia 
(Phelps) Mason, daughter of Thaddeus Phelps, and widow of Governor Mason, of Michigan. His 
eldest daughter married Lord Grantley, of England, and his second daughter became the wife of 
James Andariese, of New York. His only son is Henry G. McVickar, who married Janet Lansing, 
daughter of Colonel Arthur Lansing, U. S. A. 

John McVickar, the brother of Nathaniel McVickar, attained even greater prominence than 
his brother. He was an importer and shipowner. Accumulating a large fortune, he gratified, 
to the fullest extent, his disposition to help others, giving much to the cause of religion and 
also to assist worthy individuals. He was a director in the Bank of New York, 1793- 18 10, one 
of the founders and vice-president of the St. Patrick's Society in 1797, and a vestryman of Trinity 
Church, 1801-12. He married Ann Moore, daughter of John Moore, a first cousin of the cele- 
brated Bishop Benjamin Moore. His eldest son, James McVickar, married Euretta Constable, 
daughter of William Constable, and their son was the celebrated Dr. John A. McVickar, whose 
son, the Reverend William Neilson McVickar, D. D., is rector of Holy Trinity Church, Phila- 
delphia. The second son of John McVickar was Archibald McVickar, who, after graduating from 
Columbia College, went to Cambridge University, England, and returning, married Catharine 
Augusta Livingston, daughter of Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston. John McVickar, the third 
son, became a clergyman, author and professor in Columbia College. He married Eliza Bard, 
daughter of Dr. Samuel Bard, and the Reverend William A. McVickar, D. D., of New York, 
was his son. Henry McVickar, the fourth son of John McVickar, was engaged in mercantile life. 
Edward McVickar married Matilda Constable, daughter of William Constable. Nathan McVickar 
died young. Benjamin McVickar married Josephine C. Lawrence, daughter of Isaac Lawrence, 
president of the United States Bank in New York. Eliza McVickar married William Constable. 
The youngest child, Augusta McVickar, married Judge William Jay, son of Chief Justice John Jay. 

Mr. Harry Whitney McVickar, a leading representative of this interesting family in the pres- 
ent generation, is the son of the Reverend William A. McVickar. He was born in Irvington-on- 
Hudson, September 2d, i860, and though an artist by profession, has also been engaged in business, 
being a member of the real estate firm of S. V. R. Cruger & Co. He lives in West Thirty-ninth 
Street, and is a member of the Players, Lawyers', Tuxedo, and Riding clubs, and the Century 
Association. Mr. McVickar married Maud Robbins, daughter of Henry A. Robbins and his wife, 
Elizabeth Pelham Bend, a sister of George H. Bend. Mrs. McVickar is a great-granddaughter 
of Philip Thomas, of the Virginia family of that name, and Frances Mary Ludlow. Through 
her grandmother, she is directly descended from Gabriel Ludlow, and also from Captain George 
Duncan, Peter Harrison, of Newport, and Elizabeth Pelham. 

The McVickar arms are quarterly, first and fourth: or., an eagle, displayed, with two heads, 
gules. Second and third: per bend, embattled, argent and gules, over all, an escutcheon, or., 
charged with three stag's horns erect, gules. Crest, an eagle, displayed, with two heads, per pale, 
embattled, argent and gules. Motto, TDominus Trwidebit. 



WILLIAM H. MACY 

EVEN the casual visitor to the Island of Nantucket, that lies out in the Atlantic Ocean off 
the coast of Massachusetts, soon realizes that the Macy family has long been a dominant 
influence in that community. Everybody in Nantucket seems to be connected, directly 
or indirectly, by birth or by marriage, with the Macys. This condition has, in fact, prevailed 
there for more than two and a half centuries. 

Nantucket was originally settled by Thomas Macy, who came there with nine associates 
and bought the island from the Indians, in 1659. Thomas Macy was of Salisbury, England, 
where he was born in 1608. He came from the parish of Chilmark, England, in 1635, and 
settled in Massachusetts, going first to Newbury, becoming a freeman in that place in 1639, 
and in the same year was one of the first settlers of Salisbury, where he held many positions 
of prominence. He was an adherent of the Baptist faith, and his general liberality and tolerance 
in matters of religion brought him into some disfavor with his stricter Puritan neighbors. Sym- 
pathizing with the Quakers, he sheltered many of them from the persecutions to which they were 
subjected and for this found himself persecuted in turn. That was chief among the influences 
which led him to withdraw from the Bay Colony to the seclusion and freedom of the Island 
of Nantucket. He was the first Recorder of that place, a Lieutenant in King Philip's War, and 
a representative to the Massachusetts General Court every year, from 1672 to 1686. 

The Macys, who have been prominent in the New York business world for several gener- 
ations, are descended from this pioneer of Nantucket. One branch of the family had for its 
head Josiah Macy, the old New York merchant of the earlier part of the present century. The 
father of Josiah Macy was a shipowner in Nantucket, a man of enterprise and considerable 
wealth for the time and place in which he lived. Josiah Macy himself was born in Nantucket 
in 1785. His education was secured at the schools there, and at the age of fifteen he shipped 
on board of one of his father's vessels. For many years he followed the sea on his father's 
ships and then became himself a shipowner. 

In 1828, Mr. Macy came to New York City and established himself in the shipping and 
commission business, with his son, William H. Macy, as partner, under the firm name of Josiah 
Macy & Son. The following year, with the admission of another son into partnership, the firm 
name was changed to Josiah Macy & Sons. In 1853, Mr. Macy retired from business to his 
country seat in Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., and lived there until his death in 1872. He 
was one of the original founders of the City Fire Insurance Company, and a director from 1833 
onward, while for many years he was a director in the Tradesmen's Bank. His wife, whom 
he married in 1805, and who died in 1861, was Lydia Hussey, of an old Nantucket family. 
He left five sons, William H., Charles A., Josiah G., Francis H. and John H. Macy, and two 
daughters, Lydia H. and Ann Eliza Macy. William H. Macy, Sr., was the eldest son of Josiah 
Macy. He was born at Nantucket in 1805, and was educated there. After a short term of serv- 
ice in a shipping office in New York, he began business on his own account in 1826. In 1828, 
his father joined him in the business which he had established. He became a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce in 1834, and was vice-president of that institution. He was also con- 
nected with the Leather Manufacturers' Bank, of which he was at one time president, and was 
president of the Seaman's Bank for Savings, vice-president of the United States Trust Company 
and a director in other fiduciary institutions. He died in 1887. 

Mr. William H. Macy, the representative of the family in this generation, is the son of 
William H. Macy, Sr., and was born in New York in 1836. His mother was Eliza L. 
Jenkins, daughter of Sylvanus T. Jenkins. One of his sisters became the wife of William M. 
Kingsland and another married Isaac H. Walker. In 1866, Mr. Macy married Angeline S. 
Strange, daughter of Edwin B. and Josephine L. Strange. Mr. and Mrs. Macy have one 
daughter, Josephine L., who is the wife of George Finch Chamberlin, of this city. 

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CHARLES VICTOR MAPES 

IN the fourteenth century, John Mapes, of Feltham, England, married the heiress of John 
Blount, son of Sir Hugh Blount. In 1563, Clarenceaux, King at Arms, describes the Mapes 
arms as sable, four fusels in fesse, or., quartered with the Blount arms; or., two bars 
nebule, sable, the Mapes crest being an arm in armour embowed, or., holding in the gauntlet a 
spur, argent, leathered sable. Thomas Mapes, of the eighth generation from John Mapes, of 
Feltham, was of the company from New Haven, Conn., which, in 1640, founded Southold, Long 
Island. His descendants continued to reside in that town, and two brothers, James and Phineas 
Mapes, were in the Continental Army. 

General Jonas Mapes, 1768-1824, son of James Mapes, was born at Southold, but came to 
New York when young. In 1796, he married Elizabeth Tylee, daughter of James Tylee, a patriot, 
whom the British had imprisoned. Commissioned ensign in 1794, James Mapes became Brigadier- 
General in 1814, and was selected by Governor Tompkins to command the force defending New 
York City. He retained this post till the War of 1812 ended, and in 18 16 became Major-General. 
He was later an alderman, and in 18 19 was one of the organizers and directors of the first savings 
bank in America. A supporter of De Witt Clinton and an advocate of the Erie Canal, his name 
was first among the managers of the ball by which the opening of the canal was celebrated in 
1825. When Lafayette visited New York in 1824, he was on the committee of reception, 
and received from Lafayette a pair of pistols still in the possession of the family. 

John Jay Mapes, his son, 1806- 1866, was distinguished as a scientist, inventor and author, 
particularly by introducing chemical fertilizers into America. He founded and edited The American 
Repertory of Arts, Sciences and Manufactures, in which he published many able scientific papers. 
Appointed professor of chemistry and natural philosophy to the National Academy of Design, he 
received a similar appointment from the American Institute. In 1844, Professor Mapes became 
president of the Mechanics' Institute, and later of the American Institute, a position he held for 
twenty years. Williams College conferred the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. on him. He was a 
member of many prominent scientific societies, and received signal marks of public respect. He 
was among the personal friends of Joseph Bonaparte, who presented to him a bust of Napoleon by 
Canova. In 1827, he married Sophia Furman, daughter of Judge Garrett Furman. Their second 
daughter is Mary Mapes Dodge, the authoress and editor of The St. Nicholas Magazine. 

Mr. Charles Victor Mapes is the surviving son of Professor Mapes. He was born in New 
York, July 4th, 1836, graduated from Harvard in 1857 and, while entering business life, assisted his 
father in editing The Working Farmer. Mr. Mapes has been distinguished by his investigations of 
the requirements of soils and crops, and he has written numerous papers on such subjects. He 
has been for twenty years the head of the Mapes Fertilizer Company, and was the first president 
of the Fertilizer and Chemical Exchange. He is a member of the Harvard and other clubs and of 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was first president of the © A X 
club. In 1863, he married Martha Meeker Halsted, daughter of Oliver Spencer Halsted and grand- 
daughter of Chancellor Oliver S. Halsted, of New Jersey. Five sons were born of this marriage. 
Charles Halsted Mapes, the eldest, born 1864, graduated from Columbia in 1885, and from the 
Columbia School of Mines in 1S89. He has since devoted himself to chemistry and scientific 
agriculture. Dr. James Jay Mapes, the second son, born 1866, graduated at Columbia in 1888, and 
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891, and died in 1896. Herbert Mapes, the third 
son, born 1868, was an undergraduate of Columbia when he was drowned at Fire Island in August, 
1891. A memorial gate at the entrance of Columbia's new grounds has been erected by his fellow 
students and friends. Victor Mapes, the fourth son, Columbia 189 1 , studied at the Sorbonne in 
Paris for two years, and has devoted himself to literary pursuits. Clive Spencer Mapes, the 
youngest son, born in 1878, is an undergraduate at Columbia. All Mr. Mapes' sons were extremely 
popular in college and noted athletes. 

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PETER MARIE 

ON the paternal side the Marie family is of French origin. The grandfather of Mr. Peter 
Marie was the maitre du port at Cap Francais, on the Island of San Domingo, an impor- 
tant civil position. In 1792 he lost his life in a drowning accident. The French Republic 
had sent to the French islands in the West Indies the Marechal Rochambeau, son of the well-known 
General Rochambeau, who was in command of the French troops that served in the United States 
during our war for independence. It was the duty of the maitre du port to receive the Marechal, 
and while thus engaged, one of the hurricanes, so frequent in the West Indies, arose and capsized 
the vessel which was carrying him. 

The maternal grandfather of Mr. Marie was a planter of San Domingo, by the name of 
Arnaud. He owned a flourishing estate in the neigborhood of Cap Francais and lost his life in one 
of the insurrections of the blacks, being assassinated at a banquet that was being held to celebrate 
the cessation of hostilities and at which the leading whites and the chiefs of the blacks assisted. 
Through the assistance of some friendly blacks the widow of Mr. Arnaud, with her three young 
children, contrived to make her escape to a French merchant ship that lay in the harbor, and 
came to the United States. The maiden name of Mrs. Arnaud was Mary Nicholson. She was 
a native of Pennsylvania, of a family well known in the Colonial days. 

The youngest of the three daughters of this family was Leontine Arnaud, who, at the 
time of her father's death, was only four years of age. In 181 1, when she was sixteen years 
old, she married John B. Marie, son of the former maitre du port of Cap Francais. Mr. Marie, 
who was born in Aries, Provence, France, settled in mercantile life in New York and soon 
became, according to the modest standard of that period, prosperous, being the owner of ships 
trading chiefly with Mexico. 

When Mr. Marie died, in 183s, he left a widow and nine children, three daughters and six 
sons. The eldest daughter, Louise Marie, married the Vicomte de Bermingham, of France. The 
second daughter married Ferdinand Thieriot, of Leipsic, whose father had been chamberlain to 
the King of Saxony. The third daughter married Emil Sauer, who was, at one time, president 
of the German-American Bank. The eldest son was Camille, who, up to the time of his death, 
in 1886, was a distinguished and esteemed citizen of New York. The other sons were Albin, 
John, Peter, Joseph and Francis. Albin went out in early life in the expedition to survey the 
ruins of Central America. Joseph Marie married Josephine Hubbard, has two daughters, Leontine 
and Josephine Marie, and lives in West Forty-third Street. His daughter Josephine has published 
several books and magazine articles which have met with favor, especially from Roman Catholic 
readers. All the daughters of the older generation, with their husbands, and also the three eldest 
sons of the family are deceased. 

Mr. Peter Marie, the fourth son of the family, was born in New York and was engaged in 
business in Wall Street until 1865, when he retired. He has always had a taste for social life and 
has also cultivated letters, owning a small, but rather choice library. He has occasionally written, 
but rarely published, vers de societe, but in 1864, during the Civil War, he published a volume 
of selections called Tribute to the Fair, devoting the proceeds to the fair in aid of the sick and 
wounded soldiers. His residence, for forty-five years, was at 48 West Nineteenth Street, but in 
1890, he was driven north by the march of improvement. He then removed to East Thirty-seventh 
Street, on Murray Hill, where he now lives. His house contains many souvenirs of the metropolis, 
notably minatures, aquarelles and photographs of the fairest of the beau monde, as some one has 
observed, "more social New York ana, than any other house in town." Mr. Marie is unmarried. 
He is a member of the Union, Knickerbocker, Grolier, City and Tuxedo clubs, the American 
Geographical Society, the New York Academy of Sciences and other societies and is a patron of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design and the American Museum of 
Natural History. He is vice-president of the New York Institute for the Blind. 



HENRY GURDON MARQUAND 

GUERNSEY, one of the Channel Islands, was the ancestral home of the Marquand family. 
Its first representative in America was Henry Marquand, who was born in 1737, came 
in 1761 to the American colonies, and died in 1772. He made his home in Fairfield, 
Conn., and it was there, in 1766, that his son, Isaac Marquand, was born. The latter married 
Mehitable Perry, of the same town, a member of a Connecticut family of long standing, and 
moved to New York, where he was engaged successfully in business for many years. He resided 
in Brooklyn, and died in 1838. 

Mr. Henry Gurdon Marquand, his son, who is distinguished not only for his many works 
of public beneficence, but for the leading part he has taken in promoting artistic education in this 
country, was born in New York, April nth, 1819. He was educated in schools in his native city, 
and in Pittsfield, Mass., where he was fitted for college. At an early age, however, he entered 
upon a life of business. He was agent for his brother, the late Frederick Marquand, in the care of 
his large landed and other property interests, and devoted many years to the improvement of the 
estate and the augmentation of its value. He also became engaged in the banking business, and 
interested in the development of railroad enterprises in the Southwestern States of the Union. 
The building of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad was largely due to his efforts. 

In 1 85 1, Mr. Marquand married Elizabeth Love Allen, of Pittsfield, Mass., daughter of 
Jonathan and Eunice W. Allen, the family being one of prominence in Berkshire County, of that 
State. Mrs. Marquand's grandfather was the Reverend Thomas Allen, who was born in 
Northampton, Mass., in 1743, and died in Pittsfield in 1810. Graduated from Harvard College in 
1762, he became the first minister of Pittsfield, being ordained in 1764. He was an ardent 
Revolutionary patriot, and commanded a company at the battle of Bennington, thereby gaining the 
title of "the fighting parson." He was minister of the church in Pittsfield for forty-six years. 
For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Marquand has devoted much of his attention to 
charitable and religious objects, as well as to the cause of art. He has been prominent in the 
practical administration of the city's best charities, while among his many gifts for such objects is 
the new wing added to Bellevue Hospital. He presented the Marquand Chapel to Princeton 
University and has been a liberal friend to that institution of learning. His benefactions, however, 
have not been confined to any part of the country, and he founded and endowed the Free Library 
in the city of Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Marquand has long been one of the foremost of 
American collectors of painting and objects of art. His handsome private residence in East Sixty- 
eighth Street, notable for its architectural features, contains one of the most remarkable private 
art collections in the world. He has devoted unceasing labor to advancing public artistic educa- 
tion, and took the lead in the foundation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which institution 
he is the honored president, and to which he has been a constant benefactor. He is a member of 
the Century Association, the Metropolitan, Grolier and Princeton clubs, and of many artistic, 
literary and charitable institutions, and in recognition of his services to art, is the first honorary 
member of the American Institute of Architects. His country residence is in Newport. 

Mr. and Mrs. Marquand had six children; Linda, wife of the Reverend Roderick Terry, 
Allan, Frederick Alexander, Henry, Mabel, who married Henry Galbraith Ward, and Elizabeth 
Love Marquand, now Mrs. Harold Godwin. Professor Allan Marquand, the eldest son, is a 
graduate of Princeton University, and took the degree of Ph. D., at Johns Hopkins University. 
Devoting himself to art studies, after some years passed in Europe, he accepted the Professorship 
of Art in Princeton. He has presented the college with valuable artistic collections, and has 
written much upon art and cognate subjects. He married Eleanor Cross. Henry Marquand, 
the third son, has taken the place in the banking business vacated by his father's retirement. He 
married Katharine (Cowdin) Griswold. The second son of the family, Frederick Alexander 
Marquand, died in 1885. 

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WILLIAM HENRY MARSTON 

MARSTON MOOR, in Yorkshire, the scene of one of the great battles of the English Civil 
War in the seventeenth century, took its name from an ancient family in that part of 
England. The origin of the surname Marston is Continental rather than Saxon. It is 
apparently derived from the Latin Martius, signifying one devoted to the service of Mars. When 
William the Conqueror invaded England, one of his officers of rank bore the name, received 
estates in the northern part of the kingdom, and founded a family which extended its branches 
throughout England. Representatives of it were found as far back as five hundred years ago 
in Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Leicestershire, though the main stock of the race remained 
in Yorkshire, and it is from it that the American family of Marston traces its descent. The 
arms which they are entitled to bear are: a blue shield bearing a gold chevron embrasured as 
battlements between three gold lions' heads crowned and broken off. The crest is also a golden 
lion"s head crowned and with open jaws. 

William Marston, the ancestor of Mr. William H. Marston, and first of his race in America, 
was born in 1592. He was one of the Puritan emigrants to New England, and arrived at Salem, 
Mass., in 1634, a widower, bringing four children with him. In 1638, he was one of the 
original proprietors of Hampton, N. H., and was a Quaker in his belief. His son, Thomas, 
born in England, in 1617, died at Hampton in 1690, having been a town official in that place. 
He married Mary Estow in 1647. ' n tne next generation came Ephraim Marston, 1654-1742, 
followed by Simon Marston, 1 683-1 735. The Iatter's son, Daniel Marston, 1 708-1 757, was an 
officer of the Colonial forces in the French War, and served in Nova Scotia and at the second 
siege of Louisburg under Amherst and Wolfe, commanded a company, being killed and buried 
there. He left a large fortune for those times. His sister Sarah was the mother of General 
Henry Dearborn, of Revolutionary fame, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United 
States in the War of 1812. 

Simon Marston, son of Daniel Marston, became a Captain in the Revolutionary Army and 
afterwards Major of the State forces. In 1762, he settled on an estate at Deerfield, N. H. His 
son was Asa Marston, 1758-1834, and his grandson, Captain Eben Marston, born in 1793, also 
held a military command in Deerfield, represented the town in the New Hampshire Legislature, 
filled every office in the gift of the community where he lived, and was one of its foremost 
and most respected citizens. He was the father of the subject of this sketch. 

Mr. William Henry Marston was born on the old family homestead at Deerfield in 1832. 
Educated in academies at his native place, he came in 1851 to New York, when nineteen years 
old, and engaged in the banking business with the house of Belknap & James. In 1853, he 
went West to establish banks in Illinois and Wisconsin, and remained there off and on for 
eight years. He became a partner in the banking house of F. P. James & Co., in 1854, and in 
1862 founded the firm of William H. Marston & Co., of which he was senior partner, being 
immediately recognized as the leader in the stock market and as one of the boldest and most 
successful operators that Wall Street had known at that period. During Mr. Marston's residence 
in the West, his headquarters were at Springfield, 111., and Abraham Lincoln was his lawyer 
and friend. He was also intimate with General John A. Logan, while his personal and business 
associations in New York have included all the prominent men of the times. At present, Mr. 
Marston is president of the Hopkins Alaska Gold Mining Company, an enterprise which he 
regards as the most important of the many he has undertaken. 

In 1859, Mr. Marston married Lila Irwin, daughter of Robert Irwin, a prominent banker 
of Springfield, 111., and the most intimate friend of Lincoln in this latter city. Their children 
are Robert Irwin Marston, born in i860, who is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and two 
daughters, Laura Marie and Ella Chase Marston. Mr. Marston resides at 112 West Forty-fourth 
Street, and is a member of the Union Club and other social organizations. 



BRADLEY MARTIN 

THE family of Mr. Bradley Martin, who has borne so important a part in the social affairs of 
the metropolis in the present generation, has long been distinguished in the annals of 
Northern and Central New York, coming originally from old Colonial stock in Connecticut. 
The name of Martin was adopted as a surname by the English family at an early date, and many of 
its representatives were prominent in the history of England after the Norman Conquest. John 
Martin accompanied Sir Francis Drake in that famous seaman's voyage around the world, 1577-80. 
William Martin, or William Seaborn Martin, the American ancestor of the family, was first of 
Stratford and then of Woodbury, Conn. Tradition says that his father emigrated from England, 
and that the son was born on shipboard during the voyage of the family to the New World. His 
wife was Abigail Curtiss, daughter of Jonathan Curtiss, of Stratford, where she was born, in 1671. 
She was married in 1685, and died in 1735. His death occurred in 1715. He and his wife were 
members of the first church in Woodbury from 1685. 

Samuel Martin, son of William Martin, was born in 1693, married Annis Hinman in 1716, 
and had a family of seventeen children. Their son, Nathan Martin, who was born in 1734, mar- 
ried Ellen Bradley, and died in 1794. Bradley Martin, of the next generation, was born in 1782, 
in Woodbury, and died in Avon, N. Y., in 1825. His wife was Harriet B. Hull, who was born in 
Salisbury, Conn., in 1785. Their son, Henry Hull Martin, who was born in 1809, studied law and 
was a prominent citizen of Albany, where he was cashier of the Albany City Bank and president of 
the Albany Savings Bank. In October, 1835, he married Anna Townsend, daughter of Isaiah Town- 
send, of the distinguished Townsend family, of Albany. One of the brothers of Anna Townsend was 
Frederick Townsend, who was born in Albany in 1825, and graduated from Union College in 1844. 
He was Adjutant-General of the State of New York in 1856, assistant provost marshal in Albany in 
1863, Brigadier-General of the National Guard of the State of New York in 1878, and Adjutant- 
General of the State in the administration of Governor Alonzo B. Cornell. Another brother was 
Dr. Howard Townsend, of Albany, 1823- 1867, a graduate of Union College in 1844, and from the 
medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1847, Surgeon-General of the State, 
1851-52, and a professor in the Albany Medical College. Still another brother was Franklin 
Townsend, at one time Adjutant-General of the State of New York, and otherwise identified 
with the militia of the State. 

Mr. Bradley Martin, son of Henry Hull Martin and Anna Townsend, was born in Albany, 
December 18th, 1841, and was educated in Union College. He early married Cornelia Sherman, 
daughter of Isaac Sherman. Isaac Sherman was a wealthy merchant of New York, and a frequent 
contributor to the daily press and other publications upon the subject of taxation. Three children 
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Martin: Sherman and Bradley Martin, Jr., and Cornelia Martin, now 
the Countess of Craven, who was married in Grace Church, New York, April 18th, 1893. The 
Earl of Craven is the present head of an old and wealthy family of England. The first to bear the 
name was John Craven, of Appletreewick, Craven, Yorkshire, who lived during the reign of 
Henry VII. His descendant, William Craven, was knighted in 1626, and later created Baron 
Craven, of Hampstead, Marshall, County Berks. In 1801, the seventh Baron was made Earl of 
Craven and Viscount Affington. The present Earl of Craven is the fourth Earl. 

Since their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Martin have given many notable entertainments and have 
been the hosts of distinguished guests, at their town residence, in West Twentieth Street. They 
have been present, when in New York, at the balls of the Patriarchs, and guests at the other 
important functions of society. They have been much abroad, however, and Mr. Martin rents a 
deer forest at Balmacaun, Scotland. Mr. Martin holds membership in nearly all of the leading 
clubs of New York, including the Union, Knickerbocker, Racquet, Century, Tuxedo, Metropolitan, 
Downtown, 2 <t> and Fencers. The arms of the family are: Gules on a chevron, or., three talbots, 
passant, sable. The crest is, on a globe, or., a falcon rising, argent, gored, with a ducal coronet. 

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ALBERT MATHEWS 

IN the early annals of Westchester County, the name of Mathews is of frequent occurrence, and 
its possessors in different generations were prominent and influential in the affairs of the 
county. Mr. Albert Mathews, who was born in this city in 1820, descends from the 
Westchester family, his father being Oliver Mathews, of New York, and his mother, Mary (Field) 
Mathews, granddaughter of Uriah Field, of Long Island. His paternal grandfather, Daniel 
Mathews, of Westchester, married Charity Smith, belonging to a family which had also been long 
identified with that portion of the State, having intermarried with nearly all of other older families 
of the section in question. 

Educated at schools in this city, Mr. Mathews entered Yale, and graduated in 1842, with a 
high position in his class, having been editor of The Yale Literary Magazine, and a member of the 
Skull and Bones, and ^ T. His devotion to his alma mater and its interests has since been 
unceasing. He was identified with the organization of the Yale Alumni Association, of New York, 
and has served as its vice-president, as well as a member of its executive committee, taking always 
a warm interest in its success. Mr. Mathews' graduation from Yale was followed by a year spent 
in the law school of the sister university, Harvard, after which he returned to New York, was 
admitted to the bar, and began his professional career in 1845. He soon became prominent as a 
lawyer, at a time, too, when the New York bar boasted of such intellectual and forensic talent as 
that of Ogden Hoffman and Charles O'Connor. The knowledge of the law of equity possessed 
by Mr. Mathews, the ability with which he managed cases before juries, his skill in cross 
examination, rather than a declamatory manner of speaking, were leading elements in his success. 
He quickly acquired a large and lucrative clientage, and, until his virtual retirement from active 
practice, was retained in many civil actions in the courts. He was a founder of the New York Bar 
Association, and its vice-president in 1886. In 1849, Mr. Mathews married Louise Mott Strong, 
daughter of N. W. Strong, of this city. His wife dying in 1857, he was married a second time, in 
1861, to Cettie Moore Gwynne, daughter of Henry C. Flagg, of New Haven, who died in 1884. 

Mr. Mathews' literary activity dates back to his college days, and even when a lawyer in 
active practice, his love of letters asserted itself. Adopting the nom de guerre of " Paul Siegvolk," 
which he has always retained, he was a frequent contributor to The Knickerbocker Magazine and 
has contributed to The Home Journal, of this city, almost from its beginning, and for the last eight 
years continuously. In i860, he published Walter Ash wood, a novel which exhibited originality 
and power, and attracted great attention on its appearance. He neglected, however, to pursue the 
field of novel writing, but has continued to produce essays on literary and miscellaneous subjects. 
In 1879, appeared his first important book, A Bundle of Papers, of which several editions have 
been published. In 1877, ne a ' so published a volume of essays, Ruminations, now in its 
second edition. 

Mr. Mathews is also a graceful poet, having published a brief poem, Nil Desperandum, while 
A Retrospect, delivered in 1887 at the forty-fifth anniversary of his class, was printed at the request 
of his classmates. A recent short poem, Lines to an Autumn Leaf, has attracted much attention; 
while in 1896, a small volume, entitled A Few Verses, from his pen, was printed in a limited 
edition only, for circulation among friends. In addition, he has written much on legal, economic 
and political topics, including Incidental Protection a Solecism, Thoughts on the Codification of 
the Common Law, and many single articles upon a variety of subjects, which have appeared from 
time to time in the leading periodicals. 

Mr. Mathews takes an active interest in the Authors' Club. He joined the Century in 1889, 
and served as a member of its committees, and is, in addition, a member *of the University and 
Reform clubs, and of the St. Nicholas Society. He has spent considerable time in travel, and has 
visited Europe on several occasions, taking great pleasure in the literary, artistic and scientific 
worlds of the older countries, in all of which he possesses numerous friends. 

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CHARLES THOMPSON MATHEWS 

ON his father's side, Mr. Mathews traces his lineage to one of the oldest Dutch families 
of New York State. His ancestor was Major Dirk Wesselse Ten Broeck, who was 
born in Holland in 1642 and came to Beverwyck, now Albany, in 1662. In 1686, he 
was the first Recorder of the city, and Mayor in 1696-8. His wife was Christian Cornelise 
Van Buren. He was a member of the first Assembly of New York, in 169 1. It was this Dutch 
pioneer whom Washington Irving parodied in Knickerbocker's History. The great-great- 
grandmother of Mr. Mathews was Gertrude Schuyler, and it is through her that he is descended from 
Mayor Ten Broeck. His great-grandmother was Katharine Van Vorhees, of New Brunswick, 
N. J., and his grandmother was Anna Loree, of New York City. His grandfather was William 
Edmund Mathews, nephew and heir of Sir William Saunders, Bart. 

On his mother's side, Mr. Mathews is descended from Francis Newman, Governor of 
Connecticut in 1660, and from other distinguished families. His mother was Rebecca Bacon 
Thompson, the wife of Charles Drellincourt Mathews, of New York. Her mother was 
Lydia Bacon, granddaughter of J. Bacon, who married Lydia Hungerford, of Farley Castle, 
England. Her father was Charles Chauncey Thompson, of Woodbury, Conn. 

Through his maternal grandfather, Mr. Mathews goes back to Anthony Thompson, who 
came over in 1637 with Governor Eaton and Dr. Davenport and settled at New Haven. The 
grandson of Anthony Thompson, Samuel Thompson, married the daughter of Lieutenant- 
Governor James Bishop, of Connecticut. His great-great-grandson, Hezekiah Thompson, the 
great-great-grandfather of Mr. Mathews, was a lawyer, paymaster in the French War, and a 
member of the General Assembly of Connecticut. His son, Charles Thompson, 1780-1817, was 
a lawyer in New York City, and his grandson, Charles Chauncey Thompson, was one of the 
merchants of New York in the middle of this century. Through his maternal grandmother, who 
was second in descent from Lydia Hungerford, Mr. Mathews goes back to the Hungerfords of 
Farley Castle, England. The founder of this family was Walter de Hungerford, of the thirteenth 
century. His great-grandson, Sir Thomas Hungerford, in the reign of Edward III. was the first 
Speaker of the House of Commons, and in the next generation Sir Walter Hungerford, in the 
reign of Henry VI., was Lord High Treasurer. At the battle of Agincourt, he made Charles of 
Orleans prisoner. The great-grandson of Sir Walter Hungerford was a member of the Privy 
Council of Henry VIII. Two generations later the head of the family, Sir Edward Hungerford, 
surnamed "The Spendthrift," squandered his estate, which passed out of the possession of 
the family. The Hungerford arms were: Sable, two bars argent, in chief, three plates. 

Mr. Charles T. Mathews was born in Paris, March 31st, 1865. He was educated at St. 
Paul's School and in Paris and Nice. Graduating from Yale College in 1886, he also studied 
at the Columbia School of Mines, and was graduated Ph. B. in 1889. He studied architecture 
in Paris, exhibited drawings at Chicago at the World's Fair, and is a fellow of the American 
Institute of Architects. He has written extensively upon the subject of art and architecture, his 
principal works being, The Renaissance under the Valois, a book that is now used at Harvard, 
Columbia and other universities, and The Story of Architecture, published in 1896. 

Mr. Mathews resides at 30 West Fifty-seventh Street, and has a country residence at Norwalk, 
Conn. ; built originally at great expense, it passed into the hands of W. H. Vanderbilt, from whom 
Mr. Mathews' father purchased it in 1876. The house is laid out upon a large scale and superbly 
finished. It contains a ball room, theatre, state apartments, picture gallery, and so forth. The 
porphyry and marbles of the peristyle were brought from Egypt, and the woodwork of the 
interior is considered the best of its kind in this country. Mr. Mathews is a member of the 
Tuxedo, University, Racquet, A <& and Calumet clubs. He has traveled all through Europe, and 
has also visited China and Japan. He has a valuable collection of paintings, including examples 
of Diaz, Moreau, Tambourini and others, and is also owner of the Latour tapestries. 



TITUS BENJAMIN MEIGS 

VINCENT MEIGS came from Devonshire, or Dorsetshire, England, about 1640, with his 
wife and several children. Soon after his arrival, he settled at New Haven, Conn. 
Afterwards he removed to Guilford, Conn., then to East Guilford, and finally to Ham- 
monassett, where he died in 1658. John Meigs, his son, was a resident of East Guilford, 
being a freeman of that place in 1657, and dying there in 1671. His wife was Tamzin Fry. 
Next in order of descent was John Meigs, 1650-1713, and his wife, Sarah Wilcox. Janna Meigs, 
1 672- 1 739, son of the second John Meigs, was the first magistrate of East Guilford, Conn., and a 
deputy to the General Court, 1716-26. His wife was Hannah Willard, of Wethersfield. Captain 
Jehial Meigs, of East Guilford, 1703-1780, son of Janna Meigs, married Lucy Bartlett, of Lynn, Mass. 
In the next three generations came Elihu Meigs, 1749-1827, and his wife, Elizabeth Rich; Elihu 
Meigs, 1780-1806, and his wife, Jerusha C. Pratt, and Jabez Pratt Meigs, of Delhi, N. Y., 1805-1881, 
and his wife, Une Kelsey, of Madison, Conn., whom he married in 1824. 

Among the many descendants of Vincent Meigs, the pioneer, who have attained to special 
renown in the history of the country, none stands more prominent than Return Jonathan Meigs, of 
Connecticut, who is a collateral ancestor of Mr. Titus Benjamin Meigs. Born in Middletown, 
Conn., in 1734, he marched to Boston, immediately after the battle of Lexington. First assigned 
to duty with the rank of Major, he was engaged in the assault upon Quebec, being captured there 
and held a prisoner until the following year. In 1777, he was promoted to be Colonel, and led in 
an attack upon the British at Sag Harbor, Long Island, afterwards commanding a regiment under 
General Anthony Wayne, at Stony Point. 

The son of Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, also named Return Jonathan Meigs, was 
another distinguished public man. Born in Middletown, Conn., in 1765, he died in Ohio in 1825. 
He was a graduate from Yale College in 1785, and studied law, and in 1803 was Chief Justice of 
the Ohio Supreme Court. Afterwards he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel in the United 
States Army, and placed in charge of the Louisiana District. At the same time, he was Judge 
of the Supreme Court in 1807, became a Judge of the United States Court of Michigan, was 
United States Senator from Ohio in 1809, Governor of Ohio in 1810-14, and Postmaster-General of 
the United States from 18 14 to 1823. 

Mr. Titus Benjamin Meigs was born in Hobart, N. Y., in 1831. During the greater part of 
his life he has been engaged in business in New York His wife, whom he married in i860, 
was Lucia Jacobs, of Delhi. Mrs. Meigs is a lineal descendant of William Bradford and Elder 
Brewster, of the Mayflower. Her father, who was a distinguished physician, served in the Civil 
War as Brigade-Surgeon under Major-General N. P. Banks. Her brother, Ferris Jacobs, Jr., served 
with distinction during the entire five years of the Civil War, rising from the rank of Captain to 
that of Brigadier-General. Subsequently he was a Member of Congress. 

Mr. and Mrs. Meigs have had five children. Lucia Lasell Meigs married the Reverend 
Douglas Birnie, of Boston, Mass. Titus Benjamin Meigs died in infancy. Ferris Jacobs Meigs 
was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1889, is in business with his father, and is a 
member of the University, City and other clubs. Walter Meigs is a member of the class of 1898, 
Yale University. Frances Lyman Meigs married, in 1896, Oliver Smith Lyford, Jr., of Pittsburg. 
The home of the family is in East Sixty-fifth Street, near Fifth Avenue, and they have a summer 
residence, Stag-Head-on-Follensbee, near Axton, N. Y. Mr. Meigs is a member of the City, 
Barnard and Patria clubs. 

The ancestral home of the founder of the family is still standing in Dorsetshire. Over its 
front door the arms of the family are engraved on stone, as follows: Or., a chevron, azure, between 
three mascles, gules, on a chief sable, a greyhound, courant argent. Crest, a talbot's head erased, 
argent, eared sable, collared, or., below the collar, two pellets fessways, three acorns, erect issuing 
from the top of head, proper. 

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GEORGE MACCULLOCH MILLER 

THE family of Mr. George Macculloch Miller was originally of Scotland. His great-grand- 
father on his mother's side was an officer in the English Army, who served in India and 
was killed at Bombay. The maternal grandfather, George P. Macculloch, was brought 
from India to Scotland when he was only four years of age and was educated in Edinburgh, 
coming to America nearly a century ago. Mr. Miller's father, the Honorable Jacob W. Miller, of 
New Jersey, was a prominent lawyer and public man during the first half of the present century. 
He was born at German Valley, Morris County, N. J., in 1800, and died in 1862. He became a 
lawyer and had a very large and remunerative practice. In 1832, he was a member of the State 
Legislature, in 1839 a State Senator, and from 1841 to 1853 a United States Senator, from his native 
State. Originally a Whig, he became a Republican in 1855 on the slavery question. 

Mr. George Macculloch Miller was born in Morristown, N. J., in 1832. Graduated from 
Burlington College when he was eighteen years of age, he studied law in his father's office and in 
the Harvard Law School, and in 1853 was admitted to the bar in the States of New York and New 
Jersey. He became a very successful practitioner and was employed as counsel for many railroad 
companies and other large corporate and business interests. Out of this grew ultimately his 
connection with transportation enterprises, and of late years much of his law practice has been for 
such interests. He is now at the head of the law firm of Miller, Peckham & Dixon, which was 
established by him, and is one of the oldest and most successful law firms in New York. 

In 1871, Mr. Miller became president of the Newport & Wickford Railroad and Steamship 
Company, and two years later was elected a director of the New York, Providence & Boston 
Railroad Company. For ten years, 1879-89, he was president of the Providence & Stonington 
Steamship Company, his brother succeeding him in that position. For a period of six years, 
1 88 1 -7, he was also president of the Denver, Utah & Pacific Railroad Company. Other extensive 
and important corporations have also enlisted his services. He was vice-president of the New 
York, Providence & Boston Railroad Company until its merger with the New York, New Haven & 
Hartford Railroad Company, and is now president of the Housatonic Railroad Company and a 
director and one of the executive committee of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. 
He is a trustee of the Central Trust Company, of the Bank for Savings and of Greenwood Cemetery. 

The activity of Mr. Miller in the cause of religion, education and benevolence has scarcely 
been less notable than in his professional labors. He has given much of his time and contributed 
largely of his means to many worthy institutions of the city. A member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, he has for many years been on the standing committee of the diocese of New York. 
When the corporation of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was chartered, in 1873, Mr. Miller 
became one of the original trustees and secretary of the corporation, and has done considerable 
work in connection with the enterprise of building the new cathedral on Cathedral Heights. Mr. 
Miller was one of the first to suggest this locality as a proper one for the cathedral, and he has also 
accomplished the locating of St. Luke's Hospital there, circumstances which have tended to make 
that section of the city the centre of religious, scholastic and eleemosynary institutions, and 
creating and fostering a civic pride therewith, that is highly creditable and advantageous to the city 
and its progress. He was a trustee and secretary of the corporation of St. Luke's Hospital for over 
twenty years, 1869-90, and since 1892 has been annually elected its president. He has also been a 
warden of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church for many years. In politics he is a Republican and has 
been an energetic worker in the cause of honest municipal government. 

In 1857, Mr. Miller married Elizabeth Hoffman, daughter of Lindley Murray Hoffman, 
a member of the Hoffman family, distinguished in the public service of New York City and State. 
His children are Hoffman Miller, who is a lawyer in his father's office; Mary Louisa, wife of 
William B. McVickar, and Leverett S., Elizabeth and Edith Miller. His clubs include the Union 
League. Century, Union, City and Riding and he is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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JOHN BLEECKER MILLER 

BY several lines of descent, Mr. John Bleecker Miller comes from old Knickerbocker and 
English ancestors. In the sixth generation back, Eleazer Miller was a leading citizen in 
Easthampton, Long Island. Born in 1697, he died in 1788. From 1746 to 1769, he was a 
member of the New York State Assembly, in 1777 was a member of the General Convention of the 
State, and was one of the one hundred members of the famous Committee of Safety. Burnet 
Miller, also of Easthampton, son of Eleazer, 1719-1783, was a member of the Assembly, 1777-83, a 
member of the Constitutional Convention that met at Kingston in 1777, a Justice of the Peace in 
1763, town clerk of Easthampton 1747-76, and Supervisor 1746-77. A son of Burnet Miller was 
Dr. Matthias B. Miller, an accomplished and devoted physician, who was born in 1749 and died in 
1792, from yellow fever in Savannah, Ga., whither he had gone as a volunteer to help the plague- 
stricken people. Dr. Miller was a member of the Constitutional Convention with his father in 1777, 
belonged to the New York Medical Society and served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army 
throughout the war for independence. 

The son of Dr. Burnet Miller and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Morris 
Smith Miller, of Utica, N. Y., who was prominent in the public life of the period in which he lived, 
1779-1824. He was graduated from Union College in 1810, became private secretary to Governor 
John Jay, was a county Judge from 1810 to 1824, and a Member of Congress for one term, 1813-15. 
John Bleecker Miller, of the next generation, was born in Utica, N. Y., in 1820 and died in France 
in 1861. Graduated from the Harvard Law School, he became a member of the New York bar and 
practiced law for many years. For a time he was in the consular service, being the United 
States Consul to Hamburg, Germany, 1858-61. 

Members of this historic family have connected themselves in marriage with other leading 
and influential families of the State for several generations. Eleazer Miller married Mary Burnet, 
daughter of Captain Matthias Burnet, niece of the Reverend Abraham Pierson, who was one of the 
founders and the first president of Yale College, and granddaughter of the Reverend Dr. Pierson, of 
Yorkshire, England. The wife of Dr. Matthias B. Miller was Phcebe Smith, daughter of Judge Isaac 
Smith, of Dutchess County, N. Y., and of Margaret Piatt, descended from Captain Epenetus Piatt, a 
patentee of Huntington, Long Island, in 1665; from Major Piatt, a member of the New York State 
Assembly, 1723-39; and from Major Thomas Jones, Ranger-General of the Island of Nassau, 
1710-13. The mother of John Bleecker Miller, Sr., was Marie Bleecker, daughter of John Rutgers 
Bleecker, of Albany, and a descendant from James Bleecker, Mayor of Albany in 1700; from Rutgers 
Bleecker, Mayor of Albany ki 1726 and Judge, 1726-33; and as the names indicate, from the Rutgers 
family also. The wife of the same Mr. Miller, whom he married in 1850, was Cornelia Jones, 
daughter of Judge Samuel W. Jones, a descendant from the Honorable Samuel Jones, first Comp- 
troller of the State of New York. Miss Jones' mother was Maria Bowers Duane, a descendant 
from James Duane, who was born in 1733, son of Anthony Duane and Altea Ketteltas. He 
was a Member of Congress, 1774-83, and Mayor of New York, 1784-87. His wife was a 
daughter of Robert Livingston, the third Lord of Livingston Manor. 

Mr. John Bleecker Miller, the representative of this family in the present generation, was 
born in Utica, N. Y., June 28th, 1856, and was educated in Germany, where he was graduated 
from the University of Berlin. Returning home, he studied law in the Columbia Law School and 
was admitted to the New York bar. He was one of the founders of the Church Club of New York 
and is the author of several interesting and valuable sociological treatises, including Trade 
Organizations in Politics, Trade Organizations in Religion, and Leo XIII. and Modern Civilization. 
He resides in the old-time fashionable quarter of the city, at 56 West Ninth Street. He is a mem- 
ber of the Reform, Lawyers' and City clubs, the Bar Association, the St. Nicholas Society, the Sons 
of the Revolution and the American Geographical Society. Mr. Miller's wife was Berthenia 
Stansbury Dunn, daughter of the Reverend Ballard Dunn, of Virginia. 

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SETH MELLEN MILLIKEN 

IN the person of Mr. Seth M. Milliken, we have another example of that sturdy New England 
stock that has contributed so much to the growth of New York as the business and financial 
centre of the United States. Hugh Milliken, his ancestor and the progenitor of a family that 
has been prominent for two centuries and a half in Maine and Massachusetts, was a Scotchman 
who emigrated to this country with his family in 1650 and settled in Massachusetts. His sons and 
grandsons were active business men in the town of Boston, and took part in all the municipal life 
of the period to which they belonged. One of the grandsons of the pioneer, John Milliken, who 
was born in 1691, married Sarah Burnett, of Boston, and this couple were the founders of the 
Maine branch of the family. John Milliken purchased a farm in the town of Scarborough, Me., 
and died there in 1779. The line of descent from John Milliken to the subject of this sketch is 
through John Milliken, farmer, 1723-1766, and his wife Mrs. Eleanor Sallis; Benjamin Milliken, 
farmer and tanner, 1764-1818, and his wife, Elizabeth Babbridge; and Josiah Milliken, 1803-1866, 
who married Elizabeth Freeman. Josiah Milliken, the father of Mr. Seth M. Milliken, was a farmer, 
tanner and lumber dealer, of Minot and Poland, Me. He had a large family, and several of his 
sons have distinguished themselves by successful business careers. Weston E. Milliken, lumber 
merchant, banker, president of a steamship company and member of the Maine Legislature; 
Charles R. Milliken, president of the Portland Rolling Mill and the Poland Paper Company, and 
Seth M. Milliken, have been most conspicuous. Mrs. Josiah Milliken died in 1890. 

Mr. Seth M. Milliken was born in Poland, Me., January 7th, 1836. He was educated in the 
public schools of Poland and spent three years in the Academy in Hebron, and two years in the 
Academy in Yarmouth. All this he had accomplished before he had attained to the age of seven- 
teen. Then he worked in a flour mill in Minot, Me., for a couple of years, taught school in Portland 
one winter, and in 1856 started a general country store in the village of Minot. When, at the end 
of five years, he was ready to give up the little store, he had accumulated some capital and a good 
business experience. With that to start upon, he moved to Portland and went into the wholesale 
grocery business with his brother-in-law, Daniel W. True. Four years later, he entered the firm of 
Deering, Milliken & Co., wholesale jobbers of dry goods, of Portland, and has kept his connection 
with that house unbroken for more than thirty years. 

In 1867, Mr. Milliken established a branch of the Portland house in New York, and began 
the commission dry goods business in a small way. In 1873, he moved to the metropolis to take 
personal charge of that end of the business. He has since become largely interested in the 
manufacture of cotton and woolen goods, and is the guiding hand in several large manufacturing 
establishments, being leading owner of the Farnsworth Company, makers of flannels in Lisbon, 
Me.; president of the Pondicherry Company, woolen manufacturers in Bridgeton, Me.; the Cowan 
Woolen Manufacturing Company, of Lewiston, Me. ; and the Dallas Cotton Manufacturing Com- 
pany, of Huntsville, Ala. ; and a director of the Forest Mills Company, of Bridgeton, Me. ; the 
Lockwood Company, of Waterville, Me.; the Spartan Mills, of Spartanburg, S. C, and the Lock- 
hart Mills, of South Carolina. 

In New York Mr. Milliken is connected with important financial enterprises, being a director 
of the Mercantile National Bank and the Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and interested in other 
institutions. In 1892, he was a Presidential elector on the Republican ticket, but although an 
unswerving Republican, he has not generally taken an active interest in public affairs. He belongs 
to the Union League, Republican, Riding, Merchants', Driving and Suburban clubs, in New York, 
the Algonquin Club, of Boston, and the Cumberland Club, of Portland, Me. He is a member of 
the New England Society, and a supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His city residence 
is in Madison Avenue. In 1874, he married Margaret L. Hill, daughter of Dr. L. G. Hill, of Dover, 
N. H. Mrs. Milliken died in 1880, leaving a family of three children, Seth M., Jr., Gerrish H., and 
Margaret L. Milliken. 

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DARIUS OGDEN MILLS 

FAMILIES bearing the name of Mills came from the north of England, near the Scottish border, 
at an early date prior to the Revolution. Several of them settled on Long Island, and others 
in Connecticut. Before long they spread into New York State, and one branch was 
established in Westchester County a century ago. James Mills, the father of Mr. Darius Ogden 
Mills, was early settled in Dutchess County. He married Hannah Ogden, who came of a Dutchess 
County family of prominence in the history of the State, and allied to the famous Ogden family of 
New Jersey. In the early part of the present century, James Mills removed to Westchester County, 
where he became a representative citizen. For many years he was a leading man in the town of 
North Salem, being a large landholder, supervisor of the town, postmaster and justice of the peace. 
His death occurred in 184 1. He had six sons and one daughter. 

Mr. Darius O. Mills, the fifth son of James and Hannah (Ogden) Mills, was born in West- 
chester County, N. Y., September 25th, 1825. He was carefully educated for a business career. 
In 1841, he commenced life as a clerk in New York, but in 1847, when he was twenty- 
two years of age, removed to Buffalo, and became cashier of a bank and partner in a business 
house. When gold was discovered in California, in 1848, he was among those who were attracted 
by the prospects of the new Eldorado. He left his home in December of that year, and arrived in 
San Francisco in June, 1849. Engaging in business as a banker and dealer in bullion, he was 
financially successful before the end of his first year on the Pacific coast. Returning East, he closed 
out his interests in Buffalo, and in 1850 settled permanently in California, and established in Sacra- 
mento the financial institution of D. O. Mills & Co. In 1864, in association with other business 
men of San Francisco, he organized the Bank of California, of which he became president, and 
which under his management was the largest institution of the State, and one of the best known 
in the country. He resigned that position in 1873, but in 1875 was called again to the presidency 
to rescue the bank from the ruin which had been brought upon it by his successors in the manage- 
ment. He retired permanently from active business on the Pacific coast in 1878. 

In 1880, Mr. Mills was able to carry out his long cherished plan of returning to the East and 
making New York his residence. He transferred many of his interests to this city, and since that 
time has been financially and socially identified with New York. He still, however, retains an 
interest in many business enterprises in California. In this city one of his large investments is the 
splendid Mills Building in Broad Street, which is the headquarters of many of the most important 
corporations in the East. He is also the owner of a similar building in San Francisco. 

While in California he manifested a deep and practical interest in matters concerning the 
higher education and literary advancement of the community, and was regent and treasurer of the 
University of California. He gave seventy-five thousand dollars to endow a professorship in the 
University, and has also been a generous contributor to the cause of public education in other 
directions. He was one of the trustees of the Lick estate, and aided materially in starting the great 
Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. In New York his benefactions have been generous, includ- 
ing among others the founding of the Training School for Male Nurses near Bellevue Hospital, 
and he has also given generously to the support of other philanthropic undertakings. 

In 1854, Mr. Mills married Jane T. Cunningham, daughter of James Cunningham, of New 
York. His son, Ogden Mills, is a graduate from Harvard College, in the class of 1878, and is 
active in the management of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. He married Miss Livingston, 
daughter of Maturin Livingston, and lives in East Sixty-ninth Street. He is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Union League and other clubs. Elizabeth Mills, daughter of Mr. D. O. Mills, mar- 
ried the Honorable Whitelaw Reid. The Mills residence is in upper Fifth Avenue, and they also 
have a large country place in California. Mr. Mills is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, 
Union and Knickerbocker clubs, and is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 
American Museum of Natural History. 



ROBERT SHAW MINTURN 

IDENTIFIED as it has been for five generations with what is best, both socially and 
intellectually in the community, the Minturn family holds a leading position in the City 
of New York. William Minturn, the elder, was during the Colonial days a shipping 
merchant of Newport, R. I., whence he removed to New York and became one of those who 
gave to this city the commercial eminence it first began to enjoy in the period directly 
following the Revolutionary War. His wife was Penelope Greene, a cousin of the famous 
General Nathaniel Greene, of the Continental Army. Their son, William Minturn, Jr., also became 
a leading ship-owner, married a daughter of Robert Bowne, one of the most prominent and 
respected New York merchants of that day, and was the father of Robert Bowne Minturn, an 
honored philanthropist and the founder of some of the noblest works of charity the metropolitan 
city possesses. 

Robert Bowne Minturn became associated in business with the old-time New York 
merchant Preserved Fish, who was for many years one of the financial powers of the growing 
metropolis. In 1829, the firm name was changed to Grinnell, Minturn & Co., the famous 
brothers, Moses H. and Henry Grinnell, and Robert B. Minturn being equal partners in the 
establishment. The Grinnells came from New Bedford, Mass., being the sons of Cornelius 
Grinnell, a prominent merchant of that place. The firm of Grinnell, Minturn & Co., it can 
safely be said, held for a long period the unquestioned reputation of being the foremost shipping 
house in America, and up to 1861 sent by far more ships upon the ocean under the American 
flag than any firm in the country. Apart, however, from its enormous and successful com- 
mercial transactions with all parts of the world, it gained additional fame from the wide 
charities of Mr. Minturn and the liberality of his partner and brother-in-law, Henry Grinnell, 
who despatched to the Arctic regions the two expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin with 
which the name of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the American explorer, is imperishably connected. 

Robert B. Minturn was, as already stated, deeply interested in all charitable works. 
Among other instances of his philanthropy, he was one of the originators and the first 
treasurer of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and the 
establishment of St. Luke's Hospital, of which he was the first president, was largely due to 
his efforts and the financial aid which he gave it. He was also one of the founders of the 
Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled and served as its vice-president, being, 
in addition, closely identified with a great variety of other philanthropic and charitable works. 
His residence, at Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street, was in that day the scene of a cordial and 
refined hospitality, and his wife, a daughter of Judge John Lansing Wendell, of Albany, was 
noted for her high intelligence and personal charm. The agitation for the establishing of Central 
Park was initiated by her, and carried to success by her husband and the friends whose 
interest in the plan she had aroused and inspired. 

Their eldest son, Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr., graduated at Columbia College and was 
a man of high character and wide cultivation. He inherited both his father's philanthropic interest 
and business capacity and was a figure in the social, political, scholarly and financial life of 
the city. He married Susanna, daughter of the late Francis George Shaw, of Boston. One of 
Mrs. Minturn's sisters became the wife of George William Curtis, the renowned orator and 
man of letters, and her only brother was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the gallant young 
soldier, killed while leading the assault on Fort Wagner, and whose death is commemorated 
by the Shaw monument at Boston. Robert B. Minturn, Jr., died suddenly during the winter 
of 1889, while still in the prime of life. 

Mr. Robert Shaw Minturn, the eldest son of Robert B. Minturn, Jr., is a graduate of 
Harvard University and of the Law School of Columbia College. He is a member of the bar 
of this city and is unmarried, residing with his mother and sisters in Gramercy Park. 

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EDWARD MITCHELL 

THROUGH his paternal grandmother, the Honorable Edward Mitchell is descended from 
one of the first settlers upon the Island of Manhattan. An ancestor, Peter Anderson, 
received a grant of land in the city of New Amsterdam, in 1645. His son, Peter 
Anderson, was born here, in 1669, and the granddaughter of Peter Anderson, Cornelia Anderson, 
was the mother of Judge William Mitchell, Justice of the Supreme Court, and was the grandmother 
of the Honorable Edward Mitchell. The latter's paternal grandfather was the Reverend Edward 
Mitchell, who was a native of Coleraine, Ireland. He emigrated to this country, in 1791, and went 
to Philadelphia. After a few years, he removed to New York, where he remained until his 
death, in 1834. He was earnest in the cause of religion, and for many years was pastor of the 
Society of United Christians. The church of which he was rector is still standing, on Duane 
Street, east of Broadway. 

The Honorable William Mitchell, son of the Reverend Edward Mitchell, was a leading 
lawyer of his time. He was born in New York, February 24th, 1801, and died fn 1886. He was 
prepared for college under the instruction of Joseph Nelson, and, entering Columbia, was 
graduated from that institution, in the class of 1820, taking the first honor. In 1823, his alma 
mater conferred upon him the degree of M. A., and in 1863, the degree of LL. D. After 
completing his college course, he entered upon the study of law, devoting himself especially to 
equity jurisprudence. He was admitted to practice in 1823, became solicitor in Chancery in 1824, 
counselor at law in 1826, and counselor in Chancery in 1827. An appointment as Master in 
Chancery came to him in 1840, and in 1849 he became a Justice of the Supreme Court, for the First 
Judicial District of the State. During the year 1856, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeals, and 
in 1857, was made the presiding Judge of the Supreme Court. Judge Mitchell edited an edition of 
Blackstone's Commentaries with reference to American cases, a work of much learning. 

The mother of the Honorable Edward Mitchell, who was married to Judge William Mitchell, 
in 1 84 1, was Mary P. Berrian, of New York. Her father was of the old Berrian family, of 
Long Island. Cornelius Jansen Berrian, who was the American ancestor of the family, was a 
Huguenot, a native of the village of Berrien, in Finistere. Driven from his native land by religious 
persecution, he came to this country and settled on Long Island, in 1670. 

When Judge Mitchell died he left six children. Several of the sons have become well- 
known lawyers in this generation. The Honorable Edward Mitchell, the eldest son of the family, 
was born in New York City, in 1842. He graduated from Columbia College and the Columbia 
Law School, and had not completed his studies when the Civil War broke out. Leaving his 
books, he went into the service of the Sanitary Commission, his work taking him over the 
principal battle fields of Virginia and the West. After the war he returned to his studies and was 
admitted to the bar, forming a law partnership with his father and several of his brothers, and 
since that time has been in active practice. 

A prominent member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, he was for eleven 
years treasurer of that organization, until pressure of business compelled him to decline further 
reelection. In 1879, he was elected a member of the Assembly, from the Twenty-first District in 
the City of New York. In 1883, and again in 1886, he was the candidate of the Republican party 
for a Supreme Court Judgeship. Since 1880, he has been a trustee of Columbia College, and of the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1889, President Harrison appointed him District Attorney 
of the Southern District of New York, and he held that position until 1893. He was appointed 
a Park Commissioner by Mayor Strong in 1897. 

Mr. Mitchell holds a prominent social and professional position. He was one of the 
incorporators of the University Club, and is a member of the Century, Metropolitan, Union League, 
Riding, Tuxedo, and other clubs, and of the American Geographical Society. He married Caroline 
C. Wo'olsey, and has one daughter, Elsie Mitchell. His city home is at 31 East Fiftieth Street. 

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CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE 

FEW American men 01 letters hold a more honorable position than the Right Reverend 
Benjamin Moore, who was president of Columbia College from 1801 until 181 1. Bishop 
Moore, who was the great grandfather of Captain Clement Clarke Moore, was distinguished 
both as a clergyman and an educator. He was born in Newtown, L. I., in 1748, and received his 
education at King's, afterwards Columbia, College. Having studied theology for several years, he 
went to England to be ordained to the Episcopal ministry. Returning to this country, he became 
assistant minister of Trinity Church, and succeeded the Reverend Dr. David Provoost, as rector, in 
1800. The following year, he was elected Bishop of New York. He died in Greenwich Village, 
then a suburb of New York City, in 18 16. He was a man of high scholarship, and possessed both 
dignity and gentleness of character. He held at one time the offices of rector of Trinity Church, 
bishop of New York, and president of Columbia College, performing the duties of all these posi- 
tions in a wholly satisfactory manner. He was also the first vice-president of the New York His- 
torical Society, from the organization of that body in 1805. In 1778, he married Charity Clark, 
daughter of Captain Clement Clark. 

Bishop Moore belonged to an old Colonial family of Long Island. He was the great-grand- 
son of Samuel Moore, who, in 1662, was a grantee of land in Newtown, Long Island, and held 
various public offices, being a magistrate for many years up to his death, in 171 7. His wife was 
Mary Reed, who died in 1738. The great-great-grandfather of Bishop Moore was the Reverend 
lohn Moore, one of the settlers of Newtown, in 1652. He was the first minister of Newtown, and 
was ordained in New England. 

William Moore, of New York, 1754-1824, a brother of the Right Reverend Benjamin Moore, 
graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University, in 1780. Returning to the United States, he 
practiced his profession for over forty years. He was president of the New York Medical Society, 
trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a vestryman of Trinity Church. He married 
Jane Fish, daughter of Nathaniel Fish, and among his children were Nathaniel F. Moore, who 
became president of Columbia College; Maria Theresa Moore, who married Henry C. de Rham; 
Dr. Samuel W. Moore; Jane Moore, who married Henry Major; Sarah Moore, who married 
Edward Hodges, and William Moore, of the firm of de Rham & Moore. 

Clement Clarke Moore, the grandfather of Captain Clement C. Moore, was the son of Bishop 
Moore, born in New York, in 1779, and graduated from Columbia College in 1798. Although he 
was educated for the ministry, he never took orders, but devoted himself to the study of Oriental 
and classical literature. The ground upon which the General Theological Seminary stands, in 
Ninth Avenue, was given by him to the trustees of that institution, in which he became professor 
of Biblical learning, and afterwards of Oriental and Greek literature, holding the chair for nearly 
thirty years, and becoming professor emeritus in 185 1. He was the author of a Hebrew and Greek 
Lexicon, edited a volume of his father's sermons, and wrote much in lighter vein. He died in 
Newport, R. I., in 1863. 

Benjamin Moore, the eldest son of Clement C. Moore, was the father of the subject of this 
article. He was born in 1815, married Mary Elizabeth Sing, in 1842, and died in 1886. He was 
devoted to a country life, being a keen sportsman, a lover of floriculture, and a student of natural 
history. He lived on an estate a little above Sing Sing, on the Hudson, given to him by his father. 

Captain Clement Clarke Moore was born at his father's country home in 1843. He was 
educated at Churchill's school, in Sing Sing. During the Civil War he was Captain in a Massachu- 
setts regiment, and was present at the operations against Richmond, and the surrender of Lee. In 
1879, Captain Moore married Laura M. Williams, daughter of William S. Williams. The three 
living sons of this marriage are William Scoville, Barrington and Benjamin Moore. Captain Moore 
resides in East Fifty-fourth Street, and has a house in Newport. He is a member of the United 
Service club, and of the Loyal Legion. 

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WILLIAM HENRY HELME MOORE 

COMING from a family that had long been settled in Suffolk, on the western shore of 
England, bordering upon the North Sea, Thomas Moore, who was born about 1615, 
was the earliest ancestor of the family to which Mr. William Henry Helme Moore 
belongs. Before he was twenty years of age, he married Martha Youngs, daughter of the 
Reverend Christopher Youngs, Vicar of Reydon, Suffolk County, England. Landing in New 
England about 1636, he first resided in Salem, Mass., but shortly removed with others of his 
countrymen to Long Island, in that district which they named Suffolk County, after the ancient 
home of their ancestors across the sea. 

Thomas Moore became one of the most prominent citizens of Southold, the largest tax 
payer there, and frequently a representative to the General Court. In 1662, he became the owner 
of a large tract of land, bordering on the Sound, just northwest of the present village of Green- 
port, and there has been the homestead of his descendants for the last two hundred and thirty- 
five years. When the Dutch reobtained possession of New York in 1673 by expelling the Eng- 
lish, they offered Thomas Moore the magistracy of Southold as part of their plan to unite the 
territory of Long Island to the new government. But, loyal to the English rule, he declined to hold 
the position. In 1683, being a chief officer of the town, he was one of the committee appointed 
to select a representative to the first legislative assembly of the Province. He died in 1691. 

The father of Mr. William Henry Helme Moore was Colonel Jeremiah Moore, a direct 
descendant from Thomas Moore, the pioneer. His mother was Julia Brush, of Smithtown, L. I. 
She was descended from the Reverend George Phillips, of Brookhaven, L. I., son of the Reverend 
Samuel Phillips, a graduate from Harvard College in 1650, and pastor of the Church in Rowley, 
Mass., until 1695. The father of the Reverend Samuel Phillips was the Reverend George Phillips, 
who, born in Rainham, England, in 1593, and graduated from Cambridge University, was one of 
the company that was brought from England by Sir Richard Saltonstall, and founded the town 
of Watertown, Mass., in 1630. Colonel Jeremiah Moore and his wife, Julia Brush, had three 
sons and three daughters. The eldest son was Charles B. Moore, who was born in 1808, was 
an eminent lawyer, associated at one time with Francis B. Cutting, and was also a master in 
chancery. He also had high standing as a genealogist, and was a vice-president of the New York 
Genealogical and Biographical Society. His wife was Frances Maria Jones, daughter of John H. 
Jones, of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. The second son was Jeremiah Moore, and the third 
was William H. H. Moore. The eldest daughter of the family, Frances Maria Moore, married the 
Reverend William Hunting. The other two daughters were Mary Adaline and Julia Moore. 

Mr. William Henry Helme Moore was born in Sterling, Suffolk County, Long Island, in 1824. 
He was prepared for college at the Miller's Place Academy in his native town, and matriculated at 
Union College in 1840, graduating four years later. He began the study of law with his brother, 
Charles B. Moore. Admitted to the bar in 1847, he soon found himself most interested in that 
branch of his profession relating to the adjustment of marine losses. His devotion to that 
speciality led to his engagement with the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, of which he became 
the third executive officer, and was for thirty years its second vice-president, in 1886 becoming 
the first vice-president, and in 1895 president. He was also president of the Life Saving Benevo- 
lent Association, the Workingmen's Protective Union, and the New York Port Society, a trustee 
of the Seamen's Bank, a director of the Atlantic Trust Company, and the Phoenix National Bank, 
and one of the vice-presidents of the American Geographical Society. Since 1882, he has been 
a trustee of Union College, and in 1890 was president of the Union College Alumni Association 
of New York. For more than twenty-five years a member of the Union League Club, he is also a 
member of the Reform Club and the Bar Association. Mr. Moore married Adelaide L. Lewis. 
His residence is in West Seventy-second Street, and he has a country home at the ancestral seat of 
the family in Greenport, Long Island. 

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EDWIN DENISON MORGAN 

FEW families have borne a more honorable part in public and business life in New England 
and elsewhere in the country than the Morgans. They are descended from two brothers, 
who came from Wales in the early years of the seventeenth century and settled in 
Massachusetts, James Morgan and Captain Miles Morgan. The ancestor of that branch of the 
family, which has been conspicuously represented in the present generation by New York's 
great war Governor, Edwin D. Morgan, the grandfather of Mr. Edwin Denison Morgan, was James 
Morgan, 1607-1685. He arrived in this country in 1636, lived in Roxbury, Mass., for several 
years, was one of the early settlers of Groton, Conn., a selectman of New London and one of the 
first deputies to the Connecticut General Court. His wife was Margery Hill, of Roxbury, Mass. 
The line of descent to Governor Morgan, from James Morgan, was through John Morgan, 1644- 
1712, and his second wife, the widow Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Lieutenant-Governor 
William Jones; William Morgan, 1693-1729, and his wife, Mary Avery, daughter of Captain James 
Avery, of Groton, Conn.; Captain William Morgan, 1723-1777, and his wife, Temperance Avery, 
daughter of Colonel Christopher Avery and great-granddaughter of Captain James Avery; Captain 
William Avery, 1754-1842, who fought at Bunker Hill, and Jasper Morgan, who, born in 1783, 
was the father of Governor Morgan. The wife of Jasper Morgan was Catharine (Copp) Avery, 
1775-1822, widow of Jasper Avery, of Groton. 

Governor Edwin Denison Morgan was born in Washington, Mass., in 181 1, and died in 
New York in 1883. He engaged in mercantile life, at the age of seventeen, in Hartford. In 1836, 
he removed to New York, where he was soon established in business on his own account. In 
1843, he founded the firm of E. D. Morgan & Co. He became one of the great merchants of New 
York, and in the latter part of his life confined himself almost entirely to the banking business. 

Even more prominent in public life than in the business world, Mr. Morgan began his 
public career as a member of the City Council of Hartford, when he was only twenty-one 
years of age. He was an assistant alderman in New York in 1849, and a member of the 
New York Senate, 1850-53. In 1856, he was vice-president of the National Convention of his 
party, in Philadelphia, and chairman of the Republican National Committee for the ensuing eight 
years. He was Commissioner of Immigration, 1855-58, and United States Senator from New 
York, 1863-69. Governor of the State of New York, 1859-62, he rendered signal service to 
the Union cause. He was confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President 
Arthur, but declined the appointment. He was connected with many business enterprises, was 
governor and president of the Woman's Hospital, and for eight years vice-president of the Ameri- 
can Tract Society. He built a dormitory for Williams College, contributed generously to the 
Union Theological Seminary, the Presbyterian Hospital and other institutions, and by his will be- 
queathed about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to public purposes. The wife of Gov- 
ernor Morgan, whom he married in 1833, was Eliza Matilda Waterman, daughter of Captain 
Henry Waterman, of Hartford. He had several children, but only one of them survived, his son, 
Dr. Edwin D. Morgan, who was born in 1834 and died in 1881. 

Mr. Edwin Denison Morgan is the only surviving son of Dr. Edwin D. Morgan. His 
mother was Sarah Elizabeth Archer, daughter of Thomas and Lucy Archer, of Suffield, Conn. 
He was born in New York, and graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1877 and is 
engaged in the banking business. He married Elizabeth Moran. Devoting much time to gentle- 
manly sports, he is a member of the New York Yacht, Eastern Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, Coaching, 
Rockaway Hunt, Meadow Brook Hunt and Westminster Kennel clubs. His literary and social 
clubs and organizations include the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Union League, Knickerbocker and 
Union clubs, the Sons of the Revolution, the National Academy of Design and the American 
Geographical Society. He has a country estate, Wheatly, at Westbury Station, Long Island, and a 
cottage in Newport. 



JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN 

POSSESSING an international reputation as a financier, Mr. Morgan is also to be considered as 
one of the best types of citizenship of our Republic. A New Englander by birth, he retains 
all the moral fibre which distinguished the Puritans. His family is one which from the first 
settlement of Western Massachusetts took a place of prominence in the Colony. Its founder, 
Miles Morgan, 161 5-1699, arrived in Boston in 1636 and was one of the company, under the leader- 
ship of William Pynchon, which founded Springfield, Mass. In the allotment of lands, Miles 
Morgan received a plot on which he built a homestead that remained in the possession of his 
descendants until 1845. About 1643, he married Prudence Gilbert, of Beverly. Mass., and after her 
death he espoused Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bliss, of Springfield. The only son of this 
marriage, Nathaniel Morgan, 1671-1752, married Hannah Bird, their son being Joseph Morgan, born 
in 1702, whose wife was Mary Stebbins. The next in the line of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's descent 
was Captain Joseph Morgan, born in 1736, who married Experience Smith in 1765. His son, 
Joseph Morgan, 1780-1847, was for many years engaged in business in Hartford, Conn., and 
married Sarah Spencer, of Middletown, Conn. 

Junius Spencer Morgan, their son and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's father, was born at Holyoke, 
Mass., in 1813. He began his eminently successful business career at an early age, becoming a 
merchant in Hartford and later in Boston. In 1854, he removed to London and was a partner of 
George Peabody, the famous Anglo-American philanthropist, founding in 1864, when Mr. Peabody 
retired, the banking house of J. S. Morgan & Co. His death occurred in Nice, France, in 1890, as 
the result of an accident, ending a life which had been wholly useful and patriotic. His activity as 
a layman in the affairs of the Protestant Episcopal Church was noteworthy and, among other 
institutions, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., owes much to his munificence. 

His wife, Juliet Pierpont, whom he married in 1836, was also of the best New England 
stock, while her English ancestry was a notable one. The progenitor of the Pierpont family was 
Sir Robert de Pierrepont, a commander in the army of William the Conqueror, who became the 
first Lord of the Manor of Hurst Pierrepont, in Yorkshire, his lineal representatives in successive 
generations holding a distinguished place in the landed aristocracy of England. Robert Pierrepont, 
the grandson of Sir George Pierrepont, in the seventeenth century, became the first Earl of 
Kingston-upon-Hull, the title being subsequently merged in that of the Dukes of Kingston, which 
was extinguished on the death without issue of Evelyn Pierrepont, the second duke, in 1773. 
William Pierrepont, a younger son of Sir George Pierrepont, was the father of James Pierepont, 
who died in Ipswich, Mass., in 1648, and grandfather of the Honorable John Pierepont, 1617-1682, 
of Roxbury, Mass. The latter's son was the Reverend James Pierpont, 1659-1714, a famous 
divine, who became pastor of the church at New Haven in 1685 and was one of the three ministers 
to whom the foundation of Yale College was due, and who, indeed, suggested it, thus reviving a 
plan of the Reverend John Davenport, the founder of New Haven. His third wife was Mary 
Hooker, granddaughter of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, the famous Puritan minister who led the 
migration of his flock from Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., to Hartford, in 1636, and their son, 
James Pierpont, 1694-1776, graduated at Saybrook (afterwards Yale) College in 1718 and married 
Anna Sherman. Their son, another James Pierpont, 1761-1840, married Elizabeth Collins. 

The Reverend John Pierpont, the poet, clergyman and patriot, who was Mr. Morgan's 
grandfather, was the son of James and Elizabeth (Collins) Pierpont and was born at Litchfield, 
Conn., in 1785, dying in 1866. He graduated at Yale College in 1804 and became a lawyer, but in 
1819 was ordained a clergyman. Among his first charges was the pastorate of the Hollis Street 
Unitarian Congregation of Boston, but the earnestness of his views on slavery and temperance led 
to his relinquishing this post. He subsequently occupied pulpits in Troy, N. Y., and other cities, 
and at the beginning of the Civil War felt impelled, despite his advanced age, to enter the army as 
chaplain of a Massachusetts regiment, though he was soon compelled to retire. Shining as an 



orator, he also took a high rank among American poets of the pas-t generation, many of his works, 
among them Airs of Palestine, obtaining a wide circulation. He married his cousin, Mary 
Sheldon Lord, in 1810, their daughter, Juliet Pierpont, being born at Baltimore, Md., in 1816. 

Mr. John Pierpont Morgan is the only son of Junius Spencer and Juliet (Pierpont) Morgan 
and was born in Hartford, Conn., April 17th, 1837. Educated at Boston and Gottingen, Germany, 
he returned to the United States in 1857 and entered the banking business with Duncan, Sherman 
& Co., of New York. In i860, he became attorney in America for George Peabody & Co., of 
London, and in 1864 was partner in Dabney, Morgan & Co. In 1871, the famous banking house 
of Drexel, Morgan & Co. was formed, which in 1895 was changed to the style of J. P. Morgan & 
Co. On the death of his father, Mr. Morgan also became the head of the firm of J. S. Morgan & 
Co., of London, and usually spends a portion of each year in that city. 

It is scarcely germane to our purpose to dwell upon Mr. Morgan's eminence as a banker and 
financier. Indeed, the facts in this connection are too well known to require detailed mention. 
Acknowledgment must, however, be made of his services to the country in 1894 and 189s, when, 
largely by his efforts, the credit of the United States Treasury was protected, while the many great 
corporations he has restored to solvency have made his labors a matter of national importance. 

In early life, Mr. Morgan married Amelia Sturges, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Cady) 
Sturges, of New York, who died soon after. In 1865, he contracted a second matrimonial alliance, 
with Frances Louisa Tracy, daughter of Charles Tracy, 1810-1885, who graduated from Yale 
College in 1832 and was a leading member of the New York bar, and whose wife, Louisa Kirkland, 
was the daughter of General Joseph Kirkland, of Utica, N. Y. The Tracy family possesses a notable 
ancestry. Mrs. Morgan's grandfather was William Gedney Tracy, born at Norwich, Conn., in 1768, 
who settled at Whitesbough, N. Y., and married Rachael Huntington, of Norwich. His grandfather, 
Joseph Tracy, 1706- 1787, for many years a town official of Norwich, was the son of Captain Joseph 
Tracy, 1682-1765, of Norwich, which town he frequently represented in the Connecticut Legis- 
lature. He was the son of Captain John Tracy, 1642-1702, one of the original proprietors of 
Norwich, who in 1670 married Mary Winslow, daughter of Josiah Winslow and niece of Governor 
Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower emigrants. Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, his father, who 
came to Salem, Mass., about 1636 and was also an original proprietor of Norwich, Conn., was the 
son of Nathaniel Tracy, of Tewksbury, England, and grandson of Richard Tracy, of Stanway, and 
his wife, Barbary Lucy, daughter of Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick- 
shire. Richard Tracy was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, and a cadet of the Tracy, or de Traci, 
family of Todington, whose representatives in the middle ages were repeatedly sheriffs of 
Gloucestershire and held other high office. 

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have four children. Their only son, John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., born in 
1867, graduated from Harvard University in the class of 1889 and is engaged in the banking business 
with his father. In 1891, he married jane Norton Grew, of Boston, and has a son, Junius Spencer 
Morgan, born in 1892. The three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are Louisa Pierpont, Juliet 
Pierpont, the wife of W. Pierson Hamilton, md Anne Tracy Morgan. The burdens of business do 
not prevent Mr. Morgan from enjoying the social side of life. He is a member of the leading clubs, 
wjs one of the founders and president of the Metropolitan Club and is commodore of the New 
York Yacht Club. He also takes an active interest in many charitable organizations, is a warden 
of St. George's Church and has several times been a lay delegate from this diocese to the general 
conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The family residence is in Madison Avenue, and 
his country seat is Cragston, at Highland Falls, N. Y. The three sisters of Mr. J. P. Morgan were 
Sarah Spencer, Mary Lyman and Juliet Pierpont Morgan. The first named, born in 1839, married 
George Hale Morgan, in 1866, and died in 1896. Their children are Junius Spencer Morgan, who 
married Josephine Adams Perry; George D. Morgan and Caroline L. Morgan. Mary Lyman 
Morgan, born in 1844, married, in 1867, Walter H. Burns, who was a member of the firm of J. S. 
Morgan & Co., of London, until his death in November, 1897. Juliet Pierpont Morgan, born in 1S47, 
married the Reverend John B. Morgan, rector of the American Episcopal Church in Paris, France. 



AUGUSTUS NEWBOLD MORRIS 

AMONG the great landowners of New Netherland, in the seventeenth century, were 
members of the Morris family. Originally of Welsh blood, the family was descended 
from the great chieftain Rhys, or Rice, Fitzgerald, brother to Rhys, Prince of Gevent- 
land. In 1171, in company with Richard de Clare, known as Strongbow, he took part in the 
Anglo-Norman conquest of Ireland, and for his valiant deeds was called Maur Rhys, that is, the 
great Rys. In the course of time, his descendants proudly held to this title, which eventually 
became transformed into Morris. The arms of the family are: Gules, a lion, rampant, reguardant 
or., quarterly with three torteauxes, argent; the crest is a castle in flames. 

William Morris, of Tintern, Monmouthshire, England, was the father of the two sons who 
became identified with this country. The elder son, Colonel Lewis Morris, inherited an estate in 
England, but emigrated to the West Indies in 1662, and came to New York in 1674. His brother, 
Richard, who had been a Captain in Cromwell's army and later a merchant in Barbadoes, preceded 
him to this country and bought a large plantation north of the Bronx River, part of the property of 
Joseph Bronck, or Bronx, a Hollander who had settled there and acquired possession from the 
Indians. The property was in part confiscated by the Dutch when they temporarily repossessed 
the Colony in 1673, but Colonel Morris, coming from Barbadoes, regained possession of it for 
himself and for his young nephew, Lewis Morris, the only son of his brother Richard, who had 
in the meantime died. Colonel Morris was a member of Governor Dongan's council, 1683-86, and 
when he died, in 1691, his nephew, Lewis Morris, succeeded to the entire estate. 

In 1697, Governor Fletcher confirmed to the younger Lewis Morris the grant made by 
Governor Andros to his uncle, and erected the lands into a lordship or manor under the name of 
Morrisania. This tract of land included some nineteen hundred acres. Lewis Morris was born in 
1672, and was in many ways a remarkable man. He was the first native born Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of New York, a Judge of East New Jersey in 1692, Governor of New Jersey, 
1738-46, and was prominent in all the difficulties attending the administrations of the early Colonial 
Governors, Combury, Hamilton, Lovelace, Ingoldsby, Hunter, Cosby, Montgomerie and Burnet. 
He died in 1746 and was succeeded by Lewis Morris, second of the name, his son by his wife, 
Isabella Graham, daughter of Sir James Graham, Attorney-General of the Province of New York. 
The second Lewis Morris, 1698- 1762, was several times a member of the Colonial Assembly, 
and was also Judge of the Court of Admiralty and of the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Among 
his children were several of the most famous men of the Revolutionary period, including, as they 
did, General Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Honorable Richard 
Morris, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and the Honorable Gouvemeur Morris, Minister to 
France in 1792. Among his grandchildren were Colonel Lewis Morris, aide to General Nathaniel 
Greene, General Jacob Morris and Commodore R. V. Morris, of the United States Navy. 

Mr. Augustus Newbold Morris is descended from General Lewis Morris. His grandfather, 
James Morris, was the fourth son of the General, while his grandmother was a member of the Van 
Cortlandt family, of Yonkers. His father, William H. Morris, who was born in 1810, was the tenth, 
child of the family. His first wife was Hannah Newbold, daughter of Thomas Newbold, of New 
York, and the subject of this sketch is the only surviving son of their family of five children- 
Mr. Morris was born June 3d, 1838, and was graduated from Columbia College in i860. He has. 
traveled extensively in Europe and the East. His attention has been largely taken up with caring 
for his estates, but he has devoted much time to charitable undertakings, being on the board of 
management of many benevolent institutions. His former home in Pelham, now part of New 
York's park system, was one of the most beautiful country places in the vicinity of the city. He 
has a city residence in East Sixty-fourth Street, and belongs to the Metropolitan and Union 
clubs. He married Eleanor C. Jones, daughter of General James I. Jones. His son, Newbold 
Morris, married Helen S. Kingsland. 

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HENRY LEWIS MORRIS 

CONSPICUOUS above most families in the number of eminent sons that it has contributed 
to the public service of their country, has been the Morris family of Morrisania. The 
origin and the early American history of the family have been given on the preceding page 
of this volume. That branch of which Mr. Henry Lewis Morris is the prominent representative in the 
present generation, is derived from Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. The 
second Lewis Morris, 1698-1762, was twice married, first to Catharine Staats, daughter of Dr. 
Samuel Staats, and again to Sarah Gouverneur, daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur. By both wives, 
he was the father of sons who became preeminently distinguished. His elder son, by his wife, 
Catherine Staats, was Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a Major-General 
in the Revolution. His second son, Staats Long Morris, adhered to the cause of the crown in the 
Revolution, and returning to England, married Lady Catherine Gordon, daughter of the Earl of 
Aberdeen, and widow of the Duke of Gordon, and became a General in the British Army. His 
third son, the Honorable Richard Morris, was Chief Justice of New York, 1779-90. 

General Lewis Morris married Mary Walton, daughter of Jacob Walton and Maria Beekman, 
who died in 1794. Their sixth son was Commodore Richard Valentine Morris, who was a Captain 
in the navy in 1798, commanded the Mediterranean Squadron in 1802, and died in New York in 
181 5. Commodore Morris was the grandfather of Mr. Henry Lewis Morris. His first wife was 
Anne Walton, daughter of Jacob Walton and Mary Cruger, who was a daughter of Henry Cruger, 
Sr. By her he had three sons, Gerard W., Richard V., and Henry Morris. Henry Morris, the 
third son, married Mary N. Spencer, daughter of the Honorable John C. Spencer, Secretary of War 
and of the Treasury, under President John Tyler. Mr. Henry Lewis Morris, who was born August 
8th, 1845, is the eldest son of Henry Morris and his wife, Mary N. Spencer. He married, in 1868, 
Anna R. Russell, daughter of Archibald Russell and Helen Rutherfurd Watts, and granddaughter 
of Dr. John Watts and Anna Rutherfurd. Through both her grandfather and her grandmother, 
who were cousins, Mrs. Morris is descended from the Rutherfurd and Watts families, who have 
been conspicuous in the annals of New York. Her grandfather was the son of Robert Watts 
and Mary Alexander, and a grandson of John Watts, member of the King's Council of New York, 
and also of Major-General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, of the American Army, by his wife, 
Sarah Livingston, daughter of Philip Livingston, second Lord of the Manor. The grandmother of 
Mrs. Morris was a daughter of John Rutherfurd, of New York. 

Mr. and Mrs. Morris reside in Morrisania, upon a portion of the old Manor property which 
Mr. Morris inherited from his father and grandfather. They have a city residence in West Fifty- 
third Street, and a country home, Mount Airy Cottage, Ridgefield, Conn. They have had two 
children, Eleanor Rutherfurd and Lewis Spencer Morris. Mr. Morris was educated as a lawyer, and 
is engaged in the practice of his profession in New York. He is a member of the Bar Association, 
the Metropolitan, Lawyers', Church, City and Riding clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, and the 
American Geographical Society, and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 
American Museum of Natural History. 

By his second wife, Sarah Gouverneur, the most distinguished son of Colonel Lewis Morris 
was Gouverneur Morris, the eminent statesman and diplomat, 1752-18 16. His wife was Ann Cary 
Randolph, of Virginia, daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph, and a member of the Randolph, 
Cary, Page, Wormley, Fleming and Isham families, of Virginia. The second Gouverneur Morris, 
who was born in 1813, took an active part in the development of the internal resources of the 
United States in the first half of the present century. He was twice married, first to his cousin, 
Martha Jefferson Cary, of Virginia, and second, to his cousin, Anna Morris. He left two sons, 
Gouverneur Morris and Randolph Morris. The former was a journalist and died in 1897, leaving 
a widow, who was Henrietta Baldwin, a daughter, Henrietta Fairfax Morris, and a son, Gouverneur 
Morris, who is a student in Yale University. 



RICHARD MORTIMER 

FOR three generations the Mortimer family has been conspicuously identified with all that is 
conservative and substantial in New York City. They came originally from good English 
stock, their ancestors being substantial residents of Yorkshire. William Mortimer, a man 
of prominence of Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, was the immediate ancestor of the American branch of 
the family. He was the possessor of independent means, and figured conspicuously in the local 
affairs of the community in which he lived. 

Richard Mortimer, the son of William Mortimer, was born in Cleckheaton in 1791. He was 
brought up to follow a commercial career, and had some experience in business before he left 
England. His brother-in-law was William Yates, a manufacturer of woolen goods, who was then 
at the head of a firm that could trace back its history for more than one hundred years; and in 1816 
Richard Mortimer, who was then twenty-five years of age, came to New York to represent 
his relative in the United States. He was eminently successful in his conduct of the interests with 
which he was entrusted, and at the same time took a high rank in the New York commercial 
community, while he also became the possessor of large personal means. In 1834, after eighteen 
years of successful business experience in New York, he was obliged to retire on account of ill 
health and paid a long visit to Europe. Returning to this country, he invested largely in New 
York real estate, and displayed a far-sighted appreciation of the future growth of the city. 

Among his many important possessions were the Mortimer Building in Wall Street, as well 
as other properties in the principal up-town streets. For many years he resided in a house 
in Broadway near Twelfth Street. Mr. Mortimer was a director of the Standard Fire Insurance 
Company and of the Sixth Avenue Railroad, and was connected with many other corporations. 
In 1821, he married Harriette Thompson, of New Haven, Conn., a daughter of William 
Thompson, and a descendant from Anthony Thompson, who was one of the company that 
originally settled New Haven under Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport, in 1637. 

William Yates Mortimer, the son of Richard Mortimer and his wife, Harriette, was born in 
New York City and educated principally in Europe. He married Elizabeth Thorpe, daughter of 
Aaron Thorpe, of Albany. Inheriting a large part of his father's fortune, his life was spent in 
caring for this property and in real estate investments of his own, by which he greatly increased 
his wealth. He was also deeply interested in the welfare of the community and was a liberal 
benefactor of its charitable institutions. He died in 1891, and by the terms of his will, left 
considerable sums of money to such objects. Two sons of William Yates Mortimer represent the 
family in this generation, Richard Mortimer and Stanley Mortimer. Mr. Richard Mortimer is 
executor and trustee of the family estate, and while not engaged actually in business has displayed 
the possession of hereditary talent for the management of large interests. 

Mr. Mortimer resides at 382 Fifth Avenue, but spends a considerable portion of his 
time in Europe. He belongs to the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Union, City, Racquet, Coaching, 
Riding and Westminister Kennel clubs, has a country residence at Tuxedo Park, is a member of 
the Country Club of Westchester County, of the Downtown Association and of the Meadow Brook 
Hunt, and is a patron of the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art. He married Eleanor Jay Chapman, the daughter of Henry Grafton Chapman. Mrs. 
Mortimer is the granddaughter of the Honorable John Jay, United States Minister to Austria, 
and his wife Eleanor Kingsland Field, daughter of the famous New York merchant, Hickson W. 
Field. Through her grandfather, who was the third and only surviving son of Judge William Jay, 
jurist, philanthropist and author, she is descended from the great Chief Justice John Jay. Her 
great-grandmother was the daughter of John McVickar, one of New York's eminent merchants. 
Going further back, Mrs. Mortimer traces her descent from Augustus Jay, the Huguenot, who 
came to New York in 1686, married a daughter of Balthazar Bayard and became the ancestor of 
one of the most distinguished families in American annals. 



LEVI PARSONS MORTON 

AMONG the influential Puritans of New England was George Morton, or Mourt, who was 
born in Yorkshire in 1585, and married, in 1612, Juliana Carpenter, daughter of 
Alexander Carpenter. He managed the Mayflower expedition in 1620, and coming to 
New England on the Anne, the last of the three Pilgrim ships, in 1623, settled in Middleboro, 
Mass. His book, Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622, is the earliest account of the 
planting of the Plymouth Colony. His son, John Morton, 1616-1673, was a freeman of Plymouth in 
1648, deputy to the General Court in 1662, and one of the twenty-six original proprietors of 
Middleboro. John Morton, Jr., of Plymouth, 1650-171 7, kept the first public school ever opened in 
America. His wife was Mary Ring, daughter of Andrew Ring, and his son, Captain Ebenezer 
Morton, 1696-1750, married Mercy Foster, daughter of John and Hannah (Stetson) Foster. 
Ebenezer Morton, Jr., born in Middleboro in 1726, married Sarah Cobb, their son, Livy Morton, 
1 760- 1 838, being a soldier in the Revolution and marrying Hannah Dailey, daughter of Daniel 
and Hannah Dailey, of Easton, Me. Their eldest son was the Reverend Daniel O. Morton, 
1788-1852, who was graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1812, and ordained to the 
ministry in 1814. He was the father of the Honorable Levi P. Morton. 

The mother of Mr. Levi P. Morton was Lucretia Parsons, daughter of the Reverend Justin 
and Electa (Frairy) Parsons. Her father, who was born in 1759, in Northampton, Mass., served in 
the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. He was a son of Benjamin Parsons and Rebecca 
Sheldon, grandson of Captain Ebenezer Parsons and great-grandson of Joseph Parsons, who was 
for twenty-three years a Judge in Hampshire County, Mass. Joseph Parsons was a son of Cornet 
Joseph Parsons, and was one of the founders of Springfield, Mass. Other Colonial ancestors of 
Mr. Morton are, Robert Stetson, of the Plymouth Colony; Elder John Strong, of Plymouth and 
Northampton; Rowland Stebbins, of Roxbury and Northampton; John Frairy, of Dedham, and 
Stephen Hopkins, who came on the Mayflower in 1620. 

Mr. Levi Parsons Morton was born in Shoreham, Vt., May 16th, 1824, was graduated from 
the local academy, went into business in Hanover, N. H., and in 1849 engaged in mercan- 
tile life in Boston. In 1863, he founded the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co., and 
at the same time established the branch London house of Morton, Rose & Co. In 1878, he was 
appointed honorary commissioner from the United States to the Paris Exhibition and the same year 
was elected a Member of Congress from a New York City district, being reelected in 1880. 
President James A. Garfield appointed him Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to 
France in 1881, and he made a distinguished success in that diplomatic position. He was elected 
Vice-President of the United States in 1888, and was Governor of the State of New York, 1895-96. 

Mr. Morton has been twice married. His first wife was Lucy Kimball, daughter of Elijah 
H. and Sarah W. Kimball, of Flatlands, Long Island. She died in 1871. His present wife was 
Anna L. Street, daughter of William L. Street and Susan Kearny. She is descended from several 
of the old Manhattan families. Her grandfather was General Randall S. Street, and her 
grandmother Cornelia Billings, daughter of Major Andrew Billings, a Revolutionary soldier, by his 
wife, Cornelia Livingston, who was the granddaughter of Gilbert Livingston and Cornelia 
Beekman and great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston and Alida (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer. 
Mr. and Mrs. Morton have five daughters, Edith L., Lena K., Helen S., Alice and Mary Morton. 
The city residence of the family is in upper Fifth Avenue, and they have a large country estate, 
Ellerslie, at Rhinecliff-on-Hudson. Mr. Morton is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Union 
League, Lawyers', Republican and Tuxedo clubs, the Century Association, the Downtown 
Association, the New England Society, the Sons of the American Revolution and the American 
Geographical Society, and is a supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American 
Museum of Natural History and the National Academy of Design. Dartmouth College, in 1881, 
and Middlebury College, in 1883, bestowed upon him the degree of LL. D. 

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WILLIAM JAMES MORTON, M. D. 

DR. MORTON'S paternal line begins with Robert Morton, one ot an old Scotch family who, 
early in the eighteenth century, settled at Mendon, Mass., and then moved to New Jersey, 
purchasing a tract which is now Elizabethtown. James Morton, his son, was a member 
of the Friends' colony at Smithfield, R. I., but with his son Thomas fought throughout the 
Revolution. James Morton, son of Thomas, married Rebecca Needham, of Charlton, Mass., and 
established himself in that town, where his son, William Thomas Green Morton, was born August 
9th, 1819. The discovery of surgical anaesthesia remains to this day the brightest page in our 
country's medical annals. Its discoverer, Dr. William T. G. Morton, manifested scientific 
tendencies in early life, and entered, in 1844, the medical department of Harvard. His great 
discovery, the use of sulphuric ether to suppress pain, to which his friend, Dr. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, first applied the term " Anaesthesia, " was the result of prolonged investigation. He first 
demonstrated that a patient could be made unconscious under the severest operation at the 
Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16th, 1846. In October, 1896, the semi-centennial of 
this event was fittingly commemorated at the hospital. 

Professional honors were showered upon Dr. Morton; he received decorations from the 
Emperor of Russia and the King of Sweden and Norway, the Montyon prize of the French 
Academy, and many honorary degrees, while the Massachusetts General Hospital presented him 
with a silver box containing one thousand dollars in gold. But despite six congressional reports in 
his favor, he received neither substantial reward nor honor from his own country. After his death, 
the public erected a monument over his grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery, and one commemorating 
his discovery stands in the Public Garden at Boston, while his name is inscribed on the 
Massachusetts State House and the Boston Public Library. During the Civil War, Dr. Morton 
volunteered his services in relation to the use of anaesthesia in the army, and was present at 
Fredericksburg and with Grant in the Wilderness, the latter according him special facilities. He 
died suddenly at New York City in 1868. 

His wife, the present Dr. Morton's mother, was Elizabeth Whitman, daughter of Edward 
Whitman, of Farmington, Conn., who still lives, a central figure in her son's home. She is 
descended from Ensign John Whitman, of Weymouth, Mass., two of her ancestors, Zachariah and 
Samuel Whitman, having graduated at Harvard in 1668 and 1696 respectively. Of the three sons 
of this marriage, two, William James and N. B. Morton, adopted the medical profession. The 
second son, Edward W., served in Africa in the Cape Mounted Rifles and won the Victoria medal. 

Dr. William James Morton, the eldest son, was born in Boston, in 1845, attended the Boston 
Latin School, was graduated from Harvard in 1867, and from its medical department in 1872. He 
studied in Vienna and Paris, spent two years in South Africa, and in 1878 made his permanent 
home in New York, where he has since practiced his profession, making frequent and prolonged 
visits to Europe, Mexico and other countries. Dr. Morton not only defended the claims of his 
father to his great discovery, but has followed his footsteps by original research, particularly in 
neurology and electricity. He is an expert upon the X-ray and has written much upon medical 
and general topics, and is a member of the leading medical societies, as well as of the University 
Club, Harvard Alumni and New York Electrical Society, and is a fellow of the American 
Geographical Society. He has held professorships in the medical colleges, and is an authority upon 
diseases of the mind and nervous system. 

In 1880, Dr. Morton married Elizabeth Campbell Lee, daughter of Colonel Washington Lee, 
of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Three of Mrs. Morton's great-grandfathers, Colonel Lazarus Stewart, 
Lieutenant John Jameson and Captain Andrew Lee, fought in the Revolution, and Abigail Alden, 
the wife of John Jameson, was descended from John Alden. Besides his residence in the city, the 
Doctor has a beautiful summer home, Island Redwood, of one hundred acres, in the Bay of Sag 
Harbor. He is a talented amateur landscape painter and is fond of outdoor sports. 



HOPPER STRIKER MOTT 

IN his name and person Mr. Hopper Striker Mott unites three important families of New 
York. The Mott family was originally French — de la Motte by name — but moved to 
England centuries ago. It is an old Essex family, dating as far back as 1375. The crest 
and arms, which are used by the Motts in America, were granted in 161 5, and are: Arms, a 
crescent argent; crest, an estoile of eight points argent. Motto, Spectemur agendo. The present 
seat of the family is Barningham Hall, Hanworth, Norfolk. 

From this Essex house came Adam Mott, the founder of the family in America, who has 
been thought by many to have been the Adam Mott who arrived in Boston in 1635, and settled 
in Hingham in 1636 and in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1638, and was supposed to have removed to 
Long Island about 1646. This opinion has been accepted by Thomson in his History of Long 
Island, but Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island and Savage's Dictionary of New 
England make no mention of the removal to Long Island. 

Little is authentically known concerning the founder of the New York Mott family. 
According to the records of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, Adam Mott, of Essex, 
England, was married, July 28th, 1647, to Jane Hulet, of Buckingham, England. In 1646 (New 
York Historical Documents, Volume XIV., page 66), the Dutch Government granted him land on 
Mespath Kill (Newtown Creek). According to the Albany records (IV., page 187-9-190), he 
was a witness in court in 1644 and in 1645. On the other hand, the New England Adam 
Mott was from Cambridge, England; the names of his two wives, the dates of the marriages 
and the names of his children are different from those of Adam Mott of New Amsterdam. The 
will of the latter, dated March 12th, 168 1-2, is in the Surrogate's office of New York. That 
the New York Adam Mott was not the one who came to Boston in 1635 and later to Hingham, 
Mass., appears from these facts. 

About 1655, Adam Mott of Essex became the first Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island. In 
Book A, the oldest annals of its founders, he appears as one of the five townsmen, chosen 
March 17th, 1657. One of his descendants now occupies the homestead built by a son in 1715 
at Mott's Point, Hempstead Harbor. On February 24th, 1663, as a deputy from Hempstead on 
behalf of the English, he signed the agreement between Captain John Scott and Governor Petrus 
Stuyvesant, looking to friendly intercourse between Dutch and English. In 1684, he was one of 
the delegation which procured a new patent from Governor Dongan. For a second wife he 
married, in 1667, Elizabeth Richbell, daughter of John Richbell, original patentee of Mamaroneck. 
He died in 1689, aged about sixty-eight years. 

By his first wife, Adam Mott had eight children: Adam, Jacobus, Grace, Elizabeth, Henry, 
John, Joseph and Gershom. One of the sons of Joseph Mott was Jacob Mott, 171 5-1805. He 
married Abigail Jackson, and was the father of fourteen children. His fourth child, Isaac Mott, 
born in 1743, married Anne Coles, of Glen Cove, Long Island. She was the Anne Mott who 
ministered to the American prisoners confined in the military prisons in New York. The family 
is still in possession of the table cloth given to her in gratitude by those she cared for. She 
died July 16th, 1840, at the age of ninety-two, and was buried from the Mott homestead in 
Bloomingdale. 

There were four children born to Isaac and Anne (Coles) Mott: Samuel, Jordan, Jacob 
and Joshua. Jordan Mott, born at Hempstead Harbor in 1768, died in 1840. He married Lavinia 
Striker (known thereafter as Winifred Mott), daughter of James and Mary Hopper Striker, of 
Striker's Bay, September 24th, 1801. The youngest son of this union was M. Hopper Mott, 
181 5-1864, who was the father of Mr. Hopper Striker Mott. Other marriages have been made 
with old Knickerbocker stock by members of this family, so that, besides direct descent from 
their Quaker forbears, the Motts of the present generation are allied to the Hoppers, Strikers, 
Schuylers, Van Rensselears, Van Dorens, Dykmans and Milderbergers. 

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Andries Hoppe, or Hoppen, with his wife, Geertje Hendricks, came from Holland in 1652. 
In 1653, he was a burgher of New Amsterdam, and died in 1659. His widow became the owner 
of Bronk's Land (Riker's History of Harlem). Records of the Dutch Church show her marriage 
in 1660 to Dirck Gerritsen Van Tricht. Mathew Adolphus Hopper, the youngest child and 
third son of the pioneer, was born in 1658 and married Anna Paulus, daughter of Jurck Paulus. 
Part of this family settled in Bloomingdale, and to this branch Mr. Hopper Striker Mott belongs. 
John Hopper, the elder, Mr. Mott's great-great-great-grandfather, owned the famous Hopper farm 
on the upper west side of the island, which extended from near Sixth Avenue to the Hudson 
River. It was acquired by a Dutch grant in 1642, confirmed by the English in 1667. Upon the 
death of John Hopper, in 1779, the farm was divided by his will among his children, for each of 
whom he had erected a house. The mansion which he built for his son John was constructed in 
1752, on the banks of the Hudson, at Fifty-third Street, and became the home of General Garret 
Hopper Striker and his descendants, and was only demolished in December, 1895. The Mott 
homestead, built in the middle of the last century, stood at Mott's Point, at the foot of West Fifty- 
fourth Street, a landmark of old New York until November, 1895, when it was razed to allow of 
the extension of that street. The house of Yellis Hopper was erected on Fifty-first Street, between 
Broadway and Eighth Avenue, and has long since disappeared. The homestead built for Andrew 
Hopper was located on the present site of the American Horse Exchange, at Broadway and Fiftieth 
Street. The burial plot of the family occupied a part of this farm near Fiftieth Street and Ninth 
Avenue. Mrs. Greatorex in her Old New York and Valentine's Manuals for 1851, 1861 and 1870 
enter fully into details regarding this property. That portion of the old farm willed to John Hopper 
the younger, as well as the portions deeded to him by his brother Matthew, February 17th, 1782, 
and by Yellis, April 4th, 1787, and the Wessell-Hopper inheritance, was set apart in an action of 
partition in the courts by a decree dated January 10th, 1865, to the Strikers and Motts (Tuttle's 
Abstracts). 

In January, 1643, Jan and Jacobus Gerritsen Van Strycker received from the States General of 
Holland a grant of land in New Amsterdam. Jacobus Gerritsen Van Strycker came over in 165 1, 
from the village of Ruinen, in the United Provinces, and was the founder of the family in America. 
His brother Jan, who came in 1654, was a leader of the Dutch colony on Long Island. He was a 
great burgher in 1653, 1655, 16S7, 1658, 1660, and a schepen for many years. He moved to 
Flatlands about 1660, and in 1673 became schout of the Dutch towns on Long Island. 

The descendants of these brothers have been numerous on Long Island and in New Jersey. 
In Volume HH., page 10, of O'Callaghan's Calendar of Historical Documents, is found the record 
of the original deed of Strieker's Bay, at Bloomingdale, dated February nth, 1653. James Striker, 
one of the founders of the Reformed Dutch Church, at Harsenville, and a great-grandfather of Mr. 
Hopper Striker Mott, inherited this property. A portion of the mansion, which succeeded that 
built by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker in 1654, is still standing at Ninety-sixth Street and Riverside 
Drive. The only son of James Striker was Major-General Garret Hopper Striker, a Captain in the 
Fifth New York Regiment in the War of 1812. The camp of his command was within the 
northern limits of Central Park. After the war, he married a daughter of Captain Alexander 
MacDougall, of the British Navy, whose mother was a Miss Ellsworth, of New York City. He 
died in 1868. 

Mr. Hopper Striker Mott was born in New York City, April 19th, 1854, and educated in 
the Military Academy at Peekskill, Charlier's French School, Columbia College and Columbia Law 
School. Upon the death of his uncle, Jordan Mott, he succeeded to a large inheritance, and, with 
his brother, became a tenant in common of a portion of the Hopper farm. The care of that 
property has been his chief business occupation. 

In 1875, Mr. Mott married May Lenox, only child of Dr. Edwin S. Lenox, of New York 
City, and has one son, Hopper Lenox Mott, eighth in descent from Adam Mott. His ancestry 
gives him membership in the Holland Society, and he also belongs to the Metropolitan, Union 
League, St. Nicholas, Country and ¥ T clubs. His city residence is at 188 West End Avenue. 

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JORDAN L MOTT 

AMONG the descendants of Adam Mott, the pioneer, who settled upon Long Island in 
the middle of the seventeenth century, is that branch of the family to which Mr. Jordan 
L. Mott belongs, many of its representatives having been prominent in New York 
business and social circles in every generation. Adam Mott, who came from Essex and settled 
in New Amsterdam before 1647, married his first wife, Jane Hulet, of Buckingham, in England. 
His son Joseph, 1651-1735, the youngest child in a family of eight, was the direct ancestor of 
Mr. Jordan L. Mott. 

Jacob Mott, the son of Joseph Mott, was born August 9th, 1715, and died October 6th, 
1805. He was the father of Jacob Mott, who was born in 1756 and died in 1823, and became 
father of the first Jordan L. Mott. The brothers of the second Jacob Mott became the ancestors 
of the various branches of the family. 

Jacob Mott, the great-grandson of Adam Mott, became a merchant in New York. During 
his early life, he lived on Long Island, and there married Deborah, daughter of Dr. William 
Lawrence, whose ancestor, John Lawrence, was one of the commissioners appointed to arrange 
the boundaries between New Amsterdam and Connecticut in 1664. John Lawrence was a lineal 
descendant of Sir Robert Lawrence, and was an extensive landholder on Long Island. He 
became an alderman, and was Mayor of New York City in 1673. The Honorable John W. 
Lawrence, the Congressman; Captain James Lawrence, the naval hero of the War of 1812, and 
Mayor Cornelius Van W. Lawrence were eminent members of the same family. Jacob Mott 
became prominent in politics and was an alderman, 1804-10, president of the Board when 
De Witt Clinton was Mayor, and at one time acted as Deputy Mayor. Mott Street perpetuates 
his name upon the map of the city. 

Jordan L. Mott, the first of his name, was the youngest son of Jacob Mott, and was 
born at Manhasset, Long Island, October 21st, 1798. He received a good education, but 
reverses in the family fortunes compelled him to go into business at the age of twenty-two. 
He was successful in his efforts, becoming eventually an iron manufacturer. Among other 
inventions, he devised the first stove for burning anthracite coal, and developed a great industrial 
establishment to which his name has ever since been attached. Mott Haven, on the Harlem 
River, received its name from the works he established in that locality, and he was instrumental 
in founding and building up the village of Morrisania. He possessed marked public spirit and 
was a generous contributor to charitable and religious causes. He never held public office, 
although President Buchanan tendered him the position of Commissioner of Patents. 

The only son of the elder Jordan L. Mott succeeded to his father's name and estate. He 
was educated at Irving Institute, at Tarrytown, and the University of the City of New York. 
In 1849, when he was twenty years of age, he left college and entered upon active life in his 
father's establishment. After an apprenticeship of four years, he was admitted in the business, 
in 1853, when the Jordan L. Mott Iron Works were incorporated, and since 1866 has had full 
management of the concern. Besides being president of this company, he is president of the 
Stax Foundry Company, the North American Iron Works, and the North River Bridge Company, 
a corporation organized to build a bridge across the Hudson River, and is connected with other 
business enterprises. As a Democrat, Mr. Mott has been frequently honored by his party, being 
a Presidential Elector in 1876 and in 1888, a member and president of the Board of Aldermen 
in 1879, and a member of the Rapid Transit Commission which supervised the erection of New 
York's elevated railroads. He is a member of the New York, Engineers', New York Yacht and 
other clubs, and lives in the old Mott homestead in upper Fifth Avenue. He married Marianna 
Seaman. His son, Jordan L. Mott, Jr., the third to bear that name, is a member of the Union, 
Manhattan, Players and other clubs, and lives at 17 East Forty-seventh Street. He married 
Katharine Jerome Purdy and has a son, Jordan L. Mott, the fourth of the name. 



VALENTINE MOTT, M. D. 

SOME time before 1655, Adam Mott settled at Hempstead, Long Island, and became the 
ancestor of a widely spread New York family. His second wife, whom he married in 
1667, was Elizabeth Richbell, daughter of John Richbell, a neighbor of Adam Mott at 
Hempstead, but who removed to Westchester County, and was a patentee of Mamaroneck. 

It is from William Mott, the fourth child of Adam and Elizabeth, that Dr. Valentine Mott 
traces his descent. His great-grandfather, who was sixth in descent from Adam Mott, was Dr. 
Henry Mott, an able physician and a resident of Newtown, Long Island. The latter's wife was a 
daughter of Samuel Way, of North Hempstead, whose family were among the original settlers of 
Long Island. In his later years, Dr. Henry Mott removed to New York, where he died in 1840. 
His son, Dr. Valentine Mott, the famous surgeon, was born at Glen Cove, Long Island, in 
1785. Graduating from the medical department of Columbia College in 1806, he also studied 
under his distinguished relative, Dr. Valentine Seaman, and in 1807 went to London, becoming 
a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper and other great physicians. He walked the hospitals and attended 
lectures both in London and Edinburgh, and returned to America in 1808. Entering upon prac- 
tice in New York, his success was immediate and brilliant. He originated a great number of 
operations deemed impossible before his day, and which revolutionized medicine and surgery, 
while his life was one of constant professional activity. In 1809, he became professor of surgery 
in Columbia College, and then held a like appointment in the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons until 1832, when he was among the founders of the Rutgers School of Medicine. He was 
again professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1836 to 1850, and acted as surgeon 
to the New York, Bellevue, St. Vincent's, St. Luke's, Woman's and Hebrew hospitals. Professional 
honors were showered on him, including the degree of M. D. of the University of Edinburgh, 
and fellowships of the Academy of Medicine of Paris and other European medical societies. His 
wife was Louise Dunmore Munn. 

Alexander Brown Mott, father of the present Dr. Mott, was their fourth son, and was born 
in New York in 1826. He was educated at Columbia Grammar School under Dr. Anthon, and 
going abroad, led an adventurous and exciting life for some years, his experiences including service 
as secretary to Commodore Morris, U. S. N., in the Mediterranean, and participation in a Spanish 
revolution, in command of a battery at the siege of Barcelona. Returning to the United States, 
he took his degree at the Vermont Academy of Medicine in 1850. He helped to organize 
St. Vincent's Hospital, and was a founder of Bellevue Medical College, in which he was a professor. 
He was also surgeon at St. Vincent's, Mt. Sinai and Bellevue hospitals. His patriotic service to his 
country in the Civil War was also a feature of his career. In April, 1861, when Surgeon to the 
Second New York Brigade, and about to accompany his command to the front, he was appointed 
Medical Director of the Department of the East. He organized the United States Army General 
Hospital, in New York, and became its Chief Surgeon, with rank of Major. In 1864, he was 
appointed Medical Inspector of the Department of Virginia, served in connection with General 
Ord's staff, and was present at the final scene of the war when General Lee surrendered at Appo- 
mattox. He left the army with the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. Dr. Mott was actively 
connected with the order of the Loyal Legion, the membership of which passed by inheritance 
to his son. He married, in 1851, Arabella, daughter of Thaddeus Phelps, who died in 1874, Dr. 
Mott's death being in 1889. 

Dr. Valentine Mott is his only child, and was born in New York in 1852. He was 
graduated from Columbia College in 1872, and also took the degree of B. A. at Cambridge Uni- 
versity, England, in 1876. Following a course in medicine, he took the degree of M. D. at BelJevue 
Medical College in 1879, and has succeeded to the practice of his grandfather and father. He 
married Emily Langdon Irving, and resides at 62 Madison Avenue. He is a member of the 
Union, Calumet, St. Anthony, Players and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs. 



F. ADOLPHUS MULLER-URY 

SWITZERLAND, which, under its liberal institutions, is the one country of Europe free from 
the burdens of militarism, and where peaceful pursuits or the cultivation of intellectual 
tendencies are uninterrupted by the hope of national aggrandisement or the fear of encroach- 
ment, has taken a leading part in the development of modern science and art and in the progress 
of the industries which make civilization possible. Preeminent as its people are in all peaceful 
pursuits, it is sometimes forgotten that, until the beginning of the present century, the Swiss were 
justly regarded as a race of warriors and ranked as the best soldiers in the world. Their long 
contest with the House of Austria and the neighboring princes, in which the freedom of the 
Cantons was established, roused a warlike spirit which made them the best soldiers in Europe, 
history being by no means silent as to their prowess or their fidelity. Their own land being free 
from attack, Swiss officers sought service in the armies of the other powers, and attained distinction 
under the banners of distant monarchs, and not a few of the patrician families of the present 
republic can point to ancestors ennobled by the powers which they served, or famous for their 
exploits on foreign fields of battle. 

Mr. F. Adolphus Muller-Ury, the distinguished artist, represents in himself and through his 
ancestors these facts in connection with the history of the Swiss people. His father, Louis 
Muller-Ury, was an eminent Swiss jurist, president of a Cantonal Supreme Court, and renowned as 
one of its foremost lawyers and statesmen. His mother was a lady of the Lombardi family, whose 
members were also distinguished in the annals of their country, especially in connection with their 
labors for the Hospice of St. Gothard. On both sides, however, Mr. Muller-Ury's ancestors were 
soldiers, his grandfathers having been officers in the French Army, while two of his ancestors 
were Generals in the service of Spain, and were in each instance ennobled by the monarchs of the 
countries in question. 

Born at Airolo, Switzerland, in 1862, Mr. Muller-Ury exhibited artistic talent at an early age 
and was trained for the profession to which his inclinations and taste pointed, at the leading ateliers 
and schools of art in France, Germany and Italy. Among other instructors who aided his progress, 
he was a pupil of the great portrait painter Cabanel, of the sculptor Vela and of the Swiss painter 
von Deschwanden. Since 1885, he has made America the principal scene of his labors, and in the 
field of portrait painting, which has been his chief specialty, has few rivals. Many of the most 
prominent New Yorkers of the present day, as well as leading individuals in social or political life 
all over the country, have been his sitters. Among them are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer, 
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew, Mrs. Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Cardinal Satolli, Cardinal 
Gibbons, Mr. Constable, Mrs. Charles Oelrichs, Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, Mme. Calve, Mr. and Mrs. 
James J. Hill, Governor and Mrs. Merriam, Archibshop Ireland, of St. Paul, and others in the 
principal cities both East and West, while it should be mentioned that his works are justly 
admired when exhibited in public. 

Mr. Muller-Ury's studio at 58 West Fifty-seventh Street, in this city, where he also has his 
bachelor apartments, is a veritable exhibition of artistic taste and luxury. He is an indefatigable 
collector of antique furniture, tapestry and other objects of art, his visits to Europe, which are 
made every year, enabling him to add constantly to his collections. He resides a portion of each 
year in Paris, and in addition has a country place in Switzerland at Hospenthal. While not a club 
man, Mr. Muller-Ury is prominent in society, and is an habitue of the highest artistic and social 
circles. He is devoted to outdoor exercises, is a noted rider, and is fond of golfing, bicycling and 
other sports of that character. 

The family arms are: Half a silver wheel on a blue ground, surmounted by two golden lilies 
on a red ground, separated by a naked sword. The wheel represents the ancient arms of the race, 
the lilies having been granted as an addition by the King of France, and the sword by the King 
of Spain. 

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ORSON DESAIX MUNN 

THE origin of the name of Munn is not definitely known, but it is doubtless of great 
antiquity, as shown in the armorial bearings of the English branch, which are : Arms, 
per chevron sable and or., in chief three bezants and in base a castle triple-towered 
of the first. Crest, a dexter arm in armor, holding a lion's paw erased proper. Motto, Omnia 
vincit Veritas — Truth conquers all things. The American ancestor of the family was Benjamin 
Mun, who was, in 1637, living in Hartford, Conn. He served in the war with the Pequot Indians 
in 1637, removed to Springfield, Mass., but died in Hartford in 1673. His wife was Abigail Burt, 
daughter of Henry Burt and widow of Francis Ball, whom he married in 1649. His children were 
Abigail, 1650; John, 1652; Benjamin, 1655; James, 1656; and Nathaniel, 1661. His eldest son, 
John Munn, was in the fight with the Indians at Turner's Falls. His grandson, James Munn, also 
took part in the same engagement and settled at Colchester, Conn. That branch of the family to 
which Mr. Orson D. Munn belongs was among the first settlers of Hampden County, Mass. The 
town of Monson was named after them. 

Mr. Munn was born June 1 ith, 1824, in the town that bears his ancestral name. His father 
was Rice Munn, a prosperous farmer, and his mother was Levina Shaw. His grandparents were 
Reuben and Hannah Munn. He was educated at Monson Academy, formerly a celebrated 
educational institution. Before he was out of his teens, he found employment in a book store at 
Springfield, Mass., where he remained two years, and afterwards in a store in Monson. Soon after 
he came of age, he removed to New York, where, in association with Alfred E. Beach, he 
purchased The Scientific American, which had been founded a year before by Rufus Porter, and up 
to that time had had a precarious existence. Alfred E. Beach was a son of Moses Y. Beach, 
proprietor of The New York Sun, and had been a schoolmate of Mr. Munn in the Monson 
Academy, and the association there begun continued uninterruptedly for over fifty years, down to 
the death of Mr. Beach, in January, 1896. The business of Munn & Co. is still continued under 
the same firm name, but from necessity was incorporated after Mr. Beach's death. Organized in 
1846, the firm of Munn & Co. soon attained phenomenal success. For more than half a century 
The Scientific American has been recognized as the standard publication of the world in its field. 
The development of the paper led, after a time, to the establishment of an agency for procuring 
letters patent for new inventions, a business then in its infancy, and which owes much to the 
intelligent and energetic work of this firm. To the original publication there have been added in 
recent years The Scientific American Supplement, an illustrated weekly, established in 1874]; The 
Monthly Architects' and Builders' Edition, a magazine devoted to architecture; a Spanish edition of 
The Scientific American, and the publication of many important scientific books. 

Mr. Munn is a member of the Union, Union League, Merchants' and Essex County Country 
clubs, the New England Society, a fellow of the National Academy of Design, and belongs to the 
Sons of the Revolution. He owns a notable collection of paintings by modern artists, and is a 
recognized connoisseur of art. His city residence is in East Twenty-second Street, where he has 
lived for over forty years. He has a country home in Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J., and owns a 
large farm in West Orange, near his park residence, which is stocked with a large herd of 
Dutch belted cattle, in the raising and exhibiting of which at State and county fairs, he takes 
much satisfaction. 

In 1849, Mr. Munn married Julia Augusta Allen, daughter of Mrs. Elvira Allen, of his native 
town. She died October 26th, 1894, leaving two sons. The elder son, Henry Norcross Munn, 
married Anne E. Elder, and lives in Lexington Avenue. He is a member of the Union, City and 
Essex County Country clubs. The younger son, Charles Allen Munn, graduated from Princeton 
University in the class of 1881, belongs to the Merchants', Union, City, University, Racquet, 
Essex County Country and Princeton clubs, and to the New England Society. Both sons are 
associated with their father in the house of Munn & Co. 

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CHARLES H. MURRAY 

ON both the paternal and maternal side, the Honorable Charles H. Murray traces his lineage 
to New England ancestors who figured in Colonial and Revolutionary times. The family 
was planted in America by William Murray, who was born in 1690, the son of a Scotch 
nobleman. He joined the famous McGregor expedition to New England in 17 18, and settled first 
in Londonderry, N. H., and afterwards in Amherst, Mass. Many of his descendants attained to 
distinction. One of them, Captain Elihu Murray, 1753-1835, the great-grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch, bore an active part in the war of the Revolution. He was a resident of Deerfield, 
Mass., and when the news of the battle of Lexington was received there, joined the Hatfield 
Company and marched to Boston, taking part in the battles of Bunker Hill, Long Island, Throgg's 
Neck and Bennington, and being present at the surrender of General Burgoyne. After that, he 
was commissioned a Captain in the Continental Line and transferred to the Quartermaster- 
General's Department, where he served under General Wadsworth until the end of the war. 
An uncle of Captain Elihu Murray was General Seth Murray, also of Revolutionary fame. 

Through the women of the family, Mr. Murray includes among his ancestors more than 
twenty of the early settlers of New England. The first William Murray married a descendant of 
Nathaniel Dickinson, who was one of the founders of Hadley, Mass. ; his son, William, married a 
descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin, of Springfield, and Lieutenant John Hitchcock and the wife 
of his grandson, Elihu, was connected with the Strong, Ingersoll and other leading New England 
families. Dauphin Murray, 1793-1855, grandfather of Mr. Charles H. Murray, was Sheriff of 
Steuben County, N. Y., and a Colonel of militia in 1812. His wife was descended from General 
Robert Sedgwick, who came to America in 1635, was one of the founders of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, and Governor of Jamaica in 1656. Mr. Murray's mother 
was Abbie Shelden Billings, a granddaughter of Lieutenant Daniel Billings of the Revolution. She 
was also descended from William Billings, who came to America in 1650, a descendant in direct 
line from John Billings, of England, father of Sir Thomas Billings, Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's 
Bench in 1543. Among other ancestors of Mr. Murray were Elder William Brewster, of Plymouth; 
Samuel Starr, one of the first settlers in New London, Conn., and Captain John Dennsion, of King 
Philip's War. 

Mr. Murray was born in San Francisco, January 2d, 1855, but was brought to New York 
when he was a boy. His early education was in private schools, and he was graduated from the 
Mount Pleasant Military Academy with honors as valedictorian. Studying law, first in Dunkirk, and 
then in New York, he entered upon his profession, devoting himself specially to corporation, 
insurance, surrogate and mercantile law, in which he has been very successful. In the field of 
politics and public life, Mr. Murray has become best known. He has been prominent in the local 
organization of the Republican party since 1884 as a district leader and delegate to conventions, 
and in 1892 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention. President Harrison 
appointed him United States Supervisor of the Census for the First District of New York in 1890, 
and the following year he was appointed special Assistant United States District Attorney and 
counsel to the Commissioner of Immigration of the Port of New York. In May, 1894, he was a 
Police Commissioner of the City of New York. In 1896, he was a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention. 

Mr. Murray has taken special interest in the patriotic societies that have sprung up in recent 
years. He was one of the founders of the Society of Colonial Wars, and Deputy-General for New 
York State, and is a member of the Cincinnati and vice-president for the State of Connecticut. He 
belongs also to the Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Loyal 
Legion, and is one of the board of directors of the Society of the War of 1812. He married Grace 
Peckham, daughter of Dr. Fenner Peckham, of Providence, R. I., a descendant of the Peckham, 
Torrey and Davis families of Rhode Island. His residence is in West Fifty-second Street. 

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STEPHEN PAYNE NASH 

WHEN the Reverend John Davenport landed in Boston, in July, 1637, he brought with 
him a company of Colonists, who were people of unusually good standing, socially and 
financially. Among his followers was Thomas Nash, who brought with him his 
wife and five children. Thomas Nash was of a family that is supposed to have come originally 
from Lancaster, or Lancashire. In the spring of 1638, he was one of the little company that sailed 
from Boston to settle Qunnipiac, or New Haven, and in November of that year, was one of the 
Colonists who entered into an agreement with Nomanguin, and other Indian chiefs, for the purchase 
of lands. In 1639, he was one of the signers to the fundamental agreement for the regulation 
of the civil and religious affairs of the Colony, and the same year signed the agreement of those 
who wished to remove to settle the town of Guilford. His wife was Margery Baker, probably a 
daughter of Nicholas Baker, of Hertfordshire, England, one of the first emigrants to the Con- 
necticut Colony. 

Thomas Nash, who died in 1658, was advanced in years when he came to this country, 
and his children early became prominent in the several communities in which they lived. His 
eldest son, John, took the oath of freeman in 1642, was a Sergeant in 1644, a Lieutenant in 1652, 
town treasurer and deputy in 1654, Captain of the train band in 1655, and chief of the military 
forces during the trouble with the Narragansett Indians. He settled in New Haven, where he was 
a magistrate and held other offices almost constantly throughout his life. Repeatedly, he was a 
delegate to the General Assembly, and was an assistant from 1672 until the time of his death, in 
1687. Timothy Nash, another son of the pioneer, was the ancestor of that branch of the family 
to which Mr. Stephen Payne Nash belongs. He was born in 1626, and became a freeman of New 
Haven in 1654. He was in Hartford in 1660, and in Hadley, Mass,, in 1663, being a Lieutenant in 
the militia and a representative from the town of Hadley to the General Court of Massachusetts 
in 1690,1691 and 1695. He went to Hadley with the Reverend John Russell, who, in the con- 
troversies in Hartford and Wethersfield, regarding the government of the church, led away a 
company of decedents to settle the rich and beautiful Connecticut River Valley. Timothy 
Nash married, about 1657, Rebekah Stone, daughter of Samuel Stone, of Hartford, and they had 
twelve children. He died in 1699, and his wife in 1709. 

Lieutenant John Nash, the grandson of the pioneer, 1 667-1 743, was a representative to the 
General Court from Hadley seven times. His second wife, the ancestress of Mr. Stephen P. Nash, 
was Elizabeth Kellogg, daughter of Joseph Kellogg, of Farmington, Conn. In subsequent gen- 
erations, the line of descent was through Deacon John Nash, Jr., born 1694, and his wife, Hannah 
Ingram; Deacon David Nash, 1719-1803, and his wife, Elizabeth Smith; David Nash, 1755-1832, 
and his wife, Lois Alvord, and David Nash, 1792-1832, and his wife, Hannah Payne. David 
Nash, 1755, removed from Connecticut to Granby, Mass., about the close of the last century, and 
afterwards to Watervliet, N. Y., where his descendants have since lived. 

Mr. Stephen Payne Nash, son of David Nash and Hannah Payne, was born in 1821. He 
was educated for the law, studying in the public schools in Albany and the French College at 
Chamblay, Canada. He began to practice in Saratoga, then went to Albany and afterwards came 
to New York, where he has spent most of his life. He was one of the founders of the New 
York Bar Association, in 1863, being its president in 1880, and has been a trustee of Columbia 
College and a member of the vestry of Trinity Church. His wife, Catherine McLean, was a 
daughter of the Honorable John McLean, of Salem, N. Y. He belongs to the Century Association 
and lives in West Nineteenth Street. His eldest son, John McLean Nash, was born in Albany in 
1848, was graduated from Columbia College, is a lawyer and belongs to the Metropolitan, Uni- 
versity, Players and other clubs and the Bar Association. Another son is Stephen Edward Nash, 
born in 1850 who married Isabel Coggill. A third son, Thomas Nash, was graduated from 
Columbia University in 1882. 

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GEORGE LIVINGSTON NICHOLS 

IN the time of Edward the Confessor, Nicholas de Albine, who was also called Nigell and 
Nicholl, came from Normandy to England. He was the ancestor of all who bear the name 
of Nicholl, or Nichols. The ancestor of the American branch of the family was settled in 
Glamorganshire. Francis Nichols, the American pioneer, was born in England in 1595, and coming 
to this country was an original proprietor of Stratford, Conn., in 1639, and Captain of the train band. 
His second wife was Annie Wynes, or Wines, daughter of Barnabas Wynes, one of the original 
proprietors of Southold, Long Island, in 1640. John Nichols, born in England, came with his father, 
Francis Nichols, to this country and his son, Samuel Nichols, born in 1655, married Mary Bowers, 
daughter of the Reverend John Bowers, of Derby, Conn., in 1682, and afterwards settled in New 
Jersey. He was the father of Humphry Nichols, who settled in Newark in 1738, where he 
died in 1765. 

Isaac Nichols, son of Humphry, born in Newark in 1748, was a patriot of the Revolution 
in 1775, was in the expedition against Quebec, was at the siege of Fort Schuyler, and the capture 
of Burgoyne's army, was Lieutenant in Colonel James Livingston's regiment, and was twice 
wounded at the battle of Rhode Island. When peace came, he removed to Brooklyn, was 
Justice of the Peace for eighteen years, and died there in 1835. His first wife, the great- 
grandmother of Mr. George Livingston Nichols, was Cornelia Van Duzen, daughter of William Van 
Duzen and Lucretia Bogardus, who was a granddaughter of the celebrated Annetje Jans Bogardus. 
Lewis Nichols, 1790- 1859, the grandfather of Mr. Nichols, was born in Brooklyn and was a soldier 
in the War of 18 12. He was engaged in the publishing business and brought out the first directory 
of the City of Brooklyn. His wife was Jane Anne Little, daughter of George Little. 

George L. Nichols, Sr., son of Lewis Nichols, was born in Brooklyn in 1830 and died in 

1892. His early business experience was secured in the house of T. B. Coddington & Co., metal 
importers, and he became a member of that firm in 1854. He was a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce, vice-president of the Phenix National Bank, a director of the Brooklyn Academy of 
Music and a trustee of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. He was a councilor of the Long 
Island Historical Society, president of the Mercantile Library Association and one of the first trustees 
of the Brooklyn Bridge. President Arthur offered him a position on the Tariff Revision Commis- 
sion, which he declined, as he did other tenders of office. In 1852, he married Christina Marie 
Cole, daughter of Jan Kool, or John Cole, and Rebecka Fransiena van Santen. Her father was 
born in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1784, son of Andries Kool and Elsie Vander Linden. Her mother, 
born in Amsterdam, in 1804, was the daughter of Adrian van Santen and Christina Barkmeyer. 

Mr. George L. Nichols, Jr., son of the preceding, was born in Brooklyn, May 9th, i860. He 
was graduated from Williams College in 188 1, and from the Columbia College Law School in 1883. 
'n 1884, he received the degree of M. A. from Williams College. In 1883, he was admitted to the 
bar. He has a large practice, principally in connection with corporations. An active Republican, 
he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1888, and in 1891 was appointed a 
member of the Civil Service Commission of Brooklyn, and reappointed in 1892. He married, in 

1893, Mary (Chickering) Ruxton, daughter of George H. Chickering, of Boston, and lives at 66 
East Fifty-sixth Street. He has one daughter, Christina Mary Nichols. He is a member of the Metro- 
politan, University, Grolier and Hamilton clubs, the Downtown Association, the Bar Association, 
the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Williams College Alumni, 
the St. Nicholas Society, the Society of the War of 1812, the Sons of the Revolution, the Military 
Order of Foreign Wars, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and also 
belongs to the New York Historical, Botanical, Zoological and American Natural History societies. 
The other surviving children of George L. Nichols, Sr., are Kate N. Nichols, the authoress, wife of 
Spencer Trask; Acosta Nichols, a partner in the firm of Spencer Trask & Co., and Marie Christina 
Nichols. 

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De lancey nicoll 

WHEN General Sir Richard Nicolls, Governor of New York, came to this country in 1664, 
he was accompanied by his nephew, Matthias Nicoll, a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn, Lon- 
don. The Nicolls came of an ancient English family. Their coat of arms was issued 
to John Nicoll, of Buckingham, near Islip, Northampton County, in 1601, and the records refer to 
a former John Nicoll, who lived in the middle of the fifteenth century. When Governor Nicolls had 
successfully overcome the Dutch in New Amsterdam and made the Colony an English possession, 
he appointed his nephew, Matthias, to be the first English Colonial secretary. After the Governor 
returned to England, Matthias Nicoll was a councilor of Governor Lovelace, was Mayor of the city 
in 1671, Speaker of the first Colonial Assembly in 1683 and one of the first Judges of the New York 
Court of Oyer and Terminer, appointed by Governor Dongan in 1683. 

William Nicoll, son of Matthias Nicoll, married Anna, daughter of the patroon Jeremias Van 
Rensselaer, of Albany, and his wife, Maria Van Cortlandt, and received from the King of England a 
tract of land in Suffolk County, ten miles square in extent, which he settled and called Islip Grange, 
after the old family home in England. Upon his death, this estate descended to his eldest son, 
Benjamin. His younger son, William Nicoll, devoted himself to public affairs and was elected 
Speaker of the Colonial Legislature for eighteen consecutive years. He owned an estate of four 
thousand acres at Shelter Island, which he left by will to his nephew, William, the son of his 
brother, Benjamin. This nephew, William, was one of the great lawyers of his period. His 
descendants, through his eldest son, inherited the Islip estate, while the descendants of his second 
son, Samuel Benjamin Nicoll, became proprietors of the Shelter Island property. In the present 
generation by intermarriage the Nicolls of Bayside, Long Island, represent both branches of the family. 

Benjamin Nicoll, the youngest son of the first Benjamin Nicoll, was educated in Columbia 
College and married Mary M. Holland, daughter of Edward Holland. His son was Henry 
Nicoll, a wealthy New York merchant, and his grandson, Edward Holland Nicoll, married Mary 
Townsend, of Albany. The eldest son of Edward Holland Nicoll was Henry Nicoll, a lawyer of 
prominence in New York City, and a Member of Congress. His youngest son, Solomon Townsend 
Nicoll, became a successful merchant of New York, and married his cousin, Charlotte Ann Nicoll, 
of Shelter Island, the second child of Samuel Benjamin Nicoll, who died in 1866 and who was the 
son of Samuel Benjamin Nicoll, the head of that branch of the family in the fourth generation. In 
1855, Solomon Townsend Nicoll purchased the present Nicoll estate at Bayside. His children 
are: Anne Nicoll, who married William M. Hoes; De Lancey Nicoll; Benjamin Nicoll, who married 
Grace Davison Lord, daughter of James Couper Lord, and granddaughter of the famous Daniel Lord; 
Edward Holland Nicoll, who married Edith M. Travers ; Mary Townsend Nicoll, who married 
James Brown Lord; and Charlotte Nicoll, the wife of Willoughby Weston. Benjamin Nicoll and 
Edward Holland Nicoll both graduated from Princeton College and are merchants in New York. 

Mr. De Lancey Nicoll was born in Bayside, Long Island, in 1854. He was educated in St. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and then graduated from Princeton College with high honors in 
1874. Two years later he graduated from the Columbia College Law School, and was admitted to 
the bar. He soon became successful in his profession, and his family connections gave him high 
social standing. In 1885, he was appointed assistant district attorney by Randolph B. Martine, and 
in that office preeminently distinguished himself. When District Attorney Martine's term of 
service expired, Mr. Nicoll, in 1887, was a candidate for the vacant position, nominated by the 
Independents and Republicans, but was defeated by John R. Fellows. In 1890, he was nominated 
by the Tammany organization for the same office and was elected, serving a term of three years. 
In 1894, he was a member of the Constitutional Convention. 

Mr. Nicoll married Maud Churchill and lives in East Thirty-eighth Street. He belongs to the 
Tuxedo Club, and is also a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Union, Law, University, Dem- 
ocratic, Racquet and other clubs and the Downtown Association. 

427 



WILLIAM WHITE NILES 

CENTURIES ago ancestors of the Niles family, which was of Norse origin, established 
themselves in England. During the conflict between the King and Parliament, the mem- 
bers of the family were generally adherents of Cromwell, and after the restoration, several 
of them came to America. Among these emigrants was John Niles, the ancestor of Mr. William 
White Niles. He was a resident of Dorchester, Mass., in 1634, and a freeman of Braintree, in 
1647. His son, Captain Nathaniel Niles, 1642- 1727, married Sarah Sands, daughter of James Sands. 
Their son, the Reverend Samuel Niles, born in 1673, graduated from Harvard College in 1699, 
and preached in Kingston, R. I., and Braintree, Mass. His wife was Elizabeth Thacher, daughter 
of the Reverend Peter Thacher, of Milton, Mass. Samuel Niles, Jr., 171 1-1804, their son, graduated 
from Harvard in 173 1. He was a leading lawyer in Boston and a Judge for nearly forty years. 
During the War of the Revolution, he was a patriot and a friend of John Adams. He married, in 
1739, his cousin, Sarah Niles, daughter of Nathaniel Niles. 

In the next generation came Nathaniel Niles, 1740-1828. Graduated from Princeton College, 
in 1766, he lived in Boston, but moved to Norwich, Conn., and was a member of the Connecticut 
Legislature. Afterwards he went to Vermont and became an influential man in that State, being a 
member and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, the first Member of Congress 
elected from that State, and Lieutenant-Governor. He was for many years Judge of the Supreme 
Court, a trustee of Dartmouth College and six times a Presidential elector. The grandfather of 
William White Niles was Judge William Niles, who when young went with his father to Vermont. 
He graduated from Dartmouth College, became a lawyer and a member of the State Constitutional 
Convention, and was a Judge. He married Relief Barron, daughter of Colonel John Barron, a 
Revolutionary officer. On the maternal side of the house, Mr. Niles is descended from John Mil- 
burne, a victim of the Star Chamber, and from John Rogers, the first martyr burned at Smithfield. 

William Watson Niles was born in Orange County, Vt., in 1822, and graduated from Dart- 
mouth College. He studied law in Indiana, made a tour of Europe and then established himself 
in New York, where he has been prominent for nearly fifty years of professional life. He was 
active in securing the construction of the first railroad west of Lake Erie and has been connected 
with many corporations. During the Civil War, he actively supported the Government, was one 
of the eleven organizers of the Loyal League of New York, which attained a membership of 
100,000, one of the life senators of that body, and a founder and secretary of the Citizens' Associa- 
tion. As a member of the New York Legislature and one of the judiciary committee, he took a 
leading part in the measures for the impeachment of the judicial accomplices of the Tweed Ring 
and was one of the managers who secured the conviction of Judge Barnard before the Court of 
Impeachment. He was one of the commissioners who secured and located the great parks for 
the city. In 1855, he married Isabel White, daughter of the Honorable Hugh White, and has 
six children. His residence is in Bedford Park. He is a member of the New England Society, 
the American Geographical Society, the Dartmouth Alumni Association and of other societies and 
clubs. He was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History and of the Young 
Men's Christian Association. 

Mr. William White Niles, son of William Watson and Isabel (White) Niles, was born in 
New York, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a member of the New York bar, being the 
head of the law firm of Niles & Johnson. He is active in promoting the city's interests and was a 
member of the State Legislature in 189s, serving on the judiciary committee. He was appointed a 
member of the Commission for the Preservation of the Adirondack Forests, and is now a school 
trustee of New York City. He is a member of the Republican, Ardsley and Calumet clubs and 
the Dartmouth Alumni Association, and an honorary member of the Zoological Society. The eldest 
son of William Watson Niles is Robert L. Niles, who is a member of the Stock Exchange, and 
who married a daughter of the late Bishop Lyman, of North Carolina. 

42S 



GORDON NORRIE 

NEW YORK had many famous merchants in the closing years of the last and the first half of 
the present century. They were the men instrumental in establishing the mercantile 
supremacy of the city in this country, and gave it the commercial prestige which rival 
communities in other parts of the United States had never been able to overcome. These early 
New York merchants came from all parts of the world, but it is not too much to say -that foremost 
among the most energetic and enterprising of them were those who were of the intelligent and 
thrifty Scottish race. 

Adam Norrie, the American ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was a fine representative 
of these old-time Scotch-American merchants. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1795. Early 
in life he went to Sweden, where he became interested in the manufacture of iron, in which he 
was very successful. Coming to New York about 1820, while he was still a young man, to inves- 
tigate the iron trade on this side of the Atlantic, and its possibilities for extensive business, he 
decided to remain here. 

At that time one of the great firms in New York was Boorman & Johnston. They dealt 
largely in Swedish iron, and were general merchants and importers of all kinds of commodities. 
The firm had been in existence for some time previous to the War of 1812, and when Mr. Norrie 
came here, was, in importance and wealth, one of the foremost establishments in this country. 
Adam Norrie joined this firm, his advent as a partner being signalized by the addition of the words 
"and company" to its style. He was highly capable and energetic, and soon took a position in 
his adopted country as one of its ablest merchants and most public-spirited citizens. A chronicler 
of the mercantile history of that period has said of him: " He was Scotch to the backbone — that 
is, filled with ideas of stern honesty, sagacity and prudence, together with rapid determination. He 
probably was remarked for these great mercantile qualities before he left Scotland, for with them 
he also brought to the firm he joined in this city, a splendid connection and correspondence in 
the old country." 

Adam Norrie accumulated a fortune in his business and became interested in many other 
enterprises in New York and throughout the United States. He was one of the original stock- 
holders of the canal between Lakes Michigan and Superior, a promoter and large stockholder of the 
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad, vice-president of the Bank for Savings, and a director 
of the Bank of Commerce and the Royal Insurance Company. He was one of the founders of St. 
Luke's Hospital, for ten years president of St. Andrew's Society, and for many years held the office 
of senior warden of Grace Church. His residence was in Chambers Street, near Broadway, 
opposite City Hall Park, a few doors east of where the Stewart building now stands, that locality 
being then a fashionable residential section of the city. He died in 1882, his wife having passed 
away ten years previously. Four children survived him, Gordon, Margaret Van Horn, Mary Van 
Horn and Julia Clarkson Norrie. 

Mr. Gordon Norrie is the only son of Adam Norrie. He was born in New York and 
succeeded to the large estate that his father left. He married Miss Lanfear, resides at 377 Fifth 
Avenue, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Church, City and Union clubs, the Century 
Association and the Downtown Association. Mr. Norrie has two sons, who are prominent in the 
social life of the city at the present time. A. Lanfear Norrie married Ethel Lynde Barbey, daughter 
of Henry I. Barbey ; he lives in East Forty-first Street, and is a member of the Tuxedo, Metro- 
politan, Calumet, Union and Racquet clubs, the Country Club of Westchester County, and the 
Downtown Association. The other son, Adam Gordon Norrie, was educated in Columbia Uni- 
versity, and was graduated from that institution in the class of 189 1. He is a member of the 
City, St. Anthony, Knickerbocker and other clubs. He married, in 1897, Margaret L. Morgan, a 
daughter of the late William Dare Morgan. The daughters of Mr. Gordon Norrie are Mary, Sara 
G. and Emily L. Norrie. The summer home of the family is in New London, Conn. 

429 



THOMAS FLETCHER OAKES 

THE ancestor of the Oakes name in this country was Edward Oakes, a member of an 
English family that had high connections in the old country. Edward Oakes and his 
wife, Jane, were residents of Cambridge. They came to New England in 1634, and 
settled in Boston. With them came their two children, Urian and James. Urian Oakes achieved 
special distinction as a clergyman and educator. Born in England in 1631, he was only three 
years old when he was brought to this country. He was graduated from Harvard College in 
1649, and after a few years returned to England, and was established over a church in Tichfield, 
Hampshire. Becoming a non-conformist, he was among those who were silenced by the 
authorities in 1662. When the Reverend Jonathan Mitchell, pastor of the Harvard College Church, 
died in 1668, the Reverend Urian Oakes was called back to this country to take the vacant pulpit. 
He also succeeded the Reverend Dr. Leonard Hoar in the presidency of Harvard College in 1675. 
His death occurred in 1681. 

Dr. Thomas Oakes, also a son of Edward Oakes, was born in 1644 and died in 1719. He 
graduated from Harvard College in 1662, studied medicine in London, and became one of the 
leading physicians of Massachusetts. He was a member and speaker of the Provincial Assembly 
in 1689, a member of the Provincial Council, an agent for Massachusetts, in England, in 1692, 
and again a member of the Assembly in 1706. His son, the Reverend Josiah Oakes, who died 
in 1 7 19, was a Harvard graduate in the class of 1708, and minister at Eastham., Mass., most of 
his life. Mr. Thomas Fletcher Oakes is descended from James Oakes, a brother of the Reverend 
Urian Oakes and Dr. Thomas Oakes. His father, Francis Garaux Oakes, was a shipmaster of 
Boston, and his mother was Caroline Comfort Paige. His grandfather, Daniel Oakes, served as a 
soldier in the War for Independence. 

Born in Boston, July 15th, 1843, Mr. Oakes was educated in private schools of his native 
city, and then began his business career as clerk for the contractors who were engaged upon 
the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railroad. In 1863, when he had scarcely attained the age 
of twenty, he was a purchasing agent in St. Louis for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and it was 
not long before he was advanced to the position of general superintendent. For more than 
sixteen years he made his home in St. Louis and Kansas City. In 1879, he became general 
superintendent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf, and the Kansas City, Lawrence and 
Southern railroads. A year later he was called to be vice-president of the Oregon Railway 
& Navigation Company, and removed to Portland, Ore. Scarcely a year had elapsed when he 
was elected vice-president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and in 1883 he became general manager 
of the same company. In 1888, he was made president, and held that position for five years, until 
October, 1893, when the property went into the hands of receivers, of whom he was one until the 
reorganization of the company in 1896. He is also one of the trustees of the Manhattan Life 
Insurance Company. 

In 1864, Mr. Oakes married Abby R. Haskell, daughter of Henry Haskell. His children are 
Walter, Grace, Zillah, Georgiana and Prescott Oakes. He has an estate at Mamaroneck, where 
he makes his home. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, and New York Yacht 
clubs, of several clubs in the Northwest, and of the American Geographical Society, of which 
he is a life member. 

Mrs. Oakes is descended from the Coffin and the Phelps families of Essex County, Mass. 
Her mother was Sarah Coffin Phelps, and her grandmother was a Coffin. Walter Oakes, 
the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Oakes, married Mary Beekman Taylor, daughter of Cort- 
landt Taylor, formerly of New York, and now of St. Paul, Minn. Grace Oakes, the eldest 
daughter, married Frederick Brooks, grandson of Peter Brooks, of Boston. Zillah Oakes is the 
wife of George Curtis Rand, Jr., son of George C. Rand, of New York. Georgiana Oakes married, 
in 1896, Lawrence Greer. 



M 



HERMANN OELRICHS 

ORE than a century ago, the mercantile firm of Oelrichs & Lurman was one of the leading 
houses of Baltimore, and its members were reckoned among the foremost citizens of that 
city, socially and financially. The family to which the senior members of that firm traced 
their ancestry was distinguished in the annals of Bremen. Its records go back to 1325, when the 
patrician head of the family was banished to Schleswig-Holstein on account of trouble with one of 
the burgher class of the town. His family followed him into exile, and thenceforth became estab- 
lished in that duchy. The lineage of the American Oelrichs goes back in direct line to this branch 
of the family. 

It is nearly one hundred years since a member of this firm came from Bremen to New 
York, to establish the branch that has remained one of the stable mercantile houses of New York 
down to the present time. For many years the New York firm was connected with the well- 
known house of H. H. Meier & Co. in Bremen, the head of which was a distinguished member of 
Parliament, president of the First Bank in Bremen, president of the North German Lloyd Steamship 
Company, and an intimate friend of Prince Bismarck. In the early years of its history, most of the 
partners of the New York firm were graduates from the celebrated old house, known under the 
peculiar name of Widow John Lang's Son & Co. Henry Oelrichs, of that branch of the family 
to-day represented by his son, Mr. Hermann Oelrichs, came from Bremen to this country in 1837. 
He was the son of Johann Gerhard Oelrichs and Catherine Holler. He has been described as a 
whole-souled good business man, and made a very distinct impress upon New York life after his 
settlement here, being a large shipping merchant and the agent for the North German Lloyd Steam- 
ship Company. He married a daughter of Dr. Frederick May, of Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Hermann Oelrichs was born in Baltimore, Md., June 8th, 1850. He was instructed in 
private schools in his early years, and then sent to Germany to complete his education. He 
returned home to go into business, entering the office of Oelrichs & Co., of which firm he became 
a partner in 1875. Since 1887, when Gustave Schwab, Sr., retired, Mr. Oelrichs has been at the 
head of the house and in charge of the American business of the North German Lloyd Steamship 
Line. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Manhattan, Lawyers', Players, Racquet, New 
York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and other clubs. He has had for years the reputation 
of being one of the best all-around amateur athletes in the country. 

In 1890, Mr. Oelrichs married Theresa Alice Fair, daughter of the late Senator James G. Fair, 
of Nevada, one of the famous men of the Pacific coast. Senator Fair, who was born in Ireland in 
1831, died in San Francisco in 1894. He went to California when the first excitement about gold 
discoveries broke out, and in i860 moved to Nevada, where, out of the Consolidated Virginia 
Silver Mines on the Comstock Ledge, which the bonanza firm of Mackey, Flood, Fair & O'Brien 
controlled, he made a fortune. From 1881 to 1887, he was a member of the United States Senate 
from Nevada. Mrs. Oelrichs is the oldest daughter and third child of Senator Fair. 

Mr. and Mrs. Oelrichs live in East Fifty-seventh Street. They spend much time at their sum- 
mer home in Newport, where Mr. Oelrichs owns Rosecliffe, the property that was long the home 
of the famous historian, George Bancroft, Virginia Fair, the sister of Mrs. Oelrichs, makes her 
home with them. Mr. and Mrs. Oelrichs have one child, Hermann Oelrichs, Jr. Mr. Oelrichs has 
taken considerable interest in political affairs. He is a Democrat, and at one time was a member 
of the Democratic National Committee for the State of New York, but resigned that position for 
personal reasons in 1895. The Democratic nomination for Mayor of the city of New York has been 
frequently offered to him, and as frequently declined. Lucie Oelrichs, daughter of Henry Oelrichs, 
married Colonel William Jay, of New York. Another daughter, Hildegarde Oelrichs, married 
Richard Henderson, of Liverpool, England. Henry Oelrichs, a son of this family, is unmarried, and 
another son, Charles May Oelrichs, married Blanche de Loosey, and has a daughter, Lily Oelrichs. 
He is a member of the Metropolitan and Union clubs. 

431 



DAVID B. OGDEN 

AMONG the many wealthy and influential families of New Jersey in the Colonial period, the 
Ogdens held a foremost position. They played important parts in public affairs in East 
Jersey, under the proprietory Government, and their descendants have distinguished them- 
selves to an eminent degree in public life in that State and elsewhere down to the present day. 
John Ogden was the first of the family name in this country and a founder of the town of 
Elizabeth. He was settled in Stamford, Conn., in 1641, and three years later removed to Hemp- 
stead, Long Island, with the Reverend Robert Fordham. Subsequently he removed to South- 
ampton, of which place he was a magistrate in 1656-57-58, a representative to the General Court 
of Connecticut in 1655 — Long Island then being an appendage to the Connecticut Colony — and a 
member of the Upper House in 1661. He became one of the first settlers of a new Colony on the 
shores of Newark Bay, in 1665 was a justice of the peace there, and the same year a member of 
the Governor's Council, being a member of the Legislature in 1668. Under the Dutch, in 1673, he 
was burgomaster of the six towns of the Jersey Colony. His children were John, Jonathan, David, 
Joseph and Benjamin. Of these the three elder were original associates under the Governor Nicolls 
grants in 1665. John Ogden was conspicuous in 1671 in maintaining the rights secured by the 
Nicolls Patent. Jonathan Ogden was deacon of the church in 1694, and Benjamin Ogden was a 
sheriff in the same year. 

David Ogden, the ancestor in the second generation of that branch of the family to which 
Mr. David B. Ogden belongs, was born in 1691, and married Elizabeth Ward, daughter of Lieu- 
tenant Samuel Swayne, who went from Branford, Conn., to Newark, N. J., in 1656. His son, the 
Reverend Uzal Ogden, D. D., was the rector of the first Episcopal Church of Newark, which was 
founded by another son, Colonel Josiah Ogden, who was the ancestor in the fourth generation 
of Mr. David B. Ogden. He was born in 1680 and died in 1763, being a man of wealth and 
influence, a Colonel of the militia and a member of the Provincial Assembly of New Jersey for 
Essex County in 1716, 1721 and 1738. His first wife was Catharine H. Low, daughter of Harden- 
bush Low. She was the ancestress of the subject of this sketch. 

David Ogden, son of Colonel Josiah Ogden, was one of the most distinguished public men 
of his day. He was born in 1707 and died in 1800. Graduated from Yale College in 1728, he 
became one of the great lawyers of New Jersey and New York, and from 1772 to 1776, was a 
Judge of the Supreme Court. During the Revolutionary War he was a loyalist and lived in New 
York, where he was a member of the Board of Deputies, in 1779. After peace had been declared, 
he went to England for a time, but afterwards returned and settled in Kings County, Long Island. 
His wife was Gertrude Gouverneur, daughter of Abraham Gouverneur, and granddaughter of the 
Honorable Jacob Leisler. His son, Samuel Ogden, married Euphemia Morris, daughter of Judge 
Morris, of Morrisania, and his other children were allied in marriage to leading families in New 
Jersey and New York. 

David B. Ogden, Sr., was the son of Judge David Ogden. He was born in 1769 and died in 
1849, and was a distinguished lawyer. His wife was Margaretta E. Ogden, a cousin, daughter of 
Abraham Ogden, another great lawyer and public man. The children of David B. Ogden and his 
wife, Margaretta, were Samuel M., who married Susan Hall; Sarah Ludlow; Gouverneur M., who 
married Harriet Evans, daughter of Cadwalader Evans, of Philadelphia; Thomas L., who married 
Jane Johnson; Euphemia, Eliza Du Luze, Frances L. and David Bayard Ogden. 

Mr. David B. Ogden, third of the name, is the son of Gouverneur M. Ogden. He was born 
in New York and was graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1869. Following in the 
footsteps of his distinguished ancestors, he was educated for the legal profession. He married 
Mary E. Sherman and lives in East Tenth Street. He also has a country residence at Bar Harbor, 
Me. He is a member of the Tuxedo, University, Church, Century and Morristown clubs and of 
the Bar Association. 



FREDERIC PEPOON OLCOTT 

DESCENDED from notable Puritan ancestors, the Olcotts trace their lineage directly to Thomas 
Olcott, who was one of the founders of Hartford, Conn. He belonged to a good English 
family and was well educated, and before he came to America was engaged in mercantile 
life. Historians of the early Colonial families say that he was probably a member of one of the 
first companies of Colonists which came from London to Massachusetts, and was settled for a few 
months in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., in 1634. When a company was formed, under the 
direction of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, to move westward and establish a new Colony on the 
banks of the Connecticut River, Thomas Olcott was one of the party and left Newtown in 1635. 
He became one of the leading and most active members of the new community of Hartford, and, 
associated with Edward Hopkins, Richard Lord, William Whiting and others, engaged in trade in 
Connecticut for several years. His death occurred in 1654. His widow, Abigail, lived until 1693. 

Thomas Olcott, of Hartford, son of the pioneer, lived nearly through the first quarter of the 
eighteenth century, dying at an advanced age, and his wife lived until 1721. In the next genera- 
tion, Thomas Olcott, who bore the name of his father and his grandfather, married, in 1691, Sarah 
Foote, daughter of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn. She died in 1756. Their son, the 
fourth Thomas Olcott, lived throughout his life in Stratford, Conn., where he died in 1795. The 
second wife of the fourth Thomas Olcott, the great-grandmother of the subject of this sketch, 
was Sarah (Tomlinson) Thompson, of Stratford, widow of Hezekiah Thompson and daughter of 
Zachariah Tomlinson, of one of the earliest Connecticut families. She was descended from Henry 
Tomlinson, who, with his wife and several children, came from Derbyshire, England, in 1652 and 
settled in Milford, Conn., afterwards removing to Stratford, where he died in 1681. The English 
ancestor of the family was George Tomlinson, of Derby, Derbyshire, who belonged to the landed 
gentry md, according to tradition, came from a noble family. In 1600, hemarried Maria Hyde in 
St. Peter's Church, Derby. Thomas Olcott died in 1795 and his wife in 181 1. 

The grandfather of Mr. Frederic Pepoon Olcott was Josiah Olcott, of Hudson, N. Y. ; his 
grandmother was Deborah Worth, daughter of Thomas Worth, of Nantucket, Mass. Mr. Olcott's 
father was Thomas W. Olcott, of Albany, a prominent citizen of that city throughout his life. 
For many years he was president of the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank. His wife, whom he 
married in 1818, was Caroline Pepoon, daughter of Daniel Pepoon, of Stockbridge, Mass. 

Mr. Frederic P. Olcott was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1841. His early education in the 
local schools was supplemented by a course of study in the Albany Academy. Deciding upon 
a business career, he entered his father's bank as clerk, when he was sixteen years of age. Hold- 
ing that position for several years, until he had secured a thorough insight into business methods, 
he left the bank and started in business for himself, being for some time engaged in the lumber 
trade in Albany and its vicinity. Afterwards he became connected with the banking house of Blake, 
Brothers & Co., of New York, and with Phelps, Stokes & Co., with whom he remained for several 
years. He was Comptroller of the State of New York, 1877-80. In 1884, he became president of 
the Central Trust Company of New York, a position that he has retained to the present time. 
Interested in many other important commercial and financial corporations, he has been a director of 
the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, the Bank of America, the Sixth Avenue Street 
Railway and the National Union Bank. 

In 1862, Mr. Olcott married Mary Esmay, and has two children, Edith and Dudley Olcott. 
His brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Olcott, is connected with the Mechanics' and Farmers' Bank 
of Albany, of which his father was for so many years president. The city residence of Mr. and 
Mrs. Olcott is in East Fifty-third Street and their country home is in Bernardsville, N. J. Mr. 
Olcott is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Riding, Ladies', Barnard, Manhattan, Essex 
County Country, and New York Yacht clubs and the Downtown Association. He is also a patron 
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 

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STEPHEN HENRY OLIN 

THE family of which Mr. Stephen H. Olin is the New York representative in this generation 
was probably of Huguenot origin. John Olin, its American ancestor, was little mere 
than a lad when he arrived in New England. He was not a voluntary immigrant, but 
had been taken on the coast of Wales in 1678 by the press gang of a British man-of-war. When 
the man-of-war anchored in Boston Harbor, a few months later, he sought the first opportunity to 
escape from his captors and cast his lot in the New World. From Boston he went to Rhode 
Island and settled in East Greenwich. In 1708, he married Susannah Spencer, whose parents 
came from Wales and established themselves in Rhode Island. John and Susannah (Spencer) 
Olin had two sons and one daughter. 

Henry Olin, the second son of John Olin, had a son, Justin, who was born in 1739 in East 
Greenwich, R. I. Justin Olin married Sarah Dwinnell and was the father of the Honorable Henry 
Olin, who was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., in 1768, and settled in Leicester, Vt., about 1788. He was 
chosen a member of the Legislature for the first time in 1799, and was reelected for twenty-one 
successive terms. In 1801, he became assistant Judge of the County Court, held that office for 
eight years and was Chief Justice for fifteen years. In 1820 and 1821, he was a State Councilor, a 
Member of Congress in 1824, and Lieutenant-Governor of the State, 1827-30. In politics he was a 
Jeffersonian Democrat, and afterwards a Whig. He removed to Salisbury, Vt., in 1837 and died 
there. His wife, whom he married in 1788, was Lois Richardson. 

The Reverend Stephen Olin, D. D., LL. D., eldest son of Henry and Lois (Richardson) 
Olin, was born at Leicester, Vt., in 1797. He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 
1820, and going to the South, soon after graduation, attached himself to the South Carolina 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was stationed at Charleston, S. C. For a time 
he was connected with a seminary in Abbeville District, S. C, and in 1826 was a professor in 
Franklin College, Georgia. In 1832, he was elected professor in Randolph-Macon Union College, 
Virginia, and in 1842 became president of Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., which 
position he held at the time of his death, in 1851. In 1828, he was ordained an elder of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church; in 1834, the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him simultaneously by 
Randolph-Macon College and Franklin College, Yale College giving him that of LL.D. in 1837. 
The Reverend Dr. Olin went abroad in 1837 and made an extensive tour of the East, describing 
his experience in a volume, entitled, Travels in Egypt, Petraea and the Holy Land. In 1846, he 
was a delegate to the first meeting of the Evangelical Alliance in London. After his death, his ser- 
mons were published, as well as his Life and Letters. He had an established rank as one of the 
leading educators of his generation in the United States. Dr. Olin married, in 1843, J ulia M - 
Lynch, who was born in New York in 1814, and died in 1879. Her father was Judge James 
Lynch, of New York, and her mother was Janet N. Tillotson, granddaughter of Judge Robert R. 
Livingston, of Clermont. 

Mr. Stephen Henry Olin, son of the Reverend Stephen and Julia M. (Lynch) Olin, was born 
in Middletown, Conn., in 1847. He was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1866, and in 1895 
received from it the degree of LL.D. He is a lawyer, and a member of the firm of Olin & Rives. 
He is Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief-of- Staff of the First Brigade of the National Guard, with 
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1894, he was one of the Commissioners to revise the Public 
School Law. He has been president of the Wesleyan Alumni Association, and is a trustee of that 
University and of the New York Public Library. In 1879, Mr. Olin married Alice W. Barlow, 
daughter of S. L. M. Barlow. She died in 1882, leaving two daughters, Alice Townsend and Julia 
Lynch Olin. 

The city residence of Mr. Olin is at 136 East Nineteenth Street, and his country home is 
Glenbum, Rhinebeck-on-Hudson. He is a member of the Century, University, Players, Lawyers' 
and City clubs, the Downtown Association and the Bar Association. 

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ALEXANDER ECTOR ORR 

IN the contemporary movements for the development of New York's commercial interests and 
for securing a healthier tone in public affairs, and a purer administration of the government of 
the metropolis, the business men of the community have been unusually prominent, and have 
energetically concerned themselves in the practical work leading to such results. One of the 
active citizens in this work, and one of the most untiring and influential, has been Mr. Alexander 
Ector Orr. Although Mr. Orr is a resident of Brooklyn, his business and social interests, as well 
as his activity in public affairs, have fully identified him with the metropolis. He is of Scottish 
descent, of the clan McGregor. His family, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, moved 
from Scotland to Ireland. William Orr, his father, the head of the family in his generation, lived 
in Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland; his wife was Mary Moore, daughter of David Moore, of 
Sheephill, County Londonderry. 

Mr. Alexander E. Orr was born in Strabane, March 2d, 1831. As a boy he was intended for 
service with the East India Company. An accident, however, led to a change in his plans, and he 
went to live with the Reverend John Haven, Archdeacon of the diocese of Derry and Raphoe, at 
Killaloo Glebe, who superintended his education. In 1850, he made a trip by sailing vessel to the 
United States, visiting several Southern ports. Upon his return home, he made up his mind to 
settle permanently in this country, and returned to New York the following year. His first 
engagement here was with a firm of shipping and commission merchants, and in 1858, he entered 
the employ of David Dows & Co. Three years later, he was admitted to be a partner in the 
firm, and in 1859 was elected to a membership in the Produce Exchange. Always active in 
the affairs of the Exchange, he has been several times a director and the president of the institution, 
and was also secretary of the committee that had charge of the important work of erecting the 
Exchange building. 

For years, Mr. Orr has been chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the Exchange, and is 
a director in several banks, insurance companies and other fiduciary institutions. He is a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Association, the City Club, the Hamilton Club of 
Brooklyn, the Marine and Field Club, the Atlantic Yacht Club and the American Geographical 
Society. A member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he is one of the incorporators and a 
trustee of the corporation that has charge of the cathedral and schools built by Alexander T. 
Stewart, at Garden City, Long Island. He is also president of the Board of Rapid Transit Commis- 
sioners of the City of New York. 

In 1856, Mr. Orr married Juliet Buckingham Dows, who was the daughter of Ammi Dows, 
of the firm of David Dows & Company. His second wife was Margaret Shippen, daughter of 
Nicholas Luquer, and granddaughter of Dominick Lynch, of Brooklyn. Mrs. Orr is a member of 
the famous Shippen family, that for two hundred and fifty years has been prominently identified 
with the State of Pennsylvania. She is in the seventh generation from Edward Shippen, the 
pioneer, who, the son of William Shippen, was born in England in 1639, came to Boston in 1668, 
and became a wealthy merchant. He married Elizabeth Lybrand, a Quakeress, and removed to 
Philadelphia in 1693. He was a member of the Assembly and Speaker, a member of the Provincial 
Council for sixteen years, a Judge of the Supreme Court and Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. 
His son, Joseph Shippen, was a scientist and intimately associated with Benjamin Franklin. His 
grandson, Edward Shippen, was a merchant, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia in 1744, Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas, a county Judge, one of the founders of the town of Shippensberg, 
and also of the College of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania Hospital. His great-grandson, Edward 
Shippen, was the famous Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the State of Pennsylvania, and for 
more than fifty years a leading member of the judiciary of that State. Mrs. Orr is the great-great- 
grandchild of Chief Justice Shippen. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Orr are: Jane Dows, Mary 
More, and Juliet Ector Orr, who married Albert H. Munsell. 

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JAMES OTIS 

ONE of the greatest families of New England, distinguished for the patriotism of its repre- 
sentatives and the valuable services that they have rendered to their country in times of 
national peril, is that of Otis, of which Mr. James Otis is the representative in New York 
in this generation. John Otis, the American ancestor of the family, came with his wife and children 
from Hingham, Norfolk County, England, in 1635, and was one of the first settlers of the town of 
Hingham, Mass. His wife was Mary Jacob. In the second generation, his son, John Otis, who 
married Mercy Bacon, was born in Hingham in 1657, and for eighteen years was a Colonel in the 
Mass.- ! "setts militia, for twenty years a representative to the General Court, for twenty-one years 
a member of the Council, for thirteen years Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and also a 
Judge of Probate. He died in Barnstable in 1727. 

Colonel James Otis, son of the second John Otis, was born in West Barnstable in 1702, and 
died in 1778. He was a member of the Provincial Legislature in 1758, Speaker of the House, Judge 
of Probate for Barnstable County, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 1764-75, and 
president of the Council Board during the first years of the Revolution. He was closely associated 
with Adams, Quincy, Hancock, and other great leaders of the Revolutionary period. His wife was 
Mary Alleyne, of Wethersfield, Conn., daughter of Joseph Alleyne, who belonged to the Plymouth, 
Mass., family of that name. He had a family of thirteen children. One of his most celebrated sons 
was James Otis, 1725-1783, the Revolutionary patriot and orator, the leader in Massachussetts 
against the royal government, and after the war a member of the State Legislature.. Samuel 
Alleyne Otis, son of Colonel James Otis, and great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was 
born in Barnstable, Mass., in 1740, and died in Washington in 1814. He was graduated from 
Harvard College in 1759, studied law, but afterwards entered upon mercantile pursuits. In 1776, he 
was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and in 1784 was Speaker of the 
House. In 1780, he was a member of the Board of War and also a member of the convention that 
framed a constitution for the State, and in 1788 a delegate to the Continental Congress. In 1787, 
he was a commissioner to negotiate with the insurgents in Shay's Rebellion. After the adoption 
of the Federal Constitution, he was secretary of the United States Senate. His wife was Elizabeth 
Gray, who belonged to one of Boston's noted families, the daughter of Harrison Gray, at one 
time Receiver-General of the State of Massachusetts. 

The grandfather of the present Mr. James Otis was Harrison Gray Otis, son of Samuel 
Alleyne Otis and Elizabeth Gray, and one of the great orators of Boston in the first part of this cen- 
tury. Harrison Gray Otis was born in Boston in 1765, was graduated from Harvard College at the 
age of eighteen and was admitted to the bar when he had just attained his majority. Two years 
later, he began his career as an orator and a public man by delivering the Fourth of July oration in 
Boston. In 1787, he was Captain in the militia and aide-de-camp to General Brooks, in 1796 a 
member of the State Legislature, from 1797 to 1801 a Member of Congress, then United States 
District Attorney in 1801, Speaker of the House of Representatives 1803-05, president of the State 
Senate 1805-1 1, and Justice of the Court of Common Pleas 1814-18. He took a prominent part in 
the Hartford Convention in 1814, was United States Senator 1817-22 and was elected Mayor of 
Boston in 1829. He married Sally Foster and his death occurred in 1848. His son, James W. Otis, 
married Martha C. Church, and they were the parents of Mr. James Otis, of this generation. 

Mr. James Otis was born in New York, October 12th, 1836, and has been engaged in mer- 
cantile pursuits in this city during his entire lifetime. He has taken an active interest in politics and 
in 1884-85 was a member of the State Senate from one of the New York City districts. During 
the Civil War, he was a member of the Twenty-Second New York Regiment, being Captain of 
Company A, and saw active service at the front. On the field, in 1863, he was elected Major of 
the regiment. He belongs to the Union League, Players and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, 
and is also, by virtue of his ancestry, a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. 

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OSWALD OTTENDORFER 

NO one among the adopted citizens of the Republic who have come hither during the last 
half century has achieved a more substantial success, or has more fully merited the appro- 
bation of his fellow citizens by disinterested public services, than Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer, 
editor of The New York Staats Zeitung, the leading German newspaper of the United States. 
Mr. Ottendorfer is a native of Austria, having been born in Zwittau, in the Province of Moravia, 
February 28th, 1826. He studied law in the Universities of Vienna and Prague, and like other 
students of the Universities, embraced the revolutionary tenets that were secretly promulgated 
at that time. When the Revolution of 1848 broke out he identified himself with the movement 
and was a leader in all the proceedings against the Austrian Government. He was an active 
participant in the insurrection at Vienna, which led to the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand, 
and when the uprising was suppresssed, in October, 1848. he was among those who escaped, 
going to Germany, where he took up his residence in Leipsic. In 1849, he participated in the 
revolutionary movements in Dresden, and later in the same year in Baden. When the liberal 
cause in Germany seemed totally lost, he became a political refugee, living for a time in Switzer- 
land. In 1850, finding that the active part he had taken in these insurrections made it unsafe for 
him to remain in Europe, he decided to emigrate to the United States. When he arrived here, 
he was only twenty-four years of age and was without capital or influential friends. At first he 
took a position in a factory, but acquiring a knowledge of the English language, secured a clerkship 
in the office of The Staats Zeitung. His ability quickly asserted itself and he was advanced from 
one position to another until he held important and confidential relations with the management 
of the paper. In 18159, ne married the widow of the original proprietor of The Staats Zeitung 
and assumed the duties of editor and publisher of the paper, a position which he has maintained 
uninterruptedly to the present time. 

Through the influential position which Mr. Ottendorfer has occupied he has been an impor- 
tant factor in the public affairs of the metropolis for a generation. In the municipal uprising against 
the Tweed Ring, he was a hearty supporter of Samuel J. Tilden and other reformers, and was a 
member of the famous Committee of Seventy. He was also a member of the Board of Aldermen 
in 1873-74. For many years he was a director in the German-American Bank, the German Savings 
Bank, the German Hospital and the Deutcher Leiderkranz Society. During the last fifteen years, 
he has, to a large extent, retired from active participation in general business affairs on account 
of ill health, confining his attention to his editorial work on The Staats Zeitung and to labor in 
the cause of municipal reform and wholesome politics, in which he is as deeply interested as 
when he stood shoulder to shoulder with the leading reformers in the days of the Tweed Ring. 

Mrs. Ottendorfer, whose maiden name was Anna Behl, was devoted to charity, dispensing 
her wealth in a most generous manner. In 1875, she established a Home for Old Ladies in Astoria, 
Long Island, and set apart a fund for its support. This institution, which is now known as the 
Isabella Heimath, was removed in 1889 to Washington Heights, where it occupies one of the 
finest buildings devoted to such purposes in the city of New York. Several years before her 
death, which occurred in 1884, she made a donation for the assistance of schools in the city, and 
in 1881, she erected a woman's pavilion to the German Hospital. In 1883, she presented a hand- 
some building to the German Dispensary in Second Avenue, together with a valuable medical 
library. In 1884, Mr. Ottendorfer founded the Second Avenue branch of the Free Circulating 
Library, located in the centre of the German district on the East Side, and called the Ottendorfer 
Library. 

For many years, Mr. and Mrs. Ottendorfer resided on an estate on Washington Heights, 
overlooking the Hudson River. Mr. Ottendorfer now lives in Fifty-ninth Street, opposite Central 
Park. He is a member of the Manhattan, City, Century, Reform and Commonwealth clubs, the 
Leiderkranz and the American Geographical Society. 



RICHARD CHANNING MANN PAGE, M. D. 

ONE of the most distinguished families in the history of Virginia is that of Page. The 
American pioneer was John Page, son of Francis Page, of Bedfont, Middlesex County, 
England, who belonged to a branch of the family that had for its arms: or., a fesse dan- 
cette between three martlets azure, a bordure of the last. Crest, a demi-horse forcene, per pale 
dancette, or. and azure. Motto: Spe labor lev/s. John Page was born in Bedfont in 1627; was a 
prosperous merchant in the mother country, and in Virginia became one of the most influential 
members of that Colony, being a member of the Royal Colonial Council. He died in 1692. 

Matthew Page, 1659- 1703, son of John Page, was a wealthy planter, married Mary Mann, 
was an original member of the board of trustees of William and Mary College, and a mem- 
ber of the Royal Council under Queen Anne. In the third generation, Mann Page, 1691-1730, 
was, next to Lord Fairfax, the largest landowner in Virginia, holding at one time over seventy 
thousand acres in several counties. John Page, 1720- 1780, second son of Mann Page, was a 
member of the Colonial Council in 1776. After his father's death, he was the head of the North End 
branch of the family. His mother was Judith Carter, daughter of Robert Carter, president of the 
Virginia Colony. His wife was Jane Byrd, daughter of Colonel William E. Byrd, of Westover. 

Eleven children of John Page survived their parents. Major Carter Page, the fourth son, 
1758-1825, left William and Mary College in 1776 to join the Continental Army, and became Major 
and aide-de-camp to General Lafayette. He married Mary Carey, daughter of Colonel Archibald 
Carey, a descendant of Colonel Miles Carey of the Royal Navy, and in the sixth generation from 
Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Dr. Mann Page, 1 791-1830, third surviving son of Major Carter Page, 
was educated at Hampden — Sidney College, and graduated from the Philadelphia Medical College 
in 1813, He married Jane Frances Walker, descended from the Nelsons of Yorktown, Va., and 
from Colonel John Washington, the ancestor of General George Washington. 

Dr. Richard Channing Mann Page was the twelfth child and eighth son in his father's 
family. He was born in Keswick, Albermarle County, Va., January 2d, 1841. A student in the 
University of Virginia, when the Civil War broke out, he followed the example of his grand- 
father and other ancestors of the Revolutionary period, and, abandoning his books, enlisted in 
Pendleton's Rockbridge Battery, attached to Stonewall Jackson's Brigade in the army of General 
Joseph E. Johnston. Engaged in the first battle of Bull Run in 1 861, he was transferred to the 
Morris Artillery Company, and promoted to be Second Gun Sergeant. After the battle of Williams- 
burg he was brevetted Captain of Artillery. He was present at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville 
and Gettysburg, served in the campaign of the Wilderness, and was promoted to be Major and 
Chief of Artillery on the staff of Major-General John C. Breckinridge. In the Chancellorsville 
campaign in 1863, Page's Battery accompanied Stonewall Jackson's corps on that famous march to 
General Hooker's rear. It had the honor of firing the gun at sunrise on that historic third of 
May, as a signal for the commencement of the battle. It occupied and held Hazel Grove, the 
possession of which was an important factor in compassing the defeat of the Union forces. 

After the war, Dr. Page completed his studies, and graduated from the New York 
University. Serving as house physician to Bellevue Hospital, he was afterward district physician 
and then house surgeon to the Woman's Hospital, and since 1871 has been engaged in private 
practice. In 1880, he was appointed professor in the New York Polyclinic, was honorary vice- 
president of the Paris Congress for the study of tuberculosis, and is the author of many works 
on medicine, including several important text books. He is a member of the New York His- 
torical Society, the New York Southern Society, the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York, 
the Society of Medical Jurisprudence and the Sons of the Revolution. In 1874, he married Mary 
Elizabeth (Fitch) Winslow, of Westport, Conn., widow of Richard Henry Winslow, a founder 
of the banking house of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Mrs. Winslow is descended on her mother's 
side from Sarah Wilson, of Boston, and Edward Cornell, of England. 

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EDWARD WINSLOW PAIGE 

ABOUT the middle of the seventeenth century, Nathaniel Paige came to Massachusetts, was 
one of the proprietors of Hardwick, Leicester, and Spencer, and marshal of Suffolk 
County, 1686. His son, Deacon Christopher Paige, of Hardwick, married Elizabeth Reed. 
Their son, John Paige, served in two campaigns of the French War, and was at the battle of the 
Plains of Abraham, where he was wounded. He married Hannah Winslow, 1740- 1812, daughter 
of Captain Edward Winslow, 1703- 1780, of Rochester, Mass., the son of Major Edward Winslow, 
1681-1760, and grandson of Colonel Kenelm Winslow, 1635-1715. Colonel Winslow's father was 
Kenelm Winslow, 1599-1672, brother of Edward Winslow; he came to Plymouth in 1869. 

The Reverend Winslow Paige, 1767-1838, son of John, was born at Hardwick, Mass., and 
became a Dutch minister. His first charge was at Stephentown, N. Y., in 1790, whither his father 
then removed. In 1793, he was pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church at Schaghticoke, and 
remained there fourteen years, after which he had successively the Dutch churches of Florida, 
N. Y., and Gilboa, N. Y., where he died. In 1787, he married Clarissa Keyes, of Ashford, Conn., 
daughter of General John and Mary (Wales) Keyes. John Keyes was a Captain under Knowlton, 
behind the rail fence at Bunker Hill. He was at Harlem Heights, Trenton and Princeton, and was 
the first Adjutant-General of Connecticut, continuing until the end of the war. 

Alonzo Christopher Paige, father of Edward Winslow Paige, was the son of Winslow Paige. 
He was born at Schaghticoke, N. Y., in 1798, and died at Schenectady in 1868. Graduated from 
Williams College in 18 12, he was, from 1828 to 1846, reporter of the Court of Chancery. During 
the four years, from 1826 on, he was a member of the New York Assembly, and a State Senator, 
1837-1842. In 1848 he became a Justice of the Supreme Court, and in 1867 was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention. He was a trustee of Union College, and with other positions of trust, 
was a director of the Utica & Schenectady and New York Central Railroads, 1832-1867. 

Harriet Bowers Mumford, wife of Alonzo Christopher Paige, and mother of the present Mr. 
Paige, was born in New York in 1 807. She was the daughter of Benjamin Maverick Mumford, 
born on Groton Bank, Conn., in 1772. The first American ancestor of the family was Thomas 
Mumford, one of the "gentlemen" who accompanied Captain John Smith in his exploring 
expeditions from Jamestown, Va., in 1608. He returned to England, and was a member of the 
Virginia Company. Thomas Mumford, second of the name, came to Rhode Island, and in 1657 
made the Pettaquamscutt purchase, which included Narragansett Pier and the adjacent region. He 
married Sarah Sherman, daughter of Philip Sherman, one of the founders of Rhode Island. 
Thomas Mumford, third of the name, born 1656, was a deputy of Rhode Island, and his son, 
Thomas Mumford, fourth of the name, born at Kingstown, R. I., 1687, married Hannah Remington, 
and moved to Groton Bank, Conn. He founded St. James' Church, New London. Its rector, Dr. 
Seabury, who married his daughter, was the father of Bishop Seabury. The fifth Thomas Mumford, 
born 1707, was a Captain in 1736, and married Abigail Chesebrough. His son, Thomas Mum- 
ford, born' on Groton Bank, 1728, was one of the seven who furnished the means for the expedition 
which captured Ticonderoga. He was State Commissary and a member of the Assembly or 
Council throughout the Revolution. When Arnold took New London in 1781, Mr. Mumford's 
house was particularly singled out for destruction. He married a granddaughter of William Nicoll 
and Annetje Van Rensselaer. Benjamin Maverick Mumford was their son. 

Mr. Edward Winslow Paige was born July 1 ith, 1844, at Schenectady. He was graduated 
from Union College in 1864, and from the Harvard Law School in 1866, and was LL. D., Hobart, in 
1887. For nearly thirty years he has been in the active practice of his profession. His residence is 
Schenectady. His place, which overlooks the " Groot Vlacht," is the site of the former residence 
of Hiawat-ha, the founder of the Iroquois Indian Confederacy. In New York, he lives at 29 
Washington Square. He is a [member of the Bar Association, the Metropolitan, University 
and other clubs, the Union Alumni Association and the Society of Colonial wars. 



RICHARD SUYDAM PALMER 

ONE of the stirring incidents of the War of 1812 was the bombardment of the town of 
Stonington, Conn., by a British fleet in August, 1814. Sir Thomas M. Hardy, who 
commanded three British ships of war, the Ramilies, the Pactolus and the Dispatch, 
sailed into the harbor one day and announced his purpose of destroying the town. The little com- 
pany of militia, reinforced by the citizens of the place, valiantly defended their homes, although 
they had only two eighteen-pound cannon and one four-pounder, but a good supply of ammuni- 
tion, and after four days of unequal combat, drove off the British vessels in a half sinking condition. 
Philip Freneau, the balladist of that time, celebrated this victory in one of the most popular war 
songs of the early part of this century. 

Captain Amos Palmer, the great-grandfather of Mr. Richard Suydam Palmer, was the senior 
warden of the borough of Stonington at the time of that famous fight, and took prominent part in 
the defense of the town. He was Chairman of the Committee of Citizens that had been intrusted 
with preparations for the defense of the town many months previously, the attack upon it having 
been long anticipated, and his report of the affair to the Secretary of War in Washington is one of 
the interesting war documents of that period. He was born in 1747, and his death occurred in 
1816. He came of an old and respected Colonial family, being lineally descended from Walter 
Palmer, the American emigrant, who was a member of an ancient English family, and arrived from 
England in 1629. Locating first in Charlestown, Mass., Walter Palmer was made a freeman of that 
place in 1631. Removing to Rehoboth in the Plymouth Colony in 1642, he was a deputy to the 
General Court in 1643-47, and was frequently elected by his townsmen to important town offices. 
In 1653, he removed to Connecticut, and purchased land from Governor Haynes. Subsequently 
receiving other grants from the town of Pequot, he became one of the original proprietors of 
Stonington. He died in 1662. His wife, whom he married in Charlestown, was Rebecca Short. 

Courtlandt Palmer, the grandfather of Mr. Richard Suydam Palmer, was a son of Captain 
Amos Palmer. He was born in Stonington, in 1800, became a prominent merchant of New York, 
and died in 1874. At the age of eighteen, he engaged with an older brother who was in business 
in Maiden Lane, but started in business for himself when he was twenty-one years of age, and was 
at once successful. Soon after the panic of 1837, he began to invest in real estate in New York 
and in the West, and became very wealthy. He was the first president of the Stonington & Provi- 
dence Railroad, 1844-48, one of the founders and a director of the Safe Deposit Company, and a 
director of the Mutual Bank and Trust Company. 

The first wife of Courtlandt Palmer was Eliza Thurston, daughter of Governor Thurston, of 
Connecticut. His second wife, whom he married in 1832, and who became the mother of all his 
children, was a daughter of Richard Suydam. He had four children, Courtlandt, Charles Phelps, 
Mary Anna, and Richard Suydam Palmer, who married Fannie Arnot, and was the father of the 
subject of this sketch. Courtlandt Palmer, 1843-1888, was the distinguished lawyer and author. 
Graduated from Williams College and the Law School of Columbia College, he devoted himself 
principally to the management of his father's estate, and to literary pursuits. He was an advanced 
and radical thinker, and established the famous Nineteenth Century Club, of which he was presi- 
dent during his life. Mary Anna Palmer married Henry Draper, who died several years ago. She 
lives in Madison Avenue, and has a country place, Wykaska, at Dobbs' Ferry. 

Mr. Richard Suydam Palmer was born in New York, September 12th, 1868, and educated in 
Columbia University, being graduated in the class of 189 1. His residence is in East Thirty-ninth 
Street, near Fifth Avenue. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Calumet, 
Riding, St. Anthony, University and Meadow Brook Hunt clubs, the Country Club of Westchester 
County, the Columbia College Alumni Association, and the New York, Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
and Larchmont Yacht clubs. He is especially devoted to yachting, and has three times crossed 
the Atlantic in his yacht, Yampa, one of the finest cruising schooner yachts in the world. 



TRENOR LUTHER PARK 

ONE of the oldest New England families is that founded by Richard Park, of Hadleigh, 
Suffolk, England, who came to this country as early as 1630. Among the distinguished 
descendants of this pioneer, was Trenor W. Park, the eminent lawyer, railroad manager 
and financier, of the last generation, who was the father of Mr. Trenor Luther Park. Trenor W. 
Park was born in Woodford, Vt., in 1823. His parents removed to Bennington when he was a 
child, and he received his education there, after which he studied law for five years and was 
admitted to practice at the Vermont bar, in 1844, the same year he attained his majority. For the 
next ten years he pursued his profession in his native State with considerable success. In 1852, he 
left Vermont and went to California, where he became a junior member of the law firm of Halleck, 
Peachy, Billings & Park, of which General Henry W. Halleck was the senior member. He soon 
became one of the most eminent lawyers on the Pacific coast, his specialty being land titles. 
Incidentally, he became interested in lands and mines, and accumulated wealth through business 
operations. 

After spending eleven years in California, he returned to his native State with a competence 
and settled in Bennington to a life of retirement. It was not long, however, before he turned his 
attention to railroad and financial affairs, in which he achieved a success quite equal to that 
which he had won in the law. He obtained control of the Western Vermont Railroad, and 
reorganized the company as the Bennington & Rutland Railroad, and was also interested in the 
development of several large Western mining properties. He was a director in the Pacific Mail 
Steamship Company, and president of the Panama Railroad, for the eight years following 1874. 
He was generous in his benefactions, and founded an art gallery at the University of Vermont, and 
presented a free library and a home for veterans of the late war to the town of Bennington, Vt. 

The first wife of Trenor W. Park was Laura V. Hall, daughter of the Honorable Hiland 
Hall, of Vermont. She died in 1873, and in 1882 Mr. Park married Ella Nichols, daughter of A. C. 
Nichols, of San Francisco. His children, who were by his first wife, are: Trenor Luther Park, 
Eliza Park, who became the wife of General John G. McCullough, and Laura Hall Park, who 
married Frederick B. Jennings. The maternal grandfather of the present Mr. Park, the Honorable 
Hiland Hall, was one of Vermont's most distinguished citizens. He was born in Bennington in 
1795, being the son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Hubbard) Hall. John Hall, his Puritan ancestor, 
was in the early emigration, and after living in Boston and Hartford, was one of the first settlers of 
Middletown, Conn., in 1650. George Hubbard, his maternal ancestor, was also one of the first 
settlers of Middletown. Hiland Hall was admitted to the bar in 1819, was elected a member 
of the Vermont Legislature in 1827, and was State Attorney from 1828 to 1831, and a Whig Mem- 
ber of Congress for ten years, from 1833 to 1843. Afterwards, he was bank commissioner of the 
State for four years, Judge of the Supreme Court in 1846, and in 1850 became second comptroller 
of the United States Treasury, and commissioner to settle disputed titles of land in California 
between the citizens of the United States and the Mexicans. One of the earliest Republicans, he 
was a delegate to the first National Republican Convention in 1856. In 1858, and again in 1859, 
he was elected Governor of Vermont, and was a delegate to the Peace Congress in Washington, in 
1861. Governor Hall was president of the Vermont Historical Society, vice-president of the New 
England Historic-Genealogical Society, and the author of a History of Vermont. He died at 
Springfield, Mass., in 1885. 

Mr. Trenor Luther Park was born in San Francisco, in 1861, and was graduated from Harvard 
in 1883. He has been for a number of years engaged in business in this city. He married Julia 
H. Catlin, the residence of the family being at White Plains, Westchester County. Mr. Park is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Lotos, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Yacht, Harvard, Racquet, St. Nicholas, New York Athletic, St. Andrew's Golf and A K E 
clubs, the Country Club of Westchester County, and the New England Society. 

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SCHUYLER LIVINGSTON PARSONS 

A DOUBLE wedding interested New York in the summer of 1775. John Watts, a son of 
Councilor John Watts, who had been recently graduated from King's College, was 
married to his cousin Jane, daughter of Peter de Lancey, of Westchester. The other bride 
was her sister, Susan de Lancey, who married Colonel Thomas Barclay. The guests drove from 
the city to the de Lancey mansion in Westchester, and the assemblage was extremely brilliant. 

Colonel Thomas Barclay and his wife Susan were ancestors of the Parsons family, which has 
been conspicuous in New York society for several generations. Colonel Barclay, 1753-1830, was 
the eldest son of the Reverend Dr. Henry Barclay, the rector of Trinity Church. John Barclay, his 
ancestor and great-grandfather, was Governor of East Jersey, married Cornelia Van Schaick, 
and died in 1731. Governor John Barclay was the son of Colonel David Barclay, of Ury, 1610-86, 
and of Lady Catherine Gordon, 1621-63, w ^° was i n tne thirteenth generation from Robert Bruce, 
King of Scotland, and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry de Brugh, Earl of Ulster. 
The line of descent was through a daughter of Robert Bruce, the Princess Margaret Bruce, who 
married William, the Sixth Earl of Sutherland, and thence through the Sutherlands and Gordons to 
Lady Catherine Gordon. Through the Honorable Adam Gordon, in the eighth generation from 
Robert Bruce, who married Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, the Barclays could trace their 
descent from King James of Scotland, whose daughter Princess Janette was the mother of Adam 
Gordon. Colonel Thomas Barclay was for a long time British Consul General In the United States. 
Through his wife, Susan de Lancey, the subject of this sketch is related to the ancient families 
of de Lancey, Van Cortlandt and Colden, famous in the early history of Manhattan. The grand- 
father of Susan de Lancey was Etienne de Lancey, Viscount of Lavalle; her grandmother was Ann 
Van Cortland, and her mother was Elizabeth Colden, daughter of Cadwalader Colden. 

The sons and daughters of Colonel Thomas Barclay and his wife, and their descendants, have 
figured notably in the history of New York. Thomas E. Barclay was a Post Captain in the Royal 
Navy; Anthony Barclay, 1792-1877, was British Consul in New York; Elizabeth Barclay, 1776- 1817, 
married Schuyler Livingston; Susan Barclay married Peter G. Stuyvesant; Henry Barclay married 
Catherine Watts; de Lancey Barclay, 1780- 1826, was a Captain in the English Army and married 
Mrs. Gurney Barclay, nee Freshfield, of Norfolk. Ann Barclay, 1788-1869, married in 181 s, William 
Burrington Parsons, an officer in the British Navy, who was saved from the wreck of H. M. S. 
Sylph, on the coast of Long Island, January 17th, 181 5. Their son, William Barclay Parsons, 
1 828- 1 887, married in 1851 Eliza Glass Livingston, daughter of Schuyler Livingston by his first 
marriage with Ann Hosie, a descendant from the Munroe family of Scotland, who were identified 
with the founding of the University at Edinburgh. 

Schuyler Livingston was the great-grandson of Robert Livingston, the third and last Lord of 
the Manor, and of Mary Thong, his wife, the granddaughter of Governor Rip Van Dam. This 
Robert Livingston was the grandson of Robert, first Lord of the Manor of Livingston, who 
emigrated to America between 1674 and 1676. He married Alida Schuyler, widow of Nicolaus 
Van Rensselaer and daughter of Philipse Pieterse Van Schuyler. There are few families more 
intimately connected with the early development of this country than the Livingstons. By inter- 
marriage, the family is linked with many well known names, such as Schuyler, Barclay, de Lancey, 
Rutgers, Van Brugh, Van Cortlandt, Van Rensselaer, as well as that of the historic Anneke Jans. 
William Barclay Parsons' children, Schuyler Livingston, William Barclay, Harry De Berkeley and 
George Burrington Parsons, are among those of the name most prominent in this generation. 

Mr. Schuyler Livingston Parsons, the eldest son, was born in New York, October 12th, 1852, 
and married in 1877, Helena Johnson, daughter of Bradish Johnson, and has three children, Helena 
Johnson, Evelyn Knapp and Schuyler Livingston, Jr. Mrs. Parsons died August 26th, 1897. Mr. 
Parsons has a country residence at Islip, Long Island. He is a merchant, and member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and of the Union, Metropolitan, Players and other clubs. 



WILLIAM HENRY PARSONS 

ON the paternal side the subject of this article comes of an old family that has been sub- 
stantially planted in Warwickshire, England, for many generations back. His father, 
Edward Lamb Parsons, came to this country when he was a young man of twenty-one 
years of age, and became a respected merchant in New York. His wife, the mother of Mr 
William Henry Parsons, was Maltilda Clark, a New England woman of Colonial lineage on the 
paternal side, and descended from a New York Dutch family on her mother's side. 

Mr. William Henry Parsons was born on Staten Island, July 7th, 1831. He was educated 
in a private school at Rye, N. Y., where he was prepared for college. Ill health prevented him 
from pursuing a collegiate course, and he eventually turned his attention toward business, going 
into the office of an English shipping house when he was twenty-four years old. Two years 
later, as clerk, he entered the employ of a firm of paper manufacturers and dealers, and after a 
single year of experience in that business, was admitted to a partnership in the establishment, 
which continued for about two years, when the firm dissolved. He then embarked in business 
for himself, and was successful, even although, with limited experience, he had to face the 
commercial depression of 1857. For more than twenty-five years he sold paper on commission, 
but since that time has been largely interested in paper manufacturing. His firm has been one of 
the most substantial and prominent houses in its line. In 1891, after more than thirty years of 
existence, it was incorporated under the name of W. H. Parsons & Co., which title it had borne 
from the time Mr. Parsons established it. 

The business interests of Mr. Parsons are numerous, and for the most part connected 
with the industry with which he has been identified throughout his life. He is president of the 
Lisbon Falls Fibre Company, Lisbon Falls, Me. ; of the Bowdoin Paper Manufacturing Company, 
Brunswick, Me.; of the corporation of W. H. Parsons & Co., Maine and New York, and is also 
a director of the Pejepscot Paper Company, Pejepscot, Me. His activities in enterprises incidental 
to his business calling have given him prominence in general business circles and organizations 
designed to benefit commercial interests. He is president of the National League for the Protec- 
tion of American Institutions, first vice-president of the Board of Trade and Transportation, a mem- 
ber of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, a trustee of the Bowery Savings 
Bank, of New York City, and one of the vice-presidents of the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia 
Museums. A member of the Presbyterian Church, he is a generous supporter of the institutions 
of that denomination, and gives much of his time to the direction of their affairs. He is 
president of the Westchester County Bible Society, and one of the managers of the Presbyterian 
Board of Publication and Sabbath School Work, of Philadelphia. He is also a manager of the 
Westchester Temporary Home for Destitute Children, one of the executive committee of the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and a fellow of the American Geographical 
Society. 

Mr. Parsons has his country residence at Rye, N. Y., in the old family home, and is a 
member of the Apawamis Club of that place. He is also a member of the Metropolitan, Union 
League and City clubs, and of the Atlantic Yacht Club, and a trustee and chairman of the house 
committee of the American Yacht Club. 

In October, 1857, Mr. Parsons married Laura C. Palmer, daughter of John Palmer, whose 
father was Judge Palmer, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Parsons, who died in 
1893, was a lineal descendant from Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain of Plymouth, and from 
William Bradford, the second Governor of the Plymouth Colony and author of the Mayflower log. 
They had five children, three of whom are now living. The sons are William H. Parsons, Jr., 
and Marselis Clarke Parsons, who, with David S. Cowles, who married Mr. Parsons' daughter, 
Matilda, are connected with him in business as paper manufacturers. One son, John Palmer Par- 
sons, a graduate of Yale, died in 1892, and a daughter, Margaret Rainsford Parsons, in 1882. 

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EDWARD LASELL PARTRIDGE, M. D. 

WHEN William Partridge, who was a native of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, 
emigrated to this country, about 1640, he landed in Massachusetts, and subse- 
quently was one of the first settlers of Hartford, and was one of the company which 
planted Hadley, Mass. He died in 1688. In the records, his name was often spelled Partrigg. 

Samuel Partridge, the son of William Partridge and of his wife, Mary Smith, was born in 
Hartford, in 164s. Taken to Hadley by his parents, he became one of the most distinguished 
citizens of Western Massachusetts, living until 1740. Educated as a lawyer, he was a Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas, and Chief Justice and a Probate Judge. Other responsible positions 
held by him were, Colonel of the militia, one of his majesty's council, and one of three leaders 
who controlled the affairs of Western Massachusetts, through its first century of existence. 

The wife of Colonel Samuel Partridge was married to him in 1668. She was Mehitable 
Crow, daughter of John Crow, one of the founders of Hartford, Conn., and of his wife, Elizabeth 
Goodwin, the only child of Elder William Goodwin, one of the first settlers of Hartford, from 
Essex, England. Samuel Partridge, the son of Colonel Samuel Partridge, was born in Hatfield, 
in 1672, and died in the same place, in 1736. His wife was Maria Atwater, daughter of the 
Reverend Seaborn Cotton, granddaughter of the Revarend John Cotton, and great-granddaughter 
of Governor Thomas Dudley, who came over as Deputy-Governor with Winthrop, in 1630, and 
was the second Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, succeeding Governor Winthrop. 

Cotton Partridge, of Hatfield, Mass., son of Samuel Partridge, was born in 1705, and died 
in Hatfield, his native place, in 1753. His son was Lieutenant Samuel Partridge, of Hatfield, 
1730-1809, who was a Lieutenant in the French War, and who married Abigail Dwight, a 
descendant of Captain Henry Dwight and of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. The 
next in descent was Cotton Partridge, of Hatfield, 1765—1846, whose wife was Hannah Huntington 
Lyman, daughter of the Reverend Joseph Lyman, D. D., of Hatfield, who was an important man 
during the Revolutionary period, and trustee of Williams College. 

The next in descent, and father of Dr. Edward Lasell Partridge, was Joseph Lyman 
Partridge, who was born in Hatfield, Mass., in 1804, and who graduated from Williams 
College, in 1828, and is now (1897) its oldest living graduate. He entered the profession of 
teaching, being principal of the Leicester Academy, of Leicester, Mass. For many years he was 
United States Collector of Internal Revenue, at Lawrence, Mass. His wife was Zibiah N. 
Willson, daughter of the Reverend Luther Willson, of Petersham, Mass., and sister of the 
Reverend Edmund B. Willson, a distinguished Unitarian minister. He was president of the Essex 
Institute of Salem, Mass. His later years have been spent in Brooklyn. 

Born in Newton, Mass., September 27th, 1853, Dr. Edward L. Partridge early turned his 
attention to the study of medicine. He entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New 
York, and was graduated therefrom, in 1875. Williams College bestowed the honorary degree 
of A. M. upon him in 1880. He has been engaged in general practice in New York for more 
than twenty years, and has also been a professor in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
medical department of Columbia College, and visiting physician, later consulting physician, in 
the New York Hospital, visiting physician to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, the Sloane 
Maternity Hospital, and consulting physician to the New York Infant Asylum. 

In 1884, Dr. Partridge married Gertrude Edwards Dwight, daughter of Professor Theodore 
W. Dwight, LL. D., of the Columbia College Law School. Mrs. Partridge numbers among her 
ancestors President Timothy Dwight, of Yale College ; the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, the 
Reverend John Eliot, and Governor Thomas Dudley. Dr. and Mrs. Partridge live at 19 Fifth 
Avenue, and their summer residence is Storm King, at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. Dr. Partridge 
is a member of the University, Century and Storm King clubs, and the Society of Colonial Wars. 
He has one child, Theodore Dwight Partridge, born in New York, December 26th, 1890. 



CHARLES A. PEABODY 

BORN in Sandwich, N. H., July ioth, 1814, the Honorable Charles A. Peabody is the son 
of Samuel Peabody and Abigail Wood, who were natives of Boxford, Essex County, 
Mass. His grandfather, Richaid Peabody, of Boxford, was an officer in the Revolution, 
and had a command at Ticonderoga. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Wood, of Box- 
ford, and his wife, Abigail Hale, whose family claims a descent from the younger branch of that to 
which Sir Matthew Hale belonged. On the paternal side, Mr. Peabody is a c'escendant of Francis 
Peabody, of St, Albans, England, who came to Massachusetts in 1635, and settled in Hampton, 
and finally in Boxford. He was of Welch ancestry, the name Peabody signifying in that tongue, 
"man of the mountains." Samuel Peabody, father of the subject of this article, was a lawyer of 
distinction. He was giaduated from Dartmouth College in 1803, being a college mate of Daniel 
Webster and Ezekial, his brother. An intimacy between him and Ezekial Webster, contracted 
at college, continued throughout their lives. 

In 1834, Mr. Charles A. Pe.'body began the study of law in Baltimore, in the office of 
Nathaniel Williams, then United States District Attorney of Maryland. After two years, he returned 
to Massachusetts and pursued his studies in the Law School of Harvard College. In 1839, he 
removed to New York, where he entered upon the practice of his profession, and became identified 
socially, through domestic ties, with the most eminent families of the metropolis. He took part in 
the politics of the day, aiding the formation of the Republican party in New York, in 1855, and in 
1856 was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court by the Governor of New York. In 1858, he 
was appointed a quarantine commissioner to succeed ex-Governor Horatio Seymour. 

In 1862, President Lincoln appointed Judge Peabody a Judge of the United States Provisional 
Court of the State of Louisiana. This court was called into existence by the necessities of the 
Federal Government in connection with its foreign relations. After the conquest of that part of the 
country during the Civil War, and while it was under military occupation, Judge Peabody's court 
had unlimited jurisdiction over every possible subject. His appointment empowered him to 
appoint court officials, make rules for the court and to hear all causes of every nature, his judgment 
to be final and conclusive. A large part of the business of New Orleans had been conducted on 
foreign capital, or by subjects of other nations, and losses sustained through the operations of war 
were made the basis of claims by foreign governments against the United States. It was therefore 
determined that these cases arising in that part of Louisiana and the adjacent country, held by the 
Federal forces, should be heard and decided in this court, the authority of which was made unlim- 
ited, and its judgments conclusive of the rights of all parties. William M. Seward, at that time 
Secretary of State, once said that all the powers of the Supreme Court of the United States were 
not a circumstance to those exercised by Judge Peabody in Louisiana. Judge Peabody supported 
this responsibility to the satisfaction of all who came under his jurisdiction. In 1863, he was also 
made Chief Justice of Louisiana, but in 1865, he laid down his judicial office and returned to New 
York, where he has since resided and practiced. For many years, he has been a member and vice- 
president of the Association for the Reform of the Law of Nations, in which body he has taken an 
active part and has frequently visited Europe to attend its annual meetings. 

Judge Peabody has been married three times. His first wife, the mother of his children, 
was Julia Caroline Livingston, daughter of James Duane Livingston, a grandson of Robert Liv- 
ingston, the last Lord of Livingston Manor. His second wife was Mariah E. Hamilton, daughter 
of John C. Hamilton and granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton. His third, and present wife, is 
Athenia Livingston, daughter of Anthony Rutgers Livingston, also a grandson of the last Lord of 
Livingston Manor. Judge Peabody has three sons and one daughter now living. Charles A. 
Peabody, Jr., is a member of the New York bar; George I. Peabody, M. D., is an eminent 
physician and professor; Philip Glendower Peabody is a lawyer in Boston, Mass., and Julia Liv- 
ingston Peabody, the only daughter, is the wife of Charles J. Nourse, Jr., of New York. 

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WHEELER HAZARD PECKHAM 

FOR two generations the Peckhams have occupied a distinguished position in the legal 
profession and the judiciary of the State of New York. The father of Mr. Wheeler H. 
Peckham was Judge Rufus W. Peckham, who was born in Rensselaerville, Albany County, 
N. Y., December 30th, 1809. His father was a substantial business man, and, soon after the son 
was born, moved to Otsego County, on the eastern branch of the Susquehanna River, not far 
from Cooperstown. There the boy spent his youth. He was sent to Hartwyck Seminary in 
Otsego County, then conducted by the Reverend Dr. Hazelius, and he remained there until 1825, 
when he entered Union College, being graduated with advanced standing from that institution in 
1827. At the age of eighteen, Mr. Peckham settled in Utica and commenced the study of law. 
Three years later he was admitted to the bar and moved to Albany. After nine years of successful 
practice, Governor William L. Marcy, in 1839, appointed him District Attorney for the County of 
Albany, and this position he filled satisfactorily for two years. In 1845, he was a candidate 
before the State Legislature for election to the office of Attorney-General, but John Van Buren, 
the son of President Martin Van Buren, defeated him in the election. 

In 1852, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-third 
Congress. During his term of service, he was one of the strongest opponents of the Nebraska 
Bill. Before the expiration of his term in Congress, he returned to the practice of law in Albany, 
associating himself in partnership with Lyman Tremain. In 1859, he was elected a Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the State of New York, and at the close of his first term of service of eight 
years was reelected, and was then elected to a seat on the bench of the Court of Appeals. In 
November, 1873, in company with his wife he was a passenger on the Ville du Havre, which was 
run down in mid-ocean by the British iron ship Lock Earn. Both Judge Peckham and his wife 
were among those who were lost in this accident. 

Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham was born in 1833. After leaving Union College, he attended the 
Albany Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. He commenced the practice of his 
profession in Albany, but was obliged to relinquish it on account of ill health and traveled for 
sometime in Europe. On his return, he went to St. Paul, Minn., but in 1864 settled permanently in 
New York, becoming a member of the law firm of Miller, Stoutenburgh & Peckham. He first 
came prominently before the public by his work in connection with the prosecution of the 
members of the Tweed ring, in which he was intimately associated with Charles O'Connor and 
Samuel J. Tilden. 

By birth and convictions an earnest Democrat, Mr. Peckham has always been conspicuous 
in the reform element of his party. He was appointed by Governor Cleveland, in 1882, to be 
District Attorney of New York County, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John McKeon. 
Finding his health inadequate for the work, he resigned after a few days service. Recently 
he has been prominent in the movement for municipal reform. He was a leader in the Bar 
Association's action against Judge Isaac Maynard in 1891, and in the efforts to impeach that 
magistrate for his action in the election cases of 1890. An earnest advocate of the candidacy of 
Grover Cleveland for the Presidency in each of the three national campaigns, in 1894, he was 
nominated by President Cleveland to be Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but 
the opposition that was developed against him on account of the position that he had taken in the 
Maynard case, caused his rejection by the Senate. His brother, Rufus W. Peckham, became 
an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State in 1886, and in 1895 was appointed 
to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Mr. Peckham is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, of which he has 
several times been president. He also belongs to the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Reform clubs 
and the Century Association, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He lives at 
685 Madison Avenue. 

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ALFRED DUANE PELL 

'"T^HE immediate ancestors of the Westchester Pells were the Reverend John Pell, Rector of 
Southwick, Sussex, England, who died in 1616, and his wife, Mary Holland. The Reverend 
•*■ John Pell was the son of another John Pell, descended from the Pells of Lincolnshire. 
Thomas Pell was the eldest son of the Reverend John Pell, of Southwick. Born about 1608, he 
was one of the first settlers of New England and among those who removed to Connecticut in 
1635. He was a surgeon in the Pequot War and a deputy from Fairfield, Conn., to the General 
Court, and afterwards obtained the grant of land in Westchester County, that became the historic 
Pell Manor. He died in 1669, leaving no issue, and bequeathed his possessions to John Pell, son of 
his brother, the Reverend John Pell, D.D., of London, domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of Can- 
terbury. Sir John Pell, the second Lord of the Manor, came to this country in 1670. He was first 
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1688 until his death in 1702. He married Rachael 
Pinckney, daughter of Philip Pinckney, of East Chester. His eldest son, Thomas Pell, born about 
1685, succeeded him. The fourth and last Lord of the Manor was Joseph Pell, son of Thomas Pell, 
but that male line is now extinct, the Pells of to-day being descended from Joshua, Thomas and 
Philip Pell, brothers of Joseph. 

From Joshua Pell is descended Mr. Alfred Duane Pell, whose great-grandparents were Ben- 
jamin Pell, son of Joshua Pell, and Mary Ann Ferris, daughter of Elijah Ferris. Benjamin and Mary 
Ann Pell had Alfred S., William F., Maria and Ferris Pell. The eldest son, Alfred S. Pell, was the 
grandfather of Mr. Alfred Duane Pell. He married Adelia Duane, daughter of Colonel James 
Duane, 1733-1797, who was Mayor of New York. The mother of Adelia Duane was a daughter of 
Colonel Robert Livingston, third Lord of the Livingston Manor. The parents of Mr. Pell were 
George W. Pell and Mary Bruen, whose family goes back in England to 1284. 

Mr. Alfred Duane Pell was born in New York and graduated from Columbia College in 1887. 
He is a member of the New York Athletic Club. In June, 1897, he married Cornelia Livingston 
Crosby, daughter of Robert Ralston and Jane Murray (Livingston) Crosby. Mr. and Mrs. Pell 
reside in the famous Pickhardt house in Fifth Avenue. 

From William Ferris Pell, the second son of Benjamin and Mary Ann Pell, comes another 
important branch of this family now represented by Herbert Claiborne Pell. Clarence Pell, son of 
William Ferris Pell, married Anne Claiborne, daughter of John Francis Hamtrank Claiborne, the 
famous Mississippi journalist, lawyer and publicist and Member of Congress, who was the 
son of Ferdinand Leigh Claiborne, of Virginia, and Magdalene Hutchins, and descended from 
Captain William Claiborne, of Virginia, 1587-1676. The Claibornes traced their lineage to the 
Kings of England and of Scotland, the line being clearly marked back to Malcolm II., King of 
Scotland in 1034. Herbert Claiborne Pell, second son of Clarence and Anne (Claiborne) Pell, mar- 
ried Catharine Lorillard Kernochan, daughter of James P. and Catharine (Lorillard) Kernochan, 
and has two children, Herbert Claiborne and Clarence Cecil Pell. He is a member of the Metro- 
politan and other clubs, and a governor of the Coney Island Jockey Club. His residence is in 
Tuxedo Park. The eldest daughter of Clarence Pell, Clara, married Captain Thomas Gerry Town- 
send, U. S. A., and has several children. The second daughter, Emily Pell, became the wife of 
Charles H. Coster. The eldest son, James Kent Pell, died unmarried in 1885. The youngest 
son, Ferdinand Osmun Pell, died in 1864. Mrs. Pell resides in East Thirty-sixth Street with her 
youngest daughter, Charlotte Latrobe Pell. 

Howland Pell is also a great-grandson of William Ferris Pell, being a grandson of Morris Pell 
and a son of William H. Pell. His grandmother was Mary R. Howland and his mother Adelaide 
Ferris, daughter of Benjamin and Anna M. Schieffelin. Benjamin Ferris was a soldier of 1812 and 
sheriff of New York. Mr. Pell was born in New York in 1856. He married Amy Goelet Gallatin, 
a descendant of Albert Gallatin and Elbridge Gerry, and lives in Madison Avenue. He has served 
in the Seventh and Twelfth regiments, attaining to the rank of Captain. 

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HARRISON ARCHIBALD PELL 

THE Pells, whose name has been closely connected with New York and Westchester County 
for nearly three hundred years, are descended from an ancient English family. Their 
history constitutes a prominent part of the history of the settlement and development of 
Connecticut and New York. They come in direct line from a younger branch of the English family 
of Pelham, settled at Walter Willingsley and Dymbleshyer, Lincolnshire. The arms of the family, 
which were granted in 1594, are: Ermine on a chevron, azure, a pelican, vulned, gules. The crest 
shows: on a chaplet vert, flowered, or. a pelican of the last, vulned, gules. In the sixth generation 
from Walter de Pelham, 1294, was William Pelham, of Walter Willingsley, who was the direct 
ancestor of Thomas Pell, the founder of the family line in this country. 

Thomas Pell came to Boston before 1630. He was engaged in trading in Delaware and 
Virginia, and afterwards went to Connecticut, where he died at Fairfield in 1669. He received a 
large grant of land in Westchester County, and John Pell, his nephew, succeeded to the estate 
in 1687. The territory, which was one of the large properties of the early days of the Province, 
was erected into a manor by Governor Dongan, and its proprietors, under the terms of the grant, 
paid a yearly rental to the City of New York of twenty shillings. John Pell married Rachel 
Pinckney, a daughter of Philip Pinckney, lineal representative of the Pinckneys of Pinckney Manor, 
Norfolk, England, and one of the ten original proprietors of the town of East Chester, N. Y. 
Thomas Pell, the third Lord of the Manor, married the daughter of an Indian chieftain, and their 
son, Joseph Pell, was the fourth and last Lord of the Manor. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Harrison Archibald Pell was William Ferris Pell, son of 
Benjamin Pell, grandson of Joshua Pell and great-grandson of Joseph Pell, the last Lord of the 
Manor. He married Mary M. Shipley, and left four sons, who were preeminently distinguished in 
the business and social world of New York, Clarence, Walden, Duncan C. and Morris Pell. The 
Honorable Duncan C. Pell, who was the grandfather of Mr. Harrison Archibald Pell, succeeded, 
with his brothers, to the business that his father had established. He was of splendid physique 
and was said to be one of the finest looking men in Wall Street. He had great commercial skill 
and was a lover of learning, being a founder of one of the prizes in the Free College, now the 
College of the City of New York. In the latter years of his life, he was a resident of Newport, and 
was elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Rhode Island in 1865. He died suddenly in 
January, 1874, at the age of sixty-eight. The wife of the Honorable Duncan C. Pell was Anne 
Clarke, of Hyde Hall, Otsego County, N. Y. She was the daughter of George Clarke, 1 768-1835, 
and Eliza Rockford, daughter of General George Rockford, of Westmeath, Ireland, of the Royal 
Artillery. Through her father, who was a grandson of George Clarke, Lieutenant-Governor of the 
Colony of New York in the early part of the eighteenth century, she was descended through the 
Hydes, Nevilles, Beauchamps and Despencers from Edward I., King of England, and his wife, 
Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III., King of Castile. 

Duncan Archibald Pell, the father of Mr. Harrison A. Pell, was born in 1842. During the 
Civil War, he served on the staff of Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside. After the war, he was a 
resident of Staten Island until the time of his death, in 1874, and took an active interest in public 
affairs there, being at one time a supervisor of Castleton and a trustee of the village of New 
Brighton. He married Caroline Cheever and left three sons, Duncan C. Pell, who married Anna 
Ogden Pemberton; Harrison A. Pell and Alexander M. Peil. 

Mr. Harrison Archibald Pell was born at Newport, R. I., September 22A, 1868. Educated at 
the celebrated Bishops College School in Canada, he then entered upon business life in New York. 
He has figured prominently in the social life of the metropolis and of Newport. He is a member 
of the Calumet Club, the Baltusrol Golf Club and of other social organizations. His wife, to 
whom he was married in 1893, was Sadie D. Price, a granddaughter of Chief Justice Price, of 
Maryland, a representative of an old and respected family in that State. 

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CHARLES LAWRENCE PERKINS 

SEVERAL distinct families of the Perkins name were among the early emigrants to America. 
John Perkins and Isaac Perkins, of Ipswich, and Abraham Perkins, of Hampton, who 
came to Massachusetts in the first days of the settlement, were near relatives, descended 
from Peter Perkins, an officer in the household of Sir Hugh Despenser about 1300. 

John Perkins, of Ipswich, the ancestor of that branch of the family now under consid- 
eration, was born in Newent, Gloucestershire, England, in 1590. Sailing from Bristol, in 1630, 
he settled in Boston, becoming a freeman of that place in the following year. In 1633, he 
removed to Ipswich, was a deputy to the General Court in 1636, was frequently a member of 
the Grand Jury, and died in 1654. John Perkins, his son, was born in England in 1614 and 
came to this country with his father. When he grew to manhood, he became a prominent 
man of the town of Ipswich, was quartermaster of the military organization of that place, and 
died in 1686. Isaac Perkins, 1650-1725, the son of the second John Perkins, married Hannah 
Knight, daughter of Alexander Knight. For four successive generations the descendants of 
Isaac Perkins lived in Ipswich. Jacob Perkins, 1678-1754, and his wife, Mrs. Susanna Butler, 
daughter of William and Susanna Cogswell, were the ancestors of the subject of this sketch. 

Francis Perkins, the son of the last-mentioned couple, was born in Ipswich in 1732. 
His first wife was Hannah Cogswell, and his second wife was Martha Low, daughter of Captain 
David and Susanna Low. He was an ensign of the militia of Ipswich in 1774, became a Captain 
in 1776, and served in the Revolution. Removing to Lunenburg, Mass., he died in 1812. 
David Perkins, his son, was born in Ipswich in 1770. He was prominent in the community, 
and, removing to Salem, died there in 1859. He was engaged in manufacturing, was a member 
of the Salem Mechanics' Association and a director of the Salem Laboratory Company. The 
wife of David Perkins was Hannah Fabens, of Salem, Mass., whom he married in 1793. She 
was a daughter of Peard and Hannah (Lang) Fabens, was born in Salem in 1771, and died in 1851. 
Their son, Benjamin Perkins, was born in Salem in 1797, and died in Roxbury, Mass., in 1870. 
His early life was passed in Hanover, N. H., but in 1828 he removed to Boston. He was treasurer 
of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, and actively interested in religious and philan- 
thropic undertakings. In 1823, he married Jane Lawrence, daughter of Abel and Abigail Law- 
rence, of Salem. Charles Lawrence Perkins, Sr., the offspring of this marriage, was born in 
Hanover, N. H., in 1824. Educated in Boston, he was in early life associated with his father 
in business, but afterwards came to New York, where he became prominent in the iron business. 
He married, in 1856, Elizabeth West Nevins, who survives her husband, and resides at Glen 
Cove, Long Island. 

Mr. Charles Lawrence Perkins is the eldest son of Charles Lawrence Perkins, Sr., and 
Elizabeth West Nevins. He was born in 1857 in Walton-on-Thames, England, and graduated 
from Harvard in the class of 1879. He entered business life in this city, and has been identified 
with large corporations, principally railroad, coal and iron interests. He is a trustee of the Bowery 
Savings Bank and a director of the Knickerbocker Trust Company. In 1882, Mr. Perkins married 
Margaret Gandy, and has one son, John Lawrence Perkins. He has taken great interest in 
military affairs, and holds the rank of Major and Commissary of the First Brigade of the National 
Guard on the staff of General Louis Fitzgerald. During the Brooklyn surface railroad strike of 
January, 1895, he was Chief Commissary for the united First and Second Brigades. Mr. Perkins' 
residence is in West Eleventh Street, and he has a summer home at Lawrence, Long Island. 
He is a member of the Union, Racquet, Players, Whist and Harvard clubs, the Downtown 
Association, the New England Society and the National Academy of Design. 

The other children of Charles Lawrence Perkins, Sr., are two sons, George Endicott and 
Robert Paterson Perkins, and three daughters, Elsie Nevins, Frances de Forest and Mary 
Lawrence Perkins. 

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PHILLIPS PHCENIX 

NORTHUMBERLAND, England, was the seat of a great landed family, the Fenwicks, 
whose name is pronounced in accordance with the spelling adopted by its American 
representatives. The family here was founded by Alexander Phoenix, who often wrote 
his name Fenwick, and who arrived at New Amsterdam in 1640. He was a younger son of 
Sir John Fenwick, then head of the English family. Removing to Rhode Island, in 1652, he 
married for his second wife Abigail Sewall, ancestress of the Phoenix family, of New York. 
Jacob Phoenix, son of Alexander Phoenix, was born near New Orange (Albany), in 165 1, was 
a freeman in 1698, and married Anna Van VIeeck. In the next generation was Alexander 
Phoenix, 1 690-1 770, a freeman in 1732, and a member of the Blue Artillery Company. His 
second wife was Elizabeth Burger, 1692-1757, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Thomas) 
Burger, and their son was Alexander Phoenix, who was born in 1726. 

Daniel Phoenix (nephew of Daniel Phoenix, first treasurer of the City of New York), who 
was born in 1761, in New York, was the grandfather of Mr. Phillips Phoenix. He was a 
Major of the New Jersey troops in 1798. His wife was Anna Lewis Phillips, whom he married 
in 1784, and who died in 1854. His son, the Honorable Jonas Phillips Phoenix, was born in 
1788, in Morristown, N. J., and became one of New York's most distinguished merchants. He 
was an alderman, 1838-9, and a Presidential Elector, in 1840. A prominent Whig, he was a 
candidate for Mayor and in 1842 was one of the commissioners of the Croton aqueduct. Elected 
a member of Congress, in 1843 and 1849, he was a member of the Assembly, in 1848. 

On the female side of the house, Mr. Phillips Phoenix includes in his ancestry several of 
the great families of New England and New York. His mother was Mary Whitney, a daughter 
of Stephen and Harriet (Suydam) Whitney. Stephen Whitney was one of the leading merchants 
of New York in the last generation, and was descended from Henry Whitney, who came from 
England and settled on Long Island ; his wife belonged to the Suydam family, of Hallett's Cove, 
Long Island. The mother of Jonas Phillips Phoenix, Anna Lewis Phillips, was a daughter of 
Jonas Phillips and Anna Lewis, and descended on her father's side from the Reverend George 
Phillips, who came over on the ship Arabella, with Governor John Winthrop, in 1630. Her 
mother was the daughter of the Reverend Thomas Lewis, 1716-1777, of Yale College, 1741, 
a Presbyterian clergyman. Through the wife of her paternal great-grandfather, the Reverend 
George Phillips, she was descended from William Hallett, of Hallett's Cove, Long Island, and 
also from George Woolsey, one of the first settlers on Long Island. 

The Honorable Jonas Phillips Phoenix had a large family of children. Stephen Whitney 
Phoenix, the second son, was born in 1839, graduated from Columbia College in 1859, and 
Columbia Law School in 1863, and devoted most of his life to antiquarian and genealogical 
research. When he died, in 188 1, he left his herbarium to the American Museum of Natural 
History, his genealogical works and fifteen thousand dollars to the New York Historical Society, 
his works of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his library and fortune to Columbia 
College. Anna Lewis Phoenix, the youngest daughter, died in 1858, unmarried ; the second 
daughter, Harriet Whitney Phoenix, married Isaac Bronson, son of Dr. Oliver Bronson, and died 
in 1864. Mary Caroline Phoenix married George Henry Warren. The oldest child, Whitney 
Phoenix, died in 1833. Lloyd Phoenix, another son, was born in New York, in 1844, graduated 
from Annapolis, in 1861, and served in the Civil War, attaining to the rank of Lieutenant. 

Mr. Phillips Phoenix, the eldest son and the representative of the family in the present 
generation, was born in New York, in 1834. Graduating from the Law School of Harvard 
University, in 1854, he is a practicing lawyer in New York, and lives in East Sixty-sixth 
Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan, City, Union League, Union, Knickerbocker, and 
New York Yacht clubs, the Downtown Association, the American Geographical Society, and 
New York Historical Society, and is a patron of the American Museum of Natural History. 



HENRY EVELYN PIERREPONT 

TWO sons of James Pierrepont, of the family of Holm Pierrepont, England, John and 
Robert Pierrepont, came to Roxbury, Mass., about 1636. John Pierrepont, 1619-1682, 
married Thankful Stowe. His eldest son died young. His second son, James Pierrepont, 
1659-1714, graduated from Harvard in 1681, and settled, in the ministry, at New Haven in 1684. 
In 1689, he was one of three ministers who laid plans for the foundation of Yale College, and was 
one of the original trustees of Yale. In 1708, he was a member of the synod, at Saybrook, to 
formulate a plan to better enforce discipline in the churches of the Colony. The Reverend Mr. 
Pierrepont was married three times. His third wife was Mary Hooker, daughter of the Reverend 
Samuel Hooker, of Farmington. They had seven children. One of his daughters by this marriage 
became the wife of the celebrated Jonathan Edwards. Hezekiah Pierrepont, youngest son of the 
Reverend James and Mary (Hooker) Pierrepont, was born in 1712 and died in 1741, having married, 
in 1736, Lydia Hemenway, daughter of the Reverend Jacob Hemenway. He left a son, John 
Pierrepont, who was born in 1740, and died in 1805, and who married Sarah Beers, daughter of 
Nathan Beers, who came of an old family of Connecticut, his ancestors being numbered among 
the first settlers of that Colony. John Pierrepont and Sarah Beers were the great-grandparents of 
Mr. Henry Evelyn Pierrepont. 

Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont, the grandfather of Mr. Henry E. Pierrepont, was born in New 
Haven in 1768, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1838. He was carefully educated for commer- 
cial pursuits, and for several years was an official in the New York Custom House. Afterwards he 
became engaged in financial affairs, and in 1793 established the house of Leffingwell & Pierre- 
pont. His wife, whom he married in 1802, was Anna M. Constable. She was the daughter of 
William Constable, who bought a large tract of wild land in Northern New York, the territory 
including more than one million acres, and was one of the founders of the town of Constableville, 
that was named after him. Hezekiah B. Pierrepont left two sons, William C. and Henry E. 
Pierrepont, and several daughters. 

Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, Sr., was born in Brooklyn, in 1808, and died there in 1888. 
Receiving an academic education, he was engaged in the real estate business, and in 1833, while 
absent in Europe, was appointed one of the Board of Commissioners to prepare plans for 
laying out the public grounds and streets of the new City of Brooklyn. He was one of the founders 
of Greenwood Cemetery, and was instrumental in planning and carrying out the water-front 
improvements of Brooklyn, at the foot of Brooklyn Heights. He was the first president of the 
Brooklyn Academy of Music, was active in the organization of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
that city, and altogether was one of Brooklyn's most prominent and most useful citizens. The 
wife of Mr. Pierrepont, whom he married in 1841, was Anna M. Jay. She was a daughter of Peter 
Augustus Jay and Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson, her mother being a daughter of General Matthew 
Clarkson and his wife, Mary Rutherfurd. The lineages and the history of the Jay, Rutherfurd and 
Clarkson families are among the most brilliant in the annals of New York, and are fully treated 
upon several pages of this volume. The children of Henry and Anna M. (Jay) Pierrepont were Mary 
Rutherfurd, Henry E., Jr., John Jay, Dr. William Augustus, Julia Jay and Anna Jay Pierrepont. 
Mary Rutherfurd Pierrepont, who died in 1879, was the wife of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. John Jay 
Pierrepont married Elise de Rham, daughter of Charles de Rham. 

Mr. Henry E. Pierrepont, the eldest son of this family, was born in Brooklyn, in 1845, and 
educated in Columbia College, graduating in the class of 1867, and holds the degree of M. A. 
He married, in 1869, Ellen A. Low, daughter of Abiel Abbot Low, and has six children: Anne Low 
Pierrepont, who married Lea Mcllvaine Luquer; Ellen Low Pierrepont, who married R. Burnham 
Moffat, and Henry Evelyn, Jr., Robert Low, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant and Seth Low Pierrepont. The 
residence of the Pierrepont family is on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. Mr. Pierrepont is a member 
of the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn and the Sons of the Revolution. 

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JOHN FRED PIERSON 

EMBERS of the Pierson family have been distinguished as merchants, clergymen and 
soldiers for more than two centuries of American history. Abraham Pierson, born in 
Yorkshire, England, in 1608, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1632. 
Becoming a non-conformist, he emigrated to America in 1639, living for a time in Boston, where 
he was the friend of Governor John Winthrop. In 1640, he led a party from Boston to Long Island, 
where they purchased land and founded the town of Southampton. He was pastor of the church 
there for seven years, and in 1647 moved to the New Haven Colony and founded the town of 
Branford, where he remained as pastor and engaged in evangelizing the Indians for twenty-five 
years. He was chaplain of the forces raised against the Dutch of the New Netherland in 1662-5, 
and when the difficulty was finally settled in a manner not agreeable to him, moved again and 
founded Newark, N. J., which he called after the town in England where he was first ordained. 
He took with him nearly the entire population of Branford to the new settlement on the banks 
of the Passaic, and died in Newark in 1678. 

Abraham Pierson, Jr., graduated from Harvard College in 1668. He was ordained to the 
ministry the following year, and was successively pastor of the Congregational churches at 
Southampton, Long Island; Branford, Conn.; Newark, N. J., and Killingworth, now Clinton, 
Conn. While at Clinton, in 1700, he was chosen as one of a committee to erect a college, and 
when the institution that in after years became Yale College was chartered, in 1701, he became its 
first rector and remained its head till his death, in 1707. The descendants of the Reverend Abraham 
Pierson, Jr., were active in public life. Josiah G. Pierson founded the Ramapo Iron Works, at 
Ramapo, N. Y., in 1795, and a younger brother, the Honorable Jeremiah Halsey Pierson, born in 
1766, became interested in the same enterprise and maintained his connection therewith up to his 
death, in 1855. He was preeminently a man of affairs, an inventor, one of the prime movers in the 
opening of the Erie Railroad and a Member of Congress in 1821. 

Henry L. Pierson, son of the Honorable Jeremiah H. Pierson and the father of Mr. John 
F. Pierson, was born in Ramapo in 1807. He assisted on the survey that led to the building of the 
Erie Railroad, and in 1828 entered the firm of J. G. Pierson & Brothers, taking charge of its New 
York office. In 1830, he suggested the Erie Railroad from Lake Erie to the Hudson, was a director 
of the Erie Company, and for a time its treasurer, carrying through many of the early financial 
plans of the road in conjunction with his brother-in-law, Eleazar Lord. Upon the death of his 
father, in 1869, he became the sole proprietor of the Ramapo Iron Works. 

General John Fred Pierson, his son, soldier and merchant, was born in New York City, 
February 25th, 1839. Before he was twenty-one years of age, he joined the engineer corps of the 
Seventh Regiment, and was placed on detached service as aide-de-camp on the staff of 
General William Hall. When the Civil War began, he recruited a company, and in May, 1861, 
was commissioned a Captain in the First Regiment, New York Volunteers. Promotion came 
rapidly, and in July, 1861, he was Major; in September, 1861, he was a Lieutenant-Colonel; in 
October, 1862, a Colonel, and in March, 1865, a brevet Brigadier-General. He served under 
General Hooker in the Army of the Potomac, participated in the battles of Big Bethel, Fair Oaks, 
Glendale, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg and other engagements, was wounded at Chancellorsville 
and Glendale, and captured at Chantilly, and confined in Libby Prison in 1862. He was the 
youngest officer of his rank in the army, and at times commanded a brigade at the age of twenty- 
three in a way that called out the heartiest appreciation of his superiors, leaving the service 
with a brilliant military record. 

General Pierson married, on December 9th, 1869, S. Augusta Rhodes, and since the war he 
has been at the head of the New York house of Pierson & Co. He lives at 20 West Fifty-second 
Street, and has a residence, Rose Lawn, at Newport, and also one at Ramapo, N. Y. He belongs 
to the Tuxedo, Union, New York Yacht, United Service and other clubs. 



HENRY BRADLEY PLANT 

JOHN PLANT, the progenitor of the Plant family, came to" Connecticut, from England, in 
1636. Mr. Henry B. Plant is descended in direct line from this ancestor. His paternal 
great-grandfather was a patriot in the War of the Revolution and served in the Continental 
Army, being attached to a regiment which was stationed at Washington's headquarters, in New- 
burgh, and he was one of the guards at the execution of Major Andre. The maternal great- 
grandfather of Mr. Plant was a Major in the Continental Army. 

Mr. Plant was born in Branford, Conn., October 27th, 1819. He was instructed by the 
Reverend Timothy O. Gillette, and then studied at the Lancastarian School, in New Haven. When 
eighteen years of age, he entered the employ of the New Haven Steamboat Company, and soon 
after was placed in charge of the express business upon the steamboat and railroad lines between 
New York and New Haven. When the Adams Express Company was organized, he went to 
the South in its interest, and in 1854 was made superintendent of the Southern Division of the 
company, with his office at Augusta, Ga. Mr. Plant remained in this position until 1861, 
when he organized the Southern Express Company, which succeeded to the business of 
the Adams Express Company in that section, and of which its founder has been continually 
president down to the present time. During the progress of the Civil War, his health 
failed, and he went to Bermuda and thence to Europe, remaining abroad until after peace 
was declared, when he returned and resumed charge of his express interests. Soon after 
the war, Mr. Plant became interested in developing the transportation facilities of the South, 
and started upon a career which has gained him a high rank among the great railway man- 
agers and financiers of the present period in the United States. 

In 1879, he was the leading member of a syndicate which purchased the Atlantic & Gulf 
Railroad, of Georgia, and reorganized it under the title of the Savannah, Florida & Western 
Railroad Company. He developed and improved this line, rebuilt the Savannah & Charleston 
Railroad and has been active in the prosecution of other large Southern railroad enterprises. 

In 1882, the charter of the Plant Investment Company was secured by Mr. Plant, in associa- 
tion with several prominent gentlemen of New York and other cities, including W. T. Walters, 
Henry M. Flagler, Morris K. Jesup, Henry Sanford, Lynde Harrison and H. P. Hoadley, the object 
being the purchase and development on a large scale of railway, steamship and other enterprises 
in the South. This work included the improvement of Florida railroads, the extension of several 
railways from Florida to connections with Northern and Western systems, the establishment of 
lines of fast mail steamships between Tampa, Fla., and Havana, Cuba, between various Southern 
ports, between New York City and Florida and between Boston and Halifax, and the creation 
of large modern hotels of the highest type, notably those at Tampa and Winter Park, Fla. It is 
not too much to say that the development of Florida, since the Civil War ended, has been very 
largely due to the Plant Investment Company. That State has been brought into close connec- 
tion with the North, and the attention of investors, as well as of pleasure-seekers, has been drawn 
thither by improved means of communication. Mr. Plant has been the head of this remarkable 
development, which has not been rivaled in either magnitude or success by any enterprise 
of similar character ever undertaken in the United States. 

Mr. Plant has a city residence at 586 Fifth Avenue and his country home is at Branford, 
Conn. He belongs to the Union League Club and the New England Society, and is a patron 
of the American Museum of Natural History. In 1842, he married Ellen Elizabeth Blackstone, 
daughter of the Honorable James Blackstone, of Connecticut. She died in 1861, and in 1873 Mr. 
Plant married Margaret Josephine Loughman, only daughter of Martin Loughman, of New York. 
His one living son, Morton Plant, is vice-president of the railroads of the Plant system, vice- 
president of the Southern Express Company and vice-president and manager of the Canada, 
Atlantic and Plant Steamship Company. 

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GILBERT MOTIER PLYMPTON 

THIS gentleman is the son of Colonel Joseph Plympton, and was born January 15th, 1835, 
at Fort Wood, Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, then a military post under the 
command of his father, who at that time was a Captain in the United States Army. 
His education began at Fort Snelling, Minn., when he was five years old, with the Chaplain for 
an instructor, and was continued in a private school at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. On the com- 
mencement of the war with Mexico, his father was ordered, with his regiment, to join General 
Scott's Army, whereupon the lad went to the home of his uncle, Gerard W. Livingston, in 
Hackensack, N. J., and continued his studies in that place. When his father, then Lieutenant- 
Colonel Plympton, returned from the Mexican War, he took his family to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 
which post he commanded. The subject of this sketch then entered Shurtleff College, Alton, 
III., and remained there until he was promised a West Point cadet's warrant, when he 
accompanied his parents to this city and entered John Sedgwick's school to prepare for the 
Military Academy. Not receiving the appointment, he read law and entered a law office at his 
father's request, and was admitted to practice in November, i860. Shortly after, in order to perfect 
his professional knowledge, he entered the law department of the University of the City of New 
York and graduated from that institution with the degree of LL. B. in 1863. 

While he was still a law student, in i860, his father, Colonel Plympton, died. At the 
beginning of the Civil War, his two brothers and the husbands of two of his sisters were in the 
army. As a student, he was exempt from the operation of the draft, but being familiar with 
military duties, he offered his services gratuitously to the Government to instruct recruits and newly 
appointed officers. His services were not required, however, and he subsequently applied for a 
commission in the regular army, but as all the other men of his family were already in the army, 
he was prevailed on not to press the application, as his mother and sisters were left in 
his charge. 

For some years after his admission to the bar, Mr. Plympton had a general practice, but later 
it was confined almost entirely to the Federal courts. His clients continued to grow in numbers, 
until they gave him an extensive practice. In his own cases, and as counsel for other lawyers, 
he was engaged in much of the important litigation of the time. Mr. Plympton, however, never 
had a fondness for his profession, which he entered mainly to please his father. Having earned an 
independence and his health having suffered from overwork, he decided in 1889 to retire from the 
practice of the law. In 1892, he organized, with his present partners, the well-known banking 
house of Redmond, Kerr & Co., of this city, which has since occupied his entire attention. 

In 1863, Mr. Plympton married Mary S. Stevens, daughter of Linus W. Stevens, a well-known 
merchant of this city, whose family was identified with the State of Connecticut from an early 
period in its history, and who was one of the organizers and first Colonel of the Seventh 
Regiment. Mr. and Mrs. Plympton have one daughter, Mary Livingston Plympton. Their son, 
Gilbert Livingston Plympton, died an infant. Mr. Plympton has never held any public position, 
although'asked to do so. He has, however, been a director in various corporations, and was one 
of the founders and vice-president of the St. Nicholas Club. He is a member of the Union, 
Metropolitan, St. Nicholas, Riding, Westchester Country and New York Yacht clubs, of the 
Downtown Association, Sons of the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Society of the War of 
181 2, Colonial Order of the Acorn, St. Nicholas Society, New York Historical Society, American 
Historical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Botanical Society, Zoological Society and the Cham- 
ber of Commerce. His city residence is 30 West Fifty-second Street, where he has an exceptionally 
fine library, and the country home of the family is at East Gloucester, Mass. Mr. Plympton has been 
a frequent contributor to the papers and periodicals of the day, and is the author of several 
pamphlets, among them a monograph of the life and services of his father, Colonel Joseph 
Plympton, and a sketch of the Plympton family, extracts from which are freely used in this article. 

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The Plympton family is of English stock and originally came from the village of Plumpton, 
near Knaresborough, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Eldred de Plumpton was a landholder 
there at the time of the Domesday Survey in 1086, and from him the family is descended. Its first 
representative in America was Thomas Plympton, born in England about 1620, who married 
Abigail Noyes. He was one of the founders of Sudbury, Mass., and was slain by the Indians in 1676. 
His son, Peter Plympton, 1666-1743, married Abigail Thomas, and their son, Thomas Plympton, 
1 723- 1 789, was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army. In the fourth American generation, Ebenezer 
Plympton, 1756- 18 34, was also a soldier in the Continental Army, and after peace had been 
restored was prominent in civil life, becoming a magistrate. His first wife, grandmother of the 
subject of this article, was Susanna Ruggles, 1764- 1807, of Roxbury, Mass. 

Colonel Joseph Plympton, the son of Ebenezer and Susanna (Ruggles) Plympton, was born 
in Sudbury, Mass., in 1787. Entering the United States Army as Second Lieutenant, at the 
beginning of the War of 1812, he saw active service in the campaigns on the Canadian frontier 
during that contest. In 1821, he was promoted to be First Lieutenant, and in 1831 became Captain 
of the First Infantry. From 1824 to 1834, he was on duty in the Northwest and took part in the 
Black Hawk War. He also served with signal distinction in the Florida War under General Worth, 
and in 1840 was raised to the rank of Major of the United States Second Infantry. At the 
beginning of the Mexican War, he was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventh Infantry, and 
served under General Scott throughout the war. He was engaged in the battles of Cerro Gordo 
and Contreras and in the capture of the City of Mexico, and was brevetted for gallantry and 
coolness in action. In 1854, he was made Colonel of the First United States Infantry, and died in 
i860 at Staten Island, after forty-eight years of highly distinguished service in the army. Many 
officers who afterwards became conspicuous in the Civil War saw service under Colonel Plymp- 
ton, among whom were Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Sheridan and others. He protected 
the handful of settlers in what is now the City of St. Paul, Minn., from the Indians, and was the 
commandant of the last fort, Fort Dearborn, within the limits of the present City of Chicago. In 
1824, Colonel Plympton married Eliza Matilda Livingston, who was born in 1801 and died in 1873. 
In her youth she was famed for her beauty and her wit, and through her the present Mr. Plympton, 
her son, is descended from some of the oldest New York Colonial families, as well as from noble 
ancestors in Europe. She was a daughter of Peter W. Livingston and his wife, Eliza Beekman, 
one of the well-known New York families of that name. The famous Robert Livingston, first 
Lord of Livingston Manor, was her great-great-great-great-grandfather. The mother of Mr. 
Gilbert M. Plympton also traced her ancestry in a direct line to the Earl of Linlithgow of Scot- 
land, the father of Lady Mary Livingston, who was one of the four Marys who in 1548 accompanied 
Mary Stuart to France to meet the Dauphin. When the Marquis de Lafayette made his second 
visit to America, in 1824, he displayed much interest in Lieutenant Joseph Plympton and his 
beautiful wife, and became their personal friend. The names by which their son, Mr. Gilbert 
Motier Plympton, was christened, were given in remembrance of his parents' friendship for 
the illustrious French patriot and Revolutionary hero. 

Several other children of Colonel Joseph and Eliza Matilda (Livingston) Plympton were 
notable in their lives. Peter W. L. Plympton graduated from West Point in 1847. He served 
in the Mexican War and greatly distinguished himself in the Civil War in New Mexico under 
General Canby. He was twice brevetted for conspicuous bravery, attained the rank of Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, and died in 1866. Joseph Ruggles Plympton, another son, was severely wounded 
in the Civil War. He died in 1895. The eldest daughter, Emily Maria Plympton, married Cap- 
tain Mansfield Lovell; Cornelia de Peyster Plympton married Colonel Henry M. Black, and the 
third daughter, Louisa Edmonia Plympton, married Lieutenant John Pitman, all officers of the 
United States Army. 

The arms of the Plympton family, described in terms of heraldry, are: Azure, a fesse 
engrele d'or., each fusil of the engrailed fesse charged with an escallop, gules. Crest, a phoenix 
or., surrounded by flames proper. 

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CHARLES COOLIDGE POMEROY 

THE Reverend Benjamin Pomeroy, paternal ancestor in the fifth generation of Mr. C. C. 
Pomeroy, was a prominent clergyman of Connecticut in the first part of the eighteenth 
century. He was pastor of a church in Hartford, and by his wife, Abigail, had a son, 
Eleazer Pomeroy, who died in 178?. Eleazer Pomeroy married, in 1764, Mary Wyllys, who was 
born in 1742. Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, the eldest son of this union, born in 1764, resided for 
many years in Boston, whence he removed to Cincinnati, and thence to Pomeroy, O., where he 
died in 1841. His wife, whom he married in 1793, was Clarissa Alsop, daughter of Richard and 
Mary (Wright) Alsop, of Middletown, Conn., a member of an old Colonial family. His son, 
Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born and brought up in 
Boston, removing later to Cincinnati, and in 1868 to Pomeroy, O., where he died in 1882. He 
married Catharine Boyer Coolidge, of Boston. 

Through Mary Wyllys, who married Eleazer Pomeroy in 1764, Mr. Pomeroy is descended 
from a family famous in the annals of Connecticut. Mary Wyllys was the daughter of Colonel 
George Wyllys, 1710-1796. He was graduated from Yale College in 1729, was town clerk of 
Hartford in 1730 until his death, a Captain of the militia, and Lieutenant in the French War, 
1757. In 1754, he succeeded his father as Secretary of State, and held that position for sixty-two 
years. The brother of Mary Wyllys was General Samuel Wyllys, 1738- 1823. He was graduated 
from Yale College in 1758, and was a Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Joseph 
Spencer's regiment in 1775. Serving at the siege of Boston, and at the battles of Long Island 
and White Plains, he was from 1776 a Colonel in the Connecticut line. After the War, he succeeded 
his father as Secretary of State of Connecticut in 1796, holding that position until 1809, and was 
Brigadier-General and Major-General of the militia. His wife was Ruth Belden, a cousin. The 
father of George Wyllys, Hezekiah Wyllys, 1672-1741, held many offices in Hartford, and was 
Secretary of the Colony, 1712-34. Hezekiah Wyllys was the son of Samuel Wyllys and Ruth 
Haynes, and a grandson of Governor John Haynes, of Massachusetts and Connecticut. The wife 
of Governor John Haynes was Mabel Harlekenden, daughter of Richard Harlekenden, of England, 
and descended in the twelfth generation from Ralph de Neville, Earl of Westmoreland. Samuel 
Wyllys, the father of Hezekiah Wyllys, was for more than thirty years a magistrate of Con- 
necticut, and was one of the earliest graduates from Harvard College. He came to this country 
in 1638 with his father, George Wyllys, who was Colonial Governor of Connecticut in 1642. On 
the family estate, in Hartford, Wyllys Hill, stood the famous "Charter Oak." 

Mr. Charles Coolidge Pomeroy was born in March, 1833, at Philadelphia, and was graduated 
from Harvard College. During and after the war, he served in the army as Captain in the 
Eleventh and Twentieth United States Infantry, and was brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Col- 
onel. The greater part of his business life has been spent in New York. 

In 1863, Mr. Pomeroy married Edith Burnet, of Cincinnati, O., daughter of Robert Wallace 
Burnet and Margaret A. Groesbeck, and granddaughter of Judge Jacob Burnet and Rebecca Wal- 
lace. Judge Jacob Burnet was born in Newark in 1770. He was the son of William Burnet, of 
New Jersey, 1730-1791, and grandson of Ichabod Burnet, a physician, who came from Scotland 
and settled in New Jersey. William Burnet was a physician, a member of the Continental Con- 
gress, Surgeon-General of the army, during the Revolution, and an original member of the 
Society of Cincinnati. Judge Burnet removed to Ohio in 1796 and became prominent in public 
affairs, being a member of the State Legislature, Judge of the Supreme Court, and United States 
Senator, the first president of the Colonization Society of Cincinnati, O., and otherwise a distin- 
guished citizen. Rebecca Wallace, his wife, was the great-great-granddaughter of James Claypoole, 
the pioneer of Philadelphia, 1634-16S6. Mr. Pomeroy lives in West End Avenue. He belongs 
to the Metropolitan, Union and Riding clubs, the Downtown Association, and the Harvard 
Alumni Association. He has two daughters, Margaret B. and Mary S. Pomeroy. 

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EDWARD ERIE POOR 

ONE of the first settlers of the town of Newbury, Mass., in 163s, was John Poore, or Poor, 
who was born in Wiltshire, England, about 161 5. Some thirty acres of land in the 
town of Rowley, Mass., was granted to him, on which he built a house, still standing, 
and died in 1684. Henry Poore, his son, was born in 1650, and was a large land owner in 
Newbury. He served in King Philip's War, in 1675, was made a freeman in 1680, and held various 
public offices. His wife, Abigail Hale, daughter of Thomas Hale, Jr., was descended from old 
English families through both her father and her mother. In the third generation, Benjamin Poore, 
who was born in Rowley, in 1695, was a Captain and one of the leading men of the neighborhood. 
In the sixth generation, Benjamin Poor, who was born in 1794, became an eminent merchant in 
Boston. His wife, whom he married in 1824, was Aroline Emily Peabody, born in Salem, Mass., 
in 1807, daughter of Jeremiah and Catherine (Kimball) Peabody. 

The father of Mrs. Poor and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was a native of 
Boxford, Mass., born in 1776. His father, Deacon Moses Peabody, born in 1744, belonged to one 
of the old families of Massachusetts. The pioneer of the Peabody family was Lieuteuant Francis 
Peabody, of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Born in 1614, he came to New England in 1635. 
He first resided at Ipswich, and in the summer of 1638 was one of the original settlers of Hampden, 
Norfolk County, Mass. There he resided for many years. In 1642, he was made a freeman, and in 
1649 was chosen by the town of Hampden to administer some of its affairs. About 1650, he 
removed to Topsfield, Mass., and became one of the most prominent men of that town, and a large 
landowner in Topsfield, Boxford and Rowley. His wife was Mary Foster, or Forster, whose 
family, so prominent in the history of the Scottish border, is mentioned in The Lay of the Last 
Minstrel, and in Marmion. 

Captain John Peabody, son of Lieutenant Francis Peabody, was the great-grandfather of 
Deacon Moses Peabody, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Captain Peabody 
was born in 1642, lived in Boxford, where he was made a freeman of the town in 1674 and a 
representative, 1689-91, The descent to the wife of Benjamin Poor was through Ensign David 
Peabody, of Boxford, and his son, John Peabody, also of Boxford, the father of Deacon Moses 
Peabody. Jeremiah Peabody, the father of Mrs. Poor, was a cousin of George Peabody, the 
banker and philanthropist, while there are many other distinguished names on the roll of this 
eminent New England family. 

Mr. Edward Erie Poor, the son of Benjamin Poor and his wife, Aroline (Peabody) Poor, was 
born in 1837 in Boston. He was educated at schools in Boston, and in 1851 entered the dry goods 
commission house of Read, Chadwick & Dexter, and in 1864 removed to New York City. He 
became a dry goods commission merchant, being partner in the firm of Denny, Jones & Poor. In 
1879, the style was changed to Denny, Poor & Co., with Daniel Denny and James E. Dean as 
partners. Besides the New York establishment, the firm has branches in Boston, Philadelphia, 
Baltimore and Chicago. Mr. Poor is vice-president of the Passaic Print Works, of Passaic. N. J., 
was one of the incorporators of the Dry Goods Bank, and in 1888 became a director of the National 
Park Bank. Elected vice-president of the latter institution in 1893, he became its president in 1895, 
which position he now holds. Mr. Poor is also a trustee of the State Trust Company, and has 
been a member of the Chamber of Commerce since 1872. 

In i860, Mr. Poor married Mary Wellington Lane, daughter of Washington J. and Cynthia 
(Clark) Lane, of Cambridge, Mass. They have seven children: Edward Erie, Jr., and James 
Harper Poor, partners in business with their father; Dr. Charles Lane Poor, a professor in Johns 
Hopkins University; Frank Ballou Poor; Horace F. Poor; Helen, wife of W. C. Thomas, of 
Hackensack, and Emily C. Poor. Mr. Poor's residence is at 16 East Tenth Street, and his home 
during the summer is at Hackensack, N. J. He is a member of the Union League, Manhattan, 
Military and Merchants' clubs of this city. 



HORACE PORTER 

A BRILLIANT record in both civil and military life is combined in the career of General 
Horace Porter with personal qualities that have made him one of New York's representa- 
tive men. His family has for three generations taken a distinguished part in the affairs of 
the country. His grandfather was General Andrew Porter, 1743-1813, of Montgomery County, 
Pa., who, in 1776, entered the Army of the Revolution as Captain, served in the battles of Trenton, 
Princeton, Brandywine and Germantown, and was engaged in the expeditions against the North- 
western Indians. After the Revolution, he held various offices in Pennsylvania, including those of 
General of the State militia and Surveyor-General. He was also a commissioner to establish the 
boundary between Pennsylvania and New York. General Horace Porter's father, the eldest son of 
the Revolutionary General, was the Honorable David R. Porter, 1788-1867, who was for two suc- 
cessive terms, 1839-45, Governor of Pennsylvania. An uncle, Judge James Madison Porter, 
1 79 3- 1 862, was prominent in State and National politics, and is remembered as a founder of 
Lafayette College, while General Andrew Porter, second of the name, 1819-1872, a first cousin of 
the present General Porter's father, was graduated from West Point, distinguished himself in the 
Mexican War, and in the Civil War became a Colonel in the regular army and Brigadier-General 
of Volunteers. 

General Horace Porter was born in Huntington, Pa., April 15, 1837, and was educated in the 
Lawrenceville Academy and in the Scientific School of Harvard, entering West Point in 1855, from 
which he was graduated in i860, third in his class. His first army service was in the ordnance 
and artillery, and on the outbreak of the Civil War he took part in the expeditions against Port 
Royal and Savannah, receiving promotion to the rank of Captain for gallantry at the reduction of 
Fort Pulaski. In 1862, he became Chief of Ordnance in the Army of the Potomac, under General 
McClellan, and participated in the battle of Antietam, being afterwards transferred to the West and 
assigned to staff duty in the Army of the Cumberland. He distinguished himself in the battle of 
Chickamauga, being on General Rosecran's staff. At this point of his career, he attracted the 
attention of General Grant, who, when appointed Lieutenant-General of the Union Armies, made 
him one of his aides, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Sharing in the battles of the Wilderness, 
the operations around Spottsylvania and Petersburg, he received successive promotions as Major, 
Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel and Brigadier-General in the regular army, and in 1865 was on the 
staff of General Grant when the latter received the surrender of the Confederate Army from General 
Robert E. Lee at Appomattox. 

After the termination of the war, General Porter continued closely connected, officially and 
personally, with General Grant, and was Assistant Secretary of War under the latter. On the 
elevation of Grant to the Presidency, General Porter became his private secretary, but in 1872 he 
resigned that position and also relinquished his rank in the army to engage in the railway business, 
which engaged his attention for the next twenty-five years. Since 1872, General Porter has been 
a resident of New York, and his record is one of business and social success. He has achieved a 
high place in the business world, and at the same time has rendered a full share of public service 
as vice-chairman of the committee in charge of the Columbian Celebration in 1892 and on other nota- 
ble occasions. He has also won reputation as a graceful and effective public speaker. His devo- 
tion to the memory of General Grant is a marked feature of General Porter's character and through 
his efforts the erection of the monument in Riverside Park to his dead chief was made possible. 

Union College, in 1893, conferred upon General Porter the degree of LL. D. In 1897, 
President McKinley appointed him United States Ambassador to France. He married Sophie 
K. McHarg. Until he went abroad, his city home was in Madison Avenue and he had a country 
residence in Elberon, N. J. He has been president of the Union League Club and of the Society of 
the Army of the Potomac, and president-general of the Sons of the American Revolution, and is a 
member of New York's most prominent social organizations. 

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GEORGE B. POST 

DURING the life of the present generation, a transformation has occurred in the appearance 
of New York. Time-honored landmarks have disappeared, but loss in this respect is 
more than compensated for by the increased beauty of the city. Not only has New 
York's architectural progress kept pace in an artistic sense with its material wealth and importance, 
but it is here that a national school of the art has developed, and that American architects have 
found examples in which beauty and utility have been united with daring and original con- 
ceptions. Among the architects not only of the United States, but of the world, Mr. George B. Post 
occupies a position of preeminence. This is recognized by the public, as well as by his own 
profession, and it may be said that no one individual has done more to adorn the metropolis. 
Besides this, it is Mr. Post's distinction, that he has been instrumental by his work in maintaining 
high standards, and in uniting utility and art. 

This eminent architect comes from an old New York family. He is descended from 
Lieutenant Richard Post, who went to Southampton, Long Island, about the year 1640. The Post 
family is of Dutch origin, and the founder of the American branch came from Holland to this 
country with a party of Pilgrims and settled in Massachusetts. The fourth in descent from 
Lieutenant Richard Post was Jotham Post, who was born in 1740 and left Westbury, Long Island, 
to come to New York City. He married Winifred Wright and had four sons, Wright, Joel, 
Jotham and Alison Post. The eldest son was the celebrated Dr. Wright Post, whose picture 
appears in the famous group representing the Court of Washington. The second son, Joel Post, 
owned an estate on the upper part of Manhattan Island, where he resided throughout his life. 
This property embraced the Claremont estate, and part of it, including the mansion and the site of 
General Grant's tomb, was acquired by the city from his descendants, when the Riverside Park 
was created. The father of Mr. George B. Post was Joel B. Post, the son of the above Joel 
Post, who married Abbey M. Church, of Providence, R. I., a direct descendant of Captain 
Benjamin Church, celebrated in the early Colonial wars. 

Mr. George B. Post was born in New York City in 1837. His inclinations from his youth 
were scientific and artistic, and in 1858 he graduated in the class of civil engineering at the 
University of the City of New York. He then began the study of architecture under the late 
Richard M. Hunt. At the beginning of the Civil War, Mr. Post had just begun the practice of his 
profession. He temporarily laid aside his chosen career, however, entered the army as Captain in 
the Twenty-Second Regiment, New York National Guard, participated in many engagements, 
including that of Fredericksburg, where he served as aide on the staff of General Burnside, and 
was promoted to the rank of Colonel. 

Returning to his profession at the close of the war, Mr. Post was not long in acquiring 
recognition. A record of his achievements in architecture includes many of the most famous 
residences in the city, together with such notable structures as the Equitable, the Mills, the Times, 
the St. Paul and the Havemeyer buildings, the New York Hospital, the Produce and Cotton 
Exchanges and Chickering Hall. 

In 1863, Mr. Post married Alice M. Stone, daughter of William W. Stone, of New York. 
His residence is at 11 West Twenty-first Street. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, 
Knickerbocker, Century and other clubs, and president of the Architectural League of New York 
City and the American Institute of Architects. His only brother, Charles A. Post, is a lawyer, who 
now devotes his time to real estate management. He is well known as an amateur astronomer, 
possessing a private observatory at his place, Bayside, Long Island, and is a fellow of the Royal 
and other astronomical societies. The arms of the Post family, as recorded at the College of 
Heraldry, are: Argent on a fess gules, a lion passant between two roundels of the first between 
three arches with columns of the second. Crest, a demi-lion proper, tongued gules, resting his 
sinister paw on an arch with columns gules. Motto, In me mea spes omnis. 

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BROOKE POSTLEY 

SEVERAL of the historic old families of Virginia are included among the antecedents of 
General Brooke Postley. The family whose name he bears was distinguished in the earliest 
Colonial days, and several of its members took an active and influential part in public 
affairs, in the Old Dominion in the pre-Revolutionary period. When the war broke out they were 
found upon the patriot side and rendered efficient service to the Continental cause. The grand- 
father of Mr. Postley was an officer in the Revolutionary Army. Charles Postley, his father, was 
an officer in the War of 1812, and in civil life was a successful business man, being the owner of 
extensive and valuable iron works, situated in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and active 
in the developement of the industrial interests of those States. 

General Brooke Postley was born in New York. His mother was Margaret Fairfax, who 
came of the old Virginia family of that name. Receiving a thorough classical and military educa- 
tion, he entered upon the practice of law in New York in 1850, and since that time has been 
prominently identified with many important professional and business enterprises, having been 
a special partner in several large mercantile houses. Before the Civil War, he was interested in the 
State militia and in the great conflict served in the Union Army, first as Colonel of the Third Cav- 
alry Regiment of New York, and in 1866 as Brigadier-General of the Hussar Brigade of Cavalry that 
he organized. He married Agnes Kain, daughter of James Kain, of Westchester County. He is a 
member of the New York and the Larchmont Yacht clubs. The city home of General and Mrs. 
Postley is in upper Fifth Avenue. 

Colonel Clarence Ashley Postley, the son of General Brooke Postley, was born in New 
York, February 9th, 1849. His early education was secured in private schools, where he was 
prepared for admission to the United States Military Academy, at West Point. Pursuing the 
regular course of study at West Point, he was graduated from that institution in 1870, and was 
assigned to the artillery branch of the army, as an officer of the Third Artillery. In 1870-72, he 
saw service in Florida, and then was entered as a student in the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, 
and graduated therefrom in 1873. From 1873 to 1878, he was at West Point, as assistant professor 
of mathematics. In 1883, he resigned from the service, having attained to the rank of Lieutenant 
of artillery in the regular army. He also served on the staff of his father, with the rank of Colonel 
of engineers. 

Colonel Postley married Margaret Sterling, daughter of Alexander F. Sterling, of 
Bridgeport, Conn. The Sterlings date back to the earliest Colonial days of Connecticut, and the 
family has always been one of the most substantial in that Colony and State. David Sterling came 
from Hertfordshire, England, in 1651. Landing in Massachusetts, he settled in Charlestown, and 
became one of the prominent citizens of that place. His son, William Sterling, removed to 
Haverhill, Mass., in 1677, and came to Lyme, Conn., in 1703, being the founder of the Connecticut 
branch of the family. Jacob Sterling, son of William Sterling, was born in Lyme, Conn., and, 
later in life, was a resident of the towns of Fairfield and Stratford. His descendants have been 
prominent in business and public life in the Southwestern part of the State. 

Colonel and Mrs. Postley have two children, Elise and Sterling Postley. Since 1886, the 
Postley family residence has been at the corner of East Sixty-third Street and Fifth Avenue, where 
Colonel Postley has one of the finest private libraries in the United States, bearing largely on the 
military history of this country. He is a member of the Union League, University, Manhattan, 
Racquet, Riding, Players, United Service and New York Athletic clubs, and the Country Club of 
Westchester County. He is one of the enthusiastic yachtsmen of the metropolis, having been 
identified with that sport for many years, and is the owner of the yacht, Colonia, that was built 
as an America cup defender. He is a member of nearly all the leading yacht clubs, including the 
American, New York, Corinthian, Larchmont and Seawanhaka-Corinthian. He is also a patron of 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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HENRY CODMAN POTTER, D. D. 

REPRESENTATIVES of the Potter family in this country have for generations been pre- 
eminently distinguished in affairs of church and State. The first of the name came from 
England and settled in Rhode Island, where his descendants have remained to this day 
and have ranked among the leading men of the State. Israel R. Potter, the Revolutionary patriot 
who fought at Bunker Hill; the Honorable Samuel J. Potter, Governor and United States Senator 
from Rhode Island; Judge Piatt Potter, of New York; General Joseph H. Potter; the Honorable 
Elisha R. Potter, Member of Congress from Rhode Island; and Captain Edward E. Potter, U. S. N., 
have helped, with others, to make the name illustrious in American history. 

The branch of the family to which the Right Reverend Henry C. Potter, D. D., LL. D., 
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, belongs, goes back to Joseph Potter, a 
member of the Society of Friends, who left his Rhode Island home in the latter part of the last 
century and came to New York State. He lived in Beekman, now La Grange, Dutchess County, 
and was highly esteemed as a public-spirited citizen and an influential member of the State Legis- 
lature. His sons and grandsons have added renown to the family name. Among the former were 
Bishop Alonzo Potter and Bishop Horatio Potter, both eminent in the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
The list of grandsons includes such names as the Honorable Clarkson N. Potter, Member of 
Congress; the Reverend Dr. Eliphalet N. Potter, president of Union College; Howard Potter, 
financier, and General Robert B. Potter. 

Bishop Alonzo Potter, the first of the name to attain to high distinction in the church, was 
born in Beekman, July 6th, 1800, and died in San Francisco, July 4th, 1865. He was graduated 
from Union College in 1818, and became a professor there in 1821. With the exception of five 
years spent as rector of St. Paul's Church, in Boston, he remained with Union College until 1845, 
when he was elected to the Bishopric of Pennsylvania. He had a genius for administration, and 
during the twenty years of his episcopate both the material and the spiritual interests of his diocese 
were advanced in a way that commanded general attention. As a direct result of his labors, an 
Episcopal hospital was founded and richly endowed, an Episcopal academy was revived, an 
Episcopal divinity school was established, and thirty-five new churches were built in the City of 
Philadelphia alone. 

Bishop Henry C. Potter, the fifth son of Bishop Alonzo Potter, was born in Schenectady, 
N. Y., May 25th, 1835- His mother was the daughter of President Eliphalet Nott, of Union College, 
and thus, on this side also, he comes of famous Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry. President 
Eliphalet Nott was a son of Deborah Selden, who married Stephen Nott about 1752, and who could 
trace her lineage to the two Governor Dudleys of Massachusetts, whose granddaughter and great- 
granddaughter she was. President Nott's maternal grandfather was Samuel Selden, of Connecticut, 
and his uncle on the same side was the famous Colonel Samuel Selden, one of the substantial and 
accomplished men of his generation, and a valiant Revolutionary officer who died a prisoner in 
New York in 1776. 

After graduating from the Theological Seminary in 1857, Bishop Potter was rector in 
Greensburgh, Pa., and Troy, N. Y., assistant minister of Trinity Church in Boston, and rector of 
Grace Church in New York from 1868 to 1883. In the latter year, he became assistant to his 
venerable uncle, Bishop Horatio Potter, of the New York diocese, and on the death of that prelate, 
in 1887, he succeeded to the bishopric. His ecclesiastical work is of the most devoted, practical 
character, and has been productive of substantial results in building up and developing the churches 
and church institutions of the diocese. He has written much on religious subjects, has received 
the honorary degrees of A. M., D. D., and LL. D., from several American colleges, those of D. D. 
and LL. D. from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and is a member of the Century, City, 
Players and Aldine clubs. He married Eliza R. Jacob. His town house is in Washington Square 
and he has a summer home, The Gables, in Newport. 

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DALLAS BACHE PRATT 

FEW American families have a more ancient or more honorable history than the Pratts. 
In the olden time the name was variously spelled, Pratt, Prat, Pradt, Praed, Prate and 
otherwise. It was a surname derived from a locality, coming originally from the Latin 
pratum, a meadow, and the French prairie. Originally of Normandy, the family was large and 
powerful in that section in the early centuries of the Christian era. The Seigneurs of Preux were 
among the most distinguished nobles in the tenth and eleventh centuries and thereafter. Repre- 
sentatives of the family came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, and the English 
records since that time abound in the name. They settled in the eastern and southern parts of 
England, where, until this day, their descendants are numerous. At all periods of English history 
they have borne a prominent part and were among the leaders in the Crusades and in the early 
wars, civil and foreign, that engaged the attention of the English people in the middle ages. The 
lineage of that branch of the family, from which came the ancestor of the American Pratts, can be 
traced back before 1400. 

Two brothers, William Pratt and John Pratt, were the first of their name to come to this 
country. They were natives of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Their father was the Reverend 
William Pratt, rector of Stevenage, who was born in 1562 and died in 1629, and their great- 
grandfather was Thomas Pratt, of Baldock, who died in 1539. The brothers came together to 
New England and settled in Cambridge, some time before 1632. Lieutenant William Pratt, the 
elder of the two, became engaged in the early religious controversies that disturbed the New 
England settlers, and in company with the Reverend Thomas Hooker, removed to Hartford, Conn., 
in 1636. In 1645, he was one of the pioneers who settled the town of Saybrook. He was a 
representative to the General Court from the town of Saybrook for twenty-three successive 
sessions from 1666 to 1678, the time of his death. He was a Lieutenant of the militia in 1661, and 
often a commissioner. His wife was Elizabeth Clark, daughter of John Clark, of Saybrook. 
Ensign John Pratt, the eldest son of Lieutenant William Pratt, was born in 1644, married Sarah 
Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones, of Guilford, Conn., and had eight children. He was a large 
landowner and a man of distinction, serving as a delegate from his town to the General Assembly 
several times and as a deputy in 1684, 1689 and 1691. His son, John Pratt, Jr., born in 1671, was 
the father of Lieutenant John Pratt, of the Revolutionary period. 

The great-grandson of Lieutenant John Pratt was Linus Pratt, son of John and Abigail 
Pratt, who was born in 1792 and married Temperance Pratt, daughter of Ezra and Temperance Pratt, 
in 181 3. He came to New York from Essex, Conn., soon after 1840, and spent the latter part of his 
life here. The Reverend Horace L. E. Pratt, son of Linus and Temperance Pratt, was the 
father of the subject of this sketch. He was born August 24th, 1823, and was a prominent member 
of the Protestant Episcopal priesthood. For several years, he was rector of St. Peter's Church, in 
Perth Amboy, N. J., and afterwards was located in Sacramento, Cal., and at St. Mary's Church, 
Staten Island. He married, in 1847, Sarah Kate Martin and had eight children, of whom Mr. 
Dallas Bache Pratt is the eldest. He died in March, 1897, and his widow survives him. 

Mr. Dallas Bache Pratt was born February 4th, 1849, in New York. He was educated in 
Trinity School, and when sixteen years of age, entered the employ of the banking house of Brown 
Brothers & Co. There he remained for sixteen years, and then became cashier of the Bank of 
America. After ten years he resigned his position in the bank and became a member of the firm 
of Maitland, Phelps & Co., now Maitland, Coppell & Co., bankers and merchants. He has been 
prominent in financial and banking affairs and connected with several corporations, among them 
the Ohio Falls Car Manufacturing Company, of Jeffersonville, Ind. In 1881, Mr. Pratt married 
Minnie G. Landon, daughter of Charles G. Landon. His four children are : Katherine Griswold, 
Alexander Dallas, Constance and Beatrice Gordon Pratt. His city residence is in West Forty-eighth 
Street, and he is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Riding and other clubs. 

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EDWARD PRIME 

IN his day Nathaniel Prime, the great banker and merchant of New York City, during the early 
years of the present century, was rated as one of the five richest men in America. He was 
probably not worth over a million dollars, but the great fortunes of this generatfon were not 
then dreamed of. He was in the fifth generation from his American ancestor, Mark Prime, 
who, born in England and coming to this country, was one of the first settlers of Rowley, 
Mass., where he died in 1683. He was an influential citizen, owned considerable property, was an 
overseer in 1654, and held other town offices. Samuel Prime, the only son of Mark Prime, was 
born in Rowley in 1649, and died in 1683, having married in 1673, Sarah Plats, a daughter of 
Samuel Plats, of Rowley, who was a representative to the General Court in 1681. 

Samuel Prime, who was born in Rowley, in 1675, and died in 17 17, was the grandfather of 
Nathaniel Prime. His wife, Sarah Jewett, was descended from J. J. Jewett, who came from 
Bradford, York County, England. Nathaniel Prime's father was Joshua Prime, 1712-1770, whose 
wife was Bridget Hammond, descended from Thomas Hammond, who came from Caven- 
ham, Suffolk County, England. In 1757, Joshua Prime was Corporal in the troop of horse of 
Rowley. Born in 1768, Nathaniel Prime was the fourteenth child in his father's family of fifteen. 
He was settled in New York before the close of the eighteenth century, and became one of the 
greatest merchants and bankers of that period. The firm of which he was at the head, variously 
known as Prime, Ward & Sands, Prime, Ward, Sands & King, Prime, Ward & King, Prime, Ward 
& Co., and Prime & Co., was the first great banking house ever established in this country. The 
wife of Nathaniel Prime was Cornelia Sands, daughter of Comfort Sands, the first president of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and his first wife, Mary Dodge. Comfort Sands was descended from 
James Sands, who came to Plymouth, Mass., in 1658, and subsequently removed to Long Island. 

The eldest son of Nathaniel Prime and his third child was Edward Prime, who was born in 
1801. He was educated in a private school in Morristown, N. J., and entering his father's banking 
house early in life, soon became a member of the firm. When his father died in 1840, he succeeded 
to the banking business as the head of the firm of Prime, Ward & Co., which consisted of himself 
and John and Samuel Ward in 1847, and of Edward Prime and his two sons, Nathaniel and Edward 
Prime, Jr., from that time until it went out of existence in 1867. Mr. Prime died in 1883. He 
was one of the founders of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. 

When Edward Prime died he left six children, three sons and three daughters. His wife 
was Anne Bard, daughter of William Bard and Catharine Cruger. His daughter, Cornelia, became 
the wife of August Ahrens; his son, Nathaniel, was an officer in the United States Army and 
died in 1885; his son, William Hoffman, died in San Antonio, Texas, in 1881; his daughter, 
Charlotte, married Leonard J. Wyeth, Jr., and his daughter, Mary Catharine, became the wife of 
James A. Scrymser. The second wife of Mr. Prime, who survived her husband and is still living, 
was Charlotte Hoffman, daughter of Dr. William Hoffman. 

Mr. Edward Prime was the second son and third child of Edward Prime, Sr., and his wife, 
Anne Bard. He was born in New York, October 19th, 1833. Educated in private schools 
in White Plains and Poughkeepsie, he succeeded to his father's business in the banking house 
of Prime & Company. He is a member of the Country Club of Westchester County, the Good 
Government Club, and the Sons of the Revolution. He spends much time traveling in 
Europe. Mr. Prime has served in the Seventy-first Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. During the Civil 
War he was six months at the front, being stationed near Washington. In December, 1889, he 
married Anne Rhodes Gilbert, daughter of Edward Francis Gilbert and Elizabeth Hall. Edward F. 
Gilbert was a lineal descendant of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, who was half brother of Sir Walter 
Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Prime have one daughter, Charlotte Hoffman Prime. The arms of this 
branch of the Prime family are: a black human leg torn off at the thigh, on a silver shield, with 
the motto, Virtute et Opere. The crest is an eagle's claw. 

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DAVID PROVOST 

FRENCH in origin and adherents of the Huguenot cause, the ancestors of this gentleman 
escaped from their native country to Holland, and thence migrated to the Colony the 
Dutch had founded on the Hudson. The first of the name was Guillaume Provost, a 
Huguenot, who resided in Paris at the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, in 1572. His 
gentle birth is attested by the possession of coat armor, the heraldic devices being similar to those 
since borne by the successive generations of his progeny. It was Guillaume Provost's grandsons, 
David and Jonathan Provoost, who came to this country. 

David Provoost was in the New Netherland prior to 1639, probably coming with Governor 
Kieft in 1638. He was an officer of the Dutch West India Company, and among other posts, held 
command for a time of Fort Good Hope, at Hartford, Conn., established to check the encroachments 
of the English, and the records show him to have been an able Lieutenant of Governor Peter 
Stuyvesant. In 1652, his name heads the list of the nine men who ruled New Amsterdam. In 
1654, he was made the first schout or sheriff of Breucklyn, and died in 1656. His wife was 
Margaret Gillis. Their son, Jonathan Provoost, born here in 1651, married Catharine Van der Veen, 
daughter of Pieter Cornelisen Van der Veen and Eloje Tymens. Becoming a widow in 1663, the 
latter married the famous Captain Jacob Leisler. Johannes Provoost, the elder brother of Jonathan, 
was born in Holland and held the post of Secretary at Fort Orange (Albany), subsequently becoming 
a merchant in New York. He was a leading supporter of Leisler, in 1689, being associated with 
Jacob Milbourne in the commission to take charge of Fort Orange, and was among those punished 
by imprisonment and confiscation, when Leisler was executed by the English governor, Colonel 
Sloughter. David Provoost, second of the name, the great-great-grandfather of the present Mr. 
Provost, the son of Jonathan and Catharine Provoost, was born in New York in 1689, and married 
Christina Praa, daughter of Captain Peter Praa, of Bushwick. Their son, Jonathan Provoost, was 
born in New York in 1722, and in 1743 married Adriana Spring, and died about 1805, in Middlesex 
County, N. J. John Provoost, their son and the present Mr. Provost's grandfather, was long a 
resident of Brooklyn and married Eve Edmonton. 

In tracing the genealogy of this family, it is necessary to refer to a famous representative in 
a collateral line, the Reverend Samuel Provoost, D.D., the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of 
New York. He was fourth in descent from the first David Provoost, his father being a merchant 
and his mother a daughter of Hermann Bleecker. He was one of the first seven graduates from 
Kings, now Columbia College, in 1758. He also studied at Cambridge, England, was ordained 
to the ministry there in 1766, and returning, became in 1774 an assistant minister of Trinity 
Church. During the Revolution he espoused the patriotic cause, became rector of Trinity in 
1784, and in 1786 was elected Bishop; being ordained, in company with Bishop White, of 
Pennsylvania, by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York at Lambeth. He resigned his bishopric, 
which he had adorned by his piety and learning, in 1801, and died in 181 5. 

David Provoost, third of the name, the father of the present Mr. David Provost, was the 
son of John and Eve (Edmonton) Provoost. About 1840, in common with many of the name, he 
changed the spelling from the old Dutch form of Provoost to Provost. He married Harriet Byron 
Dane, of Boston, a lady of an old New England family. 

Their son, Mr. David Provost, was born at Great Neck, Long Island, in 1859; was educated at 
Rutgers College and the Law School of Columbia College, and is in active practice at the New York 
bar. In 1887, Mr. Provost married Edith Wise, born at Goshen, N. Y., daughter of James L. Wise 
and his wife, Isabella McDougall. Mrs. Provost's family is of English extraction and her paternal 
ancestors were among the earliest settlers in Portsmouth, N. H. The issue of this marriage are three 
children, Edith Madeleine Provost, David Lawrence Provost, and Ralph Drake Provost. Mr. 
Provost is a member of the Sons of the Revolution. His residence is 58 West Fifty-first Street, and 
his country home is at Great Neck, Long Island, on a cliff commanding a view of the Sound. 

464 



ROGER ATKINSON PRYOR 

THE ancient family of Bland has for many generations been celebrated in the annals of 
Virginia, numbering among its members many of the most famous sons of the Old 
Dominion. In the Revolutionary period, Colonel Theodorik Bland was a distinguished 
patriot, and after the war was a Member of Congress and a delegate to the Constitutional Conven- 
tion. He was intimately associated with all the great leaders of the period, and was a friend and 
counselor of Washington and Jefferson. 

Judge Roger Atkinson Pryor inherits the blood not only of the Bland, but of the Randolph, 
Isham, Yates, Cary and Poythress families of Virginia. He was born in Dinwiddie County, in that 
State, July 19th, 1828, his parents being the Reverend Theodorik Bland Pryor and his wife, Lucy 
Atkinson. His paternal grandparents were Roger Pryor and Annie Bland, and on the maternal 
side, Roger Atkinson and Agnes Poythress. He was graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 
1845, and after that from the University of Virginia. After studying law, he entered upon the 
practice of his profession in Charlottesville, Va., but temporarily took an editorial position in 1854. 
In the following year President Franklin Pierce appointed him on a special mission to Greece. 
After his return from Europe, in 1857, he was offered the place of Minister to Persia, declining 
which, he was elected a Member of Congress from the district formerly represented by John 
Randolph, of Roanoke. Reelected to Congress in 1859, he cast his lot with his State in the South- 
ern Confederacy. Twice he was elected a member of the Confederate Congress, and entering the 
military service of the Confederacy as Colonel of a Virginia regiment, was promoted Brigadier- 
General for bravery at the battle of Williamsburg. He served in the engagements around Richmond 
and proved himself a brave soldier and a skilful commander. A misunderstanding with President 
Jefferson Davis led him to resign his commission, but immediataly after he reenlisted as a private 
soldier, serving for two years in the ranks in the great battles of the Confederate Army of Virginia. 
At Petersburg he was captured, imprisoned for eight months in Fort Lafayette and released on 
parole only twenty days before the fall of the Confederacy. 

After the war he removed to New York and engaged in legal practice. He at once took a 
position at the head of his profession and was engaged in many notable cases, being one of the 
counsel in the Beecher-Tilton trial and in important elevated railroad litigation. He was counsel 
for Governor William Sprague of Rhode Island in the litigation relating to the Sprague estate. 

Outside of his profession, he has been prominent in the counsels of the Democratic Party and 
in 1876 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis. He has been often 
called upon as an orator upon public occasions. In 1877, delivered an address at Hampden-Sydney 
College on The Relation of Science to Religion. On Decoration Day of the same year he was the 
orator before the Grand Army of the Republic in Brooklyn, and among his other celebrated addresses 
was one before the Albany Law School. His latest published address was one made before the 
Virginia Bar Associaton, at White Sulphur Springs, in 1895. In 1890, he was elected to a seat on 
the bench of the Court of Common Pleas in the City of New York, and by the Constitution of 
1894 was transferred to the Supreme Court. His term of service expires in 1905. 

In 1848, Judge Pryor married Sara Agnes Rice, a lady also descended from a distinguished 
line of Virginia ancestors. One of her forefathers was the famous Nathaniel Bacon, the leader 
of what was termed Bacon's Rebellion, in 1676, against the tyranny of Governor Sir William 
Berkeley. Among her other ancestors were such Virginia worthies as David Rice and Samuel 
Blair. Mrs. Pryor's rare intellectual and social qualities have made her a helpful companion in the 
public career of her husband, while she has taken a leading part in philanthropic organizations and 
those of a social or patriotic character which interest her sex. Their son, Roger A. Pryor, Jr., is a 
member of the New York bar. Judge Pryor lives at 3 West Sixty-ninth Street. He is a member 
of the Manhattan Club, the Colonial Club, the Southern Society and the Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. 

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JOSIAH COLLINS PUMPELLY 

A ROMAN origin is evident in the case of the Pompelly family. There was a tribune 
Pompilius in Rome circa 420 B. C, and other notices of the surname occur. In its Italian 
form of Pompili, it appears in the mediaeval records of Spoletto, and one of the family 
went with Pope Clement V. to Avignon, and through him a branch became established in France. 
The arms of the race are in the records of the Italian nobility. 

The founder of the American branch of the family was Jean Pompilie, a Huguenot, who early 
in the eighteenth century came from France to Canada, and thence to New England, where he 
married an heiress, Miss Monroe. His son, John Pumpelly (as the name was Anglicized), was 
born in 1727. In his twelfth year he ran away, became a drummer in the English Army and finally 
joined Roger's Rangers and served throughout the French War, was promoted for bravery and 
stood near Wolfe when he fell at Quebec. During the Revolution, he was commissary to General 
Putnam. His eldest son, Bennett, who was also an officer of the Continental Army, was honored 
with Lafayette's friendship. Another son, Barnard, was killed at St. Clair's defeat. John Pumpelly 
was married first to Eppen Meijer and second to Hannah R ushnell, of Salisbury, Conn., and 
resided there until 1802, when he moved to Danby, N. Y. ( where he died in 1819. 

Two sons of his second marriage, James and Harmon, were early settlers in Tioga County, 
New York State, where they became extensive land owners and agents for the Livingston and 
other estates. The Honorable James Pumpelly, the grandfather of Mr. Josiah C. Pumpelly, was 
born at Salisbury in 1775, and married Mary Pixley, daughter of David Pixley, of Stockbridge, 
Mass., a Colonel in the Continental Army, who came to Owego, N. Y., in 1790, and, like Mr. 
Pumpelly, was one of the proprietors in the large body of land between Owego Creek and the 
Chenango River awarded to Massachusetts, and known as the Boston Purchase or Ten Townships. 
James Pumpelly represented Broome County in the Legislature. His son, George James Pumpelly, 
born at Owego in 1805, graduated at Yale in 1826, and at Litchfield Law School in 1828. He took 
an active part in creating the Erie Railway, and rendered great service in advancing the agricultural 
interests of the southern tier of counties. He was a Christian gentleman of the old school, a true 
lover of books, and possessed a most generous and hospitable nature. He married his cousin, 
Susan Isabella Pumpelly, born in 1809, the daughter of Charles Pumpelly, who was an officer in the 
War of 1813, her mother being an Avery. Through her great-great-grandmother she traced her 
ancestry back ten centuries through a notable array of British sovereigns, statesmen and soldiers. 
Samuel Avery, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. Pumpelly, was a soldier of the Revolution. 

Mr. Josiah Collins Pumpelly was born at Owego, in 1839, graduated at Rutgers College in 
i860, and from the Columbia College Law School in 1863. Literary pursuits and social problems 
interested him more than professional life, and after some years of travel in Europe, the East, and 
the United States, he settled at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and later at Morristown, N. J. In 1876, he 
married Mrs. Margaret (Lanier) Winslow, a descendant of the Huguenot, Louis Lanier. After the 
death of his wife, Mr. Pumpelly established himself in New York City, where he has become 
identified with public movements and particularly with the City Improvement Society, of which he 
was a founder, and is now the honored secretary. Its object is to secure the enforcement of laws for 
the improvement of the city, and the proper discharge of their duties by municipal authorities, a cause 
in which he has accomplished much practical good. In 1896, Mr. Pumpelly married for his second 
wife Mary Amelia Harmer, a descendant of the Revolutionary General Josiah Harmer, and of the old 
Huguenot family of Sandoz. In literary and antiquarian research Mr. Pumpelly has covered a wide 
field. He has published much on these subjects, and is an officer of the New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society. He was one of the founders of the Huguenot Society, of the New Jersey 
State Charities Aid Association, and of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and has 
taken a warm interest in church work as well as in philanthropic organizations. He is a veteran 
member of the Union League Club, and one of the Executive Board of the Civil Service Association. 

466 



GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM 

IN Buckinghamshire, England, the Putnam family was of high standing, as far back as the 
fifteenth century. Their arms were : Argent, crusily fitchee, sable, a stork of the last ; crest, 
a wolfs head, gules. John Putnam, the first of the name in America, was the ancestor of all 
the Putnams who trace their lineage to Colonial days. With John Putnam, in 1634, came his wife 
Priscilla, and their three sons, Thomas, Nathaniel and John. They settled in Salem, Mass., 
acquired large estates, and the sons became men of prominence and influence. In 1681, one- 
seventh of all the tax levied upon the ninety-four tax payers of Salem was paid by the three 
Putnams. Thomas Putnam also acquired by marriage great wealth in Jamaica and Barbadoes. 

The Putnam family has always been prominent in Eastern Massachusetts. In 1867, of the 
eight hundred voters in Danvers, fifty were Putnams, and in the parish of that town up to a few 
years ago, twenty-four of the seventy-four recording clerks, fifteen of the twenty-three deacons, 
twelve of the twenty-six treasurers, and seven of the eighteen Sabbath School superintendents 
had been Putnams. General Israel Putnam, the famous Revolutionary soldier, was the most 
conspicuous member of the family in his day. Other members of the family have achieved 
distinction, among them being General Rufus Putnam, cousin of General Israel Putnam, also a 
Revolutionary soldier, and one of the explorers of the Ohio region; Judge John P. Putnam, of 
Connecticut ; Judge Samuel Putnam, of Massachusetts ; Judge William L. Putnam, of Maine ; 
Judge James Putnam, of New Brunswick ; General A. S. Putnam, of the Civil War, and Professor 
Frederick W. Putnam, the noted anthropologist and scientist. A great-grandson of Thomas 
Putnam, eldest son of the founder of the family in America, was Henry Putnam, 1788-1822, a 
lawyer of Boston. His wife was Catherine Hunt Palmer, a daughter of General Joseph Palmer, 
1718-1788, who was a member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774, a member of 
the Committee of Safety, appointed by that body, and in command of the Massachusetts militia 
for the defense of Rhode Island in 1777. 

George Palmer Putnam, the son of Henry and Catherine (Hunt) Putnam, was the first publisher 
of the name. Born in 1814, he became a clerk in the New York book store of Leavitt Brothers at 
the age of fourteen, and was in business for himself as a member of the firm of Wiley & Putnam, 
in 1840, and independently eight years later. In 1852, he established Putnam's Magazine. In 1862, 
he was appointed by President Lincoln United States Collector of Internal Revenue. In 1866, the 
publishing house that he founded in 1848 took the name of G. P. Putnam & Sons. Mr. Putnam 
was one of the earliest advocates of international copyright, organized in 1837 the first copy- 
right association, was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the author of several 
books. He died in 1872. He married, in 1840, Victorine Haven, daughter of Joseph Haven, a 
merchant of Boston. Mrs. Putnam's maternal grandfather was Colonel Francis Mason, who had 
command of the ordnance in the army of Washington, in 1776. 

Mr. George Haven Putnam, born in London, England, April 2, 1844, succeeded his father at 
the head of the publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons. He was educated in Columbia College 
and in the University of Gottingen, Germany. He left the University in 1862 to enlist in the One 
Hundred and Seventy-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteers, in which he served until the close 
of the war, retiring with the rank of Major. He was a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue 
in 1866, and has been a publisher for thirty years. As an author he has won distinction by 
magazine and cyclopaedia articles on literary subjects, and by several books upon copyright, 
publishing and kindred topics. He was one of the founders of the Reform and City clubs, and 
is a member of the Century and the Authors' clubs, the Savile Club of London, and the Loyal 
Legion, and is secretary of the Publishers' Copyright League. His services for the cause of 
free trade, civil service reform, sound money and international copyright, have given him a 
national reputation. At the request of the Societe des Gens de Lettres, of Paris, he received in 
1891 the cross of the Legion of Honor. 

467 



EDWARD S. RAPALLO 

UPON a country estate in Italy, not far from the town of Rapallo, the family of which Mr. 
Edward S. Rapallo is the leading American representative, has resided for many 
generations. There, Anthony Rapallo, who established the family in this country, was 
born. Owing to his republican tendencies, he came into disfavor with his family and the Vatican, 
in consequence of which he emigrated to this country in early life and settled in New York. In 
this city, he first supported himself by teaching, and afterwards studied law, beginning the practice 
of that profession in 1818. For a long time, his home was a rendezvous for Garibaldi and the other 
Italian patriots. Later, however, he was counsel to one of the Italian Governments. 

Anthony Rapallo married, in 1819, Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Gould, of Newburyport, 
Mass. Benjamin Gould was a Revolutionary patriot, born in Topsfield, Mass., in 1751. When 
hostilities broke out, in 1775, he headed a company of minute men that marched from Topsfield 
to take part in the battle of Lexington. In that engagement, he received a bullet wound, but 
was Captain of his company at Bunker Hill, and was the last patriot to leave the Heights on 
Charlestown Neck after that engagement. Later in the war, he fought at White Plains, Bennington 
and Stillwater, and commanded the main guards at West Point when Benedict Arnold fled and 
Major Andre was captured. He was at one time a delegate from Massachusetts to the General 
Assembly. A son of Benjamin Gould was Benjamin A. Gould, 1787- 1859, a Harvard College 
graduate, principal of the Boston Latin School, an East India merchant in Boston, an author and 
public official. A daughter of Benjamin Gould was Hannah Flagg Gould, the poetess, 1789- 1865. 
A son of Benjamin A. Gould was Benjamin Apthorpe Gould, an astronomer of this genera- 
tion, who was connected with the United States Coast Survey in 1851, was director of the Dudley 
Observatory in Albany, in 1856, founder and editor of The Astronomical Journal, and from 1868 to 
1885, in charge of the National Observatory and the Astronomical Service of the Argentine Republic. 

The Honorable Charles A. Rapallo, for many years an Associate Judge of the Court of 
Appeals of the State of New York, was a son of Anthony Rapallo and the father of Mr. Edward 
S. Rapallo. He was born in New York City, in 1823. At that time, Anthony Rapallo was 
associated with the celebrated John Anthon. The son was brought up under the personal 
direction of his father, who supervised his education in his early years and personally taught him 
the classics and the modern languages. In his boyhood, he spent many days in his father's 
office, where he had the advantages of contact with some of the leading lawyers of that time. 
When he was twenty-one years of age, he was admitted to practice, and in 1848 formed a law 
partnership with Horace F. Clark, the firm acting for many years as principal attorneys for 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

In 1867, when Mr. Clark retired, Mr. Rapallo formed a partnership with James C. 
Spencer. Three years later, in 1870, he was elected Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals 
of the State of New York, at the same time that Sanford E. Church was elected Chief Judge of 
the same court. In 1880, when Mr. Church died, Mr. Rapallo received the unanimous nomina- 
tion of the Democratic party for the position of Chief Justice, but was defeated by Chief Judge 
Charles Andrews. He held his seat as Associate Judge during the remainder of his life. The 
wife of Judge Rapallo was a daughter of Bradford Sumner, one of the most celebrated lawyers of 
Boston in his generation. Mr. and Mrs. Rapallo were married in 18^2, and Mrs. Rapallo survived 
her husband. With her daughters, she lives in West Thirty-first Street and has a country 
residence at Green Farms, Conn. 

Mr. Edward S. Rapallo is the eldest son of Judge Charles A. Rapallo. Born in New York, 
he was graduated from Columbia College in 1874, and from the Columbia Law School, and is a 
practicing lawyer. He married Emma Van Volkenburgh and lives in Fifth Avenue. He is a 
member of the Manhattan, University, Democratic and University Athletic clubs, and belongs to 
the Century Association, the Bar Association and the Columbia College Alumni Association. 

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AMASA ANGELL REDFIELD 

WILLIAM REDFIN, or Redfield, came from England before 1630, with one of the first 
companies of Colonists. He took up land on the Charles River, near Boston, and was 
one of the first settlers of Newtown, which afterwards became Cambridge. Later 
in life, he removed to Pequot, now New London, Conn., where he died, in 1662. He was the 
ancestor of a family that has had many distinguished representatives. The name appears in the 
original records variously, as Redfin, Redfen, Redfyn, Redfyne. After the family came to Connec- 
ticut, the name was gradually changed to its present form. 

James Redfield, 1646-1723, son of William Redfield, married first Elizabeth How, daughter 
of Jeremy How, of New Haven ; and second, Deborah Sturgis, daughter of John Sturgis, of 
Fairfield, Conn. Peleg Redfield, grandson of James Redfield, and son of Theophilus Redfield and 
Priscilla (Grinnell) Redfield, was born in Killingworth, Conn., in 1723, and died in 1760. In the 
French War, he took part as a Captain in the Second Regiment of Connecticut troops under 
command of Colonel Nathan Whiting. His wife was Sarah Dudley, of Guilford, Conn. 

The father of Mr. Amasa Angell Redfield was Luther Redfield, of Tarrytown, N. Y. He 
was the son of Luther Redfield, who was born in Richmond, Mass., in 1780, and died in Monroe, 
Mich., in 1867; a grandson of Beriah Redfield, 1744-1819, of Richmond, Mass., and a great- 
grandson of Captain Peleg Redfield. Luther Redfield was born in Junius, N. Y., in 1815, and 
died in Bloomfield, in 1878. He was a merchant and banker of high reputation in New York. His 
wife, whom he married in 1836, was Eliza Angell, daughter of Amasa and Mary (Ward) Angell. 
Miss Angell belonged to the Angell family of Providence, who were among the earliest settlers 
of that place. Her maternal ancestry included one of the patentees of Dutchess County, N. Y. 

Several of the Redfield family have been prominent in literature and journalism. The 
Honorable Lewis H. Redfield, son of Peleg Redfield, a son of Theophilus Redfield, father of the 
first Peleg Redfield, was a well-known newspaper publisher and editor in the Onondaga Valley 
and Syracuse, N. Y. His wife, Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield, was a well-known authoress. 
Of the same family was the Honorable Timothy Redfield, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Vermont, and professor in Dartmouth College, and his brother, Isaac F. Redfield, who acted as 
special counsel of the United States Government in Europe, in connection with the recovery of 
property of the Southern Confederacy. Among the other members of the family who have 
attained distinction, were J. S. Redfield, editor and United States Consul at one time ; William C. 
Redfield, the scientist ; and John H. Redfield, known for his researches in natural history. 

Mr. Amasa Angell Redfield was born in Clyde, N. Y., May 19th, 1837. Educated at the 
University of New York, he entered the legal profession in New York, and attained an extensive 
practice and high distinction. Afterwards he became official reporter of the Surrogate's Court and 
Court of Common Pleas, a position he held from 1877 to 1882. Early in life he devoted himself to 
literary work and was for many years a contributor to The Knickerbocker Magazine. He also 
wrote upon legal subjects, and compiled several legal works, among them A Hand-Book of 
United States Tax Laws, Reports of the Surrogate Courts of the State of New York, Law and 
Practice of Surrogate Courts, and in collaboration with Thomas G. Shearman, The Law of Neg- 
ligence. In 1863, Mr. Redfield married Sarah Louise Cooke, daughter of Robert Latimer Cooke and 
his wife, Caroline Eliza Van Deventer. Mrs. Redfield was descended from the Cookes of Vermont 
and the Latimers of New London, and also on the maternal side from the Talmages and the Van 
Deventers, who came from Holland in 1634. They have two children. Robert Latimer Redfield, 
their son, is a practicing lawyer, in association with his father, and married, in 1894, Emma J. 
Balen, a descendant of the Stickney family. The daughter of Mr. Amasa A. Redfield, Edith 
Redfield Cooper, is the wife of Frederic T. Cooper, professor in the University of New York. Mr. 
Redfield has a country residence, The Hemlocks, at Farmington, Conn., and is a member of the 
Lawyers' Club and the Bar Association. 

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WHITELAW REID 

THE family of which Mr, Whitelaw Reid is a representative, was originally of Scotland. His 
grandfather, a Scotch Covenanter, was one of the founders of the town of Xenia, O., 
and his mother, Marion Whitelaw Ronalds, descended from a Highland family. The parents 
of Mr. Whitelaw Reid gave him the advantage of a thorough education. He studied in the 
Academy of Xenia, his native town, and was graduated with the scientific honors from Miami 
University in 1856, when he was not yet nineteen. After a year he became editor and proprietor 
of The Xenia News, and during the first Lincoln campaign achieved reputation by his political 
writings and speeches. He next went to Columbus, O., as a legislative newspaper correspondent, 
and soon after became connected with The Cincinnati Gazette. During the Civil War, he did 
remarkably brilliant work as a correspondent, being at the front in the two West Virginia cam- 
paigns, and with Grant at Shiloh and elsewhere. After the war he was Librarian of the House 
of Representatives in Washington, correspondent of The Cincinnati Gazette, and finally one of 
that journal's proprieters and editors. He also traveled in the South and wrote a book, After the 
War, and in 1868 published a two-volume history, Ohio in the War, one of the most important 
early works treating of the Civil War. 

In 1 868, Mr. Reid became connected with The New York Tribune by invitation of Horace 
Greeley. His first position was that of editorial writer, but he soon became managing editor, and 
in 1872, when Mr. Greeley accepted the Liberal Republican and Democratic nomination for the 
Presidency, Mr. Reid was placed in full charge of the paper. Upon the death of Greeley, 
immediately after that campaign, Mr. Reid became the principal owner of The Tribune. The paper 
was not in a flourishing condition when he took charge of it, as many of its old-time readers had 
been alienated in the latter years of Mr. Greeley's life. Under Mr. Reid, however, The Tribune was 
successfully developed and put in the forefront of success and influence among Republican 
newspapers. The Tribune Building, which has been erected during his administration, and largely 
on his ideas, is a monument to his large and eminently practical views. 

Public honors have naturally come to Mr. Reid. In 1876, he was chosen a Regent of 
the New York State University. The position of United States Minister to Germany was tendered 
to him by President Hayes, and again by President Garfield, but was declined in both instances. 
President Harrison appointed him United States Minister to France in 1889, and he made a brilliant 
diplomatic and social success in Paris during the four years that he occupied that post. In 1892, he 
was Chairman of the New York Republican State Convention to choose delegates to the National 
Convention, and subsequently at the National Convention of that year was nominated for the 
Vice-Presidency on the ticket with President Harrison. In 1897, Mr. Reid was appointed by 
President McKinley, special Envoy of the United States, to the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 
a mission which he fulfilled with great satisfaction to both Great Britain and his own country. 

In 1881, Mr. Reid married Elizabeth, daughter of Darius O. Mills, and has one son and one 
daughter. His city residence is in Madison Avenue, and his country home, Ophir Farm, in 
Westchester County, near White Plains, is an extensive estate. 

Mr. Reid is a member of the leading literary clubs of the city, including the Century, 
University, Grolier, the A K E and Lotos. His presidency of the latter for fourteen years 
was one of the most notable in the history of that brilliant society of letters. Besides the books 
on the South and Ohio already referred to, Mr. Reid is the author of a biographical and memorial 
sketch of Horace Greeley, Schools in Journalism, The Scholar in Politics, and Some News- 
paper Tendencies, and has also been a frequent contributor to the reviews and periodicals. His 
social and political club connections include the Metropolitan, Union League, Republican, Tuxedo 
and Riding clubs, and he belongs to the Ohio, New England, St. Andrew's and American 
Geographical societies. He is also an honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce, a distinc- 
tion that has been conferred upon only fifteen persons during the history of that organization. 

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CHARLES REMSEN 

ALL the Remsens are descended from Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, who emigrated from West- 
phalia in the early days of the Dutch settlement of Manhattan Island. In the old 
country, the family was of gentle origin, the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa having 
granted, in 1168, to one of the house, a coat of arms displaying the waving lines which suggested 
the waters of a brook, and gave the family its European cognomen, Vanderbeek. Rem Jansen 
Vanderbeek settled in Albany and married, in 1652, Annetje, daughter of Joris Jansen de Rapelye. 
When his father-in-law removed to the Wallabout, on Long Island, he accompanied him and 
settled upon a farm. Some of the original landed possessions of this pioneer have remained in the 
hands of his descendants even down to this day. He was a leader in the Colony, being a 
magistrate during the second occupancy of New Netherland by the Dutch, and died in 1681. He 
left fifteen children, and the sons, in accordance with a custom of the times, adopted as their sur- 
names their father's Christian name, with a suffix to indicate their sonship, which is the origin of 
the name of Remsen, by which the descendants of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck have been known. 

Many of the family were prominent in the early history of the city and of the Province. 
Hendrick, born in 1708, was a wealthy merchant, and his son, Henry, born in 1736, became 
one of the largest importers of his day, and was also prominent in public affairs in the 
Revolutionary period. He was a member of the famous committee of one hundred citizens, 
chosen in May, 1775, to control the affairs of the city, and uphold the Provincial Congress. 
Jeremiah Remsen was a member for Brooklyn to the first Provincial Congress of 1775. 
Henry Remsen, 1762-1843, the son of the first Henry, was in early life private secretary to John 
Jay, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and later on, Secretary to Thomas Jefferson, when the latter was 
President of the United States. Afterwards, in 1790, he engaged in the banking business as a 
partner of the firm of Henry Remsen & Son, of this city, was a teller of the Branch of the 
United States Bank in New York in 1793, cashier of the Manhattan Company's Bank in 1799, and 
in 1808 president of the Manhattan Company, which position he retained until 1826. In 1808, he 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham R. de Peyster, who belonged to the historic New York 
family of that name. They had nine children. 

William Remsen, son of Henry Remsen and Elizabeth de Peyster, was born in New York, 
January 13th, 181 5. His early instruction was received in the schools of the city, and he was 
graduated from Princeton College in 1835. After studying law for three years, he was admitted 
to the New York bar, but gave up a professional career in order to take charge of the estate 
left by his father. He became one of the leading business men of the city, being particularly 
interested in real estate, and was a director in several banks and other corporations. By his 
marriage with Jane Suydam, daughter of John Suydam, of the old New York Dutch family of that 
name, he became the father of eight children, five of whom, Robert G., Jr., Charles, Jane, who 
married Joseph T. Thompson; Elizabeth, and Sarah, who married William Manice, survived him. 
He was one of the founders of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the American Geographical 
Society. Robert G. Remsen, brother of William Remsen, and uncle to Mr. Charles Remsen, was 
long a conspicuous figure in New York society, and died in 1896. A full reference to him will be 
found in another part of this volume. 

Mr. Charles Remsen, the fifth son of William Remsen, was born in New York. Through 
his paternal grandmother, he is not only descended from the de Peysters and from Joris Jansen 
de Rapelye, as has already been shown, but he can also trace his lineage to the pioneers of the 
Roosevelt, Rutger and Bancker families. He is a physician, and is one of the executors of the 
estate of his father. He married Lilian Livingston Jones, and has two sons, one of whom, 
William Remsen, is named after his grandfather. His city residence is in East Eleventh Street, 
in that old residence locality bordering on Washington Square. He also has a country home 
in Remsenburg, Long Island, where he spends most of the year. 



EDWARD S. RENWICK 

JAMES Renwick, the first of the family name in this country, came to New York with his son 
and daughter in 1785. He was a merchant, and in connection with his son, William 
Renwick, established the first line of packet ships sailing from New York to Liverpool at 
fixed regular dates. William Renwick went to Liverpool to take charge of the business 
there, and married Jennie Jeffrey, daughter of a Scotch clergyman, a famous beauty, and the theme 
of Burns' poem to blue-eyed Jennie. Their son, James Renwick, the second of the name, was 
born in Liverpool, England, in 1790, and was brought to this country by his parents when he 
was a child. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1807, was instructor in natural and 
experimental philosophy and chemistry in Columbia in 1813, was a professor in the same branches 
from 1820 to 1853, and was made Professor emeritus upon his retirement from active labor 
in his profession. In 18 14, he was engaged in the United States service as topographical 
engineer with the rank of Major. From 1817 to 1820, he was a trustee of Columbia College, 
and in 1829 received the degree of LL. D. In 1838, he was one of the commissioners for the 
exploration and establishment of the northeast boundary line between the United States and 
New Brunswick. 

On his mother's side, Mr. Edward S. Renwick is descended from Henry Brevoort, and 
from Captain Adam Todd, whose children and grandchildren have been the ancestors of many 
distinguished New York families. Margaret Todd, daughter of the second Adam Todd, married, 
in 1756, Captain William Whetten, of Devonshire, England, who, when a boy, before the French 
war, emigrated from England, and after commanding vessels in trade with the West Indies, 
settled in New York as a merchant. Sarah Whetten, daughter of this marriage, married, in 
1778, Henry Brevoort, and their daughter, Margaret Ann Brevoort, became the wife of James 
Renwick, second of the name, in 1816. 

Mr. Edward S. Renwick, son of Professor James Renwick, second of the name, and his 
wife, Margaret Ann Brevoort, was born in New York in 1823. He was graduated from Columbia 
College in 1839, and began his professional career as superintendent of an iron works. In 1849, 
owing to the depression of the iron manufacture, he became a patent solicitor in Washington. 
He has been one of the leading experts in this branch of business for a generation, the greater 
part of his work having been in cases before the United States Courts. In 1855, Mr. Renwick 
removed to New York, which he has since made the headquarters of his business. He is a skilful 
inventor and practical civil engineer of high attainments, besides being an original scientific 
investigator. Among his notable engineering achievements was the repair of the steamship 
Great Eastern, while afloat, in association with his brother Henry Brevoort Renwick. He was 
also one of the joint inventors of the first self-binding reaping machines, and has made other 
important and useful inventions. Mr. Renwick is a member of the Adirondack League, Union, 
Engineers and New York and Larchmont Yacht clubs, the Columbia College Alumni Association, 
and the American Geographical Society, and a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and 
the American Museum of Natural History. 

In 1862, Mr. Renwick married Alice Brevoort, daughter of Henry Brevoort of the same 
family as that from which his mother was descended. He has a family of two sons and one 
daughter. The elder son, Edward Brevoort Renwick, was born in 1863. He lives in West 
Twenty-seventh Street and is a member of the Union, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht and 
Engineers' clubs, and of the St. Nicholas Society. He is an accomplished mechanical engineer 
and stands in the front rank of his profession. The younger son, William Whetten Renwick, 
who was born in 1864, is an architect and partner in the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen, 
which was established by his uncle, James Renwick, third of the name, and the architect of 
St. Patrick's Cathedral. The youngest child of Mr. Edward S. Renwick is Mrs. W. C. 
Whittingham, who was born in 1867. 



FREDERICK WILLIAM RHINELANDER 

INHERITING a name conspicuously identified with the past two hundred years of New York's 
history, this gentleman, in the maternal line, is also a representative of a family of New 
England origin and Revolutionary record, which has been firmly established in New York 
since the independence of the United States was secured. A full account of the first American 
generations of the Rhinelanders will be found upon the succeeding page of this volume. The first 
of the name, as there set forth, was Philip Jacob Rhinelander, who came to New York and settled 
at New Rochelle, Westchester County, in 1696. His son was William Rhinelander, 17 18-1777, °f 
New York, who instituted the policy of investing their wealth in city real estate, which has 
since been pursued by his descendants. William Rhinelander, 1753-1825, second of the name, 
was his son, and the grandfather of the gentleman whose name heads this article. He 
married Mary Robert and was the father of five sons and two daughters. Philip Rhinelander, 
the eldest, married Mary Colden Hoffman, and their daughter, 'Mary C. Rhinelander, married 
John A. King, the three daughters of this marriage being Mary R., Alice, who married Gerardi 
Davis, and Ellen King. Eliza Lucile married Horatio Gates Stevens, and their daughter, Mary 
Lucille, married Albert R. Gallatin, their children being Albert Horatio Gallatin, who married 
Louisa B. Ewing, Frederic Gallatin, who married Almy Goelet Gerry, and James Gallatin, who 
married Elizabeth Hill Dawson. William Christopher Rhinelander married Mary Rogers and was 
the father of William Rhinelander, whose sons are J. T. Oakley Rhinelander and Philip Rhine- 
lander. John Robert Rhinelander married Julia Stockton, and has no descendants. Mary Robert 
Rhinelander married Robert J. Renwick. Frederick William Rhinelander, father of Mr. Frederick 
William Rhinelander, married Mary L. A. Stevens, and Bernard Rhinelander married Nancy Post. 

Mary (Robert) Rhinelander, 1755—1837, the wife of William Rhinelander, second of the 
name, was of a Huguenot family, whose ancestor, Daniel Robert and his wife, Susanne Nicholas 
du Gaillean, came to America in 1686. Their son, Daniel Robert, second of the name, was the 
father of Christopher Robert, who, in 1743, married Mary Dyer, daughter of John Dyer and 
Christina Marcier, of Long Island, Mary Robert being their daughter. The brother of Mary 
(Robert) Rhinelander was Colonel Robert, of the Continental Army. 

Frederick William Rhinelander, the elder, was the fourth son of William Rhinelander. He 
was born in 1796 and died in 1836. He married Mary Lucy Ann Stevens, daughter of General 
Ebenezer Stevens and his wife, Lucretia (Ledyard) Sands. General Stevens was a son of Ebenezer 
Stevens and Elizabeth Weld, of Roxbury, Mass. His grandfather, Erasmus Stevens, was one of 
the founders of the North Church, in Boston, and his mother was descended from the Reverend 
Thomas Weld, minister of the church at Roxbury in 1632. He was an active patriot and, in 
the Revolutionary War, became the most famous Artillery Commander of the Continental Army. 
After the Revolution, he became a merchant in New York, and was Major-General of the 
State Militia and commanded the defenses of New York in 1812. The children of Frederick 
William Rhinelander were: Lucretia Stevens, who married George F. Jones; Mary E., who 
married Thomas H. Newbold; Frederick W. and Eliza L., who married William Edgar. 

Mr. Frederick William Rhinelander was born in New York, in 1828, and was graduated 
from Columbia College in the class of 1847. In 185 1, he married Frances D. Skinner, daughter of 
the Reverend Thomas H. Skinner. They have a family of eight children: Mary F., who married 
William C. Rives; Frances L. ; Ethel L., who married the late Le Roy King; Frederick William 
Rhinelander, Jr., who was graduated from Harvard in 1882; Alice K. ; Helen L., who married the 
Reverend Lewis Cameron; Thomas Newbold, Harvard, 1887, who married Katharine Blake, of 
Toronto, Canada, and Philip M. Rhinelander, who was graduated from Harvard in 1891. Mr. 
Rhinelander belongs to the Knickerbocker, City and Southside Sportmen's clubs, the Downtown 
Association, the Mendelssohn Glee Club, and the American Geographical Society. He is vice- 
president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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WILLIAM RHINELANDER 

PHILIP JACOB RHINELANDER was the first of the Huguenot family of that name who 
sought refuge in America from the persecutions caused by the revocation of the Edict of 
Nantes. He was born near the town of Oberwesel, on the Rhine, the district being then 
subject to France, and, arriving in New York in 1686, settled in the town of New Rochelle. He 
was living in 1737, in hale old age, and acquired considerable property in Westchester County. 

The son of the first settler, William Rhinelander, first of the name, was born in New 
Rochelle, in 17 18. He purchased and long resided in a house in Spruce Street, which is now the 
oldest Rhinelander property in New York, died in 1777, and was buried in Trinity churchyard. 
He married Magdalen Renaud, daughter of Stephen Renaud, of New Rochelle. 

William Rhinelander, second of the name, his son, was born in New York, in 1753, and 
lived until 1825. He was trustee of the family estate, and, like his ancestors and descendants, was 
an extensive landowner. In 1785, he married Mary Robert, 1755-1837, a sister of Colonel Robert, 
a line officer in the Army of the Revolution, and a descendant of Daniel Robert, a Huguenot, who 
arrived in America in 1686. She was the aunt of Christopher Rhinelander Robert, who founded 
Robert College, in Constantinople. 

William Christopher Rhinelander, 1790- 1878, was the third of the seven children of 
William and Mary Rhinelander. During the war of 1812, he served as quartermaster in Colonel 
Stevens' regiment, and was afterwards Lieutenant. He resided at 14 North Washington Square. 
In 1816, he married Mary Rogers, daughter of John Rogers and Mary Pixton, and granddaughter 
of John Rogers, who married Mary Davenport, niece of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. The children of 
William Christopher and Mary (Rogers) Rhinelander were Mary Rogers, who married Lispenard 
Stewart; Julia and Serena Rhinelander, and William Rhinelander, third of that name. 

Mr. William Rhinelander was born September 19th, 1825. In 1853, he married Matilda 
Cruger Oakley, daughter of the famous jurist, Thomas Jackson Oakley. The latter, a graduate 
of Yale, was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of New York, from 1850 to 1838, was a 
Member of Congress in 1813-15, and again in 1827-29, and Attorney-General of the State in 
1819. He was also requested to be a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, but 
declined. Judge Oakley's wife, the mother of Mrs. William Rhinelander, was Matilda Cruger, 
daughter of Henry Cruger, who was born in New York in 1739 and died in 1827. Remov- 
ing from New York to England, he became Mayor of the City of Bristol in 1781, and was 
twice a member of the British Parliament for that constituency, 1774-1784, having for his col- 
league, Edmund Burke. Returning to New York in 1790, he became a State Senator in 1792. 
Henry Cruger was the grandson of John Cruger, who came to New York prior to 1700, and was 
Mayor of the city, 1739-44, and married Maria Cuyler, daughter of Major Hendrick Cuyler, of 
Albany, who served in the French and Indian War. Mr. and Mrs. Rhinelander have two sons, 
T. J. Oakley and Philip Rhinelander. 

Thomas Jackson Oakley Rhinelander, the elder son, was born January 15th, 1858, was 
graduated from Columbia College in 1878, and from Columbia's Law School in 1880. He 
served in the Seventh Regiment, and has mainly devoted himself to the care of the family property. 
In 1894, he married Edith Cruger Sands, daughter of Charles Edwin and Letitia I. (Campbell) 
Sands, and has a son, Philip Rhinelander. Philip Rhinelander, the younger son, was born 
October 8th, 1865, and was graduated from Columbia College in 1882. In 1882, he married 
Adelaide Kip, daughter of Isaac Leonard Kip and his wife, Cornelia Brady. In 1884, the two 
brothers, T. J. Oakley and Philip Rhinelander, purchased the ancient castle of Schonberg, on the 
Rhine, near Oberwesel, overlooking the old town and in close vicinity to the lands owned by 
their ancestors. The castle is on the site of a Roman fortress, built by Caesar, the building, which 
has suffered much from the lapse of time and the wars of many centuries, having been commenced 
as far back as A. D. 951. 



JOHN LAWRENCE RIKER 

THE Rikers were originally a German family of lower Saxony, as the district surrounding 
the mouth of the Elbe was known. There they possessed the manor of Rycken, from 
which their name takes its derivation. Hans Von Rycken, the Lord of the Manor in the 
eleventh century, and his cousin Melchoir took part in the first crusade to the Holy Land in 1096, 
leading eight hundred Crusaders in the army of Walter the Penniless, who organized the first 
expedition for the recovery of Jerusalem from the infidels. The Von Rycken family in the course 
of time, became numerous in lower Saxony, Holstein and Hamburg, and its branches also spread 
to Holland, and even into Switzerland. 

During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ancestors of the American Rikers 
established themselves in the Netherlands, their home being the City of Amsterdam, Holland, where 
they were prominent and influential in the affairs of the municipality and of the Province of Holland 
for two centuries. They took part in the struggle which the people of the Low Countries instituted 
against the tyranny of Philip II. of Spain, and were zealous supporters of William the Silent, 
Prince of Orange, in the movement which established the United Provinces as a free and 
independent power. Through the vicissitudes incident to the struggle for liberty, the Riker family 
encountered reverses in their fortunes, and when the establishment of the New Netherland Colony 
invited the venturesome to a home across the ocean, representatives of the name came hither 
to found the family in this country. 

Among them were Abraham Rycken, or de Rycke, as his name was indifferently written in 
the old records of the Dutch Colony. Governor Kieft in 1638 allotted to him a large tract at the 
Wallabout, for which a patent was issued in 1640. He also engaged in business in New 
Amsterdam, his premises being on the Heeren Gracht, now Broad Street, at the corner of Beaver 
Street. He married Grietie, daughter of Hendrick Harmensen. They appear as members of the 
first Dutch Church in the list of 1649, and their children were baptized at the church which was 
built in the early days of the Colony by the inhabitants and the Government within the walls 
of Fort Amsterdam, on the site of the present Battery. 

In 1654, Abraham Rycken received a grant of the farm at Bowery Bay, to which he 
subsequently removed. One of the last official acts of Governor Stuyvesant was to execute a 
patent to him on August 19th, 1664, for Hewlett's Island, in the East River. It appears that this 
grant was disputed by the English, as Governor Nicoll, the first English Governor, on December 
24th, 1667, confirmed the Dutch Governor's grant to Rycken, and the island has ever since been 
called Riker's Island and continued in the possession of the fami/y till 1845. It is now the property 
of the City of New York. Abraham Rycken died at his Bowery Bay residence in 1689, his will, 
which left his patent to his son, having been recorded with the Clerk of Queens County in that 
year, in Book A of the County Records. He had nine children, and to him the subject of this 
article traces his descent, as also do most of the Rikers of this State as well as those in other parts 
of the country. 

Abraham, son of the pioneer, was born at New Amsterdam in 1655 and married Grietie, 
daughter of Jan Gerrits Van Buytenhuysen and Tryntie Van Luyt, who was born in Holland. 
The second Abraham added one-third of the Tudor patent to the paternal property, and died in 
1746 at the age of ninety-one years. He left the homestead and estate to his son Andrew, 1699- 
1763, having married Jane Berrien, daughter of John Berrien and widow of Captain Dennis 
Lawrence. His children were prominent in the stirring affairs of the Revolutionary period, taking 
an active part on behalf of the patriotic cause. One of his sons, John B. Riker, was educated at 
Princeton College and became eminent as a physician in later years. During the war he was a 
staunch patriot and, joining the army of Washington, served as Surgeon of the Fourth Battalion of 
New Jersey troops, in the Continental Army, from 1777 to the surrender of Cornwallis at York- 
town. The second son, Andrew, born in 1740, was commissioned a Captain in the American 

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Army and was in the Canadian campaign of 177=;, being present at the death of General 
Montgomery in the assault on Quebec in the winter of that year. At the head of a company in 
the Second New York Continental Regiment, he afterwards participated in the campaign against 
Burgoyne's army, and was engaged at the battle of Saratoga and in other contests, and died from 
spotted fever at Valley Forge, May 7th, 1778. Ruth, daughter of Andrew and Jane (Berrien) 
Riker, married the famous patriot, Major Jonathan Lawrence, who was very active in the service 
of his country during the whole Revolutionary War, sacrificing what was considered in those 
times a very large fortune to meet the exigencies of the patriotic cause to which he was so 
earnestly devoted. 

The third son, Samuel Riker, was also a patriot but was a prisoner in the hands of the 
enemy during most of the war. When the troubles were over, he became very prominent in 
public life on Long Island and for several years held the supervisorship of the town of Newtown. 
In 1784, he was a member of the State Assembly of New York, and twice represented his district 
in the National Congress, the last time in 1807-9. He married Anna, daughter of Joseph Lawrence, 
one of the Long Island Lawrence family, in 1769, and had a family of nine children, dying in 1823. 
Several of the sons of Samuel Riker also became prominent in public life in this city and State. 
The one best remembered in the annals of New York City is probably the third son, the Honorable 
Richard Riker, who was bom in 1773 and educated under the tuition of the Reverend Dr. 
Witherspoon, the famous patriot and head of Nassau Hall, Princeton College, New Jersey. In 
1795, Richard Riker was admitted to the bar and several years later received the appointment of 
District Attorney for New York City. That position he held for several years, and in 181 5 was 
made Recorder. With occasional short intermissions, he retained his seat on the bench until 
1838. He left a record as one of the most learned and upright judges that the city ever possessed. 
His wife was the daughter of Daniel Phoenix, Treasurer of New York City, and one of a family 
of great business and civic prominence in the early part of the present century, references to 
them occurring throughout this work. 

Another son of Samuel Riker was Andrew, a shipowner, who was Captain of the privateers 
Saratoga and Yorktown during the War of 1812. The youngest of the brothers was John L. 
Riker, who was born in 1787, educated at Erasmus Hall, Long Island, and at the age of sixteen 
taken into the law office of his brother, the Recorder. He remained there five years, and then 
entered upon the practice of his profession, continuing in it for more than a half a century. He 
resided throughout his long lifetime upon the paternal estate at Newtown, and married successively 
two daughters of Sylvanus Smith, of North Hempstead, Long Island, who for many years was 
Supervisor of Queens County. He was the lineal descendant of James Smith, a follower of the 
Reverend Richard Denton, who came to Massachusetts from England with Governor John 
Winthrop, settling at first at Watertown, Mass. Thence he removed successively to Wethersfield 
and Stamford, Conn., taking many of his congregation with him, James Smith being included 
among the number, the Colony finally locating at Hempstead, Long Island, the site of which 
was purchased by them from the Indians and title to it confirmed by a patent of Governor 
Kieft, dated November 16th, 1644. 

Mr. John L. Riker, who represents this distinguished New York family in the present 
generation, is the child of John L. Riker, Sr.'s, second marriage, his mother being Lavinia 
Smith. He was born at Bowery Bay, Long Island, in 1830, was educated at the Astoria Academy 
under Dr. Haskins and by private tutors, and entering upon a business career, has been a leading 
merchant in New York City for many years. In 1857, Mr. Riker married Mary Anne Jackson, their 
surviving children being John Jackson, Henry Laurens, Margaret M. Lavinia, Samuel, Mattina, 
Charles Lawrence and May J. Riker. Mr. Riker resides at 19 West Fifty-seventh Street and has a 
summer home at Seabright, N. J., where he passes a large part of the year. He is a member of 
the St. Nicholas and Holland societies, St Nicholas Club and the Sons of the Revolution, as well as 
of the Metropolitan, Union League, City, Riding, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht 
and New York Athletic clubs. 

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SIDNEY DILLON RIPLEY 

ON the paternal side, Mr. Sidney Dillon Ripley comes from several Colonial families of 
Massachusetts and Connecticut. His American ancestor was William Ripley, who, 
with his wife, two sons and two daughters, came in one of the earliest companies of 
Colonists from Hingham, Norfolk County, England, and settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1638. He 
was a native of England, and was probably born in the vicinity of Hingham. He was a 
freeman of Hingham, Mass., in 1642, and his son, John Ripley, who lived until 1684, married 
Elizabeth Hobart, daughter of the Reverend Peter Hobart, first pastor of the Church of Hingham. 
Joshua Ripley, son of John Ripley and grandson of William Ripley, the pioneer, was born in 1658 
and died in 1739. His wife was Hannah Bradford, daughter of William Bradford, Jr., Deputy 
Governor of the Plymouth Colony, and granddaughter 01 Governor William Bradford of 
Plymouth. Joshua Ripley and his wife settled first at Hingham, Mass., but moved to Norwich, 
Conn., in 1688, and in 1691 to Windham, Conn., of which place he was the first town clerk and 
treasurer, and also a justice of the peace. 

Joshua Ripley was the ancestor in the seventh generation of Mr. Sidney Dillon Ripley. The 
line of descent is through Joshua Ripley, 1688-1773, and his wife, Mary Backus; Ebenezer Ripley, 
1 729-181 1, and his wife, Mehitable Berbank; Abraham Ripley, 1761-1835, and his wife, Mary 
Leonard; Harry Ripley, 1798-1820, and his wife, Azuba Snow. Josiah Dwight Ripley, the father 
of Mr. Sidney Dillon Ripley, was born in 1841. He married Julie Dillon, eldest daughter of Sidney 
Dillon, in 1862. The parents and grandparents of Josiah Dwight Ripley were long-time residents 
of Springfield, Mass. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Sidney Dillon Ripley, after whom he is 
named, had an international reputation as one of the greatest railroad managers and capitalists of 
his day. Sidney Dillon, who was born in Northampton, Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1812, 
lived until 1892. He came of Revolutionary stock, his maternal grandfather having been a soldier 
in the Continental Army of 1776. His father was a prosperous farmer of Central New York, and 
gave his son a good education. When young in years, he made his first connection with the 
railroad business, which was destined to be his life employment, and in which he rose to success 
surpassed by very few in his generation. He was employed upon the Mohawk & Hudson 
Railroad, and afterwards on the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad. In the course of time, he came 
to hold responsible positions in connection with the construction of the Boston & Providence, the 
Stonington, and other railroads in New England. Afterwards becoming a contractor on his own 
account, he executed much of the heavy contract work on the Troy & Schenectady, the Cheshire, 
the Vermont & Massachusetts, the Philadelphia & Erie and other roads. 

The great work of Mr. Dillon's life was, however, the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. 
With that enterprise he was conspicuously identified from its beginning, in 1865, until the work 
was completed, in 1869. Twice he was elected president of the Union Pacific Railway, and he 
was also a director of the Canada Southern, Rock Island & Pacific, Delaware, Lackawanna 
& Western, Manhattan Elevated, Wabash and other railroads, the Pacific Mail Steamship 
Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Mercantile Trust Company and many 
financial corporations. Mr. Ripley's maternal grandmother, whom Sidney Dillon married in 1841. 
was Hannah Smith. She died in 1884. Her mother was Betsy Otis, a relative of the distin- 
guished Massachusetts statesman, Harrison Gray Otis. 

Mr. Sidney Dillon Ripley was born January nth, 1863, and is the treasurer of the Equitable 
Life Assurance Society. He married, October 14th, 1885, Mary Baldwin Hyde, daughter of Henry 
B. Hyde. Mr. and Mrs. Ripley live in West Fifty-third Street, and have a country residence at 
Hempstead, Long Island. Their children are Annah D., Henry B. H., Sidney Dillon, Jr., and 
James H. Ripley. Mr. Ripley belongs to the Union, Metropolitan, Meadow Brook Hunt, West- 
minster Kennel, Lawyers', South Side Sportsmen's and Racquet clubs and the Country Club of 
Westchester County. 



GEORGE LOCKHART RIVES 

FOR two centuries the Rives family has been conspicuous in the State of Virginia as well as 
in other parts of the country, and has given many useful and distinguished men to the 
public service. The Honorable William Cabell Rives, grandfather of Mr. George L. Rives, 
was born in 1793 and died in 1868. He was educated in Hampden-Sidney, and William and Mary 
colleges, and studied law under Thomas Jefferson. In 1814, he was an aide-de-camp on the staff 
of General J. H. Cocke, of Virginia. He had a long and interesting public career, being one of 
the leading men of his time in Virginia. He was a member of the House of Delegates, 1817-19, 
and again, 1822-23, a Presidential elector in 1821, a member of the National House of Representa- 
tives, 1823-29, United States Senator from Virginia, 1832-45, and United States Minister to France, 
1829-32, and again, 1849-53. The mother of William Cabell Rives was descended from Dr. 
William Cabell, a surgeon in the British Navy, who came to Virginia and settled in 1725. 

The grandmother of Mr. George Lockhart Rives, whom his grandfather married in 1819, was 
Judith Page Walker, who was born in 1802 and died in 1882. She was the daughter of the 
Honorable Francis Walker, of Albermarle County, Va., who was a member of the National House 
of Representatives in 1793. Her mother was Jane Byrd Nelson, daughter of Colonel Hugh Nelson, 
of Yorktown, Va., and his wife, Judith Page. Hugh Nelson was a son of William Nelson and 
Judith Page was a daughter of John Page and of Jane Byrd, whose father was Colonel William 
Byrd, of Westover. William Cabell Rives, Jr., 1825-1890, the second son of the Honorable 
William Cabell Rives, married Grace Winthrop Sears, of Boston, and their sons are Dr. William C. 
Rives and Arthur L. Rives, of New York. Alfred Landon Rives, the third son of this family, was a 
distinguished civil engineer in Virginia, and the father of Amelie Louise Rives, the authoress. 
Amelie Louise Rives, the only daughter of the Honorable William Cabell Rives, married Henry 
Sigourney, of Boston. She, with her husband and three children, were lost on the ship, Ville du 
Havre, in 1873, leaving one surviving son, Henry Sigourney, Jr. 

Francis Robert Rives, the father of Mr. George Lockhart Rives, and the eldest son of the Honor- 
able William Cabell Rives, was born in 1822. Graduated from the University of Virginia, in 1841, 
he was secretary of the United States Legation in London, 1842-45. Afterwards he removed to New 
York, and practiced law, and was prominent in the professional and social activities of this city. 
He was the first president of the Southern Society, and a member of many of the leading clubs. 
In 1845 he married Matilda Antonia Barclay, daughter of George Barclay, of the celebrated New 
York family of that name. On his mother's side, Mr. George L. Rives is descended in the seven- 
teenth generation from King James, of Scotland, through his daughter, the Princess Jane Stuart, 
and her second husband, James Douglas, Earl of Morton. The pedigree includes the Lords Livings- 
ton and the Earls of Eglington, down to Alexander, the ninth Earl of Eglington, whose daughter, 
Lady Euphemia Montgomery, married George Lockhart, son of Sir George Lockhart. Their grand- 
son, General Sir James Lockhart-Wishart, married Annabella Crawford, of Glasgow, and his grand- 
daughter, Louise Ann Matilda Aufrere, became the wife of George Barclay, 1790- 1869, and the 
mother of Matilda Antonia Barclay, who married Francis R. Rives. The Barclay family, to which 
George Barclay belonged, has been fully treated on other pages of this volume. 

Mr. George Lockhart Rives, the eldest son of Francis R. Rives, was born in 1849, was 
graduated from Columbia College, and holds a foremost place at the New York bar, being a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Olin & Rives. Taking a deep interest in public affairs, although not active 
in politics, he was the First Assistant Secretary of State under Thomas F. Bayard during the first 
Cleveland administration, is a member of the Rapid Transit Commission, and has also been active 
in movements for the promotion of municipal good government. His first wife was Clara Morris 
Kean, daughter of Colonel John Kean, of Elizabeth, N.J. She died in 1887, and he afterwards 
married Sarah Whiting. He belongs to the Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, Century, Fencers, Players and 
other clubs. An enthusiastic yachtsman, he is a member of the New York and other yacht clubs- 

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FRANK TRACY ROBINSON 

FULLY seven centuries the pedigree of the Robinson family goes back in unbroken line. 
The head of the family then was John Robinson, of Donnington, Lincolnshire, England, 
who married a daughter cf Thomas Paule. In a later generation Nicholas Robinson, 
a direct descendant from the original John Robinson, was the first Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire, 
in 1545. The Reverend John Robinson, who was born in 157s, a grandson of Nicholas Robinson, 
was one of the leaders of the Puritan movement that culminated in the settlement of the Plymouth 
Colony in New England. He led one of the companies of Puritans to Amsterdam, Holland, in 
1608, afterwards removed to Leyden, and was active in promoting emigration across the Atlantic 
in the Mayflower. He did not come to this country, but died in Leyden in 1625. 

Isaac Robinson, son of the Reverend John Robinson, came to Plymouth in 1630 and lived in 
Falmouth, Tisbury, Barnstable and Duxbury. In successive generations the line of descent from 
this John Robinson to Mr. Frank Tracy Robinson was through Peter Robinson, 1665- 1740, and his 
wife, Experience Manton; Peter Robinson, 1697-1785, and his wife, Ruth Fuller, daughter of 
Samuel and Elizabeth (Thatcher) Fuller; Jacob Robinson, born in 1734, and his wife, Anna Tracy; 
Vine Robinson, born in 1767, and his wife, Dorcas Chapman, daughter of Elijah and Sarah 
(Steele) Chapman, and Francis Robinson, 18 14-1885, and his wife, Anna La Tourette De Groot. 

The mother of Mr. Frank Tracy Robinson, Anna La Tourette De Groot, was a daughter of 
Henry La Tourette De Groot, 1789-1835, and Mary Nesbitt, daughter of Thomas and Mary 
(Stanbury) Nesbitt, and granddaughter of John and Mary Nesbitt, of Ireland. On the paternal side 
Anna La Tourette De Groot was descended from Jacob De Groot, who was one of the early Dutch 
settlers of Bound Brook, N. J. William De Groot, 1751-1840, was the grandfather of Anna La 
Tourette De Groot. His wife was Anna La Tourette, daughter of Henry and Sarah La Tourette, 
and granddaughter of Jean and Marie (Mersereau) La Tourette. The De Groots were an ancient 
Norman family, long settled at Goudere, on the River Yessel, in South Holland. William De Groot, 
the great-grandfather of Mr. Robinson, was born in New Jersey in 1751 and died in 1840. He was 
Sergeant, Ensign and Lieutenant in the First Middlesex County Regiment of New Jersey. 

Other notable Colonial families unite in the ancestry of Mr. Robinson. His paternal grand- 
mother, Dorcas Chapman, was descended from Edward Chapman, who settled in Windsor, 
Conn., where he was a freeman in 1667. The grandfather of Dorcas Chapman was Lieutenant 
Samuel Chapman, justice of the peace, Captain of the First militia company in Tolland, Conn., 
and a participant in the siege of Louisburg. Her father, Elijah Chapman, of Tolland, was several 
times a representative to the General Assembly. Ruth Fuller, who married Peter Robinson, was 
descended from Edward and Ann Fuller, who came on the Mayflower in 1620. She was the 
great-granddaughter of Matthew Fuller, 1610-1678, one of the leading men of the Plymouth 
Colony, a physician, Captain and surgeon in the militia and representative to the General Court. 
Anna Tracy, who married Jacob Robinson, was the great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Tracy, 
a prominent citizen of the Connecticut Colony, a resident of Saybrook, Wethersfield and Norwich, 
a delegate to the General Assembly and an officer in the militia forces. Her grandfather, Jonathan 
Tracy, was one of the original settlers of Preston, Conn., a Lieutenant, selectman and deputy 
to the Legislature. 

Mr. Frank Tracy Robinson was born in Brooklyn in 1847, and has been engaged in 
mercantile life in New York for nearly thirty years. He married Ida May Frost in 1873. His city 
residence is in Madison Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson have had three sons, Charles L. F. 
Blanchard, who died young, and Henry La Tourette Robinson. Mr. Robinson belongs to the 
Manhattan, Racquet, Players, New York Yacht, New York, Larchmont Yacht and other clubs, and 
is a member of the New England Society and the Sons of the American Revolution. His son, 
Charles L. F. Robinson, graduated from Yale University in 1894, and married Elizabeth H, J. 
Beach. He is a member of the Riding, A <t> and New York Yacht clubs. 

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WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER 

PROMINENT in this generation's industrial progress, the Messrs. Rockefeller are the children of 
William A. and Eliza (Davison) Rockefeller, of Tioga County, N. Y. There Mr. William 
Rockefeller, second son of his father's family, was born in 1841. He received his early 
education in the Academy at Owego, N. Y., and finished his studies in the local schools of Cleve- 
land, O., whither his father moved when he was about ten years of age. In the year 1858, Mr. 
Rockefeller began his business career by taking a- position as a bookkeeper in an office in Cleveland, 
where he remained about two years. He then entered the firm of Hughes & Lester in the same 
capacity, and, when its senior member retired from business in 1862, he became a junior partner 
in the firm of Hughes & Rockefeller in the produce commission business. It was in this partner- 
ship that Mr. Rockefeller gained the first substantial success of his business life, and prepared 
the way for his subsequent achievements in that field. 

John D. Rockefeller, the elder brother of Mr. William Rockefeller, born in 1839, was the first 
to enter the oil business, with which the Rockefeller name has been identified for more than a third 
of a century. Educated in the public schools of Cleveland, O., he became a clerk in a business 
house at the age of sixteen, then was cashier and bookkeeper, and at the age of nineteen became 
the junior partner of the firm of Clark & Rockefeller. In i860, his firm engaged in the oil refining 
business under the name of Andrews, Clark & Co., and in 1865 he and Samuel Andrews became 
the sole proprietors of the enterprise. In 1865, Mr. William Rockefeller became associated with 
his brother's establishment, and the new firm, known as William Rockefeller & Co., built the 
Standard Oil Works in Cleveland. In the same year, Mr. William Rockefeller came to New York 
and established the firm of Rockefeller & Co., which was to represent their growing interests in 
the metropolitan and foreign markets. This arrangement continued for two years when, in 1867, 
the further expansion of their business compelled a dissolution of the three firms, which up to that 
time had conducted it, and a consolidation of the interests of the partners in the single concern of 
Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, Henry M. Flagler coming in as a new partner. In 1870, the 
Standard Oil Company, of Ohio, was incorporated with John D. Rockefeller as president, and 
Mr. William Rockefeller as vice-president. 

Other refineries were added to the control of the company, and in 1881 the business had 
reached such enormous proportions that the Standard Oil Trust was organized, and at the same 
time the Standard Oil Company, of New York. Mr. William Rockefeller was elected vice-president 
of the Trust and president of the New York company. In 1892, the Trust was dissolved, and since 
that time the Messrs. Rockefeller and their associates have managed the business through the 
independent action of the corporations in which they have large interests as stockholders. Com- 
panies with which they are connected control the larger portion of the trade in petroleum and 
its products in the United States, and, through a large export trade, exercise a very great 
influence upon the business in all parts of the world. 

Mr. William Rockefeller has been a resident of New York for more than thirty years. He 
was married in 1864, at Fairfield, Conn., to Almira Geraldine Goodsell, and has four children living: 
Emma, who married Dr. D. Hunter McAlpin, Jr.; William G., who married Elsie Stillman; 
Percy Avery, and Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller. In 1875, he built and has since occupied the house 
at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fourth Street. His country seat is an estate on the banks 
of the Hudson, near Tarrytown, which he purchased a few years ago and which he has improved 
by laying out extensive grounds. Mr. Rockefeller is a director in the Consolidated Gas Company, 
the United States Trust Company, the National City Bank, the Hanover National Bank, the 
Leather Manufacturers' National Bank, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the 
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, 
and is connected with many other corporations. He is a member of the Union League, Metro- 
politan, and Riding clubs. 

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HENRY PENDLETON ROGERS 

ALTHOUGH the Rogers families of Connecticut and of New York existed independently in 
the early Colonial days, they came from one parent stock. The American ancestor was 
settled originally in Connecticut. James Rogers came over on the ship Increase, in 1635, 
when he was twenty years of age. He married Elizabeth Rowland, daughter of Samuel Rowland, 
of Stratford, Conn., and lived in Stratford, Milford and New London. For twenty years, he was 
a near neighbor and a personal friend of Governor John Winthrop, and was one of the mainstays 
of the Colony. He died in 1687, at the age of seventy-two, leaving a family of five sons and 
two daughters. James Rogers, son of James Rogers, the pioneer, was born in 1652. He was a 
ship-master, and on one of his voyages from Europe, brought over a company of Redemptionists, 
among whom was Mary Jordan, daughter of Jeffery Jordan, who afterwards became his wife. 
James Rogers, of the third generation, who was born in 1675 and died in 1733, was the father 
of three sons, who are particularly interesting in this connection. The eldest son, James, was 
the head of that branch of the family which has been conspicuous upon Long Island for one 
hundred and fifty years. The other sons, Dr. Uriah Rogers and Samuel Rogers, were prominent 
in the Connecticut Colony. 

Samuel Rogers, the ancestor of Mr. Henry Pendleton Rogers, was born in Norwalk, Conn., 
in 1712. Early in life, he was the secretary of Governor Thomas Fitch, of the Connecticut Colony. 
His wife, whom he married about 1748, was Elizabeth Fitch, a near relative of Governor Thomas 
Fitch and of illustrious ancestry. Governor Fitch was a graduate of Yale College, in 1721, and 
for forty-six years consecutively was Judge, Chief Justice, Lieutenant-Governor, or Governor of 
the Colony. He was in the third generation from Thomas Fitch, who settled in Norwalk in 1639, 
and who was descended from Sir Thomas Fitch, Baronet, of England. Moses Rogers, son of 
Samuel Rogers and Elizabeth Fitch, was born about 1750. His wife was Sarah Woolsey, daughter 
of Benjamin Woolsey, Jr., of Dosoris, Long Island, and Esther Isaacs, of Norwalk, Conn. He 
was a merchant of New York City, a director of the United States Bank, an active member of the 
Society for the Manumission of Slaves, a director of the Mutual Insurance Company, treasurer 
of the City Dispensary, a vestryman of Trinity Church, one of the founders of Grace Church and 
a governor of New York Hospital, 1792-99. 

Archibald Rogers, 1793-1850, son of Moses and Sarah (Woolsey) Rogers, was the grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch. His wife was Anna Pierce Pendleton, daughter of Judge 
Nathaniel Pendleton and his wife, Susan Bard. Judge Pendleton lived at Placentia, Hyde Park, 
N. Y., and was an intimate friend of Alexander Hamilton, being Hamilton's second in the duel 
with Aaron Burr. His wife was a daughter of the famous Dr. John Bard, of New York, of 
Huguenot descent. 

The children of Archibald Rogers were: Nathaniel Pendleton, Julia Ann, Archibald, who 
died in 1831, Edmund Pendleton, Philip Clayton, Archibald, who died in 1836, and Susan 
Bard Rogers, who became the wife of Herman Thorne Livingston. Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers, 
the eldest son of this family, was born in 1822. He was a lawyer, and resided many years in 
New York, but afterwards had his residence at Placentia, Hyde Park. His wife, whom he married 
in 1849, was Emily Moulton. 

Mr. Henry Pendleton Rogers is the eldest son of Nathaniel Pendleton Rogers and the 
head of the family in the fifth generation from its American founder. He was born in 1850, and is 
a lawyer. He married Mary Shillito, of Cincinnati, O. His sisters are: Anna Pendleton Rogers, 
who married Charles B. Fuller, of New York, and Elizabeth M. Rogers. His brother, Nathaniel 
P. Rogers, married Catharine Wotherspoon, of New York, and he has one other brother, J. Bard 
Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers live in West Forty-ninth Street. They have two sons, John Shillito 
and Henry Pendleton Rogers, Jr., and one daughter. Mr. Rogers belongs to the Metropolitan, 
Knickerbocker, Church, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht and Hudson River Ice Yacht clubs. 

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JAMES ALFRED ROOSEVELT 

FEW families have borne a more conspicuous part in business, social and public affairs in 
New York, than the Roosevelts. They are sprung from Claes Martinsen Van Roosevelt, 
who, with his wife, Jannetje Thomas, came from Holland to New Amsterdam. From 
him, the line comes down to contemporaneous times through Nicholas Van Roosevelt and his wife, 
Hillotje Jans ; Johannes Van Roosevelt and his wife, Hyltie Syverts ; Jacobus Roosevelt and his 
wife, Annatje Bogaert ; Jacobus I. or James Roosevelt and his wife, Mary Van Schaick, and 
Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt and his wife, Margaret Barnhill. 

Jacobus I. Roosevelt was a commissary to the Continental Army during the war of the 
Revolution. Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt was a successful business man, and one of the founders 
of the Chemical Bank. His wife, Margaret Barnhill, was the daughter of Robert Barnhill and 
Elizabeth Potts. Their children were: Silas Weir Roosevelt, the eminent lawyer; James 

A. Roosevelt, Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt, Jr., who died in 1887 at the age of 60; Robert B. 
Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and William W. Roosevelt, who died young. 

Mr. James Alfred Roosevelt, the second child in his father's family, was born in New York, 
June 13th, 1825. When he was twenty years of age, he became a member of his father's firm. 
In 1878, he established the banking house of Roosevelt & Sons. He is also connected with 
many financial institutions, being a vice-president of the Chemical National Bank, a director of the 
New York Life Insurance & Trust Company, and other corporations, president of the Roosevelt 
Hospital, and a trustee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. During the first 
year of the administration of Mayor William L. Strong, he was a member of the Board of Park 
Commissioners. The wife of Mr. Roosevelt, whom he married in 1847, was Elizabeth N. Emlen, 
daughter of William F. Emlen, of Philadelphia. The children of this union were : May Roosevelt, 
Leila Roosevelt, who married Edward Reeve Merritt; Alfred, who married Catherine Lowell, of 
Boston, and died in 1892, and William Emlen Roosevelt. Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt have a city 
residence in West Fifty-seventh Street, near Fifth Avenue, and a summer home in Oyster Bay, Long 
Island. Mr. Roosevelt is a member of the Metropolitan, Riding, City and Seawanhaka-Corinthian 
Yacht clubs, the Century Association, the Downtown Association and the St. Nicholas Society. 
Emlen Roosevelt married Christine Kean, daughter of John Kean, and lives in Fifth Avenue. 

Robert Barnhill Roosevelt, the fourth son of Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt, was bom in 
1829. He was a commissioner of the Brooklyn Bridge, a Member of Congress, 1873-74, treasurer 
of the National Democratic Committee in 1892, United States minister to the Netherlands in 1893, 
and was the first president of the Holland Society. He married, in 1850, Elizabeth Ellis, daughter 
of John S. Ellis, and had four children, Margaret, John Ellis, Helen L., who died young, and Robert 

B. Roosevelt, Jr. After the death of his first wife, he married Marion T. Fortescue, widow of R. 
Francis Fortescue, and daughter of John O'Shea, of Nenagh, Ireland. 

Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest surviving son of Cornelius Van Schaick Roosevelt, was 
born in New York in 1831, and died in 1878. He was prominently identified with public 
charities, being especially interested in the Newsboys' Lodging House, which he founded, and the 
Young Men's Christian Association, and was one of the founders of the Union League Club, the 
Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Children's Aid Society. The Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, his 
eldest and only surviving son, is a graduate from Harvard College, and has devoted himself to 
literature and public life. He is known as the author of several books, including The Winning 
of the West, and is a frequent contributor to the magazines upon the political topics. He was a 
member of the Assembly of New York State, and for several years a member of the United States 
Civil Service Commission. In 1895, he became president of the Board of Police Commissioners, 
of New York, and became Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897. He belongs to the Century 
Association, and to the Union League and other clubs. He married Edith K. Carow, and has a 
New York residence in Madison Avenue. 



SAMUEL MONTGOMERY ROOSEVELT 

AMONG the first Colonists who came to New Amsterdam was Claas Martensen Van Roose- 
velt, who, with his wife, Jannetje, arrived in 1651. Mr. Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt 
is descended from him in the seventh generation through Nicholas Roosevelt, of Esopus, 
Johannes Roosevelt, of New York, Jacobus Roosevelt, of New York, Nicholas J. Roosevelt, of 
New York, and Samuel Roosevelt, of New York and Staten Island. Nicholas J. Roosevelt, 1767- 
1854, grandfather of Mr. Samuel M. Roosevelt, was a son of Jacobus Roosevelt. He was closely 
related to Nicholas Roosevelt, who was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775, a member 
of the State Senate in 1786 and president of the Bank of New York in 1786. Interested in the 
problem of steam navigation, he took out a patent for a steamboat before the date of Robert 
Fulton's and in subsequent litigation with Fulton, established his claim to priority, as the inventor 
of the sidewheel steamer. He was the inventor of the vertical paddle-wheel and was associated 
with Colonel Stevens and Chancellor Livingston, in all the steps that led to steam navigation 
upon the Hudson. Subsequently he introduced steam vessels on Western waters, establishing 
a shipyard in Pittsburg, and building, in 1811, the steamship New Orleans, the pioneer steamboat 
on the Mississippi River. He took it from Pittsburg to New Orleans in person, making the 
voyage in fourteen days, with his family. He also surveyed the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. His 
country house was Claremont, which is now in Riverside Park, near the Grant Monument. 

The grandmother of Mr. Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt was Lydia M. Latrobe, who 
married Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1808. She was descended from Henry Boneval de la Trobe, a 
Huguenot refugee in the service of William, Prince of Orange, who was wounded at the battle of 
the Boyne. The father of Mrs. Roosevelt was Benjamin Henry Latrobe, who was born in England 
in 1764, studied in Germany in 1785, and was an officer in the Prussian Army, and died in New 
Orleans in 1820. Coming to this country in the latter years of the century, he attained reputa- 
tion as an engineer and architect, being the architect of the Capitol in Washington. He planned 
the Philadelphia water system in 1800, was the architect of the Cathedral in Baltimore and designed 
many buildings and public works, among them the James River and Appomattox Canal. 

Samuel Roosevelt, the son of Nicholas J. and Lydia M. (Latrobe) Roosevelt, and father of 
the subject of this sketch, was born in New York in 1813 and died in New Brighton, Staten Island, 
in 1878. He was a prominent business man and had large interests in the South previous to the 
Civil War. He married Mary Jane Horton, daughter of Stephen Horton, of Skaneateles, N. Y., who 
was related to the Bellamy, Beach, Van Dycke, Grosvenor and other New York families. 

Mr. Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt was born in New York, February 20th, 1858. He was 
educated in New York and Paris, and studied painting under Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul 
Laurant. He is an accomplished artist, his work having been frequently exhibited, and he is a 
member of the Art Students' League. In recent years, however, he has engaged in business 
pursuits. In 1885, he married Augusta E. Shoemaker, of Baltimore, who, on her father's side, 
is descended from Edward Shoemaker, twice Mayor of Philadelphia, and on her mother's from 
J. B. Eccleston, Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. They reside in Fifth Avenue and 
have a summer home at Skaneateles Lake. Mr. Roosevelt is a member of the Chamber of Com- 
merce and belongs to the Tuxedo, City, Knickerbocker, Manhattan, Fencers' and Larchmont Yacht 
clubs, the New York Historical Society and the Holland Society. A brother of Mr. Roosevelt was 
Nicholas Latrobe Roosevelt, who graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868 and 
saw naval service in Corea, being mentioned in dispatches to Congress for gallantry in action. 
He attained to the rank of Lieutenant in 1873, resigned in 1874, and died in 1892, He married 
Eleanor Dean, daughter of Joseph A. Dean and granddaughter of Judge Francis S. Lathrop, of 
New Jersey; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. The elder of his two sons, Henry 
Latrobe Roosevelt, is a cadet at Annapolis. His daughter, Louisa Dean Roosevelt, married, in 
1897, Ensign Arthur Bainbridge Hoff, U. S. N., grandson of Commodore Bainbridge. 

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WILLIAM HAMILTON RUSSELL 

ON both sides, the ancestry of this gentleman is of Scotch nationality, though in the 
maternal line the families represented are among the oldest and most distinguished in the 
records of New York's Colonial days. Mr. Russell's grandfather was James Russell, of 
Edinburgh, Scotland, a noted scientist, president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cousin of 
the metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, and of Lord Sinclair. He was a member of the branch of 
the family whose estates are Kings Seat and Slipperfield (see Burke's Peerage), and which is 
related to many noble and prominent houses in Scotland. 

The late Archibald Russell, Mr. William H. Russell's father, was born in Edinburgh, in 1 8 1 1. 
Through his mother, he was descended from the Rutherfurds, of Edgarston, and one of his maternal 
ancestors was Eleanor Elliott, of the family of the Earls of Minto, whose descent from James II., of 
Scotland, is unbroken, and who are connected with the Dukes of Buccleugh and the Earls of Angus. 
Archibald Russell was graduated from Edinburgh University, completed his education at the 
University of Bonn, Germany, and studied law under the celebrated advocate, Fraser-Tytler. In 
1836, he came to New York and thenceforth made it his residence, marrying a lady of one of the 
foremost New York families, and devoting his energies and no small part of his wealth to the 
cause of education and philanthropy. He was identified with many institutions and societies, but 
was especially prominent in a most useful educational and reformatory undertaking, the Five Points 
House of Industry, which was mainly his creation and of which he was the president for seventeen 
years. An inscription upon the tablet erected to his memory by the trustees of the charity with 
which he had been so long connected rightly says, "This institution is his monument." During 
the Civil War, he was one of the active members of the Christian Commission, and afterwards was 
chairman of the Famine Relief Committee, which effected much good in the desolated South. He 
was one of the organizers of the American Geographical Society, and was an active member and 
an officer of the New York Historical Society. His country seat was in Ulster County, and he 
founded and was long the president of the Ulster County Savings Institution. He died in New 
York City in 1871. 

His wife, mother of the present Mr. Russell, was Helen Rutherfurd Watts, daughter of Dr. 
John Watts and his wife, Anna Rutherfurd. Dr. John Watts, though he died at forty, was very 
prominent in his profession, having been the first president of the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons of New York, and a founder of the New York Hospital. He was the son of Robert 
Watts and Lady Mary Alexander, daughter of Major-General Lord Stirling. His grandfather was 
the Honorable John Watts, of Rose Hill, and of the Kings Council in New York, who married Ann 
DeLancey. One of their daughters married the twelfth Earl of Cassilis and Marquis of Ailsa, and 
another married Sir John Johnson, of Johnson's Hall, who was distinguished in this country during 
the Revolution. Anna Rutherfurd, the grandmother of Mr. William Hamilton Russell, was the 
daughter of John Rutherfurd and Helena, daughter of Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. John Rutherfurd was a United States Senator from New Jersey, a lawyer of 
eminence and one of the first regents of Columbia College. His father, Walter Rutherfurd, an 
officer of the British Army, was a son of Sir John Rutherfurd, of Edgarston, Roxburghshire, Scotland. 

Mr. William Hamilton Russell was born in New York City in 1856 and was graduated from 
Columbia College in 1878. He adopted architecture as his profession and is a member of the firm 
of Clinton & Russell, who have designed many important buildings in this city, among the number 
being the Exchange Court, Hudson, Franklin and Woodbridge buildings, as well as the one at 
Thirty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. 

Mr. Russell is a member of many societies and clubs, including the American Institute of 
Architects and the Architectural League, the University, Knickerbocker, Players, and Metropolitan 
clubs. In 1893, Mr. Russell married Florence Lucretia Sands, of the English family of that name. 
Mr. and Mrs. Russell have one son, William Hamilton Russell, Jr. 

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JOHN ALEXANDER RUTHERFURD 

HISTORY records that the Rutherfurds were once powerful on the Scottish border. The 
name first appears when Robertus de Ruddyefurde witnessed a charter from David I. to 
Gervasius de Rydel, in 1140. Edgerstone was the seat of the family from which the 
American branch is descended. In 1492, lands were granted to James Rutherfurd, by King James 
IV. The Rutherfurd arms are : Argent, an orle gules and in chief three martlets sable. The orle 
was assumed in remembrance of the family having defended the Scottish border, while the 
martlets commemorate the fact that some of its representatives had served in military expeditions 
to the Holy Land. In the eleventh generation from James Rutherfurd, Walter Rutherfurd, the 
sixth son of Sir John Rutherfurd, entered the navy at the age of fifteen. At one time his father 
had eighteen sons and grandsons in the army and navy. Walter Rutherfurd served in the navy 
until 1746, and then became an officer in the Royal Scots, and was paymaster in the campaigns in 
Flanders and Germany. In 1756, the French and Indian War brought him to this country. He 
was Judge Advocate and Major, and retired from the army in 1760. Walter Rutherfurd became a 
large land proprietor, receiving in 1775 a patent for five thousand acres, in consideration of his 
military services. He also acquired large landed property through his wife, Catharine Alexander, 
great-granddaughter of the Earl of Sterling. During the Revolution, he retired to his estate in 
New Jersey, but after peace had been declared returned to New York. He was interested in 
many public movements of his time, being president of the Agricultural Society, a founder of 
the Society Library, and president of the St. Andrews Society. 

The Honorable John Rutherfurd, his son, 1760-1840, graduated from Princeton College, in 
1779. Soon after he settled at Allamuchy, Warren County, N. J., and engaged in the care of his 
father's landed estates in Northern New Jersey. He became a member of the New Jersey 
Legislature, in 1788, and in 1790 he was elected to the United States Senate, and reelected to the 
same position in 1796. Two years later he resigned his office and moved to near Trenton, and 
afterwards to an estate on the Passaic. In 1807, he was, with Gouverneur Morris and Simeon De 
Witt, a member of the commission to lay out the City of New York above Fourteenth Street. 

The grandfather of Mr. John Alexander Rutherfurd was Robert Walter Rutherfurd, the 
eldest son of John Rutherfurd. He was born at the family homestead, Tranquility, in New Jersey, 
in 1788, and graduated at Princeton College, in 1806. He was a member of the New Jersey 
Assembly, 1812-13-15, a member of the State Council, 1819-20, and was one of the prominent 
men in his section. His wife was his cousin, Sabinia Morris, daughter of Colonel Lewis Morris. 

Mr. John A. Rutherfurd's father was Walter Rutherfurd, the second son of Robert Walter 
Rutherfurd. He was born in 1812, and was a prominent lawyer in New York, having graduated 
from Rutgers College, in 1831, and studied law with Peter A. Jay. His wife, whom he married in 
1846, was Isabella Brooks. Her father, David Brooks, served in the Revolutionary War, and was 
an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, while her grandfather, Daniel Niel, was killed 
at the Battle of Princeton, where he was serving as aide to General Hugh Mercer. Her mother, 
Frances Morris, was the daughter of William Walton Morris, who served in the Revolution as aide 
to General Wayne, and was third son of Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration of 
Independence. 

Mr. John Alexander Rutherfurd is the eldest son of Walter Rutherfurd, and was born in 
Edgerston, N. J., March 2d, 1848. He graduated at Rutgers College, and is a stock broker and 
member of the New York Stock Exchange. He is interested in Southern railway and industrial 
development, and has been vice-president of the Richmond & Danville Railroad, and of the 
Richmond & West Point Terminal Company. He is now a director of the Sloss Iron & Steel 
Company, of Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Rutherfurd resides at 46 East Sixty-fourth Street, and is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Players, Manhattan, and other clubs, the Society of the Cincinnati, 
and the Sons of the Revolution. 

485 



AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS 

BY common consent Mr. Augustus Saint-Gaudens stands at the head of American sculptors. 
His achievements have not only won him reputation at home and abroad, but they have 
made him a compeer with the greatest sculptors of the world in the present generation 
and have established in the United States a new school of sculpture far in advance of, and differen- 
tiated from anything that has preceded it. 

Mr. Saint-Gaudens is a native of Ireland. He was born in Dublin in 1848. His father, 
Barney Saint-Gaudens, was a Frenchman, who settled in Dublin, in the early part of the present 
century. His mother, Mary McGuinness, came from an old Irish family. When the son was but 
six month old, his parents emigrated to this country, and he may therefore fairly claim to be a 
thorough American, even though his birth occurred in Ireland. He early manifested the artistic 
talent which has developed him into the great master of sculpture of his generation, and when he 
was thirteen years of age, was sent to the Cooper Union, to study drawing. Four years after he 
was a student in the Art School of the National Academy of Design. While he was pursuing 
his studies he learned the trade of cameo cutting, and was a remarkably skilful workman. When 
he was nineteen years of age, he went abroad to study, primarily, with the intention of perfecting 
himself in cameo cutting, but once in Europe, he made up his mind to undertake the study of 
sculpture, and with that end in view, entered the atelier of Jouffroy, at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. 
He still continued to work at cameo cutting, but made rapid progress in sculpture until 1870, when 
the breaking out of the Franco-Prussian war sent him to Rome, where he opened a studio, and in 
1 87 1 produced his first figure, Hiawatha. This work was the turning point in his career, for it 
attracted the attention of connoisseurs, and gained him several commissions, including a bust of 
the Honorable William M. Evarts. 

In 1872, Mr. Saint-Gaudens returned to New York. His bust of Mr. Evarts secured him 
patronage, on the strength of which he again returned to Rome, remaining there several years. 
Coming back to New York, he was selected to model a statue of Admiral David Farragut, and 
soon after received a commission for a statue of Captain Robert R. Randall, founder of the 
Sailors' Snug Harbor, on Staten Island. His cast of the Farragut statue was exhibited in Paris in 
1880, and was received with enthusiasm by the greatest artists and critics of the French capital. 
When it was set up in Madison Square, it gained him additional fame and established him at the 
head of a school of American sculptors, that he has held unchallenged ever since. 

Other great works of Mr. Saint-Gaudens, are the statues of Lincoln, an heroic bronze, that 
stands in Jackson Park, Chicago; the Puritan, a statue of Deacon Samuel Chapin, that stands in a 
public square in Springfield, Mass.; the John A. Logan statue in Chicago, one of the masterpieces 
of sculpture of this generation; and the bas-relief memorial to Colonel Robert G. Shaw, of Boston, 
that was erected upon Boston Common, opposite the State House, in 1897. He modeled the 
reredos for St. Thomas' Church, New York, the caryatids for the Cornelius Vanderbilt house, 
assisted in the sculpture work for the decoration of Trinity Church, Boston, made the Peter Cooper 
statue, that stands in the triangle in front of the Cooper Union, New York, and has modeled busts 
and bas-reliefs of Robert Louis Stevenson, President Theodore D. Woolsey, of Yale College, 
General William T. Sherman, and other prominent persons. His bas-relief of the Reverend Dr. 
Henry W. Bellows is regarded as the most important work of its kind ever produced in this 
country. 

In 1876, Mr. Saint-Gaudens married Augusta Homer, of Boston, who comes of an old New 
England family. He has one son, Homer Saint-Gaudens. His studio is in West Thirty-sixth 
Street. He is a member of the Metropolitan, City, Players and Riding clubs, the Century Associa- 
tion, the National Sculpture Society, and the Architectural League, and is numbered among the 
supporters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Academy of Design. He has also 
been president of the Society of American Artists, which he was instrumental in founding. 



HENRY WOODWARD SACKETT 

ONE of the youngest officers in the Revolutionary Army of 1776 was Major Buel Sackett, 
of an old Rhode Island family. He performed notable service during the war and was 
in command of a detachment on duty at the execution of Major Andre. He was a 
native of Litchfield, Conn., born in 1763, his immediate ancestors having removed from Rhode 
Island to the former State. After the close of the Revolutionary War he settled in Lebanon, N. Y. 
Twice married, his first wife was Sally C. Beach, his second being Lydia Buel. He was the 
paternal great-grandfather of Mr. Henry Woodward Sackett. The founder of the Sackett family in 
America was John Sackett, who, in 1631, came from the Isle of Ely, England, to Massachusetts and 
settled in Cambridge. He was of Norman ancestry, his progenitors having come to England with 
William the Conqueror. The descendants of John Sackett went from Cambridge to Worcester, 
Mass., among its early settlers and thence to Rhode Island and Connecticut. 

The father of Mr. Sackett, Dr. Solon P. Sackett, was born in Nassau, Rensselaer County, N. Y., 
and died in Ithaca in 1893. He was educated for the medical profession, being graduated from 
the Geneva Medical College in 1843. For many years he was a prominent physician of Ithaca, and 
secretary of the County Medical Society. His father was a Captain in the War of 1812 and married 
Lovedy K. Woodward, daughter of Charles Woodward, an English gentleman, who purchased a 
large tract 01 land between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes in Central New York, in the early part of the 
century, and settled there. He was devoted to the study of natural history, and at the time of his 
death owned one of the finest private ornithological and conchological collections in the country. 
His grandfather was Benjamin Woodward, who resided in the west of England and was a famous 
naturalist. 

Mr. Henry Woodward Sackett was born in Enfield, N. Y., August 31st, 1853, and was pre- 
pared for college in the Ithaca Academy, then under the direction of Professor Samuel G. Williams. 
Admitted to Cornell University, when fifteen years of age, he spent one year in teaching before 
entering upon his college course. He was graduated from Cornell in the classical course in 1875, 
with the degree of A. B. He attained the highest rank in mathematics, was a$BK man, class 
essayist at graduation and for two terms president of the leading literary society in the college. 
After graduation, he taught Latin and Greek for a year in the Monticello Military Academy, and 
then came to New York and entered the Law School of Columbia University. Shortly afterwards 
he began to report law cases for The New York Tribune, thus supplementing his legal studies with 
the observation of procedure in court, until he was admitted to the bar in 1879 and entered upon 
practice in the office of Cornelius A. Runkle. He finally became associated in practice with Mr. 
Runkle, and upon the death of the latter, in 1888, succeeded him as counsel for The Tribune. He 
then formed a partnership with Charles Gibson Bennett, under the name of Sackett & Bennett, 
which continued for six years, when Mr. Bennett was succeeded by William A. McQuaid, the firm 
name becoming Sackett & McQuaid. In October, 1897, Selden Bacon became a member of the 
firm, which has since continued under the name of Sackett, Bacon & McQuaid. For many years 
Mr. Sackett wrote the editorials upon legal subjects in The Tribune, and in 1884 prepared a work 
on the law of libel, especially in relation to newspapers. 

In 1886, Mr. Sackett married Elizabeth Titus, daughter of Edmund Titus, of Brooklyn, one 
of the incorporators of the New York Produce Exchange. The family residence is in West Fifty- 
seventh street and their summer home is at Mamaroneck. Mr. Sackett was president of the Cornell 
University Club in 1896 and 1897, is a member of the $BK Alumni Association and belongs also 
to the University, City and Hardware clubs, the Bar Association, the American Geographical 
Society, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, of which he was one of the organizers, and many 
other social and scientific organizations. For several years he was a non-commissioned officer 
in Squadron A, of the National Guard. In 1896, Governor Black appointed him aide-de-camp on 
his staff, with the rank of Colonel. 

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RUSSELL SAGE 

THE ancestors of Mr. Russell Sage were of Connecticut extraction. The family on both sides 
had been well established in that State from the earliest pre-Revolutionary period, but 
when the West began to attract the people of New England, among those who started for 
the new region were Elisha Sage and his wife, Prudence Risley. They proceeded, however, no 
further than Central New York, and settled in the township of Verona, Oneida County, in 1816, 
and afterwards in Durhamville, where Elisha Sage died in 1854, having become one of the 
substantial citizens in that section. 

Mr. Russell Sage, his son, was born in Verona in 1816. He was educated in the schools of 
his native place. At an early age, he began life in the store of his brother in Troy, N. Y. When 
he had reached the age of twenty-one, he had accumulated capital of his own and went into 
business as a partner with another brother. After a few years, he became sole proprietor of the 
concern and in 1839, with a partner, established a wholesale store in Troy. From this it was a 
natural step to become a commission merchant with business connections with New York, and in 
the course of time the firm controlled the markets of Troy and Albany in several branches. Before 
1850, the subject of transportation began to interest Mr. Sage, and in 1852, as a member of the 
Common Council of Troy, he took a leading part in the sale of the Troy & Schenectady Railroad, 
then owned by the city, but which is now part of the New York Central system. After the panic 
of i8s7, Mr. Sage concentrated his attention upon matters of finance. He became a large owner in 
the La Crosse Railroad, now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and was a director and 
vice-president of the company. 

About the beginning of the war, in 1861, he began to operate in Wall Street, and since 1865 
has been a resident of New York, a member of the Stock Exchange and one of the most 
conspicuous figures in the metropolitan financial world. Closely associated with the late Jay 
Gould, he has been active in the management of many of the Gould properties, having a large 
personal interest in them. Probably no other living man in the country has taken a larger part in 
the development of American railroads than Mr. Sage, and he has been president of more than 
twenty-five railroad corporations. He has also been connected with telegraph enterprises and is a 
director and large owner in the Western Union Telegraph Company. At the present time he is 
connected with many corporations, as a large shareholder and as filling important official positions 
in some of the largest organizations of this character. 

In early life, Mr. Sage was deeply interested in public affairs and was prominent in New 
York State politics. While residing in Troy, in 1845, he was an alderman and afterwards treasurer 
of Rensselaer County, for seven years. In 1848, he was a delegate to the National Convention of the 
Whig party and took an active part in bringing about the nomination of General Zachary Taylor for 
the presidency. He was nominated for Congress in 1850, but he was not elected. Two years 
later, however, he was successful at the polls and in 1854 was re-elected by the overwhelming 
majority of 7,000 votes. He was active in the organization of the Republican party, but since 1857 
has taken no direct part in public affairs. 

Mr. Sage has been twice married. His first wife, whom he married in 184 1, and who died 
in 1867, was Maria Winne, daughter of Moses I. Winne, of Troy. In 1869, Mr. Sage married 
Margaret Olivia Slocum, daughter of the Honorable Joseph Slocum, of Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Sage 
is descended on the paternal side from Captain Miles Standish, of Plymouth, and on the maternal 
from Colonel Henry Pierson, of Sag Harbor, N. Y., whose name is identified with the first 
measures, about 1787, for the establishment of the public school system. Mrs. Sage is a graduate 
from the Troy Female Seminary, founded by Emma Hart Willard. One of the finest 
buildings connected with any educational institution in this country is the dormitory ot the 
Seminary, presented by Mr. and Mrs. Sage in 1895, and known as Russell Sage Hall. Mr. and 
Mrs. Sage live in Fifth Avenue, near Central Park. 

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BENJAMIN AYMAR SANDS 

SANDS POINT, Long Island, was thus called from the settlement there during the seventeenth 
century of the progenitors of what has become one of the leading New York families. The 
name, however, is one which first appears in American records on the roll of New 
England's early emigrants. James Sands, a native of Reading, Berkshire, England, came to Ply- 
mouth, Mass., in 1658, and two years later was one of the associates who bought Block Island from 
the Indians. In 1661, he moved there with his family. John Sands, his son, whose wife was 
Sibyl Ray, came, however, to Long Island, and from the establishment of his residence at that 
place, Sands Point received its name. Various members of the family have ever since been promi- 
nent in Long Island, and, naturally, soon became connected with New York both commercially 
and through marriages with the older families of this city. Their names have been identified with 
the leading interests of the metropolis, social and otherwise. 

John Sands, of Sands Point, had a son and a grandson, both called John, the latter of whom 
married Elizabeth Cornwell, and was the father of the Revolutionary patriot and merchant, Comfort 
Sands and of Richardson Sands, who was the great-grandfather of the gentleman whose ancestry 
is traced in this article. Comfort Sands was a notable figure at a stirring period in New York's 
history, for he was one of those men of wealth and influence who, at the beginning of the 
Revolution, did not hesitate to risk their lives and fortunes in the cause of their country. He was a 
member of the Committee of One Hundred chosen in May, 1775, to administer the affairs of the 
Province when the royal authority had broken down, and also sat in the various Provincial Con- 
gresses. After the peace of Versailles, he was president of the Chamber of Commerce. His son, 
Joseph, became a member of the firm of Prime, Ward & Sands, the first of New York's great 
banking houses, his sister, Cornelia, being the wife of the famous Nathaniel Prime, the head of 
that establishment. 

Richardson Sands, the brother of Comfort Sands, was born in 1754, and was also prominent 
in his generation. He married Lucretia Ledyard, daughter of John Ledyard, of Hartford, Conn., 
their only son being Austin Ledyard Sands, one of the foremost men in the commercial affairs of 
the city during the first half of the century. After the death of Richardson Sands, his widow, 
Lucretia (Ledyard) Sands, married General Ebenezer Stevens. Joshua Sands, the youngest 
brother of Comfort and Richardson Sands, was a State Senator from 1792 to 1799, a Member of 
Congress from New York in 1803 and again in 1825, and Collector of the Port of New York under 
the administration of President John Adams. Austin Ledyard Sands died in 1859. His eldest son 
was Samuel Stevens Sands, who was long prominent in the mercantile and financial world, as well 
as in social circles. He married Mary E. Aymar, who also came of a family which represented the 
mercantile interests of the city. Her father was Benjamin Aymar, one of the greatest shipping 
merchants of the preceding generation. He was classed among the most enterprising men of his 
time; his ships carried the American flag to all parts of the world, and his financial standing was of 
the highest. 

Mr. Benjamin Aymar Sands, representative of the family in this generation, is the son of 
Samuel Stevens Sands. He was born in New York, July 27th, 1853, and was graduated from 
Columbia College and also from the Law School of that institution, was admitted to the bar and 
has practiced his profession for over twenty years in this city. He is a member of the executive 
committee of the Bar Association, vice-president of the Colorado Midland Railroad Company, and 
a director of the New York Security and Trust Company, the National Safe Deposit Company, 
Greenwich Savings Bank, Hudson River Bank and Commonwealth Insurance Company. In Janu- 
ary, 1878, Mr. Sands married Amy Akin, daughter of William H. Akin, and has one daughter, 
Mary Emily Sands. The residence of the family is in West Forty-eighth Street, and their country 
home is at Southampton, Long Island. Mr. Sands is a member of the Union, University and City 
clubs and of the Downtown Association. 

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GEORGE HENRY SARGENT 

HUGH SARGENT, or Sariant, as the name was most commonly used in the fifteenth and 
sixteenth centuries, was the earliest known ancestor of the Sargent family, many mem- 
bers of which have borne a conspicuous and influential part in business and public life in 
the United States for two hundred years. He lived in Courteenhall, Northamptonshire, England, of 
which place he was a native. Courteenhall was an ancient inheritance of the Wake family, which 
traces its descent back to Hereward the Wake, in times previous to the Norman Conquest. The 
Sargent family was in Courteenhall early in the sixteenth century, and was of gentle blood, and it 
is quite possible that it had been established there even before the Wakes had entered into 
possession. The wife of Hugh Sargent was Margaret Giffbrd, daughter of Nicholas and Agnes 
(Masters) Giffbrd, of the Abbey of St. James, a suburb of the town of Northampton. Hugh Sargent 
was born about 1530, and had a family of fifteen children. He died in 1595. 

William Sargent, the ancestor of the American family, was a son of Roger Sargent and 
grandson of Hugh Sargent. He came from Northampton, England, to Charlestown, Mass., in 
1638, accompanied by his third wife, Sarah, and two daughters by his first wife. He first settled 
in Charlestown, but when a settlement was made on the banks of the Mystic River, he removed 
there with his family. In 1638, he was made a freeman and became one of the important men in 
the Colony. In 1648-50, he was a lay preacher in Maiden, and was at one time a selectman. 
Removing to Barnstable, about 1656, he was a preacher there, and a freeman of Plymouth Colony 
in 1657. His death occurred in 1682, and his wife died in 1688. 

John Sargent, son of William Sargent, was born in Charlestown. He made his home in 
Maiden for the greater part of his lifetime, and was a selectman for six years. His son, John 
Sargent, born in 1639, was married three times. His first and third wives were born in Plymouth 
Colony, so that the mingled blood of Pilgrim and Puritan flows in the veins of his descendants. 
The mother of his son, Joseph, was Deborah Hillier, of Barnstable, 1643- 1669, daughter of Hugh 
Hillier. Joseph Sargent, his son, was born in 1663, and died in 1717. He married Mary Green, 
1668-1759, daughter of John Green, and was a resident of Maiden and Charlestown, Mass. For 
four successive generations thereafter, sons of the family, the ancestors in direct line of the subject 
of this sketch, were named Joseph. The grandfather of Mr. George H. Sargent, Joseph Sargent, 
of Leicester, Mass., 1757-1787. was a great-grandson of Joseph and Mary (Green) Sargent. He 
married Mary Denny, daughter of Thomas Denny. His father, Colonel Joseph Denny Sargent, of 
Leicester, 1787-1849, married Mindwell Jones, daughter of Phineas Jones. The Denny and Jones 
families were among the most ancient in the history of New England. The lineage of Mr. George 
H. Sargent also goes back to the Baldwin family, another famous New England stock. 

Mr. George Henry Sargent was born in Leicester, Worcester County, Mass., October 
29th, 1828. Educated at the academy in his native town, he then went to Harvard College from 
which institution he was graduated in 1853. The same year that he graduated, he removed to 
New York and engaged in the hardware business. An elder brother, Joseph Bradford Sargent 
who was already settled in that business, became associated with him, under the firm name 
of Sargent & Company, in 1853, and since then he has been continuously connected with the 
establishment of which he is now the head. His father established, in the town of Leicester a 
manufactory of cards used for carding cotton and wool by hand, and upon his death, the business 
passed into the hands of the sons, Joseph B., Edward and George H. Sargent. The' firm also has 
extensive factories in New Haven. 

In 1855, Mr. Sargent married Sarah Shaw, daughter of the Honorable John H Shaw 
of Nantucket, Mass. His -'daughter, Emily Shaw Sargent, married, in 1895, Wilfred Lewis of 
Philadelphia. Mr. Sargent belongs to the Union League, Harvard and Hardware clubs, and the New 
England Society, and is a patron of the National Academy of Design. Politically, he is a Repub- 
lican. He is a member of the Unitarian Church, and a director of the Mercantile National Bank. 

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LEWIS A. SAYRE, M. D. 

EPHRAIM SAYRE, of New Jersey, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, holding the 
office of quartermaster. General Washington occupied his house as headquarters before 
the battle of Springfield. The descendants of Ephraim Sayre have continued to live in 
New Jersey down to the present time. Archibald Sayre, son of Ephraim Sayre, was a resident of 
Morris County, and a man of wealth, and was active and influential in public affairs. 

Dr. Lewis Albert Sayre was the son of Archibald Sayre, and was born at Battle Hill, now 
Madison, Morris County, N. J., February 29th, 1820. His education was begun in his native place, 
and continued at the Wantage Seminary, at Deckertown, N. J. He took a collegiate course at 
Transylvania University, Kentucky, where he was graduated in 1839. At that time he was living 
with his uncle, in Lexington, Ky., and was intended for the church. His uncle was David Austin 
Sayre, a wealthy merchant and banker who, during his lifetime, gave more than half a million 
dollars to benevolent institutions, and founded the Sayre Female Institute. The inclination of the 
young man was toward the study of medicine, and when his college career was completed he 
returned to the East and entered the office of Dr. David Green, of New York. Taking a course in 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he graduated in 1842. When he took his degree, he read 
a thesis upon Spinal Irritation that attracted considerable attention, and is now of special interest 
as indicative of the early leaning of his thoughts toward that branch of medical practice wherein 
he has since become famous. 

In the year that he graduated, Dr. Sayre was appointed prosector to the Professor in 
Surgery of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Willard Parker, a position that he held 
until the pressure of private practice compelled him to resign it in 1852, when he was honored by 
the appointment of emeritus prosector. In 1855, he was made surgeon to Bellevue Hospital, 
and two years later became surgeon to the Charity Hospital and its consulting surgeon in 1873. 

Dr. Sayre was one of the founders of the New York Pathological Society, the New York 
Academy of Medicine and was one of the first members of the American Medical Association; 
being its vice-president in 1866 and president in 1880. He was one of the first to advocate the 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in which he became the first Professor of Orthopoedic Surgery, 
Fractures and Luxations. In 1866, he was resident physician of the City of New York. From 
1 87 1 to 1881 he went abroad several times, and his fame in surgery had spread so widely that he 
was received with great distinction. In his specialties he stands at the head of his profession. He 
was the first in America to successfully perform excision of the joint for hip disease, and his study 
and treatment of spinal complaints has revolutionized medical science. He has devised new 
methods of treatment and invented numerous appliances and instruments. Certain methods of 
treatment, now universally adopted, are known the world over by his name. The contributions 
of Dr. Sayre to medical literature have been abundant. He has written many papers for medical 
and other periodicals, and has published important medical and surgical treatises. His services to 
the afflicted have brought him recognition from all parts of the world. Many honors have been 
bestowed upon him. King Charles IV. of Sweden and Norway decorated him with the order of 
Wasa, and he was elected an Honorary Member of the Medical Society of Norway, and also of 
those of St. Petersburg and Edinburgh, and of the British Medical Association. At home he is an 
honored member of all the leading medical societies, belongs to the club of the 2 <*> and other 
social organizations, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of 
Natural History and the American Geographical Society. 

Dr. Sayre married in 1849 Eliza A. Hall, daughter of Charles Henry Hall, of New York. 
His surviving son, Dr. Reginald Hall Sayre, is a graduate from Columbia College and the Bellevue 
Hospital Medical College. He is engaged in practice with his father, and is a lecturer on 
orthopoedic surgery in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The only daughter of Dr. Sayre, 
Mary Hall Sayre, assists her father in his literary work. Dr. Sayre lives at 285 Fifth Avenue. 

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EDWARD HEARTT SCHELL 

RICHARD SCHELL, of Germany, who left the Old World about the middle of the 
eighteenth century, was the American ancestor of the Schells, who have been preemi- 
nently distinguished in the political and business life of the metropolis in the last 
generation. He went to Dutchess County, N. Y., and settled upon the Rhinebeck patent, and 
marrying there, had a large family of children. Christian Schell, son of Richard Schell, married 
Elizabeth Hughes, of Staatsburg, whose parents were of Welsh origin. He was a prominent 
business man in Rhinebeck and of high standing in the community. During the War of 1812, he 
commanded a company of troops that were enlisted from that section of the State. He died in 
1825, at the age of forty-six, and his widow survived him forty-one years, dying in 1866 at the age 
of eighty-three. 

Several of the children of Christian and Elizabeth Schell attained to distinction in public 
affairs. There were two daughters and six sons in the family. Of the sons, Julius Schell died in 
boyhood, and Francis Schell died at the age of twenty-two. The eldest brother, Richard Schell, 
who was born in 18 10, died in 1879. He was several times elected a member of the State Senate, 
and was also a member of the United States House of Representatives. Robert Schell, who was 
born in 18 15, was president of the Bank of the Metropolis, of New York, for many years. The 
brother who was most conspicuous in political life was Augustus Schell, the third child and 
second son of the family. He served for several years as Collector of the Port, was a Democratic 
Presidential elector in 1876, and chairman of the Democratic National Committee the same year. 

Edward Schell, the youngest male member of this interesting family, was born in 
Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N. Y., November 5th, 1819. He was educated in Rhinebeck, under 
the instruction of Professor Holbrook, until he was seventeen years of age. Then he became junior 
clerk in the house of Littlefield & Shaw, of New York, importers of Irish linens. When he 
was about twenty-six years of age, he joined his elder brother, Robert, in business as the 
junior member of the firm of Lewis S. Fellows & Schell. After remaining in this business 
for seventeen years, he entered the banking business, principally engaged with the Man- 
hattan Savings Institution, of which, eight years previous, he had been elected a trustee. He 
became treasurer of that institution, and in a few years was its president, a position that he 
held for over thirty years. 

Besides his connection with the Manhattan Savings Institution, Edward Schell was identi- 
fied with many other corporations, being a trustee of the Union Trust Company, and a 
director in the National Citizens' Bank, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, the Citizens' 
Insurance Company and the Park Fire Insurance Company. He was also interested in the literary, 
art and philanthropic institutions that are the pride of New York. He was a life member of the 
New York Historical Society and the 'St. Nicholas Society, and for many years a trustee of the 
New York Society Library, the New York Institution for the Blind and St. Luke's Hospital, a 
member of the Century Association and a governor of the Manhattan Club, a member and 
vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension and warden of Christ Church, 
Rye, N. Y. He died December 24th, 1893. The wife of Mr. Schell was Jane L. Heartt, 
daughter of the Honorable Jonas C. Heartt, of Troy, N. Y., Mayor of that city for several 
successive terms. Mrs. Schell died in 1880. 

Mr. Edward Heartt Schell, son of Edward Schell, was born in Troy, N. Y., September 
30th, 1848. He was graduated from Yale College, studied law under Professor Dwight, of 
Columbia Law College, and is now a practicing lawyer of New York. In 1886, he married 
Cornelia E. Barnes, daughter of William Evarts and Mary (Spies) Barnes. His town house is 
at 19 East Twenty-fourth Street and he has a country residence in Rye. His clubs are the 
Manhattan and St. Nicholas, and he also belongs to the Bar Association and the Yale Alumni 
Association. 

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CHARLES STEWART SCHENCK 

PETER H. SCHENCK, grandfather of this gentleman, was one of the prominent merchants 
of New York City in the period after the Revolution. He was especially distinguished 
as being the first to begin the manufacture of domestic fabrics in this State. He 
established a cotton factory at Fishkill Landing, on the Hudson River, now Mattewan, called the 
Mattewan Company ; his associates being John Jacob Astor, William B. Astor, Philip Hone, 
Robert Hone, Gardiner and Samuel Howland and Joseph Kernochan. In 1812, when war was 
declared, the factory was fully under way. A British fleet blockaded New York and other Atlantic 
ports, but while the war lasted he had cotton for the factory hauled by wagons, from Charles- 
ton to Fishkill Landing, a distance of over nine hundred miles. Peter H. Schenck gave the 
Government earnest support in the war, contributing at one time ten thousand dollars. He had a 
residence at Fishkill, N. Y., and a city home in Bowling Green. His wife was Harriet Courtney, 
elder daughter of Sarah Henderson Courtney. The eldest daughter of their family, Margaret 
Matilda, married Russell Dart. Sarah Ann, another daughter, married for her first husband John 
A. Manning, and for her second husband, Lewis Timberlake, while Ellen Courtney married Peter 
Van Der Vort, and Harriet Eliza married Charles Wells. The father of Mr. Charles Stewart 
Schenck was Courtney Schenck, who was born in 1816, the oldest surviving son of his father's 
family. In 1837, he married Eliza Stewart, of Philadelphia. 

The Schenck family is of ancient origin, the first of the name of whom mention is made 
being Edgar de Schecken, who, in 798, was Imperial Seneschal to Charlemagne. In America, 
the different branches of the family have sprung from two sources, both of them coming from the 
Schencks van Nydeck, of Holland. One comes from the brothers, Jan Martense Schenck and 
Roelof Martense Schenck, who settled in Flatlands, about 1650. The second branch is derived 
from Johannes Schenck, of Bushwick, Long Island, also of the Van Nydeck family. 

Johannes Schenck, the progenitor of the Bushwick Schencks, was born in Holland, and emi- 
grated to America in 1683. His father, Martin, was a Lieutenant and Judge in the Province of 
Overyssel, an office that had been held in the family for several generations. Before coming to this 
country, he married Maria Magdalena Haes. After living in Bushwick some time, he removed to 
Esopus, but, in 1691, was town clerk of Flatbush, and in 1698, was a freeman of New York and 
again town clerk of Flatbush in 1700, Supervisor of Kings County in 17 19, and died in 1748. His 
grandson, Judge Abraham Schenck, 1720-1790, son of Johannes Schenck and Maria Lock, married 
Elsie Vandervooert. He represented Kings County in the Colonial Legislature for several successive 
terms. He was the grandfather of Peter H. Schenck. The parents of Peter H. Schenck were 
Major Henry Schenck, 1743- 1799, of Fishkill, and Hannah Brett. There have been many 
distinguished representatives of this ancient family, among them Admiral James Findley Schenck, 
U. S. N. ; Robert C. Schenck, Major-General and Minister to Great Britain ; and the Reverend 
Noah Hunt Schenck. Mrs. Hicks Lord was a cousin of the subject of this sketch. Her great- 
great-grandfather was Sir Francis Rumbout, who settled at Fishkill nearly two centuries ago. A 
daughter of Sir Francis married a Schenck, and their great-granddaughter was Wilhelmina 
Wilkens, afterwards Mrs. Hicks Lord. 

Mr. Charles Stewart Schenck was the eldest son of Courtney Schenck and his wife, Eliza 
Stewart. Born in Philadelphia, he was educated at College Hill, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and has 
been engaged in mercantile life in New York City, being at the present time president of the 
Elevator Barge Company. During the Civil War, he was a Lieutenant of cavalry and a member of 
the Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers. In 1865, Mr. Schenck married Harriet 
Chesebrough Kearny, of New York, a daughter of Philip R. Kearny, who was for many years 
president of the New York Life Insurance & Trust Company, of this city, a cousin of Major- 
General Philip Kearny. Mr. and Mrs. Schenck live at Rye, Westchester County. They have 
two daughters, Lulu L. and Helen Elise, and one son, Stewart Courtney Schenck. 

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FREDERICK AUGUSTUS SCHERMERHORN 

ONE of the first settlers in New Netherland was Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, and his 
descendants have been conspicuous and influential in the city and State ever since that 
time. Jacob Janse Schermerhorn was a native of Holland, born in 1620, and came to 
this country in 1636, in the ship Van Rensselaerwyck. He was an enterprising man with consid- 
erable means, and settled in Beverwyck or Albany, then on the frontier, becoming an Indian trader. 
His business prospered, and he became one of the wealthiest men of his time. In 1648, he had 
trouble with Governor Petrus Stuyvesant, who accused him of selling guns and powder to the 
Indians, and he lost much of his property. He married Jannetje Van Voorhandt, daughter of 
Cornelius Sergense Van Voorhandt, and his family of nine children and their descendants married 
with the Beekmans, Van der Bogarts, Ten Eycks and other prominent Dutch families. 

The Schermerhorns were long active in the affairs of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, that 
great feudal estate of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, which included the entire territory comprised in the 
present counties of Albany, Columbia and Rensselaer. A son of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, 
named after his father, Jacob, born in 1662 and died in 1740, married Gerritje Hendrickse Van 
Buren, daughter of Hendrick Van Buren and granddaughter of Cornelius Maas and Catalyntje 
(Martense) Van Buren. Several of the Schermerhorns were among the original settlers of Schenec- 
tady. When that village was destroyed and its inhabitants massacred by the Indians in 1690, it 
was Simon Schermerhorn who carried the news of the disaster through the wilderness to 
Albany. 

In more recent times Abraham Schermerhorn was a well-known New Yorker, the son of 
Peter and Elizabeth Bussing Schermerhorn, and great-grandson of Maria Beekman, who was a 
granddaughter of the famous William Beekman, founder of the Beekman family in New York. 
Abraham Schermerhorn married Helen White, a descendant of the Yonkers branch of the Van 
Cortlandt family. One of his sons married a daughter of James A. Bayard, of Delaware; one of 
his daughters married Charles Suydam, and another daughter is Mrs. Caroline Astor, who, the 
widow of William Astor, has long been at the head of the celebrated Astor family, and a recognized 
leader of New York society. John P. Schermerhorn, brother of Abraham, married Rebecca, 
daughter of General Ebenezer Stevens, and his sister married the Reverend William Creighton. 

Captain Frederick Augustus Schermerhorn, representative of this old family in the present 
generation, was born in New York, November 1st, 1844. He was educated in private schools, 
and entered Columbia College in the class of 1865. Desiring to prepare for the United States Mili- 
tary Academy at West Point, he did not continue his course at Columbia, but the breaking out of 
the Civil War changed all his plans, and he enlisted in 1864, being commissioned as Second Lieu- 
tenant in the One Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Regiment, New York Infantry. In January, 1865, he 
was mustered in as First Lieutenant of Company C in the same regiment. He went to the front 
with the Army of the Potomac, and was aide-de-camp to Major-General Charles Griffin. He 
served until peace was declared, and was brevetted Captain for gallant conduct at the battle of Five 
Forks in 1865. 

After the war, Captain Schermerhorn returned to his studies, entering the School of Mines 
of Columbia College, in 1865, and graduating in 1868 with the degree of Mining Engineer. He 
served seven years in the National Guard of the State of New York, as private, Corporal, Sergeant 
and First Lieutenant of Company K, Seventh Regiment. A prominent society and club man, he 
belongs to the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Coaching, Riding, Country, Rockaway Hunt, Union, City, 
and Knickerbocker clubs. His interest in yachting is indicated by his membership in the New 
York and Sewanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs. Since 1877, he has been a trustee of Columbia 
College, is manager and recording secretary of the New York Institution for the Blind, is a 
supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a member of the Loyal Legion, and a member of the 
American Geographical Society. 



GEORGE RICHARD SCHIEFFEL1N 

JACOB SCHIEFFELIN, of Weilheim, Germany, came to America early in the last century. His 
family has been traced in that country back to the thirteenth century, but his own ancestor 
was Conrad Schieffelin, son of Franz Schieffelin, of Nuremberg, who had migrated to Switzer- 
land. The first Jacob Schieffelin died in 1746, in which year his son, also named Jacob, 1732- 
1769, came to Philadelphia. The wife of the second Jacob Schieffelin was Regina Margaretta 
Kraften Ritschaurin and their son, Jacob Schieffelin, third of the name and founder of the New 
York Schieffelin family, was born in Philadelphia in 17=57. 

Early in life, Jacob Schieffelin, the third, was secretary at the then frontier post of Detroit 
and acquired property there. In the Revolution he was a loyalist, served as aide to the English 
General, Henry Hamilton, and, coming to New York in 1780, held a commission in the British Army. 
After the war he removed to Montreal, and spent some time in London. His wife, Hannah Law- 
rence, was a member of the notable Long Island family of that name, being the daughter 
of John and Ann (Burling) Lawrence, and in 1794 Jacob Schieffelin returned to New York and 
became the partner of his brother-in-law, John Burling Lawrence, in the wholesale drug business. 
In 1799, he became the sole proprietor of the establishment which has remained in the name of his 
descendants to this day, its centennary anniversary having been celebrated in 1894. He retired 
from business in 1814 and died in 1835, his sons being Henry Hamilton, Effingham, Jacob and 
Richard Lawrence Schieffelin. 

Richard Lawrence Schieffelin was the father of the gentleman referred to in this article. He 
was born in 1801, graduated from Columbia College, studied law with his brother-in-law, Benjamin 
Ferris, and practiced until 1843. F° r tne rest °f ms life he devoted himself to the care of his real 
estate and corporate interests. Elected a member of the Common Council of New York City in 
1843, he was president of the board and afterwards declined a nomination for Congress. He was 
prominent in the Protestant Episcopal Church, was one of the earliest members of the Church of 
St. Mary, which his father founded at Mahattanville, and at the time of his death, in 1889, was its 
senior warden. For more than sixty years he represented that church in the Diocesan conventions 
and was also prominently identified with Grace parish. In early life, he was interested in military 
matters and held the commission of Brigadier-General. In 1833, he married Margaret Helen McKay, 
daughter of Captain George Knox McKay, of the United States Artillery. His children were Sarah 
Sophia Schieffelin, who married the Reverend Cuthbert Collingwood Barclay; Helen Margaret 
Schieffelin, who married, first, William Irving Graham, and after his death, Alexander Robert 
Chisolm; and George Richard Schieffelin. 

Mr. George Richard Schieffelin was born July 27th, 1836. Graduated from Columbia Col- 
lege in the class of 1855, he has been engaged in the practice of law in this city. In 1866, he 
married Julia Matilda Delaplaine. The grandfather of Mrs. Schieffelin was John F. Delaplaine, an 
old New York shipping merchant. Her father, the Honorable Isaac C. Delaplaine, was born in 
New York in 1817 and died in 1866. Graduated from Columbia College in 1854, he became a prom- 
inent lawyer. In 1861, he was elected a member of the National House of Representatives. 

Mr. and Mrs. Schieffelin have had five children. Their eldest daughter, Julia Florence 
Schieffelin, married Joseph Bruce Ismay, of Liverpool, England, one of the owners of the White 
Star Steamship Company. She has two children, Margaret Bruce and Thomas Bruce Ismay. The 
second daughter, Margaret Helen Schieffelin, married Henry G. Trevor. There are two unmarried 
daughters of the family, Matilda Constance and Sarah Dorothy Schieffelin, and one son, George 
Richard Delaplaine Schieffelin. The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Schieffelin is in East Forty-fifth 
Street, near Fifth Avenue, and their country place is The Anchorage, at Southampton, Long Island. 
Mr. Schieffelin is a member of the Tuxedo, Union, Knickerbocker, New York Yacht, Riding and 
Shinnecock Golf clubs, the St. Nicholas Society, the Century Association, the Downtown Associa- 
tion and the Society of Colonial Wars. In 189s, he was deputy governor of the latter organization. 

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SAMUEL BRADHURST SCHIEFFELIN 

IN the present generation, the Schieffelin family, which has held such an important place in 
New York, has a number of branches. The preceding page of this volume affords a 
detailed account of the founder of the family, Jacob Schieffelin, 1757-1835, and his wife, 
Hannah Lawrence. Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, their second son, was born in 1783. He was 
named after General Henry Hamilton, who commanded the English forces in the Northwest 
during the Revolution, and under whom Jacob Schieffelin served. Graduating from Columbia 
College in 1801, Henry Hamilton Schieffelin studied law under Cadwalader Colden, but in 1805 
entered into partnership with his father, as Jacob Schieffelin & Son, and when Jacob Schieffelin 
retired, in 1814, the firm became H. H. Schieffelin & Co. Henry Hamilton Schieffelin was the 
first vice-president of the New York College of Pharmacy, in 1829, and became its president on 
the incorporation of the college in 1831. He retired in 1849 and died in 1865. He married Maria 
Theresa Bradhurst, daughter of Dr. Samuel Bradhurst, 1749- 1826, and his wife, Mary Smith, 
daughter of Lieutenant Richard Smith. The sons of Henry Hamilton Schieffelin were Henry 
Maunsell, Samuel Bradhurst, James Lawrence, Philip, Sidney Augustus, Bradhurst and Eugene 
Schieffelin. After their father's retirement in 1849, the brothers carried on the business under 
the style of Schieffelin Brothers & Co. Samuel B., James Lawrence and Sidney A. Schieffelin 
were the leading members. 

Mr. Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin was born February 24th, 181 1, and continued at the 
head of the firm until his retirement, in 1865. He has since devoted much of his attention to 
literature and has written The Foundations of History and a number of other works chiefly of 
a religious character. He married Lucretia Hazard and resides at 958 Madison Avenue. 
William Henry Schieffelin, son of Mr. Samuel B. Schieffelin, was born August 20th, 1836, and 
early in life entered the firm of Schieffelin Brothers & Co., of which, in 1865, he became the 
head, the style being changed to W. H. Schieffelin & Co. In 1862, he entered the Union 
Army, was Major of the First New York Mounted Rifles, and saw active service in Virginia. 
He married Mary Jay, daughter of the Honorable John Jay. He held positions of trust, and was 
identified with many scientific and philanthropic organizations. He died in 1895. 

William Jay Schieffelin, his son, was born in New York in 1866 and was graduated from 
Columbia College in 1887. Making chemistry his profession, he pursued postgraduate studies 
at the University of Munich, Bavaria, graduating there in 1889 with the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy. Entering the firm of William H. Schieffelin & Co., he is now active in its successor, 
Schieffelin & Co. He has been interested in the reform of the municipal administration, and 
in 1896 was appointed a member of the Civil Service Commission. In 1891, he married 
Marie Louisa, daughter of Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and a granddaughter of William H. 
Vanderbilt. They have four children, two sons and two daughters, the eldest being William 
Jay Schieffelin, Jr. Their residence is in West Fifty-seventh Street. Mr. Schieffelin is a member 
of the City, Century and Church clubs, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the St. Nicholas 
Society and the Society of Colonial Wars. 

Sidney Augustus Schieffelin, the fifth son of Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, born in 1818. 
was long a member of the house of Schieffelin Brothers & Co., from which he retired in 1865. 
He died in 1894. He married Harriet A. Schuyler, 1836-1882, daughter of Arent Henry Schuyler 
and his wife, Mary C. Kingsland. Their sons are Henry Hamilton Schieffelin, born in 1863, 
and Schuyler Schieffelin, born in 1866. The latter, in 1889, left the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology in his junior year and entered the firm of Schieffelin & Co. His residence is 173 
Fifth Avenue. He is a Captain in the Twelfth Regiment, National Guard. His clubs are the 
Union, Fencers', City, Ardsley Country, Badminton, Knickerbocker and Riding, and he is a 
member of the St. Nicholas Society, Society of Colonial Wars, Colonial Order, Metropolitan 
Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society, of which he is a life member. 

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PHILIP SCHUYLER 

IN the seventh generation from Philip Schuyler and Margaretta Van Slichtenhorst, the American 
ancestors of a family that has been one of the most distinguished in the history of the United 
States, General Philip Schuyler is descended, through Johannes Schuyler and his wife, 
Elizabeth Staats; Johannes Schuyler and his wife, Cornelia Van Cortlandt, and General Philip 
Schuyler, the eminent Revolutionary patriot and soldier, and his wife, Catharine Van Rensselaer. 
General Philip Schuyler, the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the son of Philip 
Jeremiah Schuyler, born in 1768. The first wife of Philip Jeremiah Schuyler was Sarah Rutsen, 
daughter of Colonel Jacob Rutsen, of an old Kingston, N. Y., family that had married with the Van 
Rensselaers and other great families of that day. The second wife of Philip Jeremiah Schuyler and 
the grandmother of General Philip Schuyler of the present generation, was Mary A. Sawyer, of 
Newburyport, Mass., a member of one of the old families of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

The father of General Philip Schuyler was George Lee Schuyler, who is especially remem- 
bered by this generation from his connection with the America Cup, the famous yachting prize, the 
struggle for its possession having resulted in the most brilliant international yachting events in this 
century. George Lee Schuyler was born in Rhinebeck in 181 1, but lived the greater part of his 
lifetime in New York, with whose interests he was thorougly identified. He was deeply interested 
in yachting matters and was one of the donors of the America Yachting Cup trophy, and in 1882 
was the sole surviving member of the syndicate which prepared that prize. He also gave con- 
siderable attention to historical research, particularly in relation to the family whose name he bore. 
Among his principal literary works were Correspondence and Remarks upon Bancroft's History of the 
Northern Campaign, and The Character of Major-General Philip Schuyler. The first wife of George 
Lee Schuyler and the mother of General Philip Schuyler, was Eliza Hamilton. His second wife was 
Mary Morris Hamilton, a sister of his first wife. The maternal grandfather of General Schuyler was 
James Alexander Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton and his wife, who was a daughter of the 
General Philip Schuyler of Revolutionary renown. General Schuyler is therefore descended from 
his illustrious ancestor and namesake through both his paternal and maternal lines, his father being 
a grandson and his mother a great-granddaughter of the General. 

James Alexander Hamilton, the maternal grandfather of General Schuyler, was born in New 
York in 1788, and died in Irvington in 1878. He was graduated from Columbia College in 1805. 
During the war of 1812, he was Brigade-Major and Inspector in the New York State militia. After- 
wards he studied law and became a prominent member of the bar. In the first administration of 
President Andrew Jackson, he was for a few days, in 1829, acting Secretary of State previous to 
the accession of Martin Van Buren to that place in the Cabinet. Later he was United States District 
Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the author of Reminiscences of Hamilton; 
or, Men and Events at Home and Abroad during Three-quarters of a Century. 

General Philip Schuyler was born in New York and has made his home in this city and at 
his ancestral estate in Irvington. His Irvington home is Nevis, the old-fashioned Colonial house 
that was the home of Alexander Hamilton and that abounds in historical and social memories of a 
century ago. General Schuyler is an ardent yachtsman as well as a general sportsman. He is a 
member of the New York Yacht Club and has closely identified himself with the interests of the 
social life in and about Irvington and Ardsley. During the entire Civil War period, he served with 
distinction in the regular army, resigning his commission at the close of the war. He married 
Harriet (Lowndes) Langdon. He was a prominent member of the Patriarchs during the brilliant 
life of that social organization. His clubs include the Union and Knickerbocker, the Century 
Association, the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club, and he also belongs to the Seventh Regiment 
Veterans, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of the Cincinnati, the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion, and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. 



GUSTAV H. SCHWAB 

WHEN Fredericklhe Great, of Prussia, determined to establish the Berlin Royal Academy 
of Science, he called upon John Christopher Schwab to be a member of that body, 
and to assist in its establishment and direction. Professor Schwab at that time 
occupied the chair of philosophy and mathematics in the University of Stuttgart and declined the 
offer of King Frederick, preferring to remain in the position with which he had been long 
associated. Professor Schwab was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. His son, 
the grandfather of Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, was a well-known German author. 

Gustav Schwab, the father of Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, was born in 1822, in Stuttgart, 
Germany, where his ancestors had lived for many generations. When he was seventeen years of 
age, he entered the counting house of H. H. Meier & Co., a large firm in Bremen. There he 
remained for five years, but in 1844, when twenty-two years of age, he came to New York, to 
enter the house of Oelrichs & Kruger. In less than five years after his arrival in New York, he 
had sufficiently familiarized himself with commercial methods in this country to go into business 
for himself as the junior partner in the firm of Wichelhausen, Recknagel & Schwab. Ten years 
after, in 1859, he returned to the concern with which he had been first associated in New York, 
becoming a partner in the firm of Oelrichs & Company, which succeeded Oelrichs & Kruger. 
Soon after, the firm became agents for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line, a connection that 
has been maintained ever since. 

Outside of the shipping business, with which Mr. Schwab was principally identified, he had 
numerous other interests. He was among the directors of the Central Trust Company, the Wash- 
ington Life Insurance Company, and the Orient Mutual Insurance Company, and at the time of his 
death was the oldest director and vice-president of the Merchants' National Bank. He was a 
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and warden of St. James' Church, Fordham. Deeply 
interested in charitable matters, he was a patron and for many years treasurer of the German 
Hospital, and a generous benefactor of other philanthropic organizations. He was also a member of 
the Chamber of Commerce, and at one time a commissioner of the Board of Education. In 1850, 
Mr. Schwab married Catharine Elizabeth Von Post, daughter of L. H. Von Post, of New York 
City. When he died, in 1888, his widow and a large family of children survived him. 

Mr. Gustav H. Schwab is the eldest of the children of Gustav Schwab, and was born in 
New York, May 30th, 1851. He was educated here and at Stuttgart, Germany. In 1876, he 
married Caroline Wheeler, niece of William B. Ogden, of New York and formerly of Chicago, of 
which city he was the first Mayor, and also president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
Mr. and Mrs. Schwab have two children, Emily Elizabeth and Gustav. 

Entering his father's firm of Oelrichs & Company, in 1876, Mr. Schwab had charge 
of the steamship business. He has, however, taken an active and useful part in all meas- 
ures to advance the commerce of New York, or to create better municipal government. He 
has frequently been interested in committees of the Chamber of Commerce, appointed to advance 
the cause of honest money and of political reform, and is now chairman of the Chamber's 
Committee on foreign commerce and the revenue laws. He also succeeded his father as director 
of the Merchants' National Bank, and is also a director in the United States Trust Company. He 
lives at 4 East Forty-eighth Street, his country residence being at Irvington-on-Hudson. He 
is a member of the Tuxedo colony, and the principal New York clubs of which he is a member are 
the Metropolitan, Century, City, Reform, Commonwealth, Liederkranz, and Mendelssohn Glee. 
A brother of Mr. Schwab, Herman C. Schwab, who is associated with him in business, is a 
member of the Reform, Commonwealth, and other clubs, and resides on the old family place at 
Morris Heights. Another brother is the Reverend Lawrence H. Schwab, a graduate of Yale 
College and rector of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York City. A third brother, 
John C. Schwab, Ph. D., is professor of political economy in Yale University. 

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GEORGE SLESMAN SCOTT 

THE family to which Mr. George Slesman Scott belongs is of ancient Scottish origin, and 
was seated several centuries ago at Dipple Parish, Morayshire. From that place 
came the member of the family who established the American branch in Virginia 
nearly two hundred and fifty years ago. The arms of the family as they appear on the tomb 
Of one of the Scottish ancestors are : on a bend, a star between two crescents, in a bordure, 
eight stars. The crest is a dove, and the motto, Gaudia nuncio magna. Similar to this are the 
arms generally used by the family, which are, or. on a bend azure, a bezant between two 
crescents of the field, in a bordure argent, eight bezants. The crest is a dove proper, holding 
in its beak an olive branch, and the motto is as already given above. 

The Reverend John Scott, of Dipple Parish, Morayshire, Scotland, was born about 1650. He 
was a college bred man, and rector of Dipple Parish, Moray, in 1699, dying there in 1726. 
By his wife Helen Grant, he had a son, the Reverend James Scott, who was born in Dipple 
Parish, and was the first American ancestor of the family that bears his name. He came to 
Virginia before 1739, and in 1745 was rector of Dettingen Parish. Educated at Aberdeen University, 
he was ordained by the Lord Bishop of London, in 1735. His wife was Sarah Brown, 171 5-1784, 
daughter of Dr. Gustavus and Frances (Fowke) Brown. 

In the second American generation, came the Honorable Gustavus Scott, who was born at 
Westwood, Prince William County, Va., in 1753, and died in Washington, D. C., in 1801. His 
education was secured at Kings' College, Aberdeen, Scotland, and from 176710 1771, he studied 
law in the Middle Temple, London. Returning to this country, he located in Maryland, became 
a prominent member of the bar and active in Revolutionary affairs. In 1774-75, he was a deputy 
from Somerset County to the Maryland Convention, a member of the Maryland Association in 1775, 
and in 1776 a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. After the adoption of the State Govern- 
ment, he removed to Dorchester County and represented that county in the Assembly, 1780-84, 
being a delegate from Maryland to the Continental Congress in 1784-85. His wife, whom he 
married in 1777, was Margaret Hall Caile, daughter of Hall Caile, of Annapolis, Md. 

John Caile Scott, son of the Honorable Gustavus Scott, grandson of the Reverend James 
Scott, the American pioneer, and grandfather of the gentleman whose name appears at the head 
of this sketch, was born in 1782. He lived at his country seat, Western View, Culpepper 
County, Va., until 1828, when he removed to Ross County, Ohio. He died at Muhlenberg Farm, 
Pickaway County, O., in 1840. His wife, whom he married in 1802, was Ann Love, 1780-1852, 
daughter of Samuel Love and Ann Jones of Fairfax County, Va. Samuel Love, grandfather of Ann 
Love, was a member of the Committee of Safety in Maryland in the Revolutionary period, an 
associate freeman and a delegate to the Maryland Convention. Charles Jones, the maternal grand- 
father of Ann Love, was a citizen of Frederick County, Md., and active in measures for equipping 
the Continental troops and providing them with ammunition. The father of Mr. George Slesman 
Scott was John Caile Scott, who was born in Strawberry Vale, Fairfax County, Va,, in 1809. 
Removing .to Philadelphia, he married Louisiana Eleanor Slesman, who was born in Philadelphia in 
1807, the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Scull) Slesman. He died in Philadelphia in 1875. 

Mr. George Slesman Scott was born in Chillicothe, O., in 1837. He has been for many 
years engaged in the banking business in New York. He married Augusta Isham, and the family 
residence is in West Fifty-seventh Street, near Fifth Avenue. Mr. Scott belongs to the Metropolitan, 
Tuxedo, City, Riding, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht and American Yacht clubs, 
and the Sons of the American Revolution, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and 
the American Museum of Natural History. He was at one time vice-president and director of the 
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, a director of the Union Pacific Railway Company, and the 
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, and president of the Richmond & Danville Rail- 
road Company. 

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CHARLES SCRIBNER 

ORIGINALLY Scrivener, meaning a professional writer, there seems to be special fitness 
in the name Scribner, borne by ;i family that for three generations has been foremost in 
the publishing business in the Un-'ted States. The first in America was Matthew 
Scrivener, a member of the Council of the Virginia Colony, in 1607. Benjamin Scrivener was in 
Norwalk, Conn., in 1680, and married Hannah Crampton. From his youngest son, Matthew, the 
Scribners of the United States are mostly descended. The name was changed to Scribner, in the 
case of the grandchildren of Benjamin Scrivener, after 1742, as appears by the records of the town 
clerk of Norwalk. Little is known of Matthew Scribner, save that he married Martha Smith, of 
Long Island, in 1742, and had nine children. His second son, Matthew, who was born in 1746 and 
died in 1813, was graduated from Yale College, in 1775, and was a Congregational minister, 
occupying pulpits in Westford and Tyngsboro, Mass. He married Abigail Rogers, daughter of Dr. 
Uriah Rogers. The father of Abigail Rogers, who was born about 1710 and died in 1773, was a 
prominent phyiscian of Norwalk, Conn. His wife was Hannah Lockwood, daughter of James 
Lockwood, of Norwalk, and Lydia Smith. Dr. Rogers was the father of a large family and many 
of his descendants have been distinguished in the history of Connecticut and New York. One of 
his daughters married Moss Kent and became the mother of the celebrated Chancellor James Kent. 
The grandfather of the present generation of the Scribner family was Uriah Rogers Scribner, 
1776-1853, eldest son of the Reverend Matthew Scribner and Abigail Rogers. He engaged in busi- 
ness in New York, and was one of the successful merchants of his time. His first wife was Martha 
Scribner, daughter of Nathaniel Scribner, of Norwalk. In 1812, he married Betsey Hawiey, 
daughter of Thomas and Keziah (Scribner) Hawiey, of Ridgefield, Conn. Thomas Hawiey was the 
son of the Reverend Thomas Hawiey, who was born in Northampton, Mass., in 1690, and 
graduated from Harvard College, in 1709. The father of the Reverend Thomas Hawiey was 
Captain Joseph Hawiey, a graduate from Harvard College, in 1674, whose wife was Lydia Marshall, 
daughter of Captain Samuel Marshall, of Windsor, Conn. 

Nine children of Uriah R. Scribner and his wife survived their father. Charles Scribner, 
publisher and bookseller and founder of the house now known as Charles Scribner's Sons, was the 
third son. He was born in New York, in 1821, and died in Luzerne, Switzerland, in 1871. Grad- 
uated from Princeton College in 1840, he studied law for three years, but did not enter upon the 
practice of that profession. In 1846, with Isaac D. Baker, he organized the firm of Baker & Scribner, 
for the publishing of books, and for many years was in business on the site of the Old Brick 
Church, at the corner of Nassau Street and Park Row. From 1850 to 1857, he was alone in 
business, his partner having died, and in the latter year he bought the importing business of Banks, 
Merwin & Co., and took Charles Welford as a partner. Then the firms of Charles Scribner & Co., 
American publishers, and Scribner, Welford & Co., importers of foreign books, were established. In 
1865, Mr. Scribner began the publication of The Hours at Home Magazine, which was merged in 
The Scribner's Magazine, established in 1870. Subsequently the firm sold The Scribner's Magazine 
to its present owners, and it became The Century Magazine. A few years later the second 
Scribner's Magazine, that is now in successful publication, was started. In 1848, Mr. Scribner 
married Emma E. Blair, daughter of John I. Blair, of New Jersey. 

Mr. Charles Scribner, second of the name, and now at the head of the publishing house 
which his father established, was born in New York, and graduated from Princeton College, in 
1875. He married Louise Flagg, lives in East Thirty-eighth Street, and has a country home, The 
Gables, in Morristown, N. J. He is a member of the Century, Aldine and other literary clubs, 
belongs also to the Union, University and Morristown clubs, and is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, and the American Geographical Society. His brother, Arthur H. Scribner, who is 
also a member of the publishing firm, is a graduate from Princeton College, in the Class of 1881, 
and is a member of the Century, Aldine, Grolier and other clubs. 



LOUIS LIVINGSTON SEAMAN, M. D. 

AMONG the eminent physicians in New York City, in the last century, was Dr. Valentine 
Seaman, who was born in 1770. He had the distinction of introducing the practice of 
vaccination into New York City in 1799, when he was less than thirty years of age. Dr. 
Seaman was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1792, having studied under 
Dr. Benjamin Rush, and was a surgeon in the New York Hospital from 1796 until his death, in 
1817. He was a voluminous writer upon medical subjects, and was the author of treatises on 
Vaccination and other subjects. 

Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman is a grandson of Dr. Valentine Seaman. His great-grandfather 
was Willett Seaman, a merchant in New York in 1760, one of the founders and original governors 
of the New York Hospital. His paternal ancestor, Captain John Seaman, received a Colonial grant 
in 1637 at Hempstead Plains, Long Island, from King Charles I. Members of the Seaman family 
were prominent in the early Dutch, French and Indian wars, and it is recorded that twenty-two of 
them served in one company in the Revolution. The mother of Dr. Seaman was Anna Amelia 
Ferris, descended from Robert Livingston, first Lord of the Manor, and from Philip L. Livingston, 
signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also on his mother's side, Dr. Seaman is the eighth 
in descent from Abraham de Peyster, Mayor of New York in 1692, and ninth in descent from 
Philip Pieterse Schuyler and Margaritta Van Schlichtenhorst. Major Hendrick Cuyler, who 
commanded the Albany troops in the French and Indian War, 1685-89, nine generations back. 
Johannes de Peyster, Brant Arents Van Schlichtenhorst and Captain Peter Van Brugh are among 
his other Knickerbocker ancestors. 

Born in Newburgh, N. Y., October 17th, 1851, Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman was a member 
of the first class that entered Cornell University in 1868. He studied medicine at the Jefferson 
Medical College in Philadelphia, being an office student of the celebrated Dr. Samuel D. Gross. 
He won the gold medal on graduating in 1876. Subsequently he attended the University Medical 
College, New York City, for a post-graduate course, and received his degree in 1877. In 1884, he 
graduated from the law department of the University of New York. 

In 1876, he was appointed house physician of the Charity Hospital in New York. One year 
later he became resident surgeon to the Ward's Island State Emigrant Hospital, a position he held 
for two years. In 1879-81, he was superintendent of the Emigrant Insane Asylum on Ward's 
Island and chief resident surgeon to the emigration institutions. In 1881, he was appointed Chief 
of Staff of the hospitals on Blackwell's Island. In 1886, while making a tour of the world, he 
investigated especially the contagious and epidemic diseases of the East. Since his return from 
abroad, Dr. Seaman has engaged in regular practice. He is visiting physician of the Old Marion 
Street Maternity Hospital and consulting physician to the Colored Orphan Asylum. He has visited 
Europe several times, and made a special study of cholera in the hospitals of Paris and Hamburg in 
1892. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of the State of 
New York, the Medical Society of the County of New York, the New York County Medical 
Association, the New York Medical Union, the New York Pathological Society, the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence of New York, 
and the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and is a fellow of the New York 
Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and his social clubs 
include the Reform, Lotos, Calumet, Players, Quaint and the Cornell University Club, of which he 
is the vice-president. 

In 1881, Dr. Seaman was a delegate to the London International Medical Congress, and again 
in 1890 a delegate to the Congress in Berlin. He has devised various apparatus for medical and 
surgical use, and is the author of many papers on medical and social subjects. Dr. Seaman was 
married in 1889 to Fannie Blackstone Freeman, a great-great-granddaughter of Sir William 
Blackstone, the eminent English jurist. Mrs. Seaman died in 1895. 

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ROBERT SEDGWICK 

GENERAL ROBERT SEDGWICK was born in England, in 1611, and was one of the ablest 
leaders of the Massachusetts Colony. Coming to America in 1636, he settled in Charles- 
town, Mass., and thenceforward was conspicuous in the young community. In 1637, he 
was a representative of the town of Charlestown in the General Court. He commanded the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company and was chosen Major-General of the Colony in 1652. Soon 
after that time, he went to England and was in the service of the Protector, Cromwell. Upon his 
return, in 1654, he was appointed to head an expedition against the Dutch "on Hudson's River 
and at the Manhatoes"; but peace being declared, he led his forces against the French of Nova 
Scotia and captured St. John, Port Royal and other forts. Afterwards he was despatched to the 
Island of Jamaica with a fleet, and there succeeded General Venables in command of the English 
forces. A supreme executive council was established, with Sedgwick at the head, and Cromwell 
sent him a commission giving him supreme command. While upon this service in the West 
Indies, he died in 1656. 

Five children of General Sedgwick survived him. William Sedgwick was the second son; 
his elder brother dying childless. He married Elizabeth Stone, daughter of the Reverend Samuel 
Stone, the second minister of Hartford, and had one son, Samuel, 1667-1735. His wife was Mary 
Hopkins, granddaughter of John Hopkins, one of the founders of Hartford. The great-great-grand- 
father of the present Mr. Sedgwick was Benjamin Sedgwick, 17 16- 1757, son of Samuel Sedgwick. 
One of his sons was General John Sedgwick, a distinguished Revolutionary soldier. 

Theodore Sedgwick, 1746-18 13, another son, was born in Hartford and studied in Yale 
College, and in 1766 was admitted to the bar and practiced in Massachusetts, frequently represent- 
ing the town of Sheffield in the Legislature, and was a delegate to Congress in 1785. In the 
expedition to Canada in 1776, he was an aide to General Thomas. In 1788, he was a member of 
the Massachusetts Convention that ratified the Federal Constitution, and a Member of Congress 
from 1789 to 1796, when he was elected to the United States Senate, of which he became president 
pro tern. In 1799, he was again elected to the House of Representatives and became Speaker. 
From 1802 until his death, he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Princeton 
College gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1799, and he was one of the few with whom Washington 
shared his confidences. 

His son was Robert Sedgwick, 1 787-1 841, who married Elizabeth Dana Ellery, daughter of 
William Ellery, of Rhode Island. She was the great-granddaughter of Lieutenant-Governor Ellery, 
the Rhode Island signer of the Declaration of Independence. William Ellery Sedgwick, the father 
of the present Mr. Sedgwick, was the eldest son of Robert Sedgwick and his wife, Elizabeth Dana 
Ellery. He married Constance Irving Brevoort, daughter of Henry Brevoort and his wife, Laura 
Carson. Henry Brevoort's mother, Sarah Whetten, was a descendant of Adam Todd, one of the 
ancestors of the Astor, Kane and other New York families. Mr. Robert Sedgwick, the eldest son 
of William Ellery Sedgwick, was born in New York in 1852. He married, in 1878, Meta Brevoort 
Renwick, granddaughter of the late Professor James Renwick, of Columbia College. They have 
two sons, Robert Sedgwick, Jr., born in 1880, and Henry Renwick Sedgwick, born in 1881. Mr. 
Sedgwick did not enter Harvard University, as almost all his male relatives have done, preferring 
to travel. He went to China from London, around the Cape of Good Hope, in a sailing vessel, and 
for upwards of five years traveled in the East and in Europe. He is a member of the Century, 
Union, Tuxedo, New York Yacht and Downtown clubs, as well as the New York Genealogical and 
Biographical Society, the Ex-Libris Society of England, the American Book Plate Society and simi- 
lar bodies. His city home is 129 East Thirty-sixth Street. Mr. Sedgwick resided for many years 
in Berkshire County, Mass., and spends a portion of every summer there. 

The Sedgwick arms are : Argent on a cross gules five bells or. Crest, a lion proper passant 
through sedge on cap of maintenance. Motto, Confido in Domino. 



MRS. CLARENCE ARMSTRONG SEWARD 

THE lady whose name appears at the head of this sketch, and who has been prominent 
in the social world of New York throughout the present generation, comes from a noble 
Prussian family. The first of the name in America was Baron Frederick Augustus 
de Zeng. He was born in Dresden, in 1756, the second son in his father's family. His father was 
Baron de Zeng, of Ruckerswalde, Wolkenstein, near Marienberg, Saxony. He was Lord Cham- 
berlain to the Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels and High Forest Officer to the King of Saxony. The 
mother of Baron de Zeng was Lady Johanna Phillipina Von Ponickau, of Altenberg. 

Baron de Zeng was educated for the military service of his native country, and in 1774 
received his commission as Lieutenant of the Guard in the service of the landgrave of Hesse- 
Cassel. Coming to this country, in 1780, he settled here, and in 1792 was Major of a 
battalion of militia in Ulster County, N. Y. He became an intimate friend of Governor Clinton and 
General Schuyler, and was associated with General Schuyler in the work of organizing the 
Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, and in 1796 was one of the three proprietors who 
established a manufactory of window glass near Albany. The construction of the Chemung Canal 
was begun by him in 1814. For many years he resided in Kingston, Ulster County, but in 
his later years, lived at Bainbridge, Chenango County. 

Baron de Zeng was the grandfather of Mrs. Clarence A. Seward. The grandmother of 
Mrs. Seward was Mary Lawrence, daughter of Caleb Lawrence and Sarah Burling, of Flushing, 
Long Island. She was married to the Baron de Zeng, in 1784, in Trinity Church, New York. Her 
father was the grandson of Joseph Lawrence, of Flushing, Long Island, the eldest son of the first 
William Lawrence, of Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, who came to America in 1635, 
and married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith, of Long Island. The father of Mrs. Seward was 
William Steuben de Zeng, the fourth child of Baron de Zeng. He was born at Little Falls, N. Y., 
in 1793. He was named after Baron Von Steuben, who was an intimate friend of his parents and 
who was visiting them at the time of the child's birth. His wife was Caroline Cutbush Rees, 
daughter of Major James Rees, of Geneva, N. Y. She was born in 1796, in Philadelphia, and 
married Mr. de Zeng in 181 7. 

By her marriage, in 185 1, to the Honorable Clarenca Armstrong Seward, Caroline de 
Zeng became allied to a family that has been preeminently distinguished in public affairs in the 
State of New York. Her husband was born October 7th, 1828. His father was a son of Dr. 
Samuel Seward, a prominent physician of Orange County and the first vice-president of the County 
Medical Society. He died in 1849. The family was of New Jersey origin. His great-great- 
grandfather, John Seward, served in the War of the Revolution as a Captain, was promoted to 
be Colonel of the First Sussex Regiment and married a Miss Jennings, who belonged to an 
Orange County family. The parents of the Honorable Clarence A. Seward dying when he was a 
mere child, he was brought up in the family of his uncle, the Honorable William H. Seward, the 
great New York statesman. Graduating from Hobart College, in 1848, he began the practice of 
law in Auburn, N. Y., and in 1854 established himself in New York City. In 1856-60, he was 
Judge Advocate-General of the New York State militia. For a time after the attempted assassination 
of Secretary of State William H. Seward, in 1864, he was acting Assistant Secretary of State of the 
United States. In 1876, he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention and a Presi- 
dential elector in 1880. 

For many years previous to his death, in July, 1897, Mr. Seward was president of the Union 
Club of New York. He was also a member of the Century Association, the University, Man- 
hattan, New York Yacht, Players, A A 4> and Mendelssohn Glee clubs and the Bar Association. 
Mrs. Seward resides at }^ Madison Avenue and passes the summer months at her ancestral home 
in Geneva. There are two daughters in the family, Alice de Zeng and Caroline Rees Seward, 
who married Robert Endicott. 

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MRS. ELLIOTT FITCH SHEPARD 

ARGARET LOUISA (VANDERBILT) SHEPARD, widow of Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard, 
was born on Staten Island, and is a daughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt and grand- 
daughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Colonel Shepard, who married Miss 
Vanderbilt on the 18th of February, 1868, at the Church of the Incarnation, New York, was 
prominent by birth and ancestry, as well as for his personal qualities. On the paternal side, he 
was descended from the Reverend Thomas Shepard, a graduate of Cambridge, who came to this 
country to be minister at Cambridge, Mass., and died in 1649. The father of Colonel Shepard was 
Fitch Shepard, of Jamestown, N. Y., the son of Noah Shepard, his grandmother being Irene Fitch, 
a descendant of the Reverend James Fitch, who came to New England in 1638. Another ancestor 
was Major James Fitch, who commanded the Connecticut forces against the Indians, and was a 
contributor to the founding of Yale College. Major Fitch's wife was Alice, daughter of Major 
William Bradford, who commanded the Plymouth troops in King Philip's War, and a grand- 
daughter of Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth. 

Fitch Shepard, of Jamestown, N. Y., Colonel Shepard's father, was born in Connecticut, in 
1802, and was the founder of the Chautauqua County Bank. In 1828, he married Delia Maria 
Dennis, whose ancestor, Robert Dennis, emigrated from England in 1635. Her father, Paul 
Dennis, represented Washington County in the New York Legislature. His wife was Elizabeth 
May, the daughter of Surgeon Theodore May, of the Revolution, and descended from the Ellis and 
Bedlow families, of New York. 

Fitch Shepard's only brother was Burritt Shepard, who entered the United States Navy in 
1826. He was First Lieutenant of the frigate Raritan, in the Mexican War. He married Mary Joan 
Norsworthy, daughter of Samuel Norsworthy, one of the old merchants of New York. Fitch 
Shepard removed from Jamestown to New York, where he established the National Bank 
Note Company, of which he was long president. He had three sons, of whom one, Burritt 
Hamilton Shepard, was lost at sea, in 1848, when nineteen years of age. He was then a member 
of the senior class of the University of the City of New York. He was intended for the ministry, 
and was a young man of great promise. Another son is Augustus Dennis Shepard, of New York. 

Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard was born in Jamestown, N. Y., July 25th, 1833, being the 
second son. He was graduated from the University of the City of New York, was called to the 
New York bar, and became one of its leading members. During the Civil War, his services to the 
Government were of the most arduous character. Governor E. D. Morgan appointed him on his 
staff, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and he was especially commissioned to equip regiments 
of volunteers. He organized and sent to the field from the State of New York, more than forty- 
seven thousand troops, the Shepard Rifles, Fifty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers, being 
named in his honor. After the war, Colonel Shepard was counsel for the New York Central Rail- 
road. He was the founder of the New York State Bar Association, in 1876, and its first president. 

From 1884 to 1887, he traveled in Europe with his family, and returning, in 1888, purchased 
The Mail and Express, and devoted himself largely to that newspaper property, assuming the 
duties of editor. He was throughout his career warmly interested in religious work, being a 
member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, president of the American Sabbath Union, and 
founder of St. Paul's Institute in Asia Minor, an educational institution that was largely supported 
by him. At the same time, Colonel and Mrs. Shepard were prominent in social circles and he 
was a member of the leading clubs of New York and a generous supporter of literary, art, 
scientific and philanthropic institutions. He died suddenly, in 1893. Mrs. Shepard's children are 
four in number, the three married daughters being Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin, Mrs. Ernesto 
Fabbri and Mrs. David Morris. Mrs. Shepard's home is in West Fifty-second Street and her 
summer residence is Woodlea, at Scarborough-on-Hudson, where a handsome memorial chapel 
has been erected by Mrs. Shepard in memory of her late husband. 



GARDINER SHERMAN 

IN Dedham, Essex County, England, a town on the river Stour, in one of the most beautiful 
rural districts of England, between London and Ipswich, the Shermans were settled, more 
than three centuries ago. They were prominent and influential citizens of the place, several 
of them at different times being members of the House of Commons. In business life they were 
woolen manufacturers, and generally prosperous. From this family sprang the Shermans, who 
have been prominent in the history of the United States. Henry Sherman, of Dedham, the earliest 
English ancestor of whom there is historical record, was born in 1520, and died in 1589. His wife 
was Agnes Butler. Edmond Sherman, son of Henry Sherman, was a wealthy merchant, and the 
founder of the English school at Dedham, which is still in existence with quarters in his old home, 
known as Sherman Hall. The wife of Edmond Sherman was Anna Cleave, granddaughter of 
John Cleave, of Colchester, manufacturer, alderman and member of the House of Commons. 

John Sherman, who was born in Dedham in 1613, a son of Edmond Sherman and Anna 
Cleave, came to New England in 1634, and was the ancestor of that branch of the family which 
is here under consideration. A resident of Watertown, Mass., he was a Captain, surveyor, 
town clerk and representative to the General Court. In 1660, and after, he was the steward of 
Harvard College. Captain Sherman died in 1690. His wife, who died in 1701, was Martha 
Palmer, daughter of Roger and Grace Palmer, of Long Sutton, Southampton County, England. 

Joseph Sherman, who was born in Watertown in 1650, son of Captain John Sherman, was 
the grandfather of the Honorable Roger Sherman, who in turn was the great-great-grandfather of 
Mr. Gardiner Sherman. Joseph Sherman was a representative to the General Court of Massachu- 
setts, 1702-05, and frequently a selectman and assessor. He married Elizabeth Winship, daughter 
of Lieutenant Edward Winship, of Cambridge, and had a family of eleven children. William 
Sherman, the ninth child and seventh son, who was born in 1792, was a farmer of Stoughton, 
Mass. By his second wife, Mehetabel Wellington, daughter of Benjamin Wellington, he had seven 
children, among whom was Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

Roger Sherman was born at Newton, Mass., in 1721, and became one of the most active 
and most devoted public men of the Revolutionary period. Most of his life was spent in Connec- 
ticut, where he was a Judge, member of the General Assembly, and otherwise prominent. He was 
a member of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, being a member of the 
Continental Congress in 1774, was Mayor of New Haven, and member of the United States Senate. 
His wife was Elizabeth Hartwell, daughter of Deacon Joseph Hartwell, of Stoughton, Mass. 
His son, Colonel John Sherman, the great-grandfather of Mr. Gardiner Sherman, was born in 
1750, married Rebecca Austin, and died in 1802. During the War of the Revolution he was a 
paymaster in the Fourth Regiment of the Connecticut Line, and served in other capacities during 
the rest of the war. His son was the Reverend John Sherman, who was one of the original 
owners and first settlers of Trenton Falls, N. Y. The Reverend John Sherman and his wife, 
Abigail Perkins, were the parents of John Sherman, who married Mary A. Evans, and was the 
father of the subject of this sketch. 

Mr. Gardiner Sherman was born in New York, December 29th, 1840. He was graduated 
from the College of the City of New York in 1859. For fifteen years he was a member of the New 
York Stock Exchange, but sold his seat and retired in 1879. Subsequently, he became president 
of the Seventh National Bank, but retired permanently from business in 1890. He has been twice 
married. His first wife was Jessie Gordon, daughter of Dr. Charles and Mary (Upham) Gordon, 
of Boston, and by her he had one daughter, Jessie Gordon Sherman. His second wife is Mary 
Moore Ogden, daughter of John D. and Mary C. (Moore) Ogden, of New York. The city 
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman is in West Seventy-second Street, and they have a country 
home at Bar Harbor, Me. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union and City clubs, the Society 
of the Cincinnati, and the Sons of the American Revolution. 



WILLIAM WATTS SHERMAN 

IN the great Anglo-Saxon emigration of the eleventh century, members of the Sherman or 
Shurman family moved from Germany to England and established themselves in the vicinity 
of London. There their descendants have been numerous and influential, and have borne a 
distinguished part in English public affairs. In this country, several branches trace their lineage to 
Colonial days. The progenitor of one branch came from Dedham, Essex County, England. The 
arms of this family are: On a shield or., a lion rampant, sable, between three oak leaves vert. 
Crest, a demi-lion, rampant, sable. It is to this branch that Mr. William Watts Sherman be- 
longs. Henry Sherman, of Dedham, was the oldest member of the family of whom there is accurate 
historical record. He was the son of Thomas Sherman, and was born about 1520. His son, Henry 
Sherman, who married Susan Hill; his grandson, Samuel Sherman, 1 573-1 61 5, who married 
Phyllis Ward, and his great-grandson, Philip Sherman, 1610-1686, who married Sarah Odding, were 
the ancestors in successive generations of the founder of the family in this country. Philip 
Sherman, 1610-1686, was the father of Eber Sherman, of Roxbury, Mass., who was born in 
1634 and died in 1706, and his grandson was also Eber Sherman, of North Kingston, who 
married Martha Remington. Henry Sherman, the great-grandson of the American founder of 
the family, was born in 1724 and married, in 1747, Ann Higginbottom, daughter of Dr. Charles 
Higginbottom. 

Watts Sherman, born in 1775, was the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 
He was a son of Captain Nathaniel Sherman and Lucy Tisdale, and in 1794 married Olivia Gillson, 
daughter of James Gillson and Amy Whipple, of Attleboro, Mass. Removing to Utica, N. Y., he 
was engaged in business there for many years. In 1813, he became associated in business with 
Henry B. Gibson, his son-in-law, and Alexander Seymour, and removed to New York, becoming 
a leading merchant of this city. 

Watts Sherman, of New York, son of Henry Sherman and Sarah Mitchell, and grandson of 
Captain Nathaniel Sherman and Lucy Tisdale, was the father of Mr. William Watts Sherman. Born 
in 1809, he married first Lois Sarah Weld, daughter of Thomas Weld. She died in 1838, and he 
afterwards married his cousin, Sarah Maria Gibson, daughter of Henry B. Gibson and Sarah 
Sherman, who was a granddaughter of Captain Nathaniel Sherman. Henry B. Gibson was born in 
Reading, Pa., in 1783. He moved to Ballston, N. Y., with his father, John Gibson, when only nine 
years old, becoming one of the first settlers of that place. He was cashier of the Ontario Bank in 
Canandaigua, and subsequently in business in New York, was a partner of Watts Sherman, 
the elder. 

Watts Sherman, second, began his career as a teller of the Ontario County Bank, and was 
afterwards cashier of the Lexington County Bank, at Geneseo. For many years he was cashier of 
the Albany City Bank. In 1851, he removed to New York, and became the manager of the 
banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co. He died in 1865, on the Island of Madeira, and 
his wife died in New York, in 1878. The children of Mr. Sherman, by his first wife, were Erastus 
Corning, and Henry Gibson Sherman. By his second wife, he had William Watts, Duncan, Harry 
Gibson, Frederick, Charles A., and Alexander Sherman. 

Mr. William Watts Sherman was born in Albany, in 1842. In 1871, he married in Newport, 
Annie Derby Rogers Wetmore, daughter of William Shepard Wetmore and Anstiss Rogers. Mrs. 
Sherman died in 1884, leaving two daughters, Georgette Wetmore Sherman, who married Harold 
Brown, son of John Carter Brown, of Providence, R. I., and Sybil Katherine Sherman, who married 
John Ellis Hoffman. In 1885, Mr. Sherman married Sophia Augusta Brown, daughter of John 
Carter Brown. The two children of this marriage are Irene Muriel Augusta, and Mildred Constance 
Sherman. The city home of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman is 838 Fifth Avenue, and their summer 
residence is in Newport. Mr. Sherman belongs to the Metropolitan, City, Coaching, Century, 
Knickerbocker and other clubs, the St. Nicholas Society and the American Geographical Society. 

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HENRY F. SHOEMAKER 

ONE of the leaders among the founders of Germantown, Pa., which historic village, 
associated as it is with a battle of the Revolutionary War, is now included in the limits 
of the City of Philadelphia, was the ancestor of the Shoemaker family, who was also 
numbered among the trusted friends of William Penn and was a coworker with Francis Daniel 
Pastorious. The latter, who was a man of high education and gentle birth in Germany, being the 
son of a judge, became imbued with the religious principles of the sect of Pietists and first 
conceived the idea of founding a religious colony in what is now Pennsylvania. Becoming 
acquainted with Penn, whose religious ideas accorded with his own and those of his associates, he 
acquired a large tract in the transatlantic domain which had been granted by Charles II. to Penn, 
and in 1683 led there, from Holland, a body of his coreligionists, who settled at Germantown. 
Among their men of prominence, was the first of the family line from which the subject of this 
article descends, the name having ever since been noted in Pennsylvania and in the City of 
Philadelphia, while its bearers are now found occupying various distinguished stations in many 
different portions of the country. 

Members of the Shoemaker family have always been numbered among the patriotic citizens 
of the Republic. Notwithstanding their original Quaker belief, Peter Shoemaker, the great- 
great-grandfather of this sketch, served in the Indian Wars of the Colonial period, and John 
Shoemaker, his son, was a soldier in the War for Independence. Both grandfathers of Mr. Henry 
F. Shoemaker, Henry Shoemaker and William Brock, were soldiers in the War of 181 a, while he 
himself was an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. 

Other representatives of the family were among the first Pennsylvanians to engage in the 
work of developing the anthracite coal mines of that State. Colonel George Shoemaker, of Potts- 
ville, Pa., a great-uncle of Mr. Henry F. Shoemaker, made the earliest attempt to introduce 
anthracite coal in Philadelphia, loading nine wagons from his coal mines at Centerville, and carrying 
it by teams to Philadelphia, a distance of one hundred miles. But the people of that day regarded 
him and his fuel askance, and he was actually denounced for trying to foist upon them what 
appeared to be simply black stones. Colonel Shoemaker persisted, however, in his efforts to 
dispose of the coal, and succeeded in selling two loads at the cost of transportation. The 
remainder he either gave away or marketed for a trifle to blacksmiths and others who promised 
to try it. But his troubles did not end with his disposal of the coal; and though he lost money 
and time in his efforts to introduce a fuel which has since aided so materially in making Pennsyl- 
vania one of the greatest manufacturing States of the Union, in raising Philadelphia to the position 
of one of the most prosperous cities in the world, and which, moreover, has been an inestimable 
boon to the country at large, the very people to whom he had given his coal asked the authorities 
of the city to arrest him for imposing on their credulity. Colonel Shoemaker was compelled to 
leave in haste, and only saved himself from 'arrest by taking a circuitous route around the Quaker 
City on his way home. 

Meanwhile, Mr. White, one of the owners of the Fairmount Nail and Wire Works, who 
had bought a load of coal from Colonel Shoemaker, was anxious to succeed in burning it, 
and with his men spent a whole morning in trying to ignite it for the purpose of heating 
one of his furnaces. Every expedient which the experimenters' knowledge of other fuels 
could suggest was tried, but to no purpose. Colonel Shoemaker's rocks apparently would not 
burn. Dinner time arriving, the men shut the furnace doors in disgust and abandoned the attempt. 
Returning from dinner they were astonished at the sight they beheld. The doors were red and the 
furnace was in danger of being melted down with a heat never before experienced. On opening 
it, a glowing fire was discovered, hotter than had ever before been seen in the furnace. The 
purchasers of the other loads also succeeded in using it successfully, and from that time on anthra- 
cite stone coal found friends and advocates; and the results of this success being published in 



the papers, added to its reputation and led within a few years to its general adoption as fuel. To 
the Shoemaker family, therefore, belongs the credit of initiating the anthracite coal industry of the 
country, which has become such a factor in its development, from a commercial and industrial 
standpoint, and from that time down to the present day their interests are largely and closely 
identified with the industry which representatives of their name and blood did so much to 

create. 

John W. Shoemaker, Mr. Henry F. Shoemaker's father, was a noted operator in the anthra- 
cite coal region, possessing and working large mines at Tamaqua. The mother of Mr. Henry F. 
Shoemaker was Mary A. Brock, daughter of William Brock, also an extensive owner of anthracite 
coal lands. The Wyoming Valley branch of the family has been notably able and successful; and 
in the various localities in which the members of the different branches have made their homes, 
especially in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, they became people of prominence, leaving 
their impress on the social and business communities where they reside. 

Mr. Henry F. Shoemaker was born in Schuylkill County, Pa., March 28th, 1845. He was 
educated in schools at Tamaqua, his native place, and in Genesee Seminary, New York. When 
General Lee, with the Confederate Army, invaded the State of Pennsylvania in 1863, Mr. Shoe- 
maker, who was then only eighteen years of age, promptly responded to the call of the 
Government for troops to defend f he State. Enlisting a company of sixty volunteers from the 
workmen in his father's mines, he was elected Captain and took his command to Harrisburg, 
where it was mustered into the Federal service as part of the Twenty-Seventh Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Militia and was attached to the Sixth Army Corps. After this military experience, Mr. 
Shoemaker went to Philadelphia, in 1864, made that city his residence, and entered the wholesale 
coal shipping trade with one of the leading establishments of that city, and in 1866 began business 
on his own account as the senior member of the firm of Shoemaker & Mclntyre. In 1870, he 
formed the firm of Fry, Shoemaker & Co., and engaged in the business of mining anthracite coal 
at Tamaqua, Pa. 

After a few years, he found that the transportation business afforded him wider opportunities 
than mining, and having disposed of his coal interests, he became in 1876 secretary and treasurer 
of the Central Railroad of Minnesota. In 1878, he took an active part in the construction of the 
Rochester & State Line Railroad, which afterwards became known as the Buffalo, Rochester & 
Pittsburg Railroad. In 1881, he added to his business ventures the banking house of Shoemaker, 
Dillon & Co., in Wall Street, New York. His transactions in the negotiation of railroad securities 
and properties since that time have been on an exceedingly extensive scale. He became interested 
in the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad in 1886, was president of the Mineral Range Railroad in 
1887, chairman of the executive committee of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad in 1888, 
president of the Dayton & Union and the Cincinnati, Dayton & Ironton Railroad, vice-president of 
the Indiana, Decatur & Western Railway, and a director in the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis, 
the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, the Cleveland, Loraine & Wheeling, the Alabama 
Great Southern Railroad, and also of the English corporation controlling the latter in London, 
England, and of other railroads. Other large industries and enterprises have engaged Mr. Shoe- 
maker's attention and have had the benefit of his wide and successful business experience. He 
was at one time among the principal owners and a director in the New Jersey Rubber Shoe 
Company, which now forms part of the industrial combination formed under the title of the United 
States Rubber Company. 

Since 1877, Mr. Shoemaker has been a resident of New York City. In 1874, he married 
Blanche Quiggle, of Philadelphia, daughter of the late Honorable James W. Quiggle, at one time 
United States Consul at Antwerp and afterwards United States Minister to Belgium. Their family 
consists of two sons and one daughter. Mr. Shoemaker is a member of the Union League, Lotos, 
Riverside Yacht and American Yacht clubs, and belongs to the Sons of the Revolution and the 
Grand Army of the Republic. His city residence is at 22 East Forty-sixth Street, his country 
residence being Cedar Cliff, on the shore of Long Island Sound, near Riverside, Conn. 

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EDWARD LYMAN SHORT 

ONE of the passengers on the Mary and John, which arrived at Boston in 1654, was 
Henry Short, the ancestor of Mr. Edward Lyman Short. He settled in Ipswich, Mass., 
moved to Newbury, and was a delegate to the General Court in 1664, dying in 1673. 
His son was Henry Short, Jr., who, in 1692, married Ann (Sewall) Longfellow, widow of William 
Longfellow. Her father, Henry Sewall, was Mayor of Coventry, England, and five of his 
descendants were Judges in the Colony, three attaining the Chief Justiceship. 

Charles Short, LL. D., 1821-1886, father of the subject of this article, was born in Haverhill, 
Mass., and graduated from Harvard College in 1846, was an eminent classical scholar and 
man of letters. In 1863, he became president of Kenyon College and professor of moral and 
intellectual philosophy. In 1868, he was appointed professor of Latin in Columbia College, and 
held that position till his death. In 1871, he was a member and secretary of the American 
Committee for the Revision of the New Testament. He published a number of works on classical 
philology and collected one of the largest private classical libraries in the country. In 1849, ne 
married Ann Jean Lyman, daughter of the Honorable Elihu Lyman, 1782-1826, of Greenfield, 
Mass., and his wife, Mary Field, daughter of Robert Field. Elihu Lyman was graduated from 
Dartmouth College in 1803, became an eminent lawyer and influential citizen of Franklin County, 
Mass., being high sheriff, 1811-15, and was afterwards State Senator. The ancestor of the Lyman 
family, Thomas Lyman, of Navistoke, Essex, who died in 1509, married a great-grand- 
daughter of Sir William Lambert, whose marriage with Johanna de Umfreville, it has been said, 
united the two ancient and honorable lines of Lambert and Umfreville. It was their descendant, 
Richard Lyman, who came from High Ongar, England, in 1631, to Hartford, Conn. His 
great-great-grandson was Major Elihu Lyman, 1741-1823, a native of Belchertown, Mass., and a 
Captain in the expedition against Quebec under Montgomery and Arnold in 1775. He was the 
father of Elihu Lyman, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Edward Lyman Short. 

Mr. Short was born in Philadelphia, September 30th, 1854. He was educated at schools in 
New York and at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from Columbia College 
in 1875 and from the Columbia Law School in 1878. He read law in the office of Foster & 
Thomson, was admitted to the bar in 1878, and since 1884 has been a member of the firm 
now known as Davies, Stone & Auerbach. His specialties are railway, corporation and insurance 
law, and he is general solicitor of the Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is a strong and logical 
speaker at the bar, and has appeared in many important railroad and other litigations, and has 
recently published an exhaustive work on the Law of Railway Bonds and Mortgages. 

In 1887, Mr. Short married Anna Livingston Petit, whose family has been identified for 
generations with the social life of New York. Among her ancestors are Robert Livingston, the first 
Lord of Livingston Manor, Johannes de Peyster, John Roosevelt and Colonel Gerardus Beekman. 
Mrs. Short and her sister, Emily Petit, own a Dutch portrait of one of the first de Peysters 
who came to this country. On the paternal side, her family came from Bordeaux, where the 
ancient street of Naute is named after them. Mr. and Mrs. Short have two children, Anna 
Livingston and Livingston Lyman Short. Their residence is in West Thirty-seventh Street, and 
their country home has been recently in Islip, Long Island. Mr. Short is a member of the 
Metropolitan, University, Calumet, Lawyers' and Church clubs, the Bar Association, the Columbia 
College Alumni Association, the Downtown Association, the Sons of the Revolution and the 
Society of Colonial Wars. 

The eldest son of Dr. Charles Short, and brother of Mr. Edward Lyman Short, is the 
Reverend Charles Lancaster Short, of Worcester, Mass., and the youngest son is Henry Alford 
Short, Ph. D., a graduate of Columbia in the class of 1880. The Short coat of arms, a copy of 
which has been in the possession of the family since the emigration, bears this inscription : " He 
beareth sable a griffon passant argent and a chief ermine, by the name of Short." 



JOSEPH EDWARD SIMMONS 

BORN in Troy, N. Y., a little over fifty years ago, Mr. Joseph Edward Simmons is another 
instance of the important part which the mingling of the Holland Dutch and New England 
blood has played in the State and City of New York, and of the position which representa- 
tives of the union of L the two races hold in the present, as in the past, history of the metropolis. 
He is descended from Revolutionary ancestry, one of his great-grandfathers on the maternal side 
having been a soldier of the Continental Army. He was educated in the Troy Academy and in a 
private school and was graduated from Williams College in 1862. He studied also in the Albany 
Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1863, was called to the bar the same year and suc- 
cessfully practiced his profession in his native city until 1867. 

Mr. Simmons' eminent success was, however, destined to be gained in other lines of 
activity than the law, while to a man of his capacity and energy New York City presented the true 
field for the exercise of his talents and ambition. In the year last mentioned, he removed hither 
and entered the banking business. Becoming a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he 
was in 1884 called to its presidency at a time when public confidence was disturbed, and even that 
institution— the most important business body of the country— felt the shock. His administration 
was eminently successful and his reelection for a second term, in 1885, confirmed his title to the 
approval and gratitude of the financial public. In 1888, he became president of the Fourth National 
Bank of New York. In this position his success has given him a national reputation. He 
has taken a leading and influential part in the deliberations of the New York Clearing House Asso- 
ciation, and in 1896 received the highest compliment which can be paid by the members of his 
own profession in his election as president of the Clearing House. He is vice-president of the 
Chamber of Commerce, president of the Panama Railroad Company, and of the Columbian Line of 
Steamships. He is also interested in the philanthropic institutions of the city, being the treas- 
urer and one of the board of governors of the New York Hospital. 

Nor has Mr. Simmons failed to win distinction in public life, though political ambition has 
found no place in his character. He has repeatedly refused to become a candidate for offices of 
distinction, even declining a nomination to the Mayoralty of New York when such nomination 
could have been considered equivalent to an election. On the other hand, he is one of the limited 
class of men of affairs who take an intelligent and useful interest in politics, and in 1881 he accepted 
the honorable and laborious position of a member of the Board of Education, becoming president 
of the Board in 1886. During a connection of nine years in this capacity with the city's educational 
system he labored unceasingly and successfully to extend and improve its scope, and was instru- 
mental in creating many beneficial changes, notably the conferring of collegiate powers on the 
Normal College for Women, the act of the Legislature to that effect having been passed by his 
personal influence. He also gave much attention to the College of the City of New York, a part of 
the city's fine educational facilities which owes much to his intelligent interest in its welfare. In 
short, the executive ability which has won him high place in the business and financial world has 
been unstintingly given to further the cause of popular education, and in a position which involved 
no small amount of personal sacrifice. When he relinquished his connection with the Board of 
Education, owing to exacting business engagements, he had gained the reputation of being the 
most efficient president that the Board had ever had. 

Mr. Simmons is also distinguished in the Masonic Order, having served as grand master of 
the Grand Lodge of this State. He has traveled abroad extensively and, in addition to his residence 
in West Fifty-second Street, has a summer home at Monmouth Beach, N. J. He is a member, 
among other organizations, of the Metropolitan, University and Manhattan clubs, and of both the 
New England and St. Nicholas societies. He married Julia Greer, daughter of George Greer, of 
New York, and he has two children, Joseph Ferris and Mabel Simmons. In 1888, he received' 
the degree of LL. D., from the University of Norwich, Vermont 



HENRY WARNER SLOCUM 

ONE of the purchasers, in 1637, ol Cohannet, afterwards incorporated in the town of 
Taunton, Mass., was Anthony Slocombe. In 1650, he was a juryman of the town; 
in 1654 a surveyor of the highways, and in 1657 a freeman. In 1662, he removed 
to Dartmouth, of which he was one of the first settlers, and in 1675 was killed in King Philip's 
War. He married a sister of William Harvey, of Taunton. Giles Slocombe, their son, was born in 
Somersetshire, England, and settled in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1638, becoming a freeman in 1655. 
Eliezer Slocombe, 1664-1727, in the third American generation, married Elephel Fitzgerald. 

Benjamin Slocum, 1699-1726, son of Eliezer Slocum, was born in Dartmouth, Mass., and 
married Meribah, daughter of Ralph Earl. He was the father of John Slocum, who was born in 
Dartmouth, and settled in Newport, R. I., in 1746, where he became a merchant. His wife was 
Martha Tillinghast, daughter of Pardon Tillinghast and Avis Norton, a daughter of Benjamin Norton. 
The grandfather of Martha Tillinghast was Philip Tillinghast, of Providence. Her grandmother 
was Martha Holmes, who was a granddaughter of Obadiah Holmes. Philip Tillinghast was a son of 
Pardon Tillinghast, a Baptist minister, of Beechy Head, Sussex, England, who came to Providence in 
1 645. The mother of Philip Tillinghast was Lydia Tabor, daughter of Philip Tabor, ofTiverton, R. I. 
The next in line of descent was Benjamin Slocum, 1761-1805, who married Elizabeth 
Coggeshall Born in Newport, he became a resident of Marietta, O. His son, Matthew Barnard 
Slocum, born in Newport in 1788, settled in Delphi, Onondaga County, N. Y., engaged in business, 
and married Mary Ostander in 1814. 

Major-General Henry Warner Slocum, son of Matthew B. Slocum, and father of the subject 
of 'this sketch, was a distinguished officer in the Civil War, and also had a notable career in 
political life. He was born in Delphi, N. Y., in 1826, entered the United States Military Academy 
in 1846, and upon graduation became Second Lieutenant of the First Artillery. After serving 
in the Florida War he resigned from the army in 1856, and was soon after admitted to the 
New York State bar. In 1858, he was a member of the Assembly. At the beginning of the Civil 
War he was appointed Colonel of the Twenty-Seventh New York Volunteers, and was wounded 
at the first battle of Bull Run. He was promoted to be Brigadier-General in 1861, and served in 
the Peninsular campaign with the Army of the Potomac, being present at Yorktown and at Gaines' 
Mill, Malvern Hill and other battles. He was engaged throughout the Northern Virginia 
campaign, and at Gettysburg commanded the right wing of the army. In 1864, General Slocum 
succeeded Hooker in command of the Twentieth Army Corps, and the same year was transferred 
with his command to the Army of the West. He was engaged in Sherman's march to the sea, 
and, in 1865, was placed in command of the Department of the Mississippi. At the close of the 
war, General Slocum returned to civil life, and in 1865 was nominated for Secretary of State of 
New York by the Democratic party, but was defeated in the election. Removing to Brooklyn in 
1866, he was elected a member of the National House of Representatives in 1868, and again in 
1870! and was president of the Brooklyn Board of Public Works in 1876. He died in Brooklyn in 
April, 1894. In 1854, he married Clara Rice, daughter of Israel and Dorcas (Jenkins) Rice, of 
Woodstock, N. Y. They had four children, Caroline, Florence Elizabeth, Henry Warner and 
Clarence Rice Slocum. 

Mr. Henry Warner Slocum, the eldest son of General Slocum, was born in Syracuse, N. Y., 
May 28th, 1862. He was educated at Yale University, graduating from that institution in 1883. 
He studied law, and has been for many years engaged in practice. In October, 1888, he 
married Grace Edsall, daughter of Henry and Emma (Jerome) Edsall. Mrs. Slocum's mother 
was the daughter of Thomas Jerome, the eldest brother of Leonard Jerome. Mr. and Mrs. 
Slocum have two daughters, Gertrude and Nathalie Slocum. The family resides in East 
Fortieth Street. Mr. Slocum is a member of the Racquet and University Athletic clubs, and of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 

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CHARLES STEWART SMITH 

IN every period of New York's history its merchants have been the real mainstay of the 
community, and from among them have come its natural leaders. A century ago, when the 
storms of the Revolution broke, New York merchants like Philip Livingston and Francis 
Lewis were foremost in adopting the patriotic cause. To-day, when the chief dangers to republican 
institutions are of a domestic character, the leaders of the business world in New York have been 
no less ready to come forward in the public interest. 

In the revolt of intelligence and material interests against corruption and misgovernment, 
and in the movement for municipal reform, the city's merchants have taken a conspicuous part. No 
name is more likely to occur in this connection than that of Mr. Charles Stewart Smith, who in 
recent years has been an important factor in public affairs, and a spokesman at a juncture of great 
importance for the New York mercantile world as the head of a body which, for more than a 
century, has represented the financial, commercial and industrial interests of the city. 

A New Englander by birth, Mr. Smith is descended from families that were among the 
earliest settlers of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. Samuel Smith, his first American 
paternal ancestor, came, in 1634, with his wife, Elizabeth, from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and 
settled at Watertown, Mass. In the following year, he moved to the valley of the Connecticut and 
was a founder of the town of Wethersfield, Conn., and represented that place in the General Court 
from 1641 to 1653. In 1639, he moved to Hadley, Mass., where he was also a representative from 
1661-73, also a magistrate and Lieutenant of militia. His fourth son, John Smith, married Mary 
Partridge in 1663, and in 1676 was killed by the Indians in the Falls fight, while leading his com- 
mand with conspicuous valor. Benjamin Smith, his youngest son, born in 1673, and who was 
three years old at his father's death, was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this article. 
He moved to Wethersfield, married Ruth Buck in 1700, and Josiah, his second son, born 1707, 
married in 1740 Mary Treat, daughter of Joseph Treat, a descendant of Richard Treat, one of the 
founders of Connecticut. James, the youngest son of this marriage, born in 1756, was the grand- 
father, and his fourth son, John, born in Wethersfield in 1796, the father, of Mr. Charles Stewart 
Smith. John Smith became a clergyman of the Congregational Church and married, in 1826, Esther 
Mary Woodruff and had seven children, of whom Mr. Charles Stewart Smith was the third. 

The Treat family has already been referred to in mentioning the marriage of Mary Treat to 
Mr. Smith's great-grandfather, Josiah Smith. The family is of English origin, its American 
ancestor, Richard Treat, having been born in 1584 at Pitminster, Somersetshire, England. In 161 5, 
he married Alice Gaylord, daughter of Hugh Gaylord, and it is presumed that he was one of the 
company which came to Massachusetts with Saltonstall in 1630. His name occurs first in 1641 in 
the records of Wethersfield, Conn. He was elected by the town of Wethersfield to offices of trust, 
and was in 1663 a member of Governor Winthrop's council. He was also a patentee and charter 
member of the Colony of Connecticut. Many of his descendants served in the French and Indian 
Wars and in the Revolution, being distinguished for their sturdy patriotism at the latter period. 

Robert Treat, the second son of the pioneer, began his public career at the age of eighteen 
and thenceforward his life was spent in constant public service. As a Major, he was Commander- 
in-Chief of Connecticut's forces in King Philip's War. He was a deputy to the General Court, a 
magistrate for eight years, seventeen years Deputy Governor and fifteen years Governor. His 
great-grandson was Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence. James Treat, 
the youngest brother of Governor Robert Treat, was a Lieutenant of the Wethersfield train band 
in the Indian Wars and held many public local offices at a time when to hold office was a patent of 
a good name and a title of honor. He was deputy from Wethersfield, 1672-1707, a member of the 
Council of Safety in 1689, commissioner in 1693-97, Justice of the Peace for Hartford County, 
1698-1708, and a member of the Governor's Council, 1696-98. From him descended Mary Treat, 
who was the great-grandmother of the subject of this sketch. 

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Through his mother, who was Esther Mary Woodruff, Mr. Smith is descended from Elias 
Woodruff, who was his great-grandfather and was Commissary-General of the Revolutionary 
forces of New Jersey. Elias Woodruffs wife was Mary Joline, a direct descendant of a Huguenot 
merchant of New York, Andre Joline. Their son, Aaron Dickinson Woodruff, a resident of 
Trenton, and Mr. Smith's grandfather, graduated from Princeton College as valedictorian of the 
class of 1779. He was admitted to the bar in 1784 and was Attorney-General of New Jersey for 
seventeen years. Both father and son were ardent patriots and were personal friends of Washing- 
ton. Some thirty members of the Woodruff family took part in the Revolutionary War, of whom 
nine were commissioned officers. The history of Princeton College records the names of the 
various members of the Woodruff family among its founders and benefactors. 

Born in 1832, at Exeter, N. H., where his father, the Reverend John Smith, had a parish, 
Mr. Charles Stewart Smith was educated in his native place, came to New York a mere youth in 
1846, and entered the wholesale dry goods trade. His business career throughout was attended by 
a success corresponding with his ability and the broad-minded energy which is one of his charac- 
teristics. Soon after attaining his majority, he became associated with the well-known firm of 
S. B. Chittenden & Co., and was for a number of years their representative in Europe. Afterwards 
he became the senior of the firm of Smith, Hogg & Gardner. His prominence and success as a 
merchant only ended in 1887, when he permanently retired from active business. Possessing, 
however, extensive interests, Mr. Smith is associated in the direction of some of the foremost 
financial, insurance and other similar institutions of the city, including the United States Trust 
Company, the Merchants, Fourth National and Fifth Avenue banks, the Equitable Life Assurance 
Society and the German-American Insurance Company. 

Although consistently declining public office, his interest in politics was always keen, and, 
an active member of the Union League Club, he has served as vice-president of that institution. His 
great service to New York was, however, rendered in 1894. As president of the Chamber of 
Commerce, he impressed upon the members of that venerable body the fact that the prevalent mal- 
administration of the affairs of the city was a menace to its material prosperity. Largely through 
Mr. Smith's efforts, the celebrated Committee of Seventy, of which he was a leading member and 
chairman of the executive committee, was formed and his effective and disinterested share in 
bringing about the civic revolution of that year was warmly acknowledged by all classes of his 
fellow citizens. The value of the work which he performed at this crisis in New York's municipal 
affairs in fact becomes more apparent with the lapse of time. The overthrow of a corrupt adminis- 
tration of the city's affairs is but one feature of the matter. It was of even more importance that 
the citizens should be aroused to a sense of their power and of the real weakness of the mercenary 
and often corrupt class of politicians. The demonstration of these facts, it is generally admitted, 
have had a most salutary effect and will for many years to come exercise an influence on the action 
of political parties in selecting candidates for municipal honors as well as on the conduct of the 
duly elected officials. It is due to Mr. Smith to say that he was one of the few who realized that 
New Yorkers of all ranks and stations possessed a civic pride and an attachment for their city, and 
it was on his initiative that this feeling was so successfully appealed to in the instance referred to. 

Mr. Smith is a member of the Union League, Metropolitan, Century, Players, Lawyers' and 
other clubs, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a patron of the American Museum of 
Natural History and the National Academy of Design, and a member of the New England Society, 
and the Sons of the American Revolution. He has a city residence, 25 West Forty-seventh Street, 
and a country seat, Fairlawn, at Stamford, Conn. He has two sons, Stewart Woodruff Smith and 
Howard Caswell Smith, who are engaged in business in New York City. 

James Dickinson Smith, the brother of Mr. Charles Stewart Smith, is the head of the bank- 
ing firm of James D. Smith & Co., of this city. He has long been a leading member of the New 
York Stock Exchange and is an ex-president of that institution. Some years since he was commo- 
dore of the New York Yacht Club. His son is Archibald H. Smith and his daughter, Helen 
Woodruff, is the wife of Homer S. Cummings. 

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GOUVERNEUR MATHER SMITH, M. D. 

ON both sides, Dr. Smith's descent is from families famous in the early Colonial history of 
New England and New York as well as in the Revolutionary struggle. He is a native of 
the metropolis, his father being the distinguished Dr. Joseph Mather Smith, who was 
born in New Rochelle, and was for many years one of the foremost physicians in America, and 
professor for forty years in the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, where an annual 
prize now bears his name. His grandfather was Dr. Matson Smith, who came of an old New 
England family, having been born at Lyme, Conn., but who established himself at New Rochelle, 
where he became a leading physician and was also known for his activity in religious matters. 
He was president of the Westchester County Medical Society, founded in 1797. His wife, the 
grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was a daughter of Dr. Samuel Mather, of Lyme. 

The position of the Mather family in New England Colonial history is well known, and a 
branch of it settled in Connecticut at an early day. Dr. Smith's great-grandfather, Dr. Samuel Mather, 
1 741-1834, was a Captain in Colonel Saltonstall's regiment of Connecticut militia, 1775-79, but 
exchanged it for the equally honorable and useful rank of Surgeon in Colonel Parson's regiment, 
1779-80. His father, Dr. Eleazer Mather, of Lyme, 1 716-1798, also served the patriotic cause, hav- 
ing been appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut to examine candidates for the post of 
surgeon in the Continental army and navy. Joseph Mather, another direct ancestor, one genera- 
tion further removed, was Lieutenant during the French and Indian War. 

In the maternal line, Dr. Smith is related to a number of the older New York families, such 
as the Lispenards, Marstons and Rutgers. He is a descendant of Antoine or Anthony Lispenard, 
1643-1696, the founder of the family of that name, which now exists only through its female 
descendants. It was this Anthony Lispenard, a Huguenot refugee, who, among other public 
services, bore despatches from Governor Dongan to the French Governor of Canada. Another 
ancestor was the famous Colonel Leonard Lispenard, 171 5-1 790, who was a member of the Pro- 
vincial Assembly of New York in 1759-68, and a delegate to the first Colonial Congress held in 1765 
at Philadelphia. Another worthy who appears in Dr. Smith's family tree is Anthony Rutgers, 
member of the New York Assembly, 1726-37, while, going further back, we find among his ances- 
tors on the paternal side Major-General Humphrey Atherton, Commander of the Ancient and 
Honorable Artillery Company in 1650, Major-General in 1661, Speaker of the Massachusetts House 
of Deputies in 1653, and Governor's Assistant of Massachusetts, 1654-61. 

Dr. Gouverneur Mather Smith was graduated from the New York University in 1852. He 
studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and received the degrees of M. A. and of M. D. 
in 1855, entering at once upon active practice. The beginning of the Civil War aroused his 
patriotic instincts, and he offered his services gratuitously as medical officer of the United States 
Sanitary Commission transport Daniel Webster. In 1862, he was appointed Acting Assistant 
Surgeon in the army and served until the end of the war. In 1864, he was appointed executive 
officer in charge of the United States Army General Hospital, at which he was stationed. On the 
death of his father, in 1866, he succeeded him as an attending physician at the New York Hospital, 
where he is now one of the consulting physicians. Dr. Smith's professional honors cannot, how- 
ever, be traced in full, though it should be mentioned that he was vice-president of the New York 
Academy of Medicine, 1875-78, and since then has been one of its trustees. In 1887-88, he was 
president of the New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. Dr. 
Smith has been a writer not only on medical topics, but is a contributor to periodical literature in a 
lighter vein of both verse and prose. He is a member of the Metropolitan Club and the Century 
Association, was a manager of the Sons of the Revolution and is a member of the Society of 
Colonial Wars. He is surgeon of the Society of the War of 1812, consulting physician of the St. 
Nicholas Society, and one of the managers of the New York Association for Improving the Condi- 
tion of the Poor, and of the New York Institution for the Blind. 

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WILLIAM ALEXANDER SMITH 

ANCESTORS of Mr. William Alexander Smith, who were of Scotch origin, were early settled 
in Colonial New York. His great-grandparents were William and Elizabeth C. Smith. 
His grandfather, Robert Smith, 1752-1838, served as a Major during the War of the Revo- 
lution, being wounded at the battle of White Plains. After the war, he was in business in Phila- 
delphia. Upon the establishment of the United States Bank, he was elected a director and then a 
trustee, serving in that capacity for forty-eight years. 

The wife of Robert Smith was Rebecca (Hobart) Potts, daughter of Enoch Hobart and great- 
granddaughter of Thomas Hobart, son of Enoch Hobart, of Hingham, Mass., by his wife, Hannah 
Harris, daughter of Thomas Harris. The father of Enoch Hobart was Joshua Hobart, 1614-1682, who 
came to this country with his parents in 1633, and went to Hingham, Mass., in 1635, being a free- 
man in 1634, a selectman in 1662, a deputy to the General Court for twenty-four years after 1643, 
Speaker of the House of Deputies in 1674 and Captain of a military company in King Philip's War. 
His wife was Ellen Ibrook, daughter of Richard lbrook. His father was Edmund Hobart, of 
Hingham, 1570- 1646, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1633 from Hingham, England, was a freeman 
in 1634, and a deputy to the General Court in 1642; he married Margaret Dewey. 

Robert Hobart Smith, father of Mr. William Alexander Smith, was a native of Philadelphia. 
Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, he studied law and then entered the Theological 
Seminary at Princeton. He was licensed to preach in 1829, and for many years was ruling elder 
in the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and treasurer of the General Assembly. His 
death occurred in 1858. The wife of Robert Hobart Smith was Mary Potts, of Pottsgrove, Pa., 
daughter of Joseph Potts, 1766-1824, and Sarah Potts, daughter of David and Mary (Aris) Potts. 
The grandfather of Mary Potts was Samuel Potts, 1 7 36- 1 793, who during the Revolution was engaged 
in casting heavy cannon for the Continental Army, was a member of the Assembly from Philadel- 
phia County in 1767-69, associate judge and member of the First Constitutional Convention in 
Pennsylvania. His wife was Joanna Holland, daughter of Thomas Holland, of Philadelphia. 
Samuel Potts was a son of John Potts, 1710-1768, the founder of Pottstown, Pa., whose wife was 
Ruth Savage, daughter of Samuel and Anna (Rutter) Savage and granddaughter of Thomas and 
Rebecca (Staples) Rutter. The father of John Potts was Thomas Potts, a native of Wales. He 
was sheriff in Germantown in 1702. His first wife, the mother of John Potts, was Martha Keurlis, 
a member of one of the twelve families that accompanied Pastorius to America. 

Mr. William Alexander Smith, the eldest surviving son of Robert Hobart Smith and his wife, 
Mary Potts, was born in Pottstown, Pa., September 9th, 1820. Soon after coming of age, he set- 
tled in New York, and in 1845 entered Wall Street, being now senior partner of the banking house 
of William Alexander Smith & Co. He has been much interested in religious and philanthropic 
work. In 1848, he was treasurer of the New York Bible Society, has been president of the Shelter- 
ing Arms since 1 893, treasurer of the General Clergy Relief Fund since 1 868, trustee of the permanent 
fund of the Orphans' Home and Asylum since 1863, trustee of the parochial fund of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church since 1864, manager of St. Luke's Hospital since 1868, and vice-chairman of the 
executive committee of the same institution since 1896, vice-president of the Protestant Episcopal 
City Mission, and manager of the Home of Incurables and of the Society for Promoting Religion 
and Learning. He has been president and treasurer of the New York Stock Exchange, and is a 
vice-president of the Continental Trust Company. 

In 1847, Mr. Smith married Clara Mary Bull, daughter of the Reverend Dr. Levi Bull. She 
died in 1857. His second wife, whom he married in 1863, was Margaret Jones, daughter of 
George and Serena (Mason) Jones. His children are Robert Hobart Smith, who married Dinah 
Watson Dunn; Clara H. Smith, who married the Reverend L. C. Stewardson; and William Alex- 
ander Smith, Jr., who married Emily Louisa Gurnee. The city residence of the family is in Madison 
Avenue and their country home is West Hill, Nyack-on-Hudson. 

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LORILLARD SPENCER 

WILLIAM Spencer came from England to America in 1631, and settled in Cambridge, 
Mass. He returned to England the following year, but came again to this country 
in 1639, bringing with him his brothers, Thomas and Jared. These three brothers 
were the ancestors of the various branches of the Spencer family which trace their lineage to 
Colonial times. William Spencer and his brother, Thomas, were among the first settlers of 
Hartford, Conn., where William was a land proprietor, a selectman of the town, and a deputy to 
the General Court of Connecticut, in 1639. He died in Hartford, in 1640. 

Ambrose Spencer, great-grandfather of Mr. Lorillard Spencer, was lineally descended in the 
fifth generation from William Spencer, the Hartford settler. He was born in Salisbury, Conn., in 
1765, and died in Lyons, N. Y., in 1848. Educated at both Yale College and Harvard College, and 
graduated from the latter in 1783, he made his home in Hudson, N. Y., and entered upon a career 
in which he became highly distinguished as a lawyer, Judge and public man. He was elected a 
member of the assembly of New York State, in 1793, and was a member of the State Senate for 
seven years after 1795. In 1796, he was Assistant Attorney-General of New York, in 1802 
Attorney-General of the State, and in 1804 became Justice of the Supreme Court, being its Chief 
Justice, 1819-23. In 1809, he was Presidential elector, a member of the Constitutional Convention 
in 1821, Mayor of Albany 1824-26, a member of the National House of Representatives 1829-31, 
and president of the National Convention in Baltimore, in 1844. 

The grandfather of Mr. Lorillard Spencer was Captain William Ambrose Spencer, U. S. N. 
He was born in New York in 1793, and died in 1854. Educated in the United States Naval 
Academy at Annapolis, Md., he entered the navy as a midshipman in 1809, was promoted to be a 
Lieutenant in 1814, attained to the rank of Captain in 1841, and resigned from the service in 1843. 
When Commodore Thomas McDonough achieved his famous victory over the British naval forces 
on Lake Champlain in 1814, Captain Spencer, who was then Acting Lieutenant, took part in that 
engagement, and for his bravery was presented with a sword by act of Congress. Captain Spen- 
cer was twice married. His first wife was Catherine Lorillard, born 1792, daughter of Peter A. 
Lorillard, 1 763-1 843, and his wife, Maria Dorothea Schultz. After her death, Captain Spencer 
married her younger sister, Eleanor Eliza Lorillard, born in 1801. 

Lorillard Spencer, Sr., the son of Captain William A. Spencer, was born in New York in 
1826, and died in Paris, France, in 1888. Inheriting considerable wealth, he did not enter profes- 
sional or business life, devoting himself, in a large degree, to scholarly pursuits. During the 
greater part of the last twenty years of his life, he resided in Europe. He married Sarah J. 
Griswold, daughter of Charles C. Griswold, a famous New York merchant, who, with his brother, 
John Griswold, owned the London line of packet ships. Mrs. Spencer was the granddaughter of 
Governor Matthew Griswold and Ursula Wolcott. The children of Lorillard Spencer, Sr., can thus 
trace, in both the paternal and maternal line, a descent from the most eminent families of Colonial 
Connecticut. 

Mr. Lorillard Spencer, of the present generation, was born in New York, February 14th, i860. 
He has spent much time in foreign travel, but resides in the city of his birth, where he possesses 
important interests. He has been particularly known as the owner of The Illustrated American. 
He married Caroline S. Berryman, a granddaughter of Stephen Whitney, one of old New York's 
most prominent merchants. The family has been conspicuous in the social life of the period in 
New York and in Newport, where Mr. Spencer's residence, Chastellux, is one of the most beautiful 
places in that city. Mr. Spencer is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Whist and Aldine clubs, 
the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Military Society of the War of 
1812. The only sister of Mr. Lorillard Spencer is Eleanor Spencer, who married Virginio Cenci, 
Prince of Vicovaro, Grand Chamberlain to the King of Italy. The Princess Cenci was the first 
American to be appointed Dame du Palais by Queen Marguerita. 

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JAMES SPEYER 

ALTHOUGH the name of Spire, or Spira, appears in the chronicles of Frankfort-on-Main as 
early as the middle of the fourteenth century, the first member of the Speyer family of 
whom accurate records have been kept, and from whom Mr. James Speyer is a direct 
descendant, was Michael Speyer, who died in 1586. The family has long been known for the broad 
spirit of philanthropy it has manifested and for its well-directed efforts in aiding those in need and 
in bettering the condition of the poor. In the commercial world, moreover, it has also, through the 
business enterprise and integrity of its members, long occupied a distinguished and prominent 
position. An interesting comment on the important standing of the family, even in 1792, is found 
in the fact that when, in that year, the French general, Custine, brought three leading citizens of 
Frankfort to Mayence as hostages to guarantee the payment of a war tax, one of them was the 
Imperial Court Banker, Isaac Michael Speyer. 

In 1691, Michael Isaac Speyer was chosen head 01 the Hebrew community in Frankfort, in 
which position his two sons, Joseph Michael and Moses Michael, succeeded him. A third son, 
Isaac Michael Speyer, was the special representative of the entire Jewish community at the Imperial 
Court of Vienna, as well as before all other civil and judicial authorities of the country. Another 
member of the family was Imperial Court-factor at Michelstadt, and Wilhelm Speyer, who died in 
1878, was a well-known musical composer of his day. The practical philanthropy of the family is 
shown by the establishment of various funds for the help of the poor and needy in different ways by 
Joseph Speyer in 1729, Isaac Speyer in 1807, and Moses Michael Speyer in 1801, all of which 
funds are still in existence and are the means of alleviating much distress. 

Mr. James Speyer was born in New York in 1861. His father, Gustavus Speyer, who 
married Sophie Rubino in i860, followed his brother, Phillip Speyer, to New York in 1845. 
Together, they founded the New York house of Phillip Speyer & Co., which, in 1878, became the 
firm of Speyer & Co. His grandfather, Joseph Speyer, died in 1846, and his grandmother, Jeanette 
Ellissen, in 1828. After receiving his education at Frankfort-on-Main, Mr. Speyer began his business 
career in his father's banking house in Frankfort when twenty-two years of age. He then 
went to Paris and London, and in 1885 returned to New York, where he is now a partner in the 
well-known banking house of Speyer & Co., as well as in the Frankfort house and its European 
branches. 

Mr. Speyer has taken a prominent part in every kind of intelligent and well-directed 
philanthropic work in this community. He was one of the founders of the Provident 
Loan Society, of New York, of which he is now the president, and is also treasurer of the Univer- 
sity Settlement Society and a trustee of the German Savings Bank. In politics, he is a Democrat, 
but is independent and non-partisan, especially in municipal affairs. He was an active member 
of the executive committee of the Committee of Seventy, vice-president and treasurer of the 
German-American Reform Union in the Cleveland campaign of 1892, and is also an original 
member of the Citizens' Union. In 1896, he was appointed a member of the Board of Education 
by Mayor William L. Strong. 

In November, 1897, Mr. Speyer married Ellin L. Prince (Mrs. John A. Lowery), daughter 
of the late John Dyneley Prince and Mary Travers, who was the daughter of John Travers and 
Susan Moale, both descendants of the oldest families of Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Speyer has long 
been prominent in efforts to brighten the lives and better the condition of the less fortunate, 
especially in connection with the working girls' clubs. She is treasurer of the Woman's Auxiliary 
of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, vice-president of the Woman's Auxiliary of the 
University Settlement Society and a member also of the board of managers of the Loomis Sanitarium 
for Consumptives. Mr. Speyer is a member of the City, Manhattan, Players, Racquet, Reform, 
Lawyers', Whist and New York Yacht clubs, and the Deutscher Verein. Mr. and Mrs. Speyer 
reside at 2^7 Madison Avenue. 



PAUL NELSON SPOFFORD 

HALF a century ago, Paul Spofford was one of the great New York merchants. He was 
born in 1792, his family being of old Massachusetts stock. When he was a boy of 
sixteen, he entered business in Haverhill, Mass., and was soon a junior partner, remaining 
there until 1818. He then formed a partnership with Thomas Tileston and came to New York, 
where he established an agency for the Boston Packet Line, and gradually engaged in trade 
with the West Indies and South America. Ultimately his firm came to have one of the largest 
shipping establishments in New York, and among their many notable achievements was the first 
successful inauguration of steam navigation on the ocean in this country. During the Civil War, 
the members of the firm gave substantial assistance to the Government. Outside of the shipping 
business, Paul Spofford had many important interests. He was also a member of the Council 
of the University of the City of New York and treasurer of the corporation. 

Paul Spofford was a descendant from John Spofford, 1612-1678, who in 1638 settled in 
the town of Rowley, Mass. The ancestors of the family in successive generations down to Paul 
Spofford were John Spofford, 1648- 1696, and his wife, Sarah Wheeler; Jonathan Spofford, 
1684-1772, and his wife, Jemima Freethe ; Abel Spofford, 1718-1785, and his wife, Eleanor Poore; 
and Joseph Spofford, who died in 1825, and his wife, Mary Chaplin. 

Not many families in this country can trace their lineage to European ancestry more surely 
and more accurately than the Spoffords. The name appears in the Domesday Book. Gamel, 
son of Orm, was Lord of Thorp-Arch on the river Wharf, Yorkshire, and had other domains in 
the eleventh century. From Gamelbar, Lord of Spofford, son of Gamel, Lord of Thorp-Arch, 
sprang the Spoffords of Yorkshire. Walter de Spofford was among those who were killed 
during the invasion of England by Malcolm II., King of Scotland. Thomas de Spofford became 
Bishop of Hereford in 1420. In 1642, John Spofford was appointed by Parliament vicar of 
Silkeston, in Yorkshire, and it was his son, John Spofford, who came to Massachusetts. 

In 1822, Paul Spofford married Sarah Spofford, also descended from John Spofford, 
of Rowley, the ancestor of her husband. Her father was Daniel Spofford, 1770- 1805; her 
mother being Mary Nelson, of Georgetown, Mass. Her grandfather was Moody Spofford, 
1744-1828, a justice in Georgetown, Mass., a representative to the General Court of Massachusetts 
for several successive terms, and a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. The great-grandfather 
of Mrs. Spofford was Colonel Daniel Spofford, who married Judith Follansbee, daughter of 
Francis and Judith (Moody) Follansbee, of Newbury, Mass. He was Colonel of the Seventh 
Regiment, Essex County, and led his regiment to Lexington and to Cambridge at the time of the 
battle of Bunker Hill. He was a representative of the General Court in 1776 and a member of 
the Constitutional Convention, in 1780. The great-great-grandfather of Mrs. Spofford was 
Captain John Spofford, who was born in 1678, a brother of Jonathan Spofford, the great-grand- 
father of Paul Spofford. By his wife Sarah, Paul Spofford had two children. The youngest 
child, a daughter, Mary Louisa, died in infancy. By his second wife, Susan B. Spring, daughter 
of the Reverend Gardiner Spring, he had five children, four sons and a daughter. 

Mr. Paul Nelson Spofford is the only son of Paul Spofford and his first wife. He is a 
member of the Union and Union League clubs, the American Geographical, Botanical, and New 
York Historical societies, the Society of Colonial Wars, and other organizations. When the 
engineer department in the militia of this State was established, he was appointed by Governor 
Young Engineer-in-Chief, with the rank of Brigadier-General. He organized the department 
and continued at its head, on the staff of Governor Hamilton Fish. Since then, Mr. Spofford has 
been much occupied with his own affairs and those of his father's estate. He is a bachelor, 
and resides at Hunt's Point, New York City, with his brother, Joseph L. Spofford, who married 
Cecilia, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Haws, and who has one son, Paul Cecil Spofford. The 
other surviving brother, Edward Clarence Spofford, resides on his estate at Tarrytown, N. Y. 

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MYLES STANDISH 

ONE of the most picturesque figures in New England's early Colonial history was Miles, or 
Myles, Standish, the Pilgrim soldier. His fame has Jnot been excelled by any of his 
associates in the Plymouth Colony, and Longfellow has preserved his memory in that 
famous poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish." He was the ancestor in the ninth genera- 
tion of the gentleman whose name is at the head of this article. He came of an ancient English 
family of knightly rank, dating back before 1200, the records being legible to Thurston de 
Standish, in 1221. Myles Standish was born in 1584, in Lancashire, England, and was the rightful 
heir of the Standish Hall estates in that county. One of his ancestors, "the Squier of Kynges, 
called John Standysshhe," as Froisart has it, slew Watt Tyler in the time of Richard II. 

Inheriting the profession of arms, Myles Standish accepted a commission from Queen Eliza- 
beth in aid of the Dutch and passed much time in the Low Countries. He joined the Pilgrims, 
in Leyden, and came to this country in the Mayflower, in 1620. With him, came his wife, Rose, 
who died the same year. He later married his cousin, Barbara Standish, from whom the family in 
this country is descended. His military skill and bravery made him a leading man of the 
Plymouth Colony. He was one of the first signers of the " Compact," the "Germ of the Amer- 
ican Constitution." He was the champion of the settlement, defending it against the Indians. 

In 1625, he revisited England as a representative of the Colony, returning the next year 
with supplies. After that, he settled in Duxbury, to which place he gave the name of the English 
home of his race, and for the remainder of his life was one of the Governor's Council and a 
magistrate. In 1649, he was chosen General-in-Chief of all the companies in the Colony, and in 
1653, at the breaking out of the hostilities between England and Holland, he was again honored 
with the chief command. He died in 1656, "and the Pilgrims mourned for him as one who had 
ever been their stay in the time of peril, their support in more peaceful and prosperous times 
and their reliable counselor under any and all circumstances." A granite monument, surmounted 
by his statue, is erected to his memory, on Captain's Hill, Duxbury, dedicated to " The First 
Commissioned Military Officer of New England." His grave has been recently identified and 
appropriately marked. 

Alexander Standish, the oldest son of Myles Standish, was a freeman of Duxbury, in 1648, 
the third clerk of the town, 1695-1700. He died in 1702. There is a special romantic interest 
attached to his first marriage, for his wife, Sarah Alden, was the daughter of John Alden, who was 
his father's friend and who, according to tradition, was commissioned to negotiate a marriage by 
Captain Standish with Priscilla Mullins, a transaction that ended in Alden marrying her himself. 
In the ensuing generations, the ancestors of Mr. Myles Standish were Ebenezer Standish, of 
Plympton, Mass., 1672-1759, son of Alexander and his wife, Hannah Sturtevant; Zachariah 
Standish, of Plympton, 1698-1770, and his wife, Abigail Whitman; Ebenezer Standish, 1721-1747, 
and wife, Averick Churchill; Shadrack Standish, of Plympton, 1 745-1837, and his wife, Mary 
Churchill; Levi Standish, of Westport, Mass., 1779-1843, and his wife, Lucy Randall; John Avery 
Standish, of New Bedford, Mass., 1806-1865, and his wife, Emmeline, daughter of Joseph Bourne. 
Shadrack Standish was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. He was a member of Captain 
Thomas Sampson's company that formed part of Colonel Lothrop's regiment, and saw service in 
1777 and 1781, when the British threatened a descent on Rhode Island. 

Mr. Myles Standish was born in 1847, being the youngest and only surviving son of the 
late John Avery Standish, of New Bedford, Mass. He was educated at the Friends Academy, in 
New Bedford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a resident of this city 
for a number of years, and married the youngest daughter of the late James F. D. Lanier, of New 
York. He is a member of the Century, Metropolitan, City and Lawyers' clubs, the Society of 
Colonial Wars, and the New England and American Geographical Societies. His residence is in 
Fifth Avenue, near Washington Square. 

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JOHN STANTON 

HISTORY will record how much the development of the material prosperity of the United 
States during the present century should be credited to those of our citizens who, born in 
foreign lands, have come to this country and taken an energetic part in opening up new 
fields of enterprise, and in increasing the wealth of the country. Prominent among those who 
have been thus engaged will stand Mr. John Stanton and his father, who preceded him in the line 
of business in which he has now been engaged for nearly half a century. The father of Mr. Stanton 
was a native of England. He belonged to an old family and had been prosperous in business 
before he came to this country. Educated as a mining engineer, he was a considerable owner of 
coal properties in his native 'and and had accumulated a substantial capital. In 183s, looking to 
the New World for better opportunities for investment and enterprise, he came to this country. For 
a short time he lived in New York, but soon after removed to Pottsville, Pa., where he invested 
largely in coal mines. Afterwards he disposed of his interests in Pennsylvania and became 
interested in the iron mines near Dover, N. J. 

Mr. John Stanton was born in Bristol, England, February 25th, 1830, and as a lad accom- 
panied his father when the latter removed to this country. He received his education in Pennsyl- 
vania, principally under the direction of his father, its tendency being chiefly of a scientific 
character. When, in 1846, his father engaged in iron mining in New Jersey, the son, although 
only sixteen years of age, was fully qualified to take an active part in the direction of mining 
operations. About 1852, he engaged in copper mining and for the next nine or ten years most of 
his time was devoted to the development of the copper deposits in Maryland, Virginia and 
Tennessee. The breaking out of the Civil War put an end to his business operations in that section 
of the country, and he lost heavily in the troubles incident to the time through the confiscation of 
his properties by the Confederate Government. 

Thereupon Mr. Stanton turned his attention to the copper mines of the Lake Superior district. 
In a short time, he established business relations with several of the leading mining companies of 
that region, and became one of the most successful copper mine operators in the United States. 
He owns large interests in several important mines and is active, not alone in the material develop- 
ments of the property, but as well in the management of the financial affairs of the corporations by 
which they are owned. He is president of the Atlantic Mining Company, the Central Mining 
Company, the Allouez Mining Company and the Wolverine Copper Mining Company. In addition 
to his large mining interests in the Lake Superior region, he is also connected with mining affairs 
in Colorado and Arizona. Believing also in the ultimate value of the mineral deposits of the South, 
he has been one of the pioneers in the development of mining in that section of the country, and 
has done much to promote its industrial progress. 

One of the founders and most enthusiastic supporters of the New York Mining Stock 
Exchange, Mr. Stanton was the first president of the Exchange in 1876, and upon the expiration of 
his term of service was elected to the treasurership. He is a member of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the North of England Insti- 
tute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. His wife was Elizabeth Romaine McMillan. Hi« 
residence is in West Twenty-third Street, in old Chelsea Village. He is a member of the Lawyers', 
Union League, Engineers' and Lotos clubs, the Downtown Association and the American Geo- 
graphical Society, and of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural 
History. His family consists of three children. John R. Stanton, the elder son, is engaged in busi- 
ness with his father, being treasurer of the Wolverine Copper Mining Company. He has been a 
member of the Seventh Regiment and belongs to the Engineers' and Seventh Regiment Veteran 
clubs, and the Sons of the Revolution. The younger son, Frank McMillan Stanton, is a mining 
and mechanical engineer and a graduate of Columbia College School of Mines. The only daughte. 
of the family is Helen Louise Stanton. 



FREDERICK AUGUSTUS STARRING 

DESCENDED in the fifth generation from Nicholas Starring, or Starin, General Frederick 
Augustus Starring represents one of the most important branches of this interesting 
family, of which no less than forty-three representatives are found on the muster rolls 
of the Ulster and Tryon County regiments in the Revolutionary War, while members of it also 
served in the French and Indian wars. Nicholas'Staring came to this country from Holland in 1696, 
and settled in Albany, and afterwards in German Flats, on the Mohawk River. Philip Frederick 
Adam Staring was the youngest son of the pioneer. He was born at German Flats, N. Y., in 
17 1 5, and married first, in 1743, Elizabeth Evertson, and second, Elizabeth Simmons, of 
German Flats. 

Frederick Adam Starring, 1762- 1854, was the youngest son of his father's first marriage. 
He lived in the counties of Montgomery and Herkimer, and in early life was a teacher, 
becoming in later years a merchant. He was a prominent member of the Dutch Reformed Church 
at Stone Arabia, N. Y., one of the oldest in the Mohawk Valley. Sylvanus Seaman Starring, the 
third son of Frederick Adam Starring, was the father of the gentleman whose name heads this 
sketch. He was born in Herkimer County in 1807, and died at St. Charles, 111., in 1862. Receiving 
a good education, he became a civil engineer. He removed to Buffalo in 1830, and became 
successful in his profession and a prosperous man of affairs. He took a prominent part in the 
Papineau Rebellion in Canada in 1836, and in that connection obtained the title of Captain, being 
one of the party which boarded the steamboat Caroline, when that vessel was set on fire and 
sent adrift over Niagara Falls. The first wife of Sylvanus Seaman Starring was Adaline Morton 
Williams, who was born at Fredonia, N. Y., in 1810. Her father, William Williams, was one of 
the founders of Fredonia, N. Y. Two of her brothers were killed in the battle on Lake Erie. 

General Frederick Augustus Starring is the eldest son of Sylvanus Seaman Starring. He 
was born at Buffalo, May 24th, 1834. Graduated from the High School of Buffalo in 1851, he 
afterwards studied at Harvard College and also in Paris. He became a civil engineer on the Illinois 
Central Railroad, and in 1856 located the boundary line between Arkansas, Texas and the Indian 
Territory. When the Civil War began, he at once volunteered, and was in the first battle of Bull 
Run, and was made Major of the Forty-Sixth Illinois Infantry in the summer of 1861, and in the 
autumn Major of artillery. In 1862, he was selected as Colonel of the First Chicago Board of 
Trade Regiment, Seventy-Second Illinois Infantry, was Provost Marshal, General of the Department 
of the Gulf, 1864-66, and made Brigadier-General for gallant and meritorious services in 1865. He 
was in all the campaigns in the Mississippi Valley, and took part in the actions of Fort Donaldson, 
Fort Henry and Island Number Ten, Fort Pillow, the Yazoo Pass Expedition and the siege and 
campaign of Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, Big Black, etc., and that 
against Mobile, as well as other operations, and was assigned by General Grant to the surrender 
of arms from the Confederates at the fall of Vicksburg. He received the Vicksburg medal of 
honor, the MacPherson badge and other decorations. 

After the war, General Starring traveled extensively in Europe, and, returning home, assisted 
in organizing the Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was the first Inspector-General, in 
1869. He designed the Badge and Ritual and has Badge No. 1. From 1869 to 1883, he was 
engaged in the public service, one of his most conspicuous duties being that of agent to examine 
consular and diplomatic affairs in Europe, to which position he was appointed in July, 1869. He 
has traveled extensively in all parts of the world. He married, in 1889, Louise Perle (Whitehouse) 
Evans. General Starring's residence is in Fifth Avenue. He belongs to the Union League, 
Manhattan, United Service and New York Yacht clubs, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and 
the Army and Navy Club, of Washington. The Starring arms, borne by their ancestors in 
Guilderland, Holland, are: Azure, an eight-pointed star, or., in an annulet of the same. Crest, an 
eight-pointed star, or. 



EDWIN AUGUSTUS STEVENS 

FOR three generations Castle Point, Hoboken, has been the home of a family foremost in 
all that has made New York preeminent. John Stevens, the first of the name to come 
to this country, was a native of Middlesex County, England. He arrived in New York in 
1699, and was a law officer of the Crown. His wife was Ann Campbell, daughter of John Camp- 
bell, one of the original proprietors of New Jersey, and related to the Duke of Argyle. 

John Stevens, second of the name, was the eldest son of his father's family. He was born 
in Perth Amboy, N. J., and early in life was in mercantile business, afterwards having interests in 
the Rocky Hill copper mine, and being engaged in foreign trade. He was paymaster of the Old 
Blues Regiment, of New Jersey, an Indian commissioner in 1758, a member of the King's Council 
in 1762, vice-president and afterwards president of the Board of Proprietors of East New Jersey, 
and president of the Convention of New Jersey in 1787. He died in 1792. His wife was Elizabeth 
Alexander, a daughter of James Alexander, whose wife was a granddaughter of Johannes de 
Peyster, and whose son was the Revolutionary hero, General William Alexander, Lord Stirling. 

John Stevens, third of the name, 1749-1838, was graduated, in 1768, from Kings College, 
and developed a genius for mechanical invention. One of his chief titles to fame is his 
labors for the introduction of steam navigation, in which work he was intimately associated with 
Robert Fulton and Chancellor Livingston. His wife, whom he married in 1738, was Rachel Cox, 
daughter of John Cox, of Bloomsburg, N. J., one of the founders of Hoboken. He left a family of 
thirteen children, five of whom were sons. During the latter part of his life he lived on the Castle 
Point estate, which he acquired in 1784. 

Three of the sons of John Stevens were famous as engineers, or in the transportation busi- 
ness, Robert L., James H., and Edwin A. Stevens. Another son, John C. Stevens, was a prominent 
yachtsman. The other son, Richard Stevens, died young. Edwin Augustus Stevens, who was 
born in 1795, through inheritance and by purchase from his brothers, acquired the entire Castle 
Point property. He was distinguished for his benefactions, and established and endowed the 
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. He died in 1868, leaving a widow and eight children. 

Mr. Edwin Augustus Stevens, the present head of this family, was born in Philadelphia, 
March 14th, 1858, and graduated from Princeton College in 1879. He is president of the Hoboken 
Land and Improvement Company, and is actively interested in many other business enterprises and 
in public affairs. He has been park commissioner, tax commissioner, president of the Hoboken 
Ferry Company, and of the Hackensack Water Company, a director in several banks, and a trustee 
of the Stevens Institute. Prominent in State and national politics, he has been a member of the 
Democratic State Committee of New Jersey, and was Democratic Presidential elector in 1888 and in 
1892. In military affairs he has been Adjutant of the Ninth Regiment, N. G. N. J., an aide on the 
Governor's staff, and Colonel of the Second Regiment. He is a member of the Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, an associate of the Association of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 
and a member of many other societies and clubs, including the University and Lawyers' clubs, 
of New York, and the German and Columbia clubs, of Hoboken. He married Emily C. Lewis, 
and lives at Castle Point. 

The elder son of this family, John Stevens, born in 1856, married Mary McGuire, and died 
a few years ago. The third son, Robert Livingston Stevens, was born in 1862, graduated from 
Columbia College in 1887, and married Mary Whitney. The fourth son, Charles Albert Stevens, 
was born in 1863, graduated from Columbia College in 1887, and married Mary M. Brady. The 
youngest son, Richard Stevens, born in 1865, graduated from Columbia College in 1890, and mar- 
ried Elizabeth Stevens. The eldest daughter, Caroline Bayard Stevens, who was born in 1859, 
married Archibald Alexander, who is not now living. The other daughter is Julia Augusta 
Stevens. The widowed mother of the family, Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens, Sr., is still living at 
Castle Point. 



GEORGE THOMAS STEVENS, M. D. 

IN the first records of Connecticut, John Stevens's name appears as one of the Colonists who, 
under the lead of the Reverend John Davenport, came to New Haven in 1639. John 
Stevens, who was of a Devonshire family, joined, soon after his arrival in America, in the 
settlement of the town of Guilford, Conn., where he gained prominence and influence. His 
son, William Stevens, lineal ancestor of the subject of this article, was the first settler of 
Killingworth, Conn. One of his descendants, at the period of the American Revolution, was 
Elnathan Stevens, Dr. Stevens's paternal grandfather, who served in the Continental Army 
throughout the struggle. A son of this patriot was the Reverend Chauncey Coe Stevens, who 
became a noted minister in the Congregational Church, and who, leaving his native Connecticut 
after his ordination, passed fifty years in Essex County, of this State, during forty of which he 
was pastor of the Second Church at Crown Point. 

Dr. George Thomas Stevens was born in Essex County, N. Y., in 1832, and was the 
son of the Reverend Chauncey Coe Stevens and his wife, Lucinda Hoadley Stevens. Dr. Stevens's 
first maternal ancestor in America was John Hoadley, also of the New Haven Colony, and one 
of those who went to Guilford, where he was one of "the seven pillars" in the church. 
Returning to England, he became Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. One of his sons was Benjamin 
Hoadley, the famous liberal Bishop of Winchester. William Hoadley, a son of John, who 
remained in this country, was an original settler at Saybrook, and is the direct ancestor of Dr. 
Stevens. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Stevens, Samuel Hoadley, was, like Elnathan Stevens, 
a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. Dr. Stevens received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 
from Union College. He graduated in medicine in 1857 at the Castleton Medical College, Vt., 
and has been active in professional practice since that time. At the outbreak of the Civil War, 
he was commissioned Surgeon of the Seventy-seventh New York Volunteers, and took part in 
all the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, becoming operating Surgeon to his brigade and 
for a time Medical Inspector of the Sixth Corps. At the conclusion of the war, he was elected 
Professor of Physiology and of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Medical College of Albany, 
N. Y. In 1880, Dr. Stevens removed to New York, where he has since continued in practice. 
He is the author of many medical works, more particularly of several upon subjects relating to 
the eye, which are well known in his profession, and he has devised a number of important 
optical, surgical and scientific instruments, which are in use both in America and in Europe. 
Among other works from his pen are Three Years in the Sixth Corps, The Flora of the 
Adirondacks, and Through North Wales by Train and Coach. 

In 1861, Dr. Stevens married Harriet W., daughter of William L. Wadhams, of 
Wadhams Mills, N. Y., and his wife, Emeline Cole Wadhams. Mrs. Stevens's family is of 
Somersetshire extraction, the founder of Wadham College, Oxford, having been of it. John 
Wadhams, who was an original settler of Weathersfield, Conn., in 1650, was the American 
ancestor. Luman Wadhams, a Major in the United States Army, was Mrs. Stevens's grandfather. 
He served at the battle of Plattsburg, in the War of 18 12, and was officially complimented 
for his conduct. He subsequently became a Brigadier General of State troops and was a man 
of much prominence. The late Reverend Dr. Edgar P. Wadhams, Bishop of Ogdensburg, 
was Mrs. Stevens's uncle, while among her ancestors was Governor Leete, of Connecticut. 

The two children of Dr. and Mrs. Stevens are, Frances Virginia, now the wife of Dr. 
George Trumbull Ladd, Professor of Philosophy in Yale University, and Dr. Charles Wadhams 
Stevens, a graduate of Princeton and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, who is a 
practicing physician in the city. In their frequent visits abroad, Dr. and Mrs. Stevens have 
met and enjoyed social relations with many of the most distinguished persons in social and 
scientific circles, and have entertained many European visitors in the United States. Dr. Stevens 
is a member of a number of clubs and societies in New York, and of scientific bodies. 

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JOHN AIKMAN STEWART 

AS the name would indicate, the subject of this sketch comes of Scottish stock. His 
father, John Stewart, was a native of the Hebrides, and emigrated from Stornoway 
to this country in 1815, and although a man of moderate circumstances, soon established 
himself successfully in business and became a citizen of prominence. For many years he was one 
of the assessors for the old Twelfth and Sixteenth Wards, and subsequently became Receiver of 
Taxes of the City of New York. In 1817, he married Mary Aikman, who was also a member 
of a Scottish family. He died in 1849 at the age of fifty-eight, leaving a large family of 
children. 

The first son of John Stewart was Mr. John Aikman Stewart, who was born in Fulton Street, 
New York, August 22d, 1822. His father had attained comfortable circumstances while he was 
growing up, and he, in consequence, secured a liberal education. After his preparatory schooling 
was over, he entered Columbia College, from which institution he was graduated in the literary and 
scientific course in 1840. Two years after graduation, when he was only twenty years of age, the 
clerkship of the Board of Education of this city was offered to him, and he held that position 
until 1850, when he resigned his place in the Board of Education to become the actuary of the 
United States Life Insurance Company. 

In 1853, Mr. Stewart, with other business men, undertook the organization of the United 
States Trust Company, and secured its charter from the Legislature. He became the first secretary 
of the corporation, with which he has been connected ever since, succeeding to the presidency in 
1865, when its president, Joseph Lawrence, resigned on account of ill health and advancing years. 
As president of the United States Trust Company, Mr. Stewart occupies an extremely influential 
position. The institution is the largest, as well as one of the oldest, trust companies in the 
country, and under his management has become an important factor in the New York financial 
world. Mr. Stewart has other weighty financial responsibilities in addition to the presidency of the 
United States Trust Company. He is a director in the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the 
Merchants' National Bank, the Greenwich Savings Bank, the Liverpool and London and Globe 
Insurance Company and the Bank of New Amsterdam. 

For about a year, Mr. Stewart held public office, when, in 1864, at the urgent invitation of 
President Lincoln and the Honorable William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury, he became 
Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York. The office had been tendered to him 
before, but was declined, and he finally accepted it only from a sense of patriotic duty to his 
country, then distracted by Civil War. In his early life, Mr. Stewart was a Democrat, but on the 
issues of 1861 he supported President Lincoln, and has been a Republican in his political views 
from that time forward. 

Feeling a deep interest in religious and charitable work, Mr. Stewart gives considerable time 
to organizations for such objects, being a director of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, a 
trustee of the John F. Slater fund for the industrial education of the negroes of the South, a trustee 
of the Brick Presbyterian Church, of which the Reverend Henry van Dyke is pastor, and one of 
the trustees of Princeton University. Mr. Stewart married, in 1845, Sarah Youle Johnson, 
of New York. His second wife, whom he married in 1894, was Mary O. Capron, daughter of 
Francis B. Capron, of Baltimore. He has had four children, the two now living being a son, John 
A. Stewart, Jr., who is engaged in the real estate business in this city, and married Anne Thomas, 
and a daughter, Emily Stewart, who is the wife of Robert Waller, Jr., a member of the New York 
Stock Exchange. Mr. Stewart's elder son, now deceased, was William A. Walker Stewart, a 
prominent member of the New York bar, and who married a daughter of William Gray, of Boston. 
At his death, he left four children, Mary, Frances V., Francis G., and William A. Walker Stewart. 
The deceased daughter of Mr. John A. Stewart was Mary, who married George St. John Sheffield. 
Mr. Stewart is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League and Riding clubs. 

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WILLIAM RHINELANDER STEWART 



SCOTCH and Huguenot families of distinction are the paternal ancestors of this gentleman. 
His father, the late Lispenard Stewart, was a descendant of Robert Stewart, who came to 
New York before the Revolution, and whose grandson, Alexander L. Stewart, married 
Sarah Lispenard, daughter of Captain Anthony Lispenard and his wife, Sarah Barclay. The Hu- 
guenot family of Lispenard came to America after the revo*. ion of the Edict of Nantes. In the 
charter of Trinity Church, granted by William 111., in 1693, is the name of David Lispenard. Other 
bearers of the name held important positions in the early history of the city; among them Leonard 
Lispenard, born in 1716, who was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765. By his marriage 
with Alice Rutgers, daughter of Anthony Rutgers, he acquired an extensive property on the west 
side of the city, long known as the Lispenard estate. Captain Anthony Lispenard, father of 
Sarah (Lispenard) Stewart, was the younger son of Leonard Lispenard. 

Lispenard Stewart, the elder, was the son of Alexander L. Stewart. He was born in New 
York, and died in 1867. He was twice married, his first wife being Louisa Stephania Salles. 
After her death, he espoused Mary Rogers Rhinelander, who survived until 1893. She was a 
daughter of William Christopher Rhinelander. The three children of this marriage are: William 
Rhinelander and Lispenard Stewart and Mary R. Stewart, the wife of Frank S. Witherbee. 
By his first marriage, Lispenard Stewart had two daughters, Louisa Stephania, who married John 
B. Trevor, and Sarah Lispenard, who married Frederick Graham Lee. 

Mr. William Rhinelander Stewart, the head of the family, was born in New York, December 
3d, 1852. Educated by tutors, and at the Charlier's and Anthon's schools, he graduated from the 
Law School of Columbia College in 1873. Admitted to the bar, he was with a leading law firm 
for some years, and now gives attention to the management of the family estates. In 1879, he 
married Annie M., daughter of the late John A. Armstrong, of Baltimore, the surviving children of 
this marriage being a daughter, Anita, and a son, William Rhinelander Stewart, Jr. 

Representing families with extensive interests in New York, Mr. Stewart takes an active 
part in all public movements to advance the municipal interests. He joined Company K of the 
Seventh Regiment in 1871, and served eight years in that command. In 1882, Governor Cornell 
appointed him a member of the State Board of Charities, to which office he was reappointed by 
Governors Flower and Black, and on the death of the Honorable Oscar Craig, in 1894, was unani- 
mously elected to succeed him as president of the board. During most of his long service on the 
board, Mr. Stewart has been chairman of the Committee on Reformatories, and on Schools for the 
Deaf, and has annually visited all parts of the State to inspect institutions. Many of the reports of 
the different committees of this board are from his pen. His duties as president of the board 
require the gratuitous devotion of fully one-half his time. Mr. Stewart was also president of the 
Twenty-fifth National Conference of Charities and Corrections. For the Centennial of Wash- 
ington's Inauguration, in 1889, he originated the idea of spanning Fifth Avenue, at Washington 
Square, with a triumphal arch, and carried it to completion. He was treasurer of the committee 
which erected the present permanent arch. Mr. Stewart is a vestryman of Grace Church and its 
treasurer since 1893. He is a trustee of the Greenwich Savings Bank, and a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Union, Metropolitan, Century and many other clubs, 
and the Downtown Association, being secretaryof the latter. 

Lispenard Stewart, the second son of Lispenard Stewart, Sr., was born in Westchester 
County in 1855. He was graduated from Yale College in 1876, and from the Columbia College 
Law School in 1878. He has been active in politics, and in 1889-90 was a member of the State 
Senate, a Presidential elector in 1888, and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 
1896. Since 1895, he has been president of the State Prison Commission, and is identified with 
several philanthropic organizations. He is a member of the Union, Metropolitan, University 
and Union League clubs, and resides at 6 Fifth Avenue, having a summer home in Newport. 



JAMES ST1LLMAN 

GEORGE STILLMAN, the first American ancestor of Mr. James Stillman, was born in 
London, England, in 1654, and came to Hadley, Mass., afterwards removing to 
Wethersfield, Conn. While living in Hadley, he was a selectman in 1696, and a deputy 
to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1698. In Wethersfield he was a selectman in 1708, 
and left an estate valued at nearly three thousand pounds, a large sum at that time. His wife, 
whom he married in 1685, was Rebecca Smith, daughter of Deacon Philip Smith, one of the 
first settlers of Hadley, in the company led by Governor Webster. Nathaniel Stillman, the son of 
George Stillman, was born in 1691, and married Anna Southmayd, daughter of William South- 
mayd, and had for his second wife Sarah Allyn, daughter of Captain Joseph Allyn. His son, 
Nathaniel Stillman, 1791-1811, married Mehitable Deming, daughter of David Deming, of Wethers- 
field. In the next generation, Nathaniel Stillman, born in 1752, married Martha Hanmer. Their 
son, Francis Stillman, 1785- 1838, married Harriet Robbins, and their son, Charles Stillman, was the 
father of Mr. James Stillman. All the ancestors of Mr. Stillman were public-spirited men. His 
four great-grandfathers served in the Continental Army, two of them as officers. Charles Stillman 
was a successful shipping merchant, being one of the first financiers of New York interested 
in developing the Southern section of the country. He married Elizabeth Pamela Goodrich, 
daughter of Joshua Goodrich and Clarissa Francis. 

The American ancestor of the Goodrich family was William Goodrich, who, born in 
England, near Bury St. Edmunds, came to New England with his brother, John Goodrich. 
He was a freeman of Connecticut in 1656, and a deputy from Wethersfield to the General Court 
in 1662. In 1663, he was an ensign of the militia, and died in 1676. In 1648, he married Sarah 
Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin, of Hartford, and his wife, Elizabeth. William Goodrich, his 
son, married Grace Riley, and their son, Lieutenant Joseph Goodrich, who married Mehitable 
Goodwin, daughter of Nathaniel Goodwin, was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth Pamela 
Goodrich. Their son was Nathaniel Goodrich. He married Martha Deming ; his son, Isaac 
Goodrich, who married Elizabeth Raymond, was Mr. James Stillman's great-grandfather. 

Mr. James Stillman was born in Brownsville, Tex., June 9th, 1850. His parents temporarily 
resided there at the time, while his father was engaged in the management of important business 
interests. Returning from the South to Hartford, Conn., Mr. Stillman was brought up in that 
city, and was educated principally at Churchill's school, in Sing Sing, N. Y. When he had 
attained his majority, in 1871, he entered the firm of Smith, Woodward & Stillman, cotton mer- 
chants of New York, and has maintained an unbroken connection with the house down to the 
present time, becoming a partner in 1873 of the firm of Woodward & Stillman, which succeeded 
the earlier establishment, and having been its head for many years. Aside from his connection with 
mercantile affairs, he has been identified with large financial interests, and is connected with 
several banks and railroad companies. He is president of the National City Bank, and a director 
of the United States Trust Company, the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, the New York Security 
& Trust Company, the Hanover National Bank, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, 
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Consolidated Gas Com- 
pany, and the Queen Insurance Company. 

Mr. Stillman married Sarah Elizabeth Rumrill, their five children being: Elsie, who married 
William G. Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller; James A., Isabel Goodrich, Charles Chauncey, 
and Ernest Goodrich Stillman. The city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Stillman is in East Fortieth 
Street, and they also have a summer home, Oaklawn, in Newport. Mr. Stillman is a member of 
the Chamber of Commerce and the Cotton Exchange. His clubs include the Century, Metro- 
politan, Union, Union League, Reform, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Eastern 
Yacht, St. Augustine Yacht, JekyI Island, Storm King, Tuxedo, Riding and Lawyers', while he 
also belongs to the New York Historical Society and the Metropolitan Club, of Washington. 

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ANSON PHELPS STOKES 

THE family of which Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes is the prominent representative in the 
present generation was of Norman origin, a branch of the ancient and illustrious house 
of Montespedon. Several of its members went to England from Normandy soon after 
the Conquest, and there obtained large landed possessions, and were people of high standing. 
Thomas Stokes, the American emigrant, was a son of William Stokes, of London, and was born 
in that city in 1765. His wife was Elizabeth Ann Boulter, daughter of James Boulter, of 
Lowestoff, Wales. He came to New York in 1798, and was one of the most distinguished men 
of that generation in philanthropic and religious work. Before coming to this country he was 
a merchant of considerable wealth, and one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. 
In this country he was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, the New York Peace 
Society and the American Tract Society. 

James Stokes, 1804-1881, father of Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes, was the son of Thomas Stokes. 
Early in life he was engaged in business with his father, but later became a member of the 
metal importing firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. After remaining in this business connection for 
about forty years, he assisted in establishing the banking house of Phelps, Stokes & Co. Inter- 
ested in charitable and religious institutions, he contributed generously to their support, and was 
associated with Peter Cooper and others in the development of the public school system. 

James Stokes married Caroline Phelps, daughter of Anson G. Phelps, in 1837. Anson G. 
Phelps, 1781-1853, was directly descended in the sixth generation from George Phelps, the 
pioneer, who was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Conn. Mr. Phelps also had descent from the 
Watson, Griswold, Woodbridge, Wyllys, Haynes, Dudley Egleston and other great Colonial 
families. Among his most distinguished ancestors were three Colonial Governors, John Haynes, 
Thomas Dudley and George Wyllys. His father was Lieutenant Thomas Phelps, who served in 
the Continental Army under Generals Washington, Putnam, Greene and others. Seven children 
of James Stokes and his wife, Caroline Phelps, survived their parents: Anson Phelps, James, 
Jr., Thomas, William E. Dodge, Olivia Egleston Phelps, Dora, wife of Henry Dale, and Caroline 
Phelps Stokes. 

Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes, the eldest son of this family, was born in New York, was a 
partner in Phelps, Dodge & Co., and afterwards in the banking business of Phelps, Stokes & 
Co., with his father. In late years, he has been principally occupied in looking after his real 
estate and other investments. He married Helen L. Phelps, daughter of Isaac Newton Phelps, 
who was descended in the sixth generation from George Phelps, of Windsor, the ancestor of 
her husband's mother. Her father, who was born in 1802, was a leading banker of New York. 
His parents were Joseph Phelps and Elizabeth Sadd, and his great-grandparents, Captain Joseph 
Phelps and Abigail Bissel, daughter of Thomas Bissel, of Connecticut. The mother of Mrs. 
Stokes was Sarah Maria, daughter of Sylvester and Sarah (King) Lusk, both the Lusk and King 
families being among the earliest settlers of Connecticut. 

The city residence of the family is in Madison Avenue, and their country place is Shadow 
Brook, near Lenox. They have four sons and five daughters, I. N. Phelps, J. G. Phelps, of Yale, 
1892; Anson Phelps, Jr., of Yale, 1896; Harold M. Phelps, Sarah Phelps, wife of Baron Halkett; 
Helen Olivia Phelps, Ethel V. Phelps, wife of John Sherman Hoyt; Caroline M. Phelps, and 
Mildred Phelps. Mr. Stokes is a member of the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Union 
League, City, Lawyers', Reform, New York Yacht, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, Riding, City 
and Church clubs, the Century Association, the National Academy of Design and the Society of 
Colonial Wars, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum 
of Natural History. He was twice vice-president of the New York Yacht Club and the first 
president of the Reform Club. He is the author of Joint-Metallism, of which many editions have 
been published. 

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ANDROS BOYDEN STONE 

EARLY in the seventeenth century, the name of Stone appears in Massachusetts. Its 
representative, Simon Stone, settled in Cambridge in 163s. The late Andros Boyden 
Stone was born in 1824 at Charlton, Mass., being the youngest son of Amasa Stone and 
seventh in descent from his Puritan ancestor. Successful energy applied to the concerns of life is 
a common possession of New Englanders. The career of Andros B. Stone presents, however, 
features of higher interest, from the predominance of intellectual qualities which made him a leader 
in the applications of science to industry and in the personal qualities which found expression in a 
wide and practical sympathy. 

Being one of a large family, his educational advantages were slight, and at the age of sixteen 
he was apprenticed to an elder brother to learn carpentering. An opportunity for advancement, 
however, soon presented itself. His eldest sister married William Howe, the patentee of the 
Howe truss, which revolutionized bridge building. Of the five Stone brothers, three had already 
become bridge builders, when, at the early age of eighteen years, Andros was made superin- 
tendent for his brother-in-law, Mr. Howe, and his brother, Amasa Stone; and, notwithstanding 
his exacting duties, used every spare moment to supplement his education. Soon after his 
majority, Mr. Stone formed a partnership and built bridges in the New England States. 

Then, attracted by the great West, he formed another partnership with his brother-in-law, 
the late Lucius B. Boomer, and in 1852 removed to Chicago. In the then undeveloped country, 
these young men attained a position which could justly be called phenomenal. Mr. Stone was at 
the head of the firm which secured the Howe patent rights for the States of Illinois, Iowa, 
Wisconsin and Missouri, where railroad building had assumed great activity. Results proved 
them equal to their opportunity, as they built the first bridge across the Mississippi River at Rock 
Island, the longest span of a wooden bridge up to that time, as well as the first bridge across 
the Illinois River, with the largest revolving draw then known, besides completing other 
important contracts. In addition to this business, the firm manufactured cars in Chicago. 

In 1858, Mr. Stone removed to Cleveland, O., and gave his attention to iron manufacturing. 
He identified himself with a small mill at Newburg, near Cleveland, and giving his entire energy to 
the scientific features of this industry, he soon became master of the profession. The growth of 
the business necessitated the formation, in 1863, of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, with Mr. 
Stone as president, which office he filled for fifteen years, and then became vice-president. 
Constantly creating new departments and introducing new processes, the industry grew under his 
administration to be the largest enterprise in Cleveland. 

The crowning achievement of Mr. Stone's business life was the introduction of the Bessemer 
steel process in America. He was greatly interested in the new methods of Sir Henry Bessemer, 
and visited Europe twice to thoroughly investigate the subject. This resulted in the construction 
of a new steel plant by his company, skilled workmen being also imported, and in 1869 steel rails 
were first produced in this country from American ore at Cleveland, and sold at one hundred and 
sixty dollars a ton. This was the foundation of one of the leading industries in the United States, 
and the entire credit for this epoch-making step is due to Mr. Stone. 

It was during these busy years in Cleveland that our country was going through its struggle to 
preserve the Union, which no one more earnestly supported than Mr. Stone. His modest use of 
large opportunities was conspicuous in all relations of life. A prominent member of St. Paul's 
Church, Cleveland, he gave his time to mission work, to the support of which he was also a 
generous contributor. His rare business capacity naturally brought him prominent positions in 
various enterprises. He was first president of the American Iron and Steel Association, and 
throughout his life was an earnest advocate of the protective policy, and wrote able articles upon 
the subject. Another notable characteristic of Mr. Stone was the friendship he inspired in all who 
came in contact with him, whether in business or socially. Not only was his career marked by 

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lofty integrity, but by scrupulous consideration of the rights of others and an extreme modesty 
where his own ability was concerned. Among the many tributes by prominent men to him, none 
was more just than that of his friend, President Garfield, soon after the Bessemer steel experiment 
had succeeded. President Garfield said, that the foremost citizens were the scientific men of 
industrial life "like my friend, Mr. A. B. Stone, who," he added, "have nothing to start with 
but a clear inheritance, the power of self-denial, industry, capacity, in short all New England in 
their veins. He saw the significance of the great Bessemer idea, made an earnest study of it in 
Europe and has, through this great industry, helped more than any man I know to determine 
the prosperity of whole communities. Mr. Stone is what I call a first-rate type of American 
citizen, the kind we must multiply if we do not want this tremendous experiment to go to pieces." 

In 1 87 1, Mr. Stone removed to New York, making his home on Murray Hill. He was 
married early in life to the daughter of the Reverend J. B. Boomer, of Worcester, Mass., a lady 
whose family on both sides occupied prominent positions, having in three generations produced 
several distinguished clergymen of Worcester County, and who by birth and training was fitted 
to fill the responsible place she has always held in ministries for the good of others. From early 
life, Mrs. Stone has used her pen with ability, publishing books as well as essays, but she has 
always disclaimed ambition as a writer except for benevolent work, asserting that woman's 
noblest opportunity in life was to help others through the influences of home life, her success in 
such directions being one which will endure in many grateful memories. In the thirteen years of 
their residence in Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. Stone's home in Euclid Avenue was the centre around 
which the literary, musical and artistic circles of that city gathered. 

The time of Mr. and Mrs. Stone's early residence in New York was an epoch of brilliant 
luminaries in the literary world of our city. Besides William Cullen Bryant, E. C. Stedmani 
Professor Youmans, and R. H. Stoddard, able writers like Dr. Holland, Bayard Taylor, John Hay, 
Noah Brooks, Whitelaw Reid, Bret Harte, W. D. Howells, Thomas W. Knox and others became 
residents here. Mr. Hay married a niece of Mr. Stone and was their intimate acquaintance in Paris. 
Naturally, the doors of their home were open wide to him and his talented coworkers, so that it 
was not long before the Stone house, 13 East Thirty-sixth, Street, became a centre for cultivated 
people. Informal gatherings there, with so responsive a host and hostess, as well as brilliant 
receptions for men of the highest positions, made a unique chapter in the social life of New York, 
which has never been repeated. Mrs. Stone was a founder and the first president, 1 889-1 891, of 
the Wednesday Afternoon Club. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stone were hearty coworkers in religious and benevolent causes. About five 
years after coming to New York, Mr. Stone became interested in what was being accomplished 
for poor children, which thrilled his generous heart, and from that time he gave his untiring energy 
to the work of the Children's Aid Society. He became a trustee, and proved one of its greatest 
benefactors, giving regular hours of his time to its affairs as long as he lived. In a letter to Charles 
L. Brace, Mr. Stone said, with characteristic feeling, "I have not been up and down the streets of 
New York without having my heart touched with pity for the poor children, and often ask myself 
what can I do to make their hard lives more comfortable and happy." Mr. Stone made his own 
answer by a gift, which is his lasting monument. The summer home at Bath Beach, Long Island, 
where so many little ones are made happy, given to the society in 1881, represents a value 
of one hundred thousand dollars, and over eighty thousand children have enjoyed the benefits of 
his generous humanity. 

His earnest, sincere life peacefully ended December 15th, 1896. A devoted member of 
Grace Church, the founder of one of the great industries of our country, the donor of a permanent 
home for helpless children, he left an honorable record in all phases of life. Mr. and Mrs. Stone's 
family consists of twin daughters ; one of them resides in New York and is the widow of Francis 
F. Marbury; the other is the wife of Dr. Arthur Little, an English physician, of the Island of Jersey. 
Twelve years ago Mr. and Mrs. Stone changed their residence from Murray Hill to 1 50 Central 
Park South, where Mrs. Stone still resides. 



JOSEPH SUYDAM STOUT 

AN old-time merchant and banker of New York City, Andrew Varick Stout, father of Mr. 
Joseph Suydam Stout, was descended from several of the pioneer families of Manhattan 
Island. He was born in New York early in the present century, and died at his 
country home in Bernardsville, N. J., in 1883, at the age of seventy-one. He received a 
substantial education, and at the age of eighteen became a teacher in the public schools. 
After a few years of teaching, he became manager of the New York Orphan Asylum and 
later on went into business, establishing the firm of Stout & Ward. He was eminently 
successful in his business ventures and accumulated a fortune. His prominence as a busi- 
ness man led to his identification with financial enterprises. He became vice-president of 
the Shoe and Leather Bank, and in 1855 was advanced to the presidency, holding the latter 
position for twenty-eight years. He was a director of the New York Mutual Gas Light Com- 
pany, the Loan and Improvement Company, the New York and Brooklyn Ferry Company, the 
Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, the Broadway Fire Insurance Company and the American 
Bank Note Company. 

Maintaining an interest in municipal affairs, Mr. Stout was at one time a member of the 
Board of Education. He was originally a Democrat and a supporter of Fernando Wood, and 
when Mr. Wood was Mayor of the city he appointed Mr. Stout City Chamberlain. When 
the disturbances occurred over the metropolitan police force, during Mayor Wood's adminis- 
tration, Mr. Stout advanced the money necessary for the payment of the police from his own 
private funds. When the Civil War broke out, he was numbered among the war Democrats, 
who became Republicans upon the issues of that period. He was a devoted member of the 
Methodist Episcopal denomination, being a trustee of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Before his death he gave forty thousand dollars each to Wesleyan University and Drew 
Theological Seminary, the leading educational institutions of the Methodist Church. The wife 
of Mr. Stout, Almira H. Stout, survived him by seven years, dying in 1890. There were two 
daughters in the family, Jane K. Stout, who married John N. Ewell, banker, of New York, 
and Almira H. Stout, who married A. Francis Southerland. 

Mr. Joseph Suydam Stout, the only son of Andrew V. Stout, was born at the family 
homestead in Ridge Street, New York, December 27th, 1846, and was educated in the 
public schools and in the College of the City of New York. At the age of seventeen, he 
entered upon business life, taking a clerkship in the Shoe and Leather Bank, of which his 
father was then president. Two years later he was made assistant cashier of the bank. In 
1865, he went into business for himself in Wall Street. His first connection was with the 
firm of Wiley & Co. Subsequently he was the senior partner of Stout & Dickinson, and 
afterwards was associated with his brother-in-law, John N. Ewell, under the firm name of 
Ewell, Stout & Co. For over twenty years he has been at the head of the firm of Stout & Co. 

Mr. Stout is vice-president of the New York Mutual Gas Light Company, a director of 
the National Shoe and Leather Bank, the American Bank Note Company, the Broadway Insur- 
ance Company and the Holland Trust Company. He has been for many years a member of 
the Stock Exchange, the Produce Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce, belongs to the 
Union League and Metropolitan clubs, and is a member of the New England Society. 
Inheriting the religious predilections of his parents, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, being a member of the Madison Avenue Society. Deeply interested in the educational 
and benevolent undertakings of the denomination, he is a member of the board of directors of 
the Methodist Episcopal Hospital of Brooklyn, a trustee of Wesleyan University and of Drew 
Theological Seminary, and for ten years has been treasurer of the Board of Education of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He married, in 1868, Julia Frances Purdy, and his children are, 
Newton E., Andrew V., Joseph S. and Arthur P. Stout. He lives in East Sixty-seventh Street. 

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JAMES SAMUEL THOMAS STRANAHAN 

IT is only four generations from Mr. James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, who has been distin- 
guished in the closing years of the nineteenth century as one of the most public-spirited 
citizens of New York and Brooklyn, to his ancestor, who came to this country in the first 
part of the eighteenth century. James Stranahan, who was born in 1699, came from the Old World 
to Scituate, R. I., in 1725. Later he removed to Plainfield, Conn., and there he died in 1792, at the 
age of ninety-three years. His son, James, had a large family, of which Samuel Stranahan, who 
removed to Peterboro, Madison County, N. Y., and died in 1816, was the fifth son. 

Mr. James Samuel Thomas Stranahan, son of Samuel Stranahan, was born in Peterboro, 
April 25, 1808. He was sent to the local academies and before he was of age, he engaged in 
teaching and then fitted himself as a civil engineer. Mercantile life allured him, however, and in 
1827 he became a trader along the Great Lakes. In 1832, Gerrit Smith, the philanthropist, who 
had made his acquaintance, engaged him to assist in the work of founding a manufacturing village 
in Oneida County, an enterprise represented to-day by the flourishing village of Florence. He was 
a member of the Whig party in those days, and in 1838 was a representative in the Assembly. 

In 1840, Mr. Stranahan removed from Florence to Newark, N. J., and went into the business 
of railroad construction, in which he was engaged for some four years, when he took up his 
residence in Brooklyn, and began a career of public usefulness that has lasted for half a century. 
In 1848, he was elected to the Board of Aldermen, and three years later he was nominated for 
Mayor, but was not elected. In 1854, he was elected a Member of Congress. 

When the Metropolitan Police Commission was organized, in 1857, Mr. Stranahan became a 
member of the board. In i860, he was a member of the Republican National Convention, which 
nominated Lincoln, was a member of the National Convention of 1864, and the same year a 
presidential elector for Lincoln and Johnson, and also an elector in 1888 for Harrison and Morton. 
During the Civil War period, he was president of the War Fund Committee of Brooklyn. As the 
head of the Brooklyn Park Commission for twenty-two years, and made president of the com- 
mission by act of the Legislature in 1882, the crowning triumph of Mr. Stranahan's public labors 
was Prospect Park and the other parks and boulevards which are the pride of the city. A 
recognition of his unselfish public service by his fellow-citizens is seen in the bronze statue of him 
unveiled at the entrance to Prospect Park in 1891. For many years Mr. Stranahan was president 
of the Union Ferry Company, and was one of the originators of the plan for the Atlantic Docks, 
becoming their largest owner. He was a member of the first board of directors and a trustee of 
the Brooklyn Bridge, and was president of the board at the time of the dedication of that structure. 

In 1837, Mr. Stranahan married Marianne Fitch, daughter of Ebenezer R. Fitch, of West- 
moreland, Oneida County, N. Y., and by her he had two children, a daughter, Mary, and a son, 
Fitch James, who died December 3d, 1896. Mrs. Stranahan was distinguished for her valuable 
work in the charities of Brooklyn. She was first directress of the Old Ladies' Home for many 
years up to the time of her death. She was at the head of the Sanitary Fair held for the benefit of 
the soldiers of the Civil War, and through her conduct of its affairs four hundred thousand dollars 
were collected. She died in 1866. The second wife of Mr. Stranahan was Clara C. Harrison, of 
Massachusetts, of the noted Baldwin ancestry. She was for many years a principal of one of the 
large private seminaries for young ladies in Brooklyn, and is still actively interested in educational 
work, being a founder and trustee of Barnard College, and vice-president of the alumnae association 
of Troy Female Seminary, from which she was graduated. She is also president of the State 
Charities Aid Association for Kings County, vice-president general for New York State of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, and was vice-president of the New York State Board of 
Women Managers for the Columbian World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. She has also won 
reputation as an authoress, her work entitled A History of French Painting, being recognized as a 
valuable contribution to the history of art. 

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WILLIAM A. STREET 

AMONG the pioneers who came to New England in the exodus from the Old Country for the 
settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the first twenty-five years of the 
seventeenth century, was the Reverend Nicholas Street, a clergyman of the Church of 
England, who immigrated in 1630. He was born in 1603, in Bridgewater, Somersetshire, where 
his family were prosperous merchants. He was graduated from Oxford in 1624, was living in 
Taunton, Mass., in 1638, and in New Haven, Conn., in 16^9. His son, the Reverend Samuel 
Street, graduated from Harvard College in 1661. These divines were the first ancestors in this 
country of Mr. William A. Street. 

On his mother's side, Mr. Street's great-grandfather was Joseph Reade, of New York, a 
member of the Governor's council during the administration of Governor Robert Monckton, in 
1 76 1. Reade Street, in this city, was named for him. He was also a warden of Trinity Church 
from 1 72 1 to 1770. The Reades came from a line of British landed gentry of the name, who for 
centuries exercised great influence in public affairs. Lawrence Reade, the father of Joseph Reade, 
was born and married in England, removing to New York in the early part of the eighteenth 
century. His immediate ancestors were Sir William Reade and Sir Richard Reade. A son of 
loseph Reade was John Reade, for whom Reade Hoeck (Red Hook) was named. By his descent 
from Joseph Reade, Mr. Street is connected with the Stuyvesant, Watts, Livingston, Kearny, de 
Peyster, and other great families of New York. Another of Mr. Street's ancestors — namely, his 
great-grandfather — Major Andrew Billings, was a member of General Washington's staff during the 
Revolutionary War. Mr. Street now has in his possession an autograph letter from Washington to 
Major Billings, dated June 7th, 1783. Attached to it is a lock of the hair of General and Mrs. 
Washington, which the letter refers to as having been sent. General Philip Kearny was Mr. 
Street's second cousin, and the latter bears the same relationship to Frederick de Peyster, long the 
president of the New York Historical Society. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Street was Caleb Street, a prosperous New York merchant of 
the early part of the present century. His grandfather, General Randall S. Street, was a lawyer of 
Poughkeepsie. He was of excellent rank in his profession and highly respected by his townsmen. 
Mr. Street's father, William I. Street, was also a lawyer by profession, and married Susan Watts 
Kearny, daughter of Robert Kearny and his wife, Anna Reade. His brother, Alfred B. Street, the 
poet and author, was well known as a man of letters in the period of this country's intellectual 
and literary history which was dominated by Washington Irving and his associates, who were 
known as the Knickerbocker authors. 

Mr. William A. Street was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1843, but in 1850 his family 
removed to New York. His education was received in the city, but at an early age he entered 
upon a business career, entering the house of Sir Roderick W. Cameron, the shipping 
merchant. In 1862, he went to Australia, and during the next three years traveled extensively 
in that part of the world, gaining an invaluable knowledge of business and trade conditions 
in the countries through which he journeyed. In that time, he visited and studied the 
peoples of China, New Zealand, Java, Australia, the west coast of South America and islands of 
the Pacific. In 1870, Mr. Street became a partner of Sir R. W. Cameron, with whom he had long 
been associated, and the firm took the name of R. W. Cameron & Co. For nearly half a century 
this house has been one of the most active and most important in trade between the United States, 
Australasia and the far East. 

In 1874, Mr. Street married Lucy Morgan, the children of this alliance being Arthur F. Street, 
Rosamond Kearny Street, Susan Watts Street and Anna Livingston Street. Mr. Street has a city 
residence at 43 Park Avenue. His country home is The Hermitage, at Seabright, N. J. He 
belongs to the Union and other clubs, and is a supporter of the prominent institutions of public 
interest, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and others of a similar character. 



JOSEPH MONTGOMERY STRONG 

NORTHAMPTON, Mass., ranks among the oldest of New England towns, and was 
founded by John Strong, who was born at Taunton, Somersetshire, England, in 1605, 
and emigrated to the New World in 1630. Elder John Strong, as he was called, played 
a leading part in all the affairs of Church and State in early Massachusetts history, but, in 
addition, he became the progenitor of a large family whose branches now extend throughout the 
entire country. Many of its members have inherited not only the name but the energy and force 
of character of their Puritan ancestors, and among them are a number who have occupied 
positions of high distinction in public and private life. The Strong crest is an eagle rising from 
a mural crown, and its motto, Tentanda via est, and has been borne with honor by many men 
of eminence in the most distinguished stations of American professional and business life. 

The New York branch of this typically American race was established by a great-grandson 
of Elder John Strong, Selah Strong, Jr., born in 1713. His son was Major Samuel Strong, born 
1744, whose son, Joseph Strong, born 1766, married, 1792, his second cousin, Margaret, daughter 
of Judge Selah Strong, of Setauket, Long Island. This couple were the grandparents of Mr. 
Joseph Montgomery Strong, whose father, the Reverend Paschal Neilson Strong, was born in 
this city, in 1793, graduated from Columbia College in 1810, and adopted the profession of the 
ministry. The Reverend Paschal Neilson Strong became an eminent New York clergyman, and 
was for a long time the pastor of the old Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church, whose edifice 
then stood at the corner of Cedar and Nassau Streets, and is now located at the corner of 
Twenty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue. His wife was Cornelia Adelaide Kane, a daughter of 
John Kane, Jr., a leading New York merchant in the early portion of the present century, and 
was a near relative of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, the famous Arctic explorer, the Kane family being 
related to many of the most prominent names in the early history of the city and State. 

The birth of Mr. Joseph Montgomery Strong occurred February 6th, 1822, and his marriage, 
October 15th, 1856, allied him to one of the foremost Colonial and Revolutionary families of the 
State — the Livingstons. Mrs. Strong, by birth Elizabeth Ludlow Livingston, was born at the 
Livingston Manor, at Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson, and was the daughter of Van Brugh 
Livingston and granddaughter of Philip Livingston, secretary to Sir Henry Moore, the last 
English Governor of the Province of New York. Her great-grandfather, Peter Van Brugh 
Livingston, married Mary Alexander, sister of William Alexander, the Lord Stirling of the Army 
of the Revolution, and was president of the New York Provincial Congress in 1775, while his 
brother, Philip Livingston, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and another brother, 
William, was Governor of New Jersey. The descent of the family from Robert Livingston, the 
first Lord of Livingston Manor, and the public services which so many of its members rendered 
both in the days of the Province and in the modern State of New York are well known, the 
history of the family for many generations back being virtually that of the Colony and afterwards 
that of the State, to which it has ever supplied distinguished citizens. 

The children of the Strong-Livingston alliance are Joseph Montgomery Strong, Jr., 
Peter Van Brugh Livingston Strong, Mary Livingston Strong, Philip Alexander Strong, Charles 
Livingston Strong and Josephine Gebhard Strong, the two latter being deceased. 

The residence of the family is 41 West Fifty-fourth Street, while Mr. Strong's country 
seat is Cliffwood, an estate at Esopus, on the Hudson. Engaged in active business as a merchant 
for many years, he has, however, traveled in almost every part of Europe, and has been intimately 
connected with all that is best in the artistic or social development of New York. He was a 
stockholder of the Academy of Music, and joined the New York Club in 1846, while his 
membership in the Union Club dates from 1854. Mr. Strong was also some years ago a member 
of all the leading yacht clubs and other organizations devoted to the interests of sport, but with 
the approach of years relinquished active interest in that connection. 

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THERON G. STRONG 

THE families of Strong, in England, Scotland and of Ireland, have been closely associated, 
although the lines of connection have long been lost sight of. The English family, from 
which was descended John Strong, who came to this county in 1630, was originally of 
Shropshire, the name appearing on the old records as McStrachan, Strachan, Strahan and Strong. 
One of its members married into a family of County Caenarvon, Wales, and went thither to live in 
1545. Richard Strong, who was born in the County Caernarvon, in 1561, was of this branch of the 
family. He removed to Taunton, Somersetshire, England, in 1590, and died in 1613. John Strong, 
son of Richard Strong, was born in Taunton, England, in 1605. Being a Puritan, he sailed for the 
New World, in 1630, and settled in Dorchester, Mass. In 1635, he removed to Hingham, being a 
freeman there the following year, and a freeman of Plymouth, in 1638. In 1641-3-4, he was a 
deputy to the General Court of the Plymouth Colony. Removing to Windsor, Conn., he had 
charge, with four others, of the settlement of that place, and in 1659, removing to Northampton, 
Mass., became a leading man in that commuinty also. The second wife of Elder John Strong was 
Abigail Ford, of Dorchester, Mass., daughter of Thomas Ford, who came over in 1630. 

Jedediah Strong, son of Elder John Strong, was born in 1637, and was one of the early 
settlers of Coventry, Conn. His first wife was Freedham Woodward, daughter of Henry Wood- 
ward, of Dorchester, Mass. Preserved Strong, son of Jedediah Strong, was one of the prominent 
men of Coventry, Conn., and a member of its board of selectmen, in 1730. His great-grandson, 
Colonel Adonijah Strong, 1743-1824, was a Revolutionary patriot, a Colonel of a Connecticut 
regiment, and afterwards Commissary-General. In civil life he was a lawyer, and subsequently a 
Judge. Judge Martin Strong, of Salisbury, Conn., 1778-1838, was the eldest son of Colonel 
Adonijah Strong. He was a leading man in the community, a justice of the peace, and a member 
of the Legislature, and of the State Senate, and County Judge of Litchfield County. 

The father of Mr. Theron G. Strong was the Honorable Theron R. Strong, second son of 
Judge Martin Strong, and was born in Salisbury, in 1802. He studied law in his father's office and 
afterwards in the law school of Judge Gould, at Litchfield. Removing to the western part of the 
State of New York, he settled first in Salem, and then in 1826 in Palmyra, where he practiced for 
the next twenty-six years. For many years he was a master and examiner-in-chancery, in 1834-39, 
was district attorney for Wayne County from 1839 to 1841, was a member of the United States 
Congress, and in 1842 a member of the Assembly of the State of New York. In the autumn 
of 185 1, he was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in which capacity 
he served for eight years, the last year of his term as an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals. 
In 1856, he removed to Rochester, and practiced there with great success for the next ten years, 
after which he came to New York City, where he continued the practice of law for the remainder 
of his life, which terminated in 1873. The mother of Mr. Theron G. Strong was Cornelia Wheeler 
Barnes, daughter of Wheeler Barnes, of Rome, N. Y. 

Mr. Strong was born in Palmyra, N. Y., August 14th, 1846. In 1868, he was graduated from 
the University of Rochester, and then attended the Columbia Law School, graduating in 1870. In 
1878, he married Martha Howard Prentice, daughter of the late John H. Prentice, a leading resident 
of Brooklyn. He is now the senior member of the firm of Strong, Harmon & Mathewson. In 
1884, he was nominated to be a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and was renominated in 1885. 
He has been identified for many years with the public and religious life of the city, having been a 
deacon and elder in the Church of the Covenant, an elder in the Brick Church, one of the trustees 
of the Presbytery, a delegate to the General Assembly, a director of the New York Juvenile 
Asylum, the New York Bible Society, and other similar organizations. He is a member of the 
Society of the Cincinnati, of the State of Connecticut, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the 
Revolution, the New England Society, the Century Association, the Union League Club, the 
Downtown Association, and the Bar Association. He resides in East Sixty-fifth Street. 



WILLIAM EVERARD STRONG 

THE family to which Mr. William Everard Strong belongs is one of the largest in New- 
England, where it has existed for more than two centuries and a half. Its ancestor, 
Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., came to this country in 1630, his career and 
that of his son, Thomas, being frequently referred to in this volume. In the third generation, 
Joseph Strong, 1672-1763, removed in 1716 from Northampton to Coventry, Conn., and was town 
treasurer there. In 1721, and for fifty-two times thereafter, he represented the town in the 
Legislature, being a member in 1762, when he was over eighty-nine years old. His wife was 
Sarah Allen, daughter of Nehemiah Allen and Sarah Woodford, of Northampton. 

In the next generation, Captain Joseph Strong was born in 1701, in Northampton. He was 
for thirteen years a selectman of Coventry, Conn., a justice of the peace and for thirty-four years, 
1739-73, a deacon of the First Congregational Church and a member of the Assembly at nine 
sessions. In 1724, he married Elizabeth Strong, a second cousin, daughter of Preserved Strong and 
Tabitha Lee. The son of Captain Joseph Strong was Deacon Benajah Strong, 1740- 1809. He was 
a resident of Coventry, frequently a selectman, a justice of the peace, deacon of the First Congrega- 
tional Church, 1 782- 1 809, and a member of the General Assembly in 1781. His wife was Lucy 
Bishop, daughter of Caleb Bishop and Keziah Hebbard, of Lisbon, Conn. Elizabeth Hale, the 
mother of Captain Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary martyr, was his sister. 

Dr. Joseph Strong, the son of Benajah and Lucy (Bishop) Strong, was born in 1770 and 
graduated from Yale College in 1788. During the frontier troubles in the Northwest Territory, in 
the latter part of the last century, he was, from 1793 to 1795, surgeon under General Wayne. He 
settled in Philadelphia in 1795, practicing his profession there for several years, and died in 1812. 
His wife was Rebecca Young, of Philadelphia. The father of Mr. William E. Strong was William 
Young Strong, who was born in Philadelphia in 1806, while his father, Dr. Strong, was residing 
there in the practice of his profession. His youth was spent in Ohio, whither he went when a 
child of six years and he became identified with the development of that portion of the country. 
He afterwards removed to Terre Haute, Ind., where he died in 1866. 

The wife of William Young Strong and the present Mr. Strong's mother, was Ann 
Massie, 1809- 1860, a member of a notable family. Her father was General Massie, of Chillicothe, O., 
and her mother was Susan Everard Meade, a member of the well-known Meade family of Virginia. 
General Nathaniel Massie was born in Goochland County, Va., in 1793, and died at Paint Creek 
Falls, O., in 181 3. When only seventeen years of age, he enlisted in the Continental Army and 
served during the closing years of the struggle for independence. Afterwards he became a surveyor, 
and among the important professional tasks in which he was employed was the survey, in 179 1, of 
the first settlements upon the lands in Ohio, granted to Virginia's soldiers of the Revolution, 
between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers. In 1793-6, he was engaged in laying out the town of 
Chillicothe, and became, at the beginning of the present century, one of the largest land owners in 
Ohio. He took an intrepid and energetic part in the Indian Wars, was several times a member of 
the Ohio State Senate, served for one term as president of the Senate, was Major-General of the 
militia and a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. In 1807, he declined a nom- 
ination for Governor of the State. 

Mr. William Everard Strong was born in Chillicothe, O., August 1 ith, 1836. He was 
educated in the public schools of his native place and came to New York to enter business at an 
early age. For many years past he has been one of the leading stock brokers of the metropolis. 
He married Alice Corbin Smith, of Alexandria, Va. Mr. Strong's city residence is 176 Madison 
Avenue, and he has a summer home, The Point, Seabright, N. J. He is a member of the Metropol- 
itan, City, Union, Knickerbocker, Riding, Lawyers', Racquet, Players and South Side Sportsmen's 
clubs and other organizations. Mr. and Mrs. Strong have two daughters, Anne Massie and Alice 
Everard Strong. 



WILLIAM L. STRONG 

A CONSPICUOUS exemplar of the American merchant, the Honorable William L. Strong, 
Mayor of the City of New York, has won approval as a successful business man and a 
capable chief magistrate. His parentage was of New England stock, his father, Abel 
Strong, being a native of Hartford, Conn., born in 1792. When eighteen years of age, he emigrated 
to Ohio, became a farmer in Richland County, and soon after his arrival there married Hannah 
Burdine, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1798. 

The family of Abel Strong and his wife consisted of five children, of whom Mr. William 
L. Strong, born in 1827, was the eldest. Upon his father's death, when he was only thirteen 
years old, it devolved upon him to assume the responsibilities of caring for his mother and 
younger brothers and sisters. He accordingly commenced life as an employee in country stores 
of Londonville and Mansfield, O., where he remained until he was twenty-six years of age. 
Then, in 1853, he came to New York and started on a career that was to bring him fortune. 
At first he was connected with the wholesale dry goods house of L. G. Wilson & Co., and 
then held a position with Farnham, Dale & Co. and its successors for eleven years ending in 
1869. The following year, with thirty years of commercial experience behind him, he founded 
the house of William L. Strong & Co. The firm commanded success from the start, and it now 
ranks as one of the leading houses in the wholesale dry goods trade. 

Nevertheless, the business interests of Colonel Strong have not been limited to the dry 
goods trade. To the public at large he is known as a banker, having been, until he was elected 
Mayor, president of the Central National Bank of New York, an institution in which he had long 
been a director. He is also vice-president of the New York Security and Trust Company, and a 
director in the New York Life Insurance Company, the Hanover Fire Insurance Company, the 
Plaza Bank, and a director or officer of many railroads and corporations. 

Maintaining a deep interest in public affairs, Colonel Strong has actually come into political 
prominence in later years. He has always been earnestly attached to the principles of the 
Republican party, but held himself aloof from the party machinery. A supporter of General 
Fremont for the presidency in 1856, he has since favored the Republican candidates in every 
subsequent national campaign. For many years his services to his party, in moulding the 
sentiment of the business community, was earnest and efficient. As an organizer of business 
men's campaign clubs in several presidential campaigns, he was conspicuously successful. Once, 
however, he ran for office, when, in 1882, at the earnest solicitation of friends, party associates 
and representatives of the business community, he made a campaign for Congress in the Eleventh 
New York District, which was, however, largely Democratic, and though he made a notable 
canvass, he naturally failed of election. His greatest distinction as a public man came to him 
in 1894, when the combined opposition to Tammany Hall in municipal affairs, headed by the 
Chamber of Commerce Committee of One Hundred, agreed upon him as its candidate for Mayor. 
He was elected by the large majority of forty-five thousand over his Tammany opponent, 
ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant. His administration has been conspicuous for its business-like, 
non-partisan character. Mayor Strong has since been often mentioned as a candidate for Mayor 
of the Greater New York and for Governor of the State. 

Mayor Strong was for some years a vestryman of the Church of the Incarnation on 
Madison Avenue, and is an attendant of St. Thomas' Church. His club connections include the 
presidency of the Wool Club and membership in the Metropolitan, Union League, Merchants', 
Republican, Colonial and Riding, and he belongs to the Ohio Society, the New England Society, 
the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American 
Geographical Society. He married, in 1866, Mary Aborn, daughter of Robert W. Aborn, of 
Orange, N. J., and has two children, P. Bradlee Strong and Mary, who married Albert R. 
Shattuck. Mr. Strong's city residence is 12 West Fifty-seventh Street. 

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MALCOLM STUART 



A. • i_- * xt»,w v« r u- Titv has owed more to its mercantile class, probably, 
T all times in !te history N w York C,ty has owed m ^.^ ^ ^ 

h° "I of his da s mdTt has in luld in its ranks many of foreign birth, who have 
found in S^"o£^ ^ the exercise of a wholesome public interest m 

thC aff Tn S e ttSSfi Great Britain and Ireland has sent us, in every period many indi- 
* JEMS become our most —al ^^^^^^^ 

o^rde^^ 

distinguished in the banking ^^^Z^^^'Z^^ in Liverpool 
this country. The six brothers were as so oated m busmess. J nd established them- 

and Manchester, and I afterwards ^^.a "n^New Yo* ^e^ y ^ ^ 

selves in this country. Joseph btuart came 10 i for 

settled in New York »""«™^ ^0^'^ et „ and Isuin'en.ia! banking houses 
'£%££ " g * S SS ^ re and having aiso important connections abroad 
in Great Britain and on the Continent. f ^ and 

vice-president of the j^rth *a ^ ^ jLSiX Insurance Company, the Standard Fire 
director in the Mercantile National Bank, tne merca important corporations. 

insurance Company the '^n^ 

A consistent and devoted member of the Presoy ten a nd philanthropic 

institutions of that denomination, giving freely a f J' m "" d ™° n ^ h p resb L ria n Church of New 
causes. He was for many years ^^^^J^^J^CrU succeeded to the 
York City J^^^^VTn/^ ,d £5£ official positions in the management of 
business of J. & J. Stuart & Co ana a F s Marieanne Malcolm, his maternal 

S&SK^SSK - * P«a„dmo,her was Anna Watson, al, of the town 

aslnstic. of the peace, and holding other. offi ces * *°™*» « n dsof h s ft o ^ ^ 

of the central anthorities of Ireand. A »n ot]«™ ?!£ interests as a linen mann- 
EJfi£?££. %ti£2Z£. ~ lord lientenan, for the County 

His early edncation was secured ,n the school of M ss Du Vern et, and after ^ ^ 

private school of Dr. Holbrook at Smg Smg When h,s school days w P ^^ 

into mercantile life and is now a merchant m the to *gn and domestic , 

Club and the Quogue Field Club. 



FREDERICK STURGES 

THE grandfather of Mr. Frederick Sturges was the Honorable Jonathan Sturges, of Fairfield, 
Conn., in which place he was born in 1740, and died in 1819. Graduating from Yale 
College in 1759, he became a leading member of the Connecticut bar. He took an active 
part in the pre-Revolutionary movements, and was a representative from Connecticut in the First 
and Second Federal Congresses, in 1789-93. After completing his Congressional terms, he was a 
Judge of the State Supreme Court from 1793 to 1805. 

Jonathan Sturges, Jr., son of Jonathan Sturges of Connecticut, and the father of the subject 
of this sketch, was one of the great merchants of New York in the last generation. He was born 
in Southport, Conn., in 1802, and died in New York in 1874. After receiving a good education, he 
came to New York as a young man and entered upon mercantile life, being first connected with 
the firm of R. & L. Reed. Beginning in 1821, when he was nineteen years of age, he was rapidly 
advanced in business, until in 1828 he was a partner in the concern, which after fifteen years 
became Sturges, Bennett & Co., a name that was retained until 1865, when it was changed to 
Sturges, Arnold & Co. Mr. Sturges continued at the head of the house for three years longer, but 
in 1868 he retired. Outside of the mercantile business which principally engaged his attention, he 
had many other important commercial and financial interests. He was one of the founders of the 
Bank of Commerce, of which he was a director, and was also a director of the Illinois Central 
Railroad, and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. 

In social affairs Jonathan Sturges was no less prominent than in the business world. Devoted 
to the cause of the Union in the dark days of the war, he was one of the founders of the Union 
League Club, and most energetic in all the work undertaken by that organization in support of 
the nation. In 1863, he was president of the club. A member of the Chamber of Commerce from 
early in his business career, he was twice vice-president of the organization. He was also one of 
the founders of the Century Association, often known as the Century Club. The wife of Mr. Stur- 
ges, whom he married in 1829, was Mary Cady, daughter of John Cady. His sons were Frederick, 
Edward, Arthur P., and Henry C. Sturges. His eldest daughter was Virginia R. Sturges, who 
became the wife of William H. Osborne, and has a city residence at 32 Park avenue, and a country 
house, Castle Rock, at Garrison-on-the-Hudson. Another daughter, Amelia Sturges, married 
John Pierpont Morgan, in 1861, and died the following year. 

Mr. Frederick Sturges was born in 1839. In 1849, when he was sixteen years of age, he 
entered upon business life by taking a place in his father's office. Continuing in the establishment 
for nearly twenty years, he retired when his father gave up business, in 1868. Since that time he 
has devoted himself to the corporate and other interests of the estate which his father left. He is a 
director of the National Bank of Commerce, the Atlantic Trust Company, the Seaman's Bank for 
Savings, and has been a director of the Illinois Central Railroad. Deeply interested in religious and 
philanthropic work, he has devoted considerable time to such causes. The Presbyterian Hospital, 
the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled, the American Bible Society and the Seamen's Fund 
Society have been special objects of his attention, and have received from him generous financial 
support, besides having the benefit of his capable business management in the administration of 
their affairs. Mr. Sturges married, in 1863, Mary Reed Fuller, daughter of Dudley B. Fuller. His 
children are Jonathan, Arthur Pemberton, Frederick, Jr., and Mary Fuller Sturges. He is a 
member of the Century and Grolier Clubs, the Downtown Association and the American 
Geographical Society, and is a supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The city resi- 
dence of the family is at 36 Park avenue, and their country home is at Fairfield, Conn. Jonathan 
Sturges, the eldest son of Mr. Frederick Sturges, is a graduate of Princeton College, and has 
devoted himself to literary pursuits. He is a member of the Metropolitan, University, Fencers, 
Players and other clubs. Arthur Pemberton Sturges, the younger son, is also a graduate of Prince- 
ton, and a member of the Metropolitan, Calumet, Players and University clubs. 

53S 



FRANK KNIGHT STURG1S 

NATIVE of the metropolis, Mr. Frank K. Sturgis is a thorough New Yorker in education in 
spirit and in devotion to those institutions that have made this the foremost city of the New 
World. He is now fifty years of age, having been born September 19th, 1847. His lather 
was William Sturgis and his mother Elizabeth K. Hinckley. He traces his ancestry to early pioneer 
families of New England. The years of his maturity have been passed in Wall Street, and he long 
ago took rank as one of the able financiers of his time. After an excellent education he entered 
the banking house of Capron, Strong & Co. There he served a brief apprenticeship of one year, 
devoUng hfmself assiduously to the theoretical and practical study of the general subject of finance 
The abifity he displayed, his aptitude in financial affairs and his close application to business soon 
brought L into partnership connection with the house in which he had commenced his careen 
The firm of Capron, Strong & Co. was succeeded, in ,87., by that of Work Strong & Co and 
Mr Sturgis has maintained his partnership relationship with the house unbroken from the day that 
he entered the original firm in January, .869, when he was only twenty-one years of age, down to 

the present time, the firm name now being Strong, Sturgis & Co. 

the present t ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^^ and hag bgen h d ny 

ways by those who recognize his strength of character and his ability. One of the highest honors 
Tat can be conferred upon a man in financial circles in New York was awarded to him in .892, 
when he was elected to'the presidency of the New York Stock Exchange, of which he has been , a 
member since 1869. He was reelected in ,893. Before his elevation to that position, there had been 
To ty-two presidents of the Stock Exchange from ,817, the date of the formal organization and 
adoption of a constitution under the name of the New York Stock and Exchange Board Mr 
Sturgis during his incumbency achieved a brilliant reputation, second to none of his able 
p edecessor It was largely at his suggestion and through his labors in association with other 
f HinJ Trnnciers that the Clearing House was established, and he has been instrumental in 
Sc^rta^^inistration of the business of the Stock Exchange that have 
edoundd to the benefit of its members and to the general advantage of the business community. 
Notwithstanding close application to his profession, Mr. Sturgis has found time to culti- 
vate the social side of life and has been engaged in other enterprises 1 of a distinctly differ ent 
character He has been an important factor in the social, benevolent and political life of the city, 
and h been active in the general direction of important social organizations Particularly inter- 
ested in gentlemanly sports he has devoted much time to the turf. When the jockey Club was 
organized by August Belmont and others, Mr. Sturgis was urged to become a member of he board 
of stewards and freasurer and secretary of the club, and in that position has exerc.sed a strong and 
whoteome influence upon those turf matters with which the jockey Club has especially concerned 
S Z the organization of the Mar" .„ Square Garden Company he also took a prom.nent and 
influent al part feing president of the company and one of the hardest working members of, 
boaTof directors. He has also been an officer of the National Horse Show As.oc.at.on and s 
credited with much of the success that has attended the annual exhibitions that have been held 
und r the auspke of that organization. He has been a governor of the Metropolitan and Knicker- 
bocker duos!* Se Westch/ster Racing Association and of the Turf and Field Club, and otherw.se 
* nrnminent representative of the best social element of the city in club l"e. 

P M Sturris married, October .6th, .872, Florence Lydig, daughter of Ph.l.p MesierLyd.g and 
a member o the famous old New York family whose name she bears. The city residence of the 
ftmflv sin Th ity-sixth Street, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and their summer home .s 
riLnVrnnL at Lenox Mass Mr. Sturgis is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Kn.ck- 
Chpston G :f t n / e '^. L n en ^;^f Co , c r hing> p layerSj Whist, Rockaway Hunt, Larchmont Yacht 
e a?d° C Ne e w York Yalht cS, the Cent ry"' Association, the Country Cub of Westchester County, 
the American Geographical Society and the National Academy of Design. 



RUTHERFURD STUYVESANT 

LINEALLY descended from several great Colonial ancestors of New York and New England, 
Mr. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant comes from Governor Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam, Governor 
John Winthrop of Massachusetts, Governor Dudley of Connecticut, Lewis Morris, Chief Jus- 
tice of New York and first Governor of New Jersey, and also traces his descent to Robert Livingston, 
Balthazar Bayard, Walter Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris, the signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
and others who were numbered among the great men of their day. The father of Mr. Stuyvesant 
was Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, who was born in Morrisania in 1816. Graduated from Williams 
College in 1834, he studied law with the Honorable William Henry Seward, in Auburn, N. Y., and 
was admitted to the bar in 1837. In 1849, he gave up the practice of law, devoting himself to 
scientific pursuits. His special work was astronomical photography and spectral analysis. In 1863, 
he began the publication of a series of papers on Astronomical Observations with the Spectroscope, 
in The American Journal of Science. In 1863, he was appointed by Congress one of the fifty 
original members of the Academy of Science. In 1885, he was an American delegate to the 
International Meridian Conference in Washington. For more than twenty-five years he was a 
trustee of Columbia College, was an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, and received 
many medals. He died in 1892, at Tranquillity, the New Jersey home of the Rutherfurd family. 

The mother of Mr. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was Margaret Stuyvesant Chanler. She was the 
daughter of the Reverend John White Chanler and Elizabeth Winthrop, and through her mother 
was descended from Governor Petrus Stuyvesant and Governor John Winthrop. Her maternal 
grandmother was Judith Stuyvesant, daughter of Petrus Stuyvesant, and great-great-granddaughter 
of the famous Dutch Governor of the West India Company on Manhattan Island. Her maternal 
grandfather was Benjamin Winthrop, great-great-great-grandson of Governor John Winthrop. 
Her maternal great-grandmother, the wife of Petrus Stuyvesant, was Margaret Livingston, daugh- 
ter of Gilbert Livingston, son of Robert Livingston, first lord of the Livingston Manor. Gilbert 
Livingston inherited a large estate near Saratoga, and married Cornelia Beekman. 

On the paternal side Mr. Stuyvesant is descended from the Rutherfurd and Morris families, 
that have played such an important part in social, business and public affairs in New Jersey and 
New York. The Rutherfurds are descended from Sir John Rutherfurd, of Scotland, whose grand- 
father, John Rutherfurd, married Barbara Aburnethy, daughter of the Bishop of Caithness, and who 
was the sixteenth in descent from Hugo De Rutherfurd, a Scottish Baron of 1225. Walter Ruther- 
furd, the head of the family in this country, was the great-grandfather of Lewis M. Rutherfurd. 
His wife was Catharine Alexander, sister of the Earl of Stirling. Their son John, who married 
Helen Morris, daughter of Lewis Morris, represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 
1 79 1 to 1798. He was the great-grandfather of Mr. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, and in the next gene- 
ration, Robert Walter Rutherfurd, who was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, married 
Sabina, daughter of Colonel Lewis Morris. Helena Sarah Rutherfurd, aunt of Lewis Morris Ruther- 
furd, was born in 1789 and died in 1873. She was the second wife of Peter Gerard Stuyvesant. 

Mr. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant was named Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, and was graduated from Col- 
umbia College in the class of 1863. By the will of his mother's great-uncle, Peter Gerard Stuy- 
vesant, property was left him upon the condition of changing his family name, and consequently, 
by act of the Legislature, he took the name that he now bears. In 1863, he married Mary Ruther- 
furd Pierrepont, daughter of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and Anna Maria Jay. Mrs. Stuyvesant died 
in 1879. Mr. Stuyvesant lives at Tranquillity, N. J., and his city residence is in East Fifteenth 
Street. He is a member of the Union, Century, City, Racquet, New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht 
and Sewanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, the Downtown Association, the Columbia College Alumni 
Association and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the American Museum of 
Natural History and the National Academy of Design, and a patron and trustee of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. 



THEODORE SUTRO 

DISTINGUISHED at the New York bar, as well as in public and social life, the subject of 
this article belongs to a family which has given to Germany many eminent scholars and 
professional men. Mr. Sutro was born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, March 14th, 1845, 
and is a son of Emanuel Sutro, a native of Bavaria, and his wife, Rosa Warendorff, a highly 
educated and accomplished lady, who was born at Dueren, near Aix-la-Chapelle. On both the 
paternal and maternal sides, his relatives were nearly all lawyers or doctors, one of the most 
distinguished among them being his mother's uncle, the famous jurist Edward Gans, professor 
extraordinarius at the University of Berlin, who died in 1839. 

Mr. Sutro is the youngest of twelve children and of seven sons, each of whom have 
achieved high positions, two of his brothers having national reputations. The Honorable Adolph 
Sutro, of San Francisco, the owner of Sutro Heights, donor of Sutro Park to the city, and one of 
its most prominent citizens, has been Mayor of that city, while Otto Sutro, of Baltimore, 
who died in 1896, was widely known as one of the foremost patrons of music in the United 
States. Mr. Sutro's father, who was a manufacturer at Aix-la-Chapelle, died in 1847, and his son 
Theodore, brought to the United States at an early age, received his education here. This included 
preparatory studies in Baltimore and at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., after which he entered 
Harvard University, graduating with distinction in the class of 1871. Adopting the profession of 
law, he attended lectures at the Boston University Law School and at the law department of 
Columbia College, in this city. Called to the bar in 1874, Mr. Sutro has continued in successful 
practice, and represents large corporate and business interests. He possesses a striking personality, 
with oratorical gifts of a high order, and is singularly effective before a jury. 

In 1895, Mr. Sutro, although a Democrat, was appointed by Mayor Strong to fill an 
important office in the municipal administration, that of Commissioner of Taxes and Assessments. 
Mr. Sutro has distinguished himself in this post no less than in the other positions which he has 
occupied in life, and he has proved a credit to the Reform Government. He has made many 
important decisions on novel points in the matter of taxation of corporations and estates which 
have, almost without exception, been sustained by the courts when subjected to judicial review. 
In 1884, Mr. Sutro married Florence Edith Clinton, a lady of literary and artistic tastes 
similar to his own, and whose beauty and personal and intellectual qualities render her a favorite 
in society. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sutro are musical in their tastes, the latter being known to a wide 
circle as a talented amateur pianist. They are also among the most regular patrons of the opera, 
and are frequent guests at the important social functions of fashionable life. Mr. Sutro is 
distinguished as a speaker and writer, and has published numerous articles on legal and general 
subjects in periodicals and in the newspaper press, while Mrs. Sutro also possesses marked literary 
ability, and frequently appears as an author of similar articles. She has also been the patroness 
and promoter of many large charities and philanthropic works. In 1897, she founded and acted as 
president of the woman's department in the Music Teachers' National Association, and achieved a 
national reputation in bringing forward woman's compositions in music. She has also been 
elected president of the National Federation of Woman's Musical Clubs throughout the United 
States. Mr. and Mrs. Sutro are enthusiastic book collectors and possess a large library, which 
includes many rare editions and examples of the bookbinders' art. They are noted for their 
hospitality, and have entertained many distinguished foreigners. 

Mr. Sutro's residence is at West One Hundred and Second Street and Riverside Drive. 
The interior decorations of the house indicate the refined taste of the owner, and represent in their 
details his individual artistic sense. He has there, among other art treasures, a collection of some 
of the choicest productions of American painters. He is a member of numerous clubs and 
societies, a few among them being the Harvard, Reform, German, and National Civic clubs, as 
well as the Patria, $ B K and the Bar Association. 



JOHN RICHARD SUYDAM 

FEW families have a greater antiquity than the Suydams, who are of Dutch origin and have 
been identified with Long Island since the first settlement of that part of the State. Back 
in the tenth and eleventh centuries, those who bore the name owned large estates in 
Holland and the Netherlands. Hendrick Rycken, the ancestor of the family in this country, was a 
member of the Riker family. Some authorities have held that he belonged also to the Suydam 
family in Holland and his sons adopted that name. He arrived in the New World in 1663, and 
located in Smith's Vly, in the suburbs of New Amsterdam. Afterwards, he removed to Flatbush, 
Long Island, where he died in 1701. 

Ryck Suydam, son of Hendrick Rycken, was born in 1675. His mother was Ida Jacobs. 
From 1711 until the time of his death, in 1741, he served as supervisor of the town of Flatbush 
and was sometimes a Judge. His son, John Suydam, died in Brooklyn about the close of the 
Revolutionary War. John Suydam's son, Hendrick Suydam, was born in 1736, and before the date 
of the Revolution, removed to Hallett's Cove, where he owned a mill on Sunswick Creek. For 
many years, he was an elder in the church in Newtown. His death occurred in 1818. He was 
married three times. His first wife, whom he married in 1762, was Letitia Sebring. She died in 
1765, and he afterwards married Harmtie Lefferts, and in 1770, Phoebe Skidmore, daughter of 
Samuel Skidmore. His son, John Suydam, by his wife Letitia Sebring, was born in 1763, and was 
the grandfather of Mr. John R. Suydam. John Suydam was one of the prominent merchants of 
New York in the early years of the present century, being a member of the firm of Suydam & 
Wyckoff. One of his brothers, Samuel Suydam, was also a well-known merchant of the firm of 
Suydam & Heyer. John Suydam continued in business until 1821. He lived at 4 Broadway for 
many years, but late in life moved to Waverley Place. His wife was Jane Mesier, and he had a 
large family of children. His eldest daughter, Katherine Suydam, married Philip M. Lydig, and his 
youngest daughter, Jane Suydam, married William Remsen. He had several sons, who were also 
prominent in business and professional circles. His third son, John R. Suydam, father of Mr. John 
R. Suydam, of the present day, was born in the family mansion at 4 Broadway. 

The mother of Mr. John R. Suydam was Ann Middleton Lawrence, who was born in 1823 
and died in 1870, having married John R. Suydam, Sr., in 1854. She was the daughter of John L. 
Lawrence, 1783-1849, the eminent diplomat and man of public affairs, Secretary of the United States 
Legation to Sweden, a member of the New York State Assembly, State Senator, 1847-49, and 
Comptroller of the City of New York in 1849. The mother of Ann Middleton Lawrence was 
Sarah Augusta Smith, daughter of General John Smith, of Long Island, Revolutionary patriot and 
United States Senator, by his wife Elizabeth Woodhull, who was a daughter of General Nathaniel 
Woodhull of Revolutionary fame. The ancestry of John L. Lawrence, who was of the famous 
Lawrence family of Long Island and New York, has been reviewed on other pages of this volume. 

Mr. John R. Suydam was born in Sayville, Long Island, and was educated in Columbia 
College, being graduated in the class of 1879 with the degree of M. E., and has since been engaged 
in the practice of his profession in New York. In 1883, he married Harriet Cochran, of Phila- 
delphia, and has two children, John R. Jr., and Lisa Cochran Suydam. Mrs. Suydam is a 
daughter of William Cochran, of Philadelphia, who was born in 1832, and his wife, Eliza Penrose, 
daughter of John Penrose. William Cochran was a son of William G. Cochran and Elizabeth 
Travis, who was the daughter of John Travis, of Philadelphia, and Elizabeth Bond. The maternal 
grandfather of Elizabeth Travis was Dr. Phineas Bond, of Philadelphia, 171 7-1 773, who married 
Williamena Moore, daughter of Judge William Moore, 1699-1783, and Lady Williamena Wemyss, 
1704-1784, sister of David Wemyss, third Earl of Wemyss, and descended through the Wemyss 
and Leslie families from Robert III., of Scotland. The residence of the family is in East Forty-first 
Street, and their country home is Edgewater, in Sayville, Long Island, on the great South Bay. 
Mr. Suydam belongs to the Union and the Southside Sportsmen's clubs. 

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WALTER LISPENARD SUYDAM 

IN the eleventh century the Suydams held large possessions in Holland, their arms being argent, 
a chevron azure, of the chief two crescents gules, and a star of the same. Crest, a swan 
swimming among rushes, on a bar azure and argent. Motto, De Tyd Vliegt. Hendrick 
Rycken Van Suyt-dam, of this family, came in the seventeenth century from Suydam, Holland, to 
New Amsterdam, and settled at Flatbush, Long Island. His sons adopted the name of 
Suydam, and for many generations have been prominent in Long Island, especially in Kings 
County. Mr. Walter L. Suydam is a direct descendant of Judge Ryck Suydam, 1675-1743. the 
youngest son of the original Hendrick Rycken Van Suyt-dam. 

Among his ancestors Mr. Suydam also embraces the names of Van Cortlandt, Van Rens- 
selaer, Schuyler, Schermerhorn and others of similar note in New York history. On the maternal 
side he comes, in several unbroken lines of descent, from royalty. His grandmother, Helen 
White, who married Abraham Schermerhorn, was the granddaughter of Augustus Van Cortlandt, 
of Yonkers, and his wife, Catharine Barclay, granddaughter of the eminent Colonial divine, the 
Reverend Thomas Barclay. The latter was the son of John Barclay, who was deputy governor of 
New Jersey, and a son of Colonel Davis Barclay, of Ury, and his wife, Catherine Gordon, grand- 
daughter of Dr. Gordon, dean of Salisbury, in 1603. The Gordon ancestry is traced to Henry III., 
of England, through his successors the three Edwards. Joan, daughter of Sir John de Bellfort, in the 
seventh generation from Henry, married James I., of Scotland, their descendants being the Earls of 
Huntly and Lords Gordon. Mr. Suydam is in the twenty-second generation from Henry III. 

In 187s, Mr. Suydam married his distant cousin, Jane Mesier Suydam, daughter of John R. 
Suydam. Mrs. Suydam's ancestry is fully as distinguished as her husband's. Her grandfather was 
the famous John L. Lawrence, 1785-1849, Comptroller of New York 1849, and the incumbent of many 
State and national offices, including that of Secretary of Legation and Charge d' Affaires of the 
United States at Stockholm, State Senator and Presidential elector. His wife was the daughter of 
United States Senator, General John Smith, of Long Island. The Lawrence ancestry leads back to 
John Lawrence, progenitor of the Lawrences of Seahouse, St. Ives and St. Albans, who married a 
daughter of Eudo de Welles and Lady Maude Greystock. A descent from Henry III. is traced 
through his son, Edmund, Earl of Leicester, and the Lords of Mowbray and Welles to Eudo de 
Welles, in the seventh generation. From Ethelred, the Unready, it comes through his daughter, 
the Princess Goda, and the Earls of Hereford, Barons de Sudeley and Barons de Clifford, to which 
family Lady Maude de Greystock belonged. Through them, respectively, Mrs. Suydam descends in 
the twenty-second generation from Henry III. and in the twenty-seventh from Ethelred, the 
Unready. Mrs. Suydam is a member of the Colonial Dames of America, through descent from 
fifteen different ancestors distinguished in Colonial times. 

Mr. Walter Lispenard Suydam was born in New York, May 20th, 1854. He was educated 
in Paris and this city, engaged in business in his youth, and was one of the original subscribing 
members of the New York Produce Exchange. After five years he retired from active business, 
but remained a member of the Exchange. He was long one of the managers of the Society for 
Improving the Condition of the Poor, but resigned in 1896. He is active in the Republican party 
organization in Suffolk County, has been long chairman of the Republican Committee of Brook- 
haven and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, in 1896. He has, however, 
declined several nominations, believing that he can accomplish more good in a private station. 
Mr. Suydam resides at 43 East Twenty-second Street, and has a country house and estate of eighty 
acres called Manowtasquott, at Blue Point, on Great South Bay, Long Island. He belongs to the 
Metropolitan club, the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Westbrook Golf and the Great 
South Bay Yacht clubs, being an enthusiastic yachtsman. He is also interested in canoeing 
and belongs to the Canoe Club of Mount Desert, where he is a summer visitor. Mr. and Mrs. 
Suydam have a son, Walter L. Suydam, Jr., born in 1884. 

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FREDERICK GEORGE SWAN 

AMONG the freemen of Medford, Mass., in 1639, was Richard Swan, 1600-1658, who pre- 
sumably arrived in America at least five years before. He and his wife, Ann, were 
members of the first church in Boston in 1638, and were dismissed from the church at 
Rowley in 1639. He was a settler of Rowley, Mass., in 1640, a representative to the General 
Court for thirteen years, served in King Philip's War, and was one of the proprietors of the 
Narragansett grant of land. His son, Robert Swan, of Haverhill, Mass., 1629-1697, was a soldier 
in King Philip's War. His son, Samuel Swan, of Haverhill, 1672-1751, had a son Timothy, 
1694-1746, who removed to Charlestown, Mass., and served in the Indian wars. 

Samuel Swan, Sr., of Charlestown, 1 720-1 808, son of Timothy Swan, was born in 
Charlestown, in 1720. The battle of Bunker Hill was fought on his farm. He was town 
treasurer of Charlestown, 1777-80, and died in 1808. In 1746, he married Joanna Richardson, 
of Woburn. His eldest surviving son, Samuel Swan, Jr., 1 750-1 825, grandfather of Mr. Frederick 
G. Swan, served under General Benjamin Lincoln during the Revolutionary War, being purchasing 
agent and quartermaster with the rank of Major. He married Hannah Lamson. 

Benjamin Lincoln Swan, 1787- 1866, father of Mr. Frederick George Swan, was the fifth 
child and fourth son of Major Samuel Swan. Removing to New York in 18 10, he established 
himself in business and was very successful, retiring in 182 1. He was a director in the Bank of 
America, and the Bank for Savings, a member of the University Place Presbyterian Church (the 
old Duane Street Church), vice-president of the New York Bible Society, and a governor of the 
New York Hospital and the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane. He married Mary C. Saidler, 
1800-1857, and had a family of six children. The eldest son was Benjamin L. Swan, Jr., who 
died in 1892; he resided in West Twentieth Street, and his country place was Woodside Farm, 
Oyster Bay, Long Island. He was educated at Amherst College, was a member of the Union, 
New York and Century clubs, and the National Academy of Design. His first wife was Caroline 
Post, by whom he had two children, William L., and Caroline E. Swan, who married Thomas 
J. Young; his second wife was Mary Ren wick. 

Edward H. Swan, the second son, graduated from Columbia and Harvard, and married Julia 
S. Post. He lives in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and has four sons and four daughters. His 
daughter Elizabeth married Commodore McKay, of the Cunard Steamship Line. His daughter 
Julia married the Reverend William Irvin, son of the late Richard Irvin. Otis Dwight Swan, 
another son, was educated at Columbia and Harvard. He married, first, Charlotte Anthon, 
daughter of the Reverend Dr. Henry Anthon, his second wife being Sarah M. Weed, by whom he 
had four children, Benjamin Lincoln, Mary C, Eliphalet W., and Sarah L. Swan. A fourth son 
was Robert J. Swan, president of the New York State Agricultural Society, who owned a model 
farm in Geneva, N. Y. He married Margaret Johnston, and two daughters survived him, Margaret 
Johnston and Agnes Swan, who married Waldo Hutchins, Jr. Mary C. Swan, the only daughter 
of Benjamin L. Swan, Sr., married Charles N. Fearing. 

Mr. Frederick George Swan, the youngest son of Benjamin Lincoln Swan, Sr., was born 
in New York, February 22d, 18 ?i. He was educated in private schools, and engaged in the dry 
goods commission business. In 1861, he joined the Open Board of Stock brokers, and afterwards 
the New York Stock Exchange, remaining in Wall Street until 1890. In 1861, Mr. Swan married 
Emily Wyeth, daughter of Leonard Jarvis Wyeth, a merchant of New York, who came of an old 
Massachusetts Colonial family, three of his uncles having been in the Lexington alarm in 1775. 
Mr. and Mrs. Swan have one daughter, Frances Wyeth Swan, who married Benjamin Welles. Mr. 
Swan was one of the first twenty members of the Union League Club. He also belongs to the 
Metropolitan Club, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Order of Patriots 
and Founders of America, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a life director of the 
New York Bible Society, and belongs to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 

544 



HENRY COTHEAL SWORDS 

THOMAS SWORDS, the progenitor in this country of the family that bears his name, was 
born in Maryborough, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1738. He was of a family of importance 
in that country and secured a commission as ensign in the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Foot 
in the British Army. He came to America in 1756, with the expedition under General Abercrombie, 
was wounded in the attack on Ticonderoga and promoted to be Lieutenant. Afterwards he was in 
command of military stations in the northern part of New York, notably that of Fort George. In 
1776, he resigned from the army and made a home on land granted him by the Government in 
Saratoga County. During the Revolution, his sympathies were with the mother country, although 
he took little active part. At one time his house was the headquarters of the Royal Army, and the 
battles of Freeman's Farm and Green's Heights were fought not far away from his home. After 
the defeat of Burgoyne, he took his family to New York and remained there until his death, in 1780. 
The wife of Captain Thomas Swords, whom he married in Albany in 1762, was Mary Morrell, who 
died in 1798, in New York. Captain Swords and his wife are buried in the churchyard of St. Paul's 
Chapel. Three sons and two daughters were born to this couple. The eldest daughter married 
for her first husband Allan Jackson, her second husband being Douglass Anderson, a Scotch 
gentleman, and their daughter became the wife of Thomas B. Cummings, of New York. The 
youngest daughter married Henry Brewerton, and the son of this union was Brevet Major-General 
Henry Brewerton, U. S. A. 

Richard Swords, the eldest son of Captain Thomas Swords, held a commission in the British 
Army and distinguished himself for bravery. While on service in Virginia in 178 1, he was killed 
at the age of eighteen. The two youngest sons, Thomas and James Swords, learned the art of 
printing, and in 1786 established themselves in Pearl Street, New York, as booksellers and printers, 
soon taking the foremost position in that line of trade. Being members of the Episcopal Church, 
they became in effect the official publishing house of that denomination. Among their publica- 
tions were the authorized versions of the Common Prayer Book and standard editions of the Bible 
and a Church Almanac, which was one of the most important church publications brought out in 
this country up to that time. 

After remaining in the publishing business nearly fifty years, James Swords retired and 
became president of the Washington Fire Insurance Company, a position which he held until his 
death. He left one daughter and two sons. The eldest son was Charles R. Swords, a well-known 
New ' York merchant of the last generation. Robert S. Swords, the youngest son, was 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second New Jersey Cavalry during the Civil War. Thomas Swords 
was for thirty years an active member of the vestry of Trinity Church. He continued in the pub- 
lishing business until his death, in 1843. He married Mary White, of Philadelphia, who died in 
1868. One of his sons, Andrew Jackson Swords, was killed in the Mexican War, and another 
son was Brevet Major-General Thomas Swords, U. S. A., who was distinguished in the Florida, 
Mexican and Civil Wars. Two other sons, Edward J. Swords and James R. Swords, succeeded 
their father in the management of the publishing business. James R. Swords, the youngest, 
married Ann M. Cotheal, who survives him, and with her daughter, resides in West Thirty- 
sixth Street. , ., . .. 

Mr. Henry Cotheal Swords, the representative of this interesting family in the present 

generation, is the son of James R. and Ann M. (Cotheal) Swords. He has been a member of the 
New York Stock Exchange since 1877, is president of the Real Estate Trust Company and a 
member of the Chamber of Commerce. His city residence is in West Thirty-eighth Street. He 
married Elizabeth Clarkson, daughter of the late Samuel Clarkson, of Philadelphia. Mr. Swords 
is a member of the Union League, Union, Calumet, Church and Riding clubs, the Downtown 
Association, the Seventh Regiment Veterans, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Colonial 
Wars, the St. Nicholas Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

545 



EDWARD NEUFVILLE TAILER 

A WEALTHY and enterprising merchant of Boston in the seventeenth century was William 
Tailer, 1611-1682. He married Rebecca Stoughton, daughter of Israel and Elizabeth 
Stoughton. Stoughton, a man of property and good family, came to America in 1632 and 
received a grant of land in Dorchester, near Boston, Mass. He was a representative to the General 
Court, commanded the Massachusetts forces in the Pequot War, and was one of the original 
incorporators of Harvard College. His death occurred in England in 1644. His most distinguished 
son was Governor William Stoughton, 1631-1701, Chief Justice of the Colony from 1692 to 1701. 

William Tailer, 1675-1731, son of the first William Tailer and Rebecca Stoughton, became a 
prominent public man in the Colonial annals of Massachusetts. In the expedition sent by Governor 
Dudley against the French at Port Royal, now Annapolis, Nova Scotia, commanded by Sir William 
Phipps, William Tailer was an officer under Colonel Nicholson. He was a soldier of great valor 
and his services gained for him the approval of his commanding officers, as well as promotion. 
When he went to England, soon after, he carried letters of recommendation from his brother-in- 
law, Governor Stoughton, to the authorities there and brought back a commission as Lieutenant- 
Governor of the Province. He succeeded Povey in the office in question in 1704, and held it under 
Governors Dudley and Burgess, at one time acting as Governor in the interval between the 
departure of Dudley and the arrival of Burgess. He died while Lieutenant-Governor, in 1731. 

The gentleman whose name heads this article is a descendant of William Tailer and Israel 
Stoughton. His father, Edward N. Tailer, was the senior partner of the firm of Tailer & White, 
which was one of the best known financial houses in New York City three-quarters of a century 
ago, and retired from business in 1837. On his mother's side, Mr. Tailer traces his ancestry to the 
Bogerts, who came from Holland at the time of the first colonization of New Netherland. They 
settled in the upper part of Manhattan Island and were prominent on Long Island. 

Mr. Tailer was born in New York City, July 20th, 1830, and was educated at the Penquest 
French Academy, a famous school at that date. In 1848, he became a clerk of the firm of Little, 
Alden & Co. He was subsequently connected with several other firms, and finally became a 
founder and partner in the importing and commission house of Winzer & Tailer, afterwards known 
as E. N. & W. H. Tailer & Co., one of the most prominent establishments of its class in the 
country. After a business life of thirty-six years, Mr. Tailer retired, and since that time has been 
principally occupied as the executor of important trusts and estates. He has traveled considerably, 
having crossed the Atlantic more than forty times since he made his initial voyage in the old 
steamship Arago in 1857. In the New York social world, Mr. Tailer and his immediate family 
have been more than ordinarily conspicuous for many years. His marriage to Agnes Suffern in 
1855 united him with another prominent New York family. Miss Suffern was the daughter of 
Thomas Suffern, a merchant whose name was associated with all the affairs of the city, social, 
commercial and philanthropic, in the early part of the century. He was one of the first prominent 
men of his day to build a residence in Washington Square, and there he lived for fifty years. The 
children of Edward N. and Agnes (Suffern) Tailer are Mrs. Henry L. Burnett, Mrs. Robert L. 
Livingston, Mrs. Sidney J. Smith and T. Suffern Tailer, who married Maud Louise Lorillard, 
daughter of Pierre and Emily (Taylor) Lorillard. 

Mr. Edward N. Tailer is a member of the vestry of the Church of the Ascension, takes part 
in the management of several religious and benevolent institutions, and is a director of the Northern 
Dispensary, the Greenwich Savings Bank and German-American Bank. His clubs include the 
Union, Union League, Merchants', Reform and Country. He is numbered among the prominent 
New Yorkers who have country residences at Tuxedo, is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art and American Museum of Natural History, and a member of the New England and St. Nicholas 
societies and the American Geographical Society. His city residence is the old Suffern mansion, 
Washington Square North. 

546 



EDWARD BAKER TALCOTT 

WARWICKSHIRE was the original home of the Talcott family, though the first 
ancestor of whom there is a record was John Talcott, of Colchester, Essex. His 
son resided in Braintree, England, where he was a Justice of the Peace, and from 
him the American branch of the family sprung, through his son, John Talcott, who came to Boston 
in 1632. John Talcott removed to Hartford in 1636, where he was a magistrate. 

Lieutenant-Colonel John Talcott, his son, was born in England, and came to America with 
his father. In 1650, he was Ensign, a Captain in 1660, a Deputy in 1654, and Treasurer of the 
Colony, 1660-76. In King Philip's War, he commanded the troops with the rank of Major and 
Lieutenant-Colonel. He was one of the patentees named in the Connecticut charter, and in 1650 
married Helena Wakeman, daughter of John Wakeman, Treasurer of Connecticut, dying in 1688. 
His son, Hezekiah, was born in 1685, married Jemima Parsons, was one of the original proprietors 
of the town of Durham, and died in 1764. In the next two generations, the ancestors of Mr. 
Edward Baker Talcott were John Talcott, 1712-1765, and his wife, Sarah Parsons, and David Talcott, 
1 744- 1 786, and his wife, Anne Lyman. Noah Talcott, the son of the latter pair, who was born in 
Durham, Conn., 1768, and died in New York in 1840, became a merchant of New York in the 
early years of the present century. From 1798 to 1809, he was a partner of one of the famous 
Ellis brothers, and after continuing alone in business for the next six years, took his brother David 
into partnership, under the firm name of N. & D. Talcott. The firm was dissolved after eight 
years, but he continued in business, either alone, with other partners, or with his sons, until the 
end of his life. His wife, to whom he was married by Bishop Moore in Trinity Church, in 1803, 
was Eliza Woods, of Oxford, England, 1787- 1866. Noah Talcott was one of the original members 
of the New England Society. 

Frederick Lyman Talcott, his son, was born in 181 3. Graduating from Columbia College in 
1832, he and his brother, Daniel W. Talcott, were taken into partnership by their father, the firm 
becoming Noah Talcott & Son, and continued under that style until 1858, when Frederick L. 
Talcott retired and, with his two sons, Frederick L., Jr., and August B. Talcott, established the 
banking house of Talcott & Sons. Frederick L. Talcott was known as the " Cotton King," from 
his successful operations in the cotton market, and was president of the organization of merchants 
which afterwards became the Cotton Exchange. In 1842, he married Harriett Newell Burnham. 
Their children were : Frederick L. Talcott, who married Mary Picard ; August Belmont Talcott, 
who married Therese Polhemus; James Carleton Talcott, who married Laura Belknap; Mary Alice, 
who married Charles F. Palmeter; Harriett Elliott, wife of James R. Harrison; Edward Baker 
Talcott and Florence Louise Talcott. 

Mr. Edward Baker Talcott, the fourth son of Frederick L. Talcott, was born in New York, 
January 21st, 1858, and was educated at the Fort Washington Institute. He began business in 
1874, with Talcott & Sons, then passed four years with the house of Charles F. Hardy & Co., 
for whom he made successful business trips abroad and was offered a partnership. This he 
refused, and returning to Wall Street, he became a partner in Talcott & Sons in 1880, and joined 
the Stock Exchange. He remained with the firm for three years, and then became a most 
successful trader in the market. In January, 1897, he entered the firm of Bell & Co. Mr. Talcott 
represents the house, which is one of the leaders of the street, on the Exchange. From 1890 to 
1894, he was identified with baseball affairs, and on returning from Europe in 1892, found the New 
York Baseball Club in a bankrupt condition. He was made managing director, with complete 
control, and at the end of the season of 1894 had discharged its debt and placed the club on a 
dividend-paying basis. He then sold his interest to the present owners. 

In 1879, Mr. Talcott married Sara T. Roberson, daughter of W. H. Roberson. In 1880, a 
son was born to them, who died in 1886. Mr. Talcott resides at 147 West Seventy-second Street, 
and is a member of the Colonial, Manhattan, New York Athletic and Atlantic Yacht clubs. 



JAMES TALCOTT 

SAMUEL TALCOTT, a younger son of John Talcott, 1600- 1660, who came to Boston in 
1632, was the founder of a notable branch of the ancient Connecticut Talcott family. Born 
in Newtown, Mass., about 1634, Samuel Talcott, as an infant, accompanied his parents in 
the migration to Hartford, in 1636, and graduated from Harvard in 1658. He was a deputy to the 
General Court of Connecticut, 1670-84, and a Lieutenant and Captain of the militia during the Indian 
wars. His wife was a daughter of Elizur Holyoke and Mary Pyncheon, who were of historic 
Massachusetts families. 

The subject of this article is a descendant in a maternal line of the Reverend Thomas 
Hooker, the first settled clergyman of Hartford, Conn., and of Thomas Hart Hooker, member 
of the Second Connecticut Regiment, which took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, and in 
Arnold's Quebec Expedition. This branch of the Talcott family has given to the State of Connecti- 
cut some of its most distinguished citizens. Joseph Talcott, grandson of John Talcott, the pioneer, 
was born in 1669, was an assistant in 171 1, and Governor of Connecticut from 1724 until his death 
in 1741. Brigadier-General George Talcott, 1786-1862, was a distinguished officer of the United 
States Army from 18 13 to 185 1. Captain Andrew Talcott, 1797- 1883, served in the Engineer Corps 
of the United States Army, in 1834-36 had charge of the improvement of the Hudson River, and 
afterwards in civil life was connected with railroad and other important enterprises. Lieutenant- 
Colonel George Henry Talcott was a graduate from West Point, and served in the Mexican War. 
Brigadier-General S. V. Talcott was at one time Quartermaster-General of the State of New York 
on the staff of Governor Horatio Seymour. 

Mr. James Talcott is a representative in the metropolis in this generation of this Colonial and 
Revolutionary family, and is a native of West Hartford, Conn., in which place he was born in 1835. 
His father was a manufacturer and landowner, and the son received a good education in the schools 
of his native place, at Easthampton, Mass., and elsewhere. When he had reached the age of 
nineteen, he left his native place, and, coming to New York, established himself in business here. 
An elder brother had for a time been proprietor of an extensive knitting mill in New Britain, 
Conn., and Mr. Talcott's first engagement in New York was as agent for his brother's establish- 
ment. The New York agency proved successful from the outset, and Mr. Talcott has been 
connected with that and business of allied nature ever since, a period of over forty years. He 
is now one of the prominent wholesale merchants of the dry goods district of the city, conducting a 
business of great magnitude, consisting of many departments of varied characters, domestic and 
foreign. He is agent for several of the largest mills in New York and New England. Mr. Talcott 
is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and of the Board of Trade and Transportation. He is 
also a director of the Manhattan Company, and has been a member on the board of directorate of 
the Broadway National Bank, the Broadway Savings Bank and other financial institutions. He is a 
life member of the American Geographical Society and the New England Society, and is a member 
of the American Museum of Natural History, and of several clubs. 

Mr. Talcott has not allowed his business interests to interfere with the discharge of the 
higher duties devolving upon the citizen. His name has been identified with almost every move- 
ment during the past twenty-five years, looking to the improvement of the city government. To 
charitable and educational objects in this city and elsewhere, irrespective of creed, he has freely 
contributed in time and money. 

In i860, Mr. Talcott married Henrietta E. Francis, daughter of the Reverend Amzi Francis, 
of Bridgehampton, Long Island. They have five children. The Reverend J. Frederick Talcott is 
a graduate of Princeton University, and lives at 60 West Eighty-seventh Street. Francis Edgar 
Talcott lives at Westfield, N. J., and Arthur Whiting Talcott is in business with his father, and 
resides at 39 West Seventy-sixth Street. The two daughters are Grace and Edith Charlotte 
Talcott. Mr. and Mrs. Talcott reside at 7 West Fifty-seventh Street. 

548 



FREDERICK D. TAPPEN 

DURING the Spanish persecutions in the Netherlands, the Tappen family fled from Holland 
to England, whence its American ancestor came to New York in 1630, settling in Fort 
Orange and at Kingston in 1637. Descendants are now found throughout the State of 
New York and other Middle States. One of the most picturesque figures of New York during the 
last half of the nineteenth century was Colonel Charles Barclay Tappen, who be onged to this 
respected family. His grandfather settled in Morris County, N. J., before the Revolution, and his 
a her was John y Tappen g editor of The Plebian, now The Ulster Gazette. Born before the century 
began Colonel Tappen almost lived to see its end, dying April 20th, ,893. having passed his 

ninCty cZel Tappe'nwas an architect and builder, and many of the buildings in New York City 
of the last generation were designed by him. An intensely patriotic man he served in the War of 
£» and in .833, Governor Marcy commissioned him Colonel of the Two Hundred and Th.rty- 
Sxth Regiment; National Guard, State of New York. He maintained a deep . merest in military 
affairs thfough ife. Among other offices, he filled, from .835 to .838, that of Superintendent of 
r! P rs of the City of New York, a post equivalent to the present Public Works Department He 
was a man of striking personality and vigorous to the time of his last illness. Living in East S.xty- 
dghth Street, it was his regular practice, on every pleasant day, to walk down Fifth Avenue and 
Broadway to Wall Street. He had a family of eleven children and saw thirty grandchildren and 
great-grandchildren grow up around him. His wife, Elizabeth Tappen, was a woman of much 
force of character and natural vigor, and also lived to a ripe old age, passing away only a few years 

bef0rC Mr F^eHct D.l'appen is a son of the late Colonel Charles B. Tappen. Born in New York 
City January 29th, .829, he was prepared for college in the Columbia College Grammar School, 
and then entered the New York University, from which institution he was graduated in 849. 
The fo lowing year he entered the service of the National Bank of New York now the Gallatin 
National Bank, and has maintained that connection for nearly half a century In ,857, he became 
cashier, and in 1868 was elected president, a position that he has retained to the present time 

For more than forty years, Mr. Tappen has been one of the most prominent factors in the 
banking business of New York. Problems of finance have been the occupation of his life, and he 
b soneo g f the leading authorities upon the subject, and his opinions and advice have often been 
asked by the State a'nd National officials. One of the most striking features in Mr. Tapper is career 
has been his service to the banking interests of the metropolis in times of panics. In 1873, 1884, 
,8ooand 180, he took a leading part in devising and executing measures that carried the allied 
banks of he'city through the fto'rms. During these critical times, he was chairman of the loan 
committer of he' Clearing House Association. In 1893, his work was particularly successful and 
won for him the approvaf of the business community generally. As a token of appreciation Mr. 
Cpen'sTanking associates presented him with an antique silver tankard that had a pecul, rly 
interesting and pertinent significance. The tankard was originally presented to Sir John Houblon, 
LordXo^ of London andffist governor of the Bank of England, for his efforts ,n tiding over a 
financial crisS in .693, as shown by an inscription on the tankard. It finally came mto possession 
of a Sew York gemleman, and it was particularly fitting that just two centuries from the time of 
us firstTresentation it should again be used for a like purpose in the financial centre of the New 
Wold ' Mr Tappen has been president of the Clearing House Association twice - vice-president 
of the Metropolitan Trust Company, and a director in the Bank of New Amsterdam, the Sixth 
Nattenal Snk and Queen Insurance^ Company, and a trustee of the Royal Insurance Companj of 
nvernool Mr Tappen married Sarah A. B. Littell. His clubs include the Metropolitan Union 
L ague Unl' GroHe? and Players, and he is a member of the Hol.and Society St. Nicholas 
Socfety and the Downtown Association. His residence is at 49 East Sixty-e.ghth Street. 



549 



ALEXANDER TAYLOR 

OF Scottish origin, the grandparents of Mr. Alexander Taylor, Jr., were residents of Leith 
until 1822, when they emigrated to the United States, bringing with them their eldest, 
and at that time only, son, Alexander. The father engaged in mercantile business in 
New York, and died in 1840. The son, Alexander, father of the subject of this sketch, was 
educated in New York, and engaged in business early in life. First he was connected with a Wall 
Street firm of brokers, but soon established himself independently. Subsequently, with two 
brothers as partners, he founded the firm of Taylor Brothers, at the head of which he continued 
until 1870, when, with his son, Alexander Taylor, Jr., he organized the firm of Alexander Taylor & 
Son. Soon after, he removed to London as the resident partner there of the banking house of 
Clews, Habicht & Co. His firm was the fiscal agent of the United States in England, and had part 
in some of the most important financial enterprises of that time. 

After the panic of 1873, Mr. Taylor returned to New York to take charge of the affairs of the 
house with which he was connected, and at the same time represented the British bondholders of 
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad Company. Eminently successful in reviving the 
fortunes of the banking house, and in protecting the interests of the bondholders, for whom he was 
attorney, he afterwards became connected with other financial undertakings. He assisted in estab- 
lishing the Gramme Electric Company, of which he was director and treasurer, was an early pro- 
moter of the plan for a canal across Nicaragua, being a director and chairman of the executive 
committee of the company, and maintained an active connection with the New York, West Shore 
& Buffalo Railroad, of which he.was treasurer and a director, and with the Ontario & Western Rail- 
road and the Walkill Railroad, in each of which he was a director. He was for many years a 
member of the New York Stock Exchange, frequently being called upon to occupy official position 
in that body, was a member of the St. Andrew's Society, the Burns and Union League clubs, a vice- 
president of the National Academy of Design, and also connected with the Scottish Union and 
National Insurance Company, of Scotland, of which he was one of the three American trustees. 

Mr. Alexander Taylor, Jr., the oldest son in his father's family, was born in New York, June 
22d, 1848. His primary education was secured in the famous Charlier Institute, and he afterwards 
attended Churchill's Military Academy in Sing Sing. Before he had become of age, he entered his 
father's office as a clerk, subsequently becoming a member of the firm of Alexander Taylor & Son. 
Ultimately he became the sole proprietor of the firm. While in no sense a politician, Mr. Taylor 
has given much attention to the cause of political reform and the honest administration of munici- 
pal government. He has never held political office, but was at one time persuaded to be a 
candidate for Congress from the Twelfth Congressional District, and although defeated, made a 
strong campaign. He has been particularly distinguished by his interest in gentlemanly sports 
and by his activity in promoting organizations devoted to those pursuits. The Gentlemen's Driv- 
ing Association of New York owed its origin solely to his efforts, and he was one of the organizers 
and a director of the National Horse Show Association of America, and one of the originators and 
governors of the Country Club of Westchester County. He is a member of the Megantic Fish and 
Game Club, of Maine, the Adirondack Club, the oldest organization in the Adirondack Mountains, 
the Caribou Club, of Maine, and other similar organizations, and belongs to the Union League 
and New York Yacht and Larchmont Yacht clubs, and some twenty other clubs. 

In 1868, Mr. Taylor married Fannie Taylor, daughter of the Honorable Henry J. Taylor, ot 
Jersey City. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have had seven children, of whom only three are living. Laura 
Taylor married C. T. W. Hollister, lives in Cleveland, O., and has one son, Alexander Taylor 
Hollister. Frances Taylor, the youngest daughter, married J. C. Baldwin, Jr., of New York, where 
they are now living. They have one son, J. C. Baldwin, third. Alexandrina Taylor, the only 
unmarried daughter, lives with her parents. The Taylor residence is Chrismere, Mamaroneck, 
N. Y., one of the handsomest estates on Long Island Sound. 



HENRY AUGUSTUS COIT TAYLOR 

ONE of the leading merchants of New York City, in the first half of the eighteenth century, 
was Moses Taylor, whose business was advertised in the New York Gazette of 1750, as 
"at the corner house opposite the Fly Market." This Moses Taylor, the first of his 
name in the New World, was a London merchant and settled in New York about 1736. His 
younger son was born in 1739, soon after the arrival of the family in this country, became a man of 
considerable wealth and had a large family. During the British occupation of New York, he 
removed to the interior of New Jersey, where his son, Jacob B. Taylor, was born. 

After the war and when he had attained to manhood, Jacob B. Taylor came to New 
York and followed in the footsteps of his father and his grandfather in business. He rapidly 
advanced to prominence in social and political, as well as in business walks of life. He was 
a member of the board of aldermen with such men as Philip Hone, John Ireland, and others, 
at a time when the solid business men of the city considered it a duty and an honor to engage in 
public affairs, and to devote part of their time to advancing and conserving the welfare of the 
municipality. For many years he lived in Broadway, at the corner of Morris Street, and there 
entertained generously, surrounding himself with the most interesting people of the city, He was 
associated in business with John Jacob Astor for many years. 

Moses Taylor, son of Jacob B. Taylor, was born in 1806, and died in 1882. He was educated 
with the end in view of fitting himself for the business life that had been mapped out for him, and 
at the age of fifteen, began his career. Gradually undertaking small business ventures, he found 
himself, at twenty-six years of age, with a capital of $15,000, a fortune for a young man in those 
days. Thereupon he went into business for himself and prospered for a time, but in the great fire 
of 1835, lost all that he possessed. He quickly recovered from this disaster, however, and became 
one of the wealthiest and most prominent business men of his day. In 1855, he was elected 
president of the City Bank, a position that he retained until his death, in 1882. His ability in the 
direction of financial affairs was generally recognized, and President Lincoln offered him the position 
of Secretary of the Treasury after the resignation of Secretary Chase. He became largely interested 
in railroad properties, and at one time practically owned the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
Railroad. He also made profitable investments in the Lackawanna Coal & Iron Company, and 
the Manhattan Gas Company, and, with Peter Cooper, Marshall O. Roberts and Chandler White, 
he was a supporter of Cyrus Field in the Atlantic cable undertaking. 

The wife of Moses Taylor, whom he married in 1832, was Catharine A. Wilson, daughter of 
a New York merchant. She died in 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were survived by five children. 
Their daughter, Alberta S. Taylor, married Percy R. Pyne, the banker, and has two sons, Percy 
Rivington Pyne, who married Maud Howland, and Moses Taylor Pyne, who married Margaretta 
Stockton. Another daughter, Katherine Winthrop Taylor, married Robert Winthrop, and is the 
mother of Albertina T., Robert Dudley, Frederic and Beekman Winthrop. George C. Taylor, the 
eldest son, lives in Islip, Long Island, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Union 
and Knickerbocker clubs. 

Mr. Henry A. C. Taylor, the youngest son, was born in New York, January 19th, 1841, and 
was graduated from Columbia College in the class of 186 1. He is a partner in the firm of Moses 
Taylor & Co. He married, in 1868, Miss Fearing, daughter of Daniel B. Fearing, lives in East 
Seventy-first Street, has a summer home in Newport, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, 
Knickerbocker, and New York Yacht clubs, and the Downtown Association. He has two sons and 
one daughter. His eldest son, Henry Richmond Taylor, graduated from Columbia University in 
the class of 1891, is a member of the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker and other clubs, and is engaged 
in the practice of law. His younger son, Moses Taylor, was graduated from Yale University in 
1893, is a member of the Metropolitan and Knickerbocker clubs, and married Edith Bishop, 
daughter of Heber R. Bishop. 

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JOHN TAYLOR TERRY 

AMONG the most notable Puritan pioneers in the settlement of the Connecticut Colony were 
John Haynes and George Wyllys. John Haynes was Governor of Massachusetts in 
1635. He removed to Hartford, and in 1639 became the first Governor of Connecticut; 
and thereafter was seven times elected in alternate years to the same office, being also Deputy 
Governor five times. George Wyllys was a wealthy English gentleman of Warwickshire and had 
a farm prepared for him in Hartford before he came over with his family in 1638. He took a 
leading position; was a magistrate in 1639, Deputy Governor in 1641, and Governor in 1642. He 
died in 1644, but his descendants became prominent and three of them held in succession the office 
of Secretary of State of the Colony. Upon the land of Governor Wyllys stood the famous Charter 
Oak, in whose hollow trunk the charter of Connecticut was hidden. Samuel Terry was the 
original patentee of the town of Enfield, Conn., about 1657, and was the first Colonist married 
at Springfield, Mass. 

Mr. John T. Terry can trace his lineage to all three of these famous Puritans. His ancestral 
liries also go back on both sides to Governor William Bradford, who led the Mayflower Pilgrims. 
His maternal ancestress, Mabel Harlakenden, the wife of Governor John Haynes, was a member of 
a family whose descent is traced to King Edward III. One of Mr. Terry's maternal forefathers 
was the Reverend Edward Taylor, who married a granddaughter of Governor Wyllys. The direct 
line of descent is from Samuel Terry, of Enfield, Conn., who was born in 1661, was Selectman, 
Ensign and Captain, and died in 1730. His son Ephraim, of Enfield, 1701-1783, married Governor 
Bradford's great-granddaughter, Ann Adams, and his grandson, Eliphalet, 1741-1812, was a justice 
of the quorum in 1778, a representative in the Connecticut Assembly for thirty-three consecutive 
years, most of that time being Speaker of the House, and a judge of the County Court from 1798 
until his death. Another member of the family was Colonel Nathaniel Terry, who led a company of 
soldiers from Enfield to Boston as soon as the news of Concord and Lexington reached there. 
Major General Alfred H. Terry, a distinguished officer of the Civil War, is of the same family. 

The father of the subject of this sketch was Roderick Terry, 1788-1849, a merchant of 
Hartford, Conn., for forty years, and president of the Exchange Bank there for fifteen years. His 
mother was a daughter of the Reverend John Taylor, of Deerfield, Mass., whose wife was a 
daughter of Colonel Nathaniel Terry, and who could trace his descent to the Days, the Smiths and 
other leading families of Western Massachusetts. The grandfather of the Reverend John Taylor 
was Edward Taylor, of Westfield, Mass., who graduated from Harvard College in 1671. 

Mr. John Taylor Terry has been one of New York's foremost merchants in the generation 
that is fast passing away. He was born in Hartford in 1822, and, coming to New York in 1841, 
went into business with Edwin D. Morgan, first as a merchant and then as a banker. After the 
death of Governor Morgan, in 1883, Mr. Terry continued the business under the original firm 
name. He has been one of the leading bankers and financiers of the metropolis, interested in 
large undertakings, and a director in various railroad, insurance and telegraph corporations, 
among them the Mercantile Trust Company, of which he is vice-president, the Western Union 
Telegraph Company, the Metropolitan Trust Company, the American Exchange Bank and a 
number of railroad companies. He has a country residence at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, and 
belongs to the Union League Club, the American Geographical Society, the New England 
Society, the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and is a patron of 
the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

In 1846, Mr. Terry married, in Brooklyn, Elizabeth Roe Peet. Their elder son, the Reverend 
Roderick Terry, D. D., is pastor of the South Reformed Church, of New York. He married Linda 
Marquand, their two children being Eunice and Roderick Terry, Jr. John T. Terry, Jr., the 
younger son, a graduate of Yale and a member of the bar, married Bertha Halsted and has two 
children, a son and a daughter. 



PAUL LOUIS THEBAUD 

FRANCE and Holland gave to America the ancestor of the Thebaud family, of New York, 
which for more than a century has taken a notable and honored part in the commercial 
activity of the metropolitan city, and has, at the same time, held a distinguished position 
in its social relations. The first of the name to come to this country was Joseph Thebaud, who 
landed at Boston, Mass., arriving from China, in 1771, as the accredited representative in America of 
the French East India Company and of other large mercantile interests in his native land, to which 
the growth of business between the two countries made an agent here necessary. Joseph Thebaud 
was a man of high education, and had enjoyed a long training in commercial affairs, and had, also, 
in the course of his business career, traveled extensively and become familiar with all parts of the 
world. He took at once a leading place in American business life of that day, his talents and expe- 
rience, as well as the influential connections he possessed in Europe, placing him, ere many years 
after his first arrival in this country had passed, among the foremost merchants that his adopted land 
possessed in those days. Living for a time in Boston, he removed to New Haven, Conn., which at 
that date, and for some decades after, was a considerable shipping port, and enjoyed more or less 
foreign trade, which, however, gradually shifted to New York about the beginning of the present 
century, owing to the superior natural advantages the latter port possessed as an entrepot of com- 
merce. Perceiving this tendency, Joseph Thebaud accordingly established himself in the growing 
metropolis, where he and his descendants have ever since been citizens. He was one of the sub- 
stantial men of his time, and in his business relations was noted for an inflexible integrity, his 
motto being that his word was as good as his bond, which principle he observed in all his extensive 
affairs. The commercial house which he established, and which three generations of his descend- 
ants have now conducted with success and honor through the vicissitudes of a century, has ever 
been governed according to the principles of its founder, and presents an instance of permanency 
rare in the history of such establishments in this country, where business changes are frequently 
of so marked a character. 

Joseph Thebaud acquired social distinction as well as wealth in New York. He resided in 
Beekman Street, then a neighborhood of dwellings occupied by the most substantial citizens, his 
near neighbors being the Stuyvesant family, and his country seat was on a large tract of land 
extending from Orchard and Rivington Streets to the East River. One of his favorite personal 
tastes was for flowers, and his greenhouses, in which he took great pride, were the admiration of 
the town and a decided novelty. Among his most intimate friends in New York was the elder Dr. 
Hosack. He was active in the various charities of the city, being the founder of the French 
Benevolent Society. In 1795, he married a daughter of Philip Le Breton, a wealthy merchant of 
the French island of Martinique, in the West Indies, and at his death, in 181 1, left a large estate to 
his wife and sons, John J. and Edward Thebaud. 

The latter received his education at Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa., and then entered 
the office of the famous New York shipping merchant, Gardiner G. Howland, where he obtained a 
sound commercial training. His father's business manager, Joseph Bouchaud, was the executor of 
the estate, and continued the elder Mr. Thebaud's business, subsequently marrying his widow. In 
1820, Edward Thebaud joined his stepfather, the firm being very successful, but he retired in 1824 
and visited relatives in France. 

During his stepson's absence, Mr. Bouchaud became involved in his affairs through the 
failure of one of his foreign correspondents and suspended payment. He, however, in due time, 
paid his debts in full, and resuming business with the confidence of all, retrieved his fortune and 
became once more a rich man. In 1835, Edward Thebaud returned to the firm, which was 
increased in importance and in the volume of its business, by further French connections, as well 
as an extensive Mexican trade, and owned a line of fast sailing ships. During the War of 1812, 
Edward Thebaud was an officer of the New York State forces engaged in that struggle for the 



defense of the city, while his stepfather fitted out some of their vessels, as privateers, and with 
them rendered considerable aid to the American cause. The wife of Edward Thebaud, whom he 
married in 1823, was a young lady belonging to a noble French family, Emma, daughter of Vincent 
Classe van Schalkwyck de Boisaubin. Her father had been a playmate of Charles X., and an officer 
of the body guard of Louis XVI. He lost his estates in the French Revolution, and fleeing with his 
family to America, became a prominent member of the Colony of imigrts which was such a 
feature of New York's social life in the early years of this century. The sons of Edward Thebaud 
and his wife, Emma de Boisaubin, were Edward Vincent, Paul Louis and Francis F. Thebaud, all 
of whom have been active in the commercial life of the city. 

Edward V. Thebaud, the eldest brother, was born in New York in 1824, and was educated 
at St. Mary's College, in Baltimore. On the completion of his education, he entered the counting 
house of his father's firm, and continued in active business until 1892, when he retired and made 
his residence at Madison, N. J., at which place his father had also lived on his country estate 
for some years. 

Paul L. Thebaud, who is now the head of the time-honored family business establish- 
ment, was born in Morristown, N. J., and graduated from St. John's College, Fordham, N. Y. He 
also entered his father's business office in 1845, and now counts more than half a century of 
honorable and successful mercantile life. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the 
State of New York, and is a director of a number of the city's important financial institutions. Mr. 
Thebaud has also devoted no small portion of a busy life to the cause of charity, and is a trustee 
and officer of many institutions or societies for that object, while he is also a member of the most 
prominent social clubs of the metropolis. His wife was Caroline E. Gibert, a member of the 
well-known Gibert family of New York, which is also of French origin, and has been long 
prominent in business and society. On her mother's side, Mrs. Thebaud is descended from 
General Ebenezer Stevens, the Revolutionary hero, afterwards a notable figure in the New York 
business world, and whose descendants have been for several generations prominent in the 
professions, in financial affairs and in the social life of the metropolis. 

Francis F. Thebaud, the youngest brother, was graduated from Seton Hall College, New 
Jersey, and then received a special training for business. He entered the establishment of his father 
and brothers at an early age, and supplemented his experience by a course of extensive travel in 
the countries with which the firm has business relations, thus acquiring a knowledge of physical 
conditions, of individuals and of languages which has been invaluable in his subsequent career. 
His whole attention has been devoted to the serious occupation of his life, and he is esteemed in a 
wide circle for the uprightness and generosity of his character, and holds high rank in the 
metropolitan mercantile and financial world. 

Paul Gibert Thebaud, the representative of the next generation of this family, is the son of 
Paul L. Thebaud and his wife, Caroline (Gibert) Thebaud. He was educated at the Columbia 
Grammar School in this city, with a view to taking the place he now fills in the venerable firm of 
which his father is the senior. Going into business under the care of his parent and uncles, he 
gradually passed through the various grades which fitted him for a partnership in the house. He 
married early in life, his bride being Mathilde Reynal, only daughter of Jules Reynal de St. Michel, 
and granddaughter of the late Nathaniel Higgins, of this city. Their family consists of two sons, 
Paul Gibert Thebaud, Jr., and Reynal de St. Michel Thebaud, both of whom it is their parents' 
desire shall maintain the social and business prestige of their ancestors. By right of descent, Mr. 
Thebaud is entitled to membership in the Sons of the Revolution, the St. Nicholas Society, the 
Society of Colonial Wars and the Society of the War of 181 2. His name is found upon the rolls of 
a number of the most prominent clubs, and he holds the office of vice-president of the Knollwood 
Country Club, a leading social and athletic organization of Westchester County. Paul Gibert 
Thebaud's town residence is 158 Madison Avenue, and his country home is Rocky Dell Farm, 
near White Plains. He is one of the best known and most deservedly popular of the younger 
married men of the city. 



ADDISON THOMAS 

GENERAL JOHN ADDISON THOMAS, the father of the above gentleman, was born in 
Cabarrus County, N. C, May 28th, 1810, but resided in Columbia, Tenn. He 
graduated from West Point in 1833. He was made Brevet Second Lieutenant of the 
Third Artillery, the same year, and performed garrison duty at Fort Wolcott, R. 1. In 1835, 
he became Second Lieutenant, and First Lieutenant in 1837. For seven years after 1834, 
he was assistant instructor of infantry tactics at West Point, and assistant professor of geography, 
history and ethics. In 1841-42 he was aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General John E. Wool, 
and for three years following 1842 was commandant of cadets and instructor of infantry 
tactics. Advanced to be Captain of the Third Artillery in 1843, he resigned in 1846. 

Upon returning to civil life, General Thomas practiced law in New York, for seven 
years. In 1846, he was Colonel of the Fourth New York Regiment, raised for service in the Mexi- 
can War. He was also engineer-in-chief on the staff of the Governor, with rank of Brigadier- 
General in 18S2. In 1853, he was sent to London to represent the United States in the Convention 
with Great Britian for the adjustment of American claims, and upon his return in 1855, served 
as Assistant United States Secretary of State for two years. He established an international 
reputation by his report of the proceedings of the Convention of 1853 and other State papers. 
He died in Paris, France, March 20th, 1858. The parents of General Thomas were Isaac Jetton 
Thomas, of Cabarrus County, N. C, and Asenath Houston. The old plantation is still in 
the family and is now owned by John Addison Thomas, a grandson of Isaac Jetton Thomas and 
a son of James Houston Thomas. 

General Thomas married Catharine L. Ronalds, the daughter of Thomas A. Ronalds 
and Maria D. Lorillard. The father of Catharine Ronalds was a leading merchant of New York 
in the first quarter of the century. He also was a director in the Mechanics' Bank, and 
took an active part in military affairs during the War of 1812. His death occurred in 1835. He 
was the son of James Ronalds, a Revolutionary patriot of Scottish origin. 

Colonel Addison Thomas, the oldest son of General John A. and Catharine L. (Ronalds) 
Thomas, was born at West Point. Prepared for college in Europe, he entered the Law School of 
Harvard University, graduating in the class of 1867, and was admitted to the New York bar. 
Much of his time in recent years has been spent in travel abroad. He has a residence at Newport. 
His clubs are the Harvard, Military, and New York Yacht, and the Metropolitan of Washington, 
D. C. For more than twenty-one years he has served in the National Guard of the States of 
New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. His last command was the Newport Artillery, the 
oldest active military organization in the United States, having received its charter from King 
George II., in February, 1741. Colonel Thomas married Alice Gridley Abbott, of Boston, who 
died at Paris in 1874. In 1878, he married Susan Cox, daughter of the late Reverend Samuel 
Hanson Cox, D. D., of Brooklyn. His only son, Houston A. Thomas, who married Daisy Bonnet, 
of Geneva, Switzerland, lives in Boston, Mass. 

John Addison Thomas had three other children, Ronald, Catherine Lorillard, and George 
L. Thomas. Ronald Thomas, who was born in New York, November 3d, 1848, was educated in 
Europe, and was engaged in business in New York as a broker. He has retired and lives at Santa 
Barbara, Cal., but is still a member of the Union League, New York Athletic and New York Yacht 
clubs and a life member of the Country club of Westchester County. In Santa Barbara, he is a 
member of the Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara Country clubs. In 1 881, he married Daisy Richards, 
of Chambersburgh, Pa. Catherine Lorillard Thomas, born in Paris in 1850, married, in 1869, 
Ernest Christian de la Haye, Viscount d'Auglemont, and has since resided in Paris. The Viscount- 
ess d'Auglemont was widowed in 1885, and has two children, Henri and Blanche. The youngest 
of the family is George L.Thomas, of Columbia, Tenn., who married his cousin, Nora Clayton Thomas, 
daughter of James Houston Thomas, a prominent member of the Confederate Congress. 

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EBEN BRIGGS THOMAS 

FOR twelve centuries back the pedigree of the Thomas family can be historically traced. Sir 
Rhysap Thomas, in the reign of Henry VIII., was the ancestor of numerous branches 
bearing his name, in both England and America, at the present time. He was descended 
from Urien Rheged, a British Prince, who lived in the early part of the sixth century, and tradition 
in regard to the family goes further back than that, writers on Welsh history and genealogy hold- 
ing that its records are distinguishable in the early centuries of the Christian era. There are many 
branches of the Thomas family in the United States. Several pioneers came from the Old 
World to the New during the early years of the migration in the seventeenth century. They 
established themselves in different parts of the country, and their representatives have since 
become distinguished in every walk of life. Several of the name settled at an early date in New 
England, where their descendants have been numerous and influential. 

The special branch of the family now under consideration, and of which Mr. Eben Briggs 
Thomas is a representative in New York in the present generation, was founded by William 
Thomas, who settled in Eastern Massachusetts soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
Benjamin Thomas, son of William Thomas, was a prominent resident of Middleboro, Mass., where 
he was a deacon in the First Congregational Church, and otherwise active in the affairs of the 
church and the community in which he lived. His wife was Elizabeth Churchill, who was a mem- 
ber of an old Massachusetts family. Ezra Thomas, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Churchill) 
Thomas, married Lucy Sturtevant, of Carver, Mass., and lived in the old family homestead in Mid- 
dleboro. Ezra Thomas of the third generation, was born in 1786, and lived in Middleboro through- 
out his entire life, his death occurring in 1825. He was married in 181 2, at Carver, Mass., by the 
Reverend John Shaw, to Hannah Cole, who was born in 1786. Ezra Thomas and Hannah Cole 
were the grandparents of Mr. Eben Briggs Thomas. The father of Mr. Thomas was the third 
Ezra Thomas, of Middleboro. He was born in 1814 and died in Cleveland, O., in 1891. His wife, 
whom he married in 1837, was Mary Nelson Briggs, daughter of the Reverend Ebenezer Briggs 
and Hannah Nelson. The father of Mary Nelson Briggs was a son of Ebenezer Briggs, who was 
born in 1731, and his wife, Elizabeth Smith, and a grandson of Nathaniel Briggs and Sarah Whit- 
taker, of Rehoboth, Mass., who were married in 1719. 

Mr. Eben Briggs Thomas was born in Chatham, Canada, December 22d, 1838. Early in life 
he entered upon a business career with the American Telegraph Company. In the course of time 
he made his first connection with railroad management, with which he has now been identified for 
nearly forty years. In 1870, he was made a receiver of the railway property which is now the 
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railway Company, and subsequently became general manager of the 
Bee Line, at present included in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. Remain- 
ing with that corporation for several years, he then became connected with the Richmond & Dan- 
ville system. In 1888, he was elected second vice-president of the New York, Lake Erie & Western 
Railroad, and took charge of the Western division of that system. In 1890, he was advanced to be 
first vice-president of that road, and 1894, upon the retirement of John King from the presidency, 
was elected to fill the vacancy, and holds that office in the Erie Railroad as the reorganized com- 
pany is known. He ranks among the foremost railroad officials in the country, being a master of 
details in all departments of the business. 

In 1868, Mr. Thomas married, in Cleveland, O.. Helen Gertrude Streator, daughter of Dr. 
Worthy Stevens Streator and his wife, Sarah Wakeley Sterling. Mrs. Thomas, on the paternal 
side, is descended from Dr. John Streator, through Isaac H. Streator, who was born in 1758, and 
Isaac H. Streator, Jr., who was born in 1786 and was her grandfather. The children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas are: Gertrude Streator and Helen Sterling Thomas. The city residence of the family 
is in West Fifty-eighth Street. Mr. Thomas belongs to the Tuxedo, Manhattan, Lawyers', Union 
League, Engineers' and Riding clubs, the Century Association and the Ohio Society. 

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THEODORE GAILLARD THOMAS, M. D. 

FOR many generations, the Thomas and Gaillard families, from both which this gentleman is 
descended, have been prominent in South Carolina; the Reverend Samuel Thomas having 
been sent by the Church of England in 1700, to establish a church in that Colony, while 
Joachim Gaillard emigrated from France in 1689, soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. 
The Reverend Edward Thomas, father of Dr. Theodore Gaillard Thomas, was a native of 
South Carolina and was one of the ablest ministers of the Episcopal Church in that State. His 
wife, Jane Gaillard, was a daughter of Judge Gaillard, of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. 
The Honorable John Gaillard, her uncle, was born in St. Stephen's District, S. C, in 1765, and 
died in Washington in 1826. Active in public affairs, he was elected to the United States Senate 
in 1805, succeeding the Honorable Pierce Butler, and served until his death, a period of twenty-one 
years. From the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Congress, inclusive, he presided over the deliberations 
of the Senate as president pro tempore, being elected to that chair on account of the death of two 
successive vice-presidents, George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry. Thomas H. Benton, in his Thirty 
Years' View, says of him, "There was probably not an instance of disorder or a disagreeable scene 
in the Chamber during his long continued presidency." 

Dr. Theodore Gaillard Thomas was born in Edisto Island, S. C, in 1831. His early 
education was secured in the Charleston, S. C, Literary College, from which he was graduated. 
He then pursued the study of medicine in the Medical College of Charleston, from which institution 
he received the degree of M. D. in 1852. Fixing upon New York for his future home, he came to 
this city immediately after completing his medical education, and attached himself to Bellevue 
Hospital and the Ward's Island Hospital, as house physician. Shortly after he went abroad for 
further study, and for a year and a half walked the hospitals of London, Dublin and Paris. He 
then returned to New York and established himself in general practice, and has now for more than 
forty years been a resident of this city, where he is recognized as a leading physician. 

Dr. Thomas, aside from his private practice, has been professionally connected with the 
leading hospitals and medical colleges of the metropolis. In 1855, he received the appointment 
of lecturer in the medical department of the New York University, retaining that position until 1863, 
when he was made professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons of New York. For more than fifteen years he was attached to Bellevue 
Hospital as visiting physician. In 1872, he was appointed one of the attending surgeons of the 
Woman's Hospital, and for some time was consulting surgeon of St. Mary's Hospital for Women 
in Brooklyn. He has also been connected with the Stranger's, St. Luke's and Roosevelt hospitals, 
and in 1875 was president of the medical board of the Nursery and Child's Hospital, with which 
he had previously been connected for several years. Despite his busy professional life, Dr. Thomas 
has found time to write much upon medical topics. He assisted in the preparation of A Century 
of Practical Medicine, wrote and published a valuable work, A Practical Treatise on Diseases of 
Women, and has also written several books and papers for medical journals treating of the specialty 
in medical practice to which he has devoted himself. 

The first wife of Dr. Thomas was Mary Gaillard, of South Carolina, who died in 1855. For 
his second wife, he married, in 1862, Mary Willard, granddaughter of the celebrated Emma 
Willard, of Troy, N. Y. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas live in upper Madison Avenue and have a summer 
home, The Dunes, Southampton, Long Island. John Metcalfe Thomas, eldest son of Dr. Thomas, 
married Louisa Carroll Jackson, the daughter of Oswald Jackson, of New York, a direct descendant 
of Charles Carroll, of Carrolton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Howard 
Lapsley Thomas, a younger son, married Adele B. Larocque, daughter of Joseph Larocque. He 
was a prominent figure in New York social circles until his death, in June, 1896. Dr. Thomas is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Riding, and Shinnecock Golf clubs, the Century Association and the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

557 



FREDERICK DIODATI THOMPSON 

REPRESENTING in a direct line two of the oldest manorial families of Long Island, the 
Thompsons and the Gardiners, Mr. Frederick Diodati Thompson also includes in his 
ancestry famous names in Colonial New York and New England, as well as that of 
the Diodati, Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, a family of great distinction in Italy and other 
European countries. The ancestor of the Thompsons of Suffolk County, N. Y., was the Reverend 
William Thompson, of Winwicke, Lancashire, 1 597-1 666, who graduated at Brazenose College, 
Oxford, in 1619, and emigrated to America in 1634. His son, John Thompson, came to 
Ashford, Long Island, in 1656, and was one of the proprietors of the town of Brookhaven. 
The family seat, Sagtikos Manor, or Apple Tree Wicke, Islip, Long Island, of which Mr. 
Frederick Diodati Thompson is the owner, has been in the possession of his race for many 
generations. His great-grandfather, the Honorable Isaac Thompson, 1743-1816, a Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas, member of the Colonial Assembly, and a magistrate for more than 
forty years, was born there. His grandfather, the Honorable Jonathan Thompson, also born at 
the Manor, in 1773, became a prominent citizen of New York, holding a high social position. 
He was president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company, Collector of the Port of New 
York under Presidents Madison, Monroe and the younger Adams, and chairman of the Demo- 
cratic-Republican National Committee, being also the personal friend of five presidents of the 
United States. 

David Thompson, of Sagtikos, son of the Honorable Jonathan Thompson, was the father of 
Mr. Frederick Diodati Thompson. He was well known to New Yorkers of his day, and was noted 
for his distinguished appearance. He was one of the earliest members of the Union Club. He 
married Sarah Diodati, daughter of John Lyon Gardiner, seventh Lord of the Manor, of Gardiner's 
Island, and of his wife, Sarah (Griswold) Gardiner. The children of this marriage were: Sarah 
Gardiner Thompson, who married Colonel David Lyon Gardiner, her children being David, Sarah 
Diodati and Robert Alexander Gardiner; Gardiner Thompson and David Gardiner Thompson, who 
both died unmarried; Charles Griswold Thompson, Frederick Diodati Thompson, Elizabeth 
Thompson, and Mary Gardiner Thompson. The present Mr. Thompson is thus descended on the 
maternal side from one of the foremost Colonial families. Its founder was Captain Lion Gardiner, 
full reference to whom and his descendants will be found in the article devoted to the present rep- 
resentative of the family, Colonel John Lyon Gardiner. Mr. Thompson also traces his descent to 
Governor Matthew Griswold, of Connecticut; Governor Roger Wolcott, who commanded the 
Colonial forces at the siege of Louisburg; and Roger Ludlow, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts 
Bay and of Connecticut, a descendant of the Ludlows, of Ludlow Castle. 

Mr. Frederick Diodati Thompson was born in this city in 1849, and was graduated from 
Columbia College Law School. He was admitted to the bar, but has found active occupation in 
travel, society and literature. In the latter field his work includes many contributions to periodicals 
and a book of travel, In the Track of the Sun. His travels have been varied and extensive, and he 
has attended the state ceremonies and presentations of nearly all the courts of Europe, and has been 
received by most of the Sovereigns. By descent from the noble family of Diodati, he is entitled to 
the title of Count. Among his friends in Europe he numbers many people of distinction, noblemen 
and officers of high rank in various countries. The Sultan conferred on him the orders of the 
Osmanlieh and Medjidieh. 

Mr. Frederick Diodati Thompson's permanent home is the Long Island seat of his ancestors. 
In this city he is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker and Riding Clubs, and of the 
Lenox Club, at Lenox, Mass. He is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the 
Revolution, the St. George's Society, A ^P Fraternity, New York Historical Society, Long Island 
Historical Society, and New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and he is a fellow of the 
National Academy of Design. 

558 



ROBERT MEANS THOMPSON 

SCOTCH and Scotch-Irish families were, on both sides, the ancestors of this gentleman. His 
father, John J. Y. Thompson, was for many years a lay Judge of Jefferson County, Pa. 
His forefathers came to this country from the Parish of Ellerslie, Scotland, the home of the 
Wallace, and it is a tradition in the Thompson family that they are descended from the race that 
produced the Scottish national hero. Judge John J. Y. Thompson married Agnes Kennedy, 
daughter of the Reverend William Kennedy, who came to Corsica, Jefferson County, Pa., as 
pastor of the Scotch-Irish colony in that place, and ministered to three other congregations in the 
county. He married Mary McClure, whose great-grandfather, John McClure, came to America 
about 1740, settled in North Carolina, but removed to Chester County, Pa., and obtained a grant 
of land in Uwchland Township, from Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of Pennsylvania. 
These lands are still in possession of his descendants. One of the present Mr. Thompson's great- 
grandfathers was the Reverend John Jameson, who was a missionary to the Indians and to the 
Presbyterian congregations of the mountain regions from Pennsylvania to North Carolina. 

Mr. Robert Means Thompson is the son of Judge John J. Y. and Agnes (Kennedy) Thomp- 
son and was born March 2d, 1849, in Corsica, Jefferson County, Pa. Educated in the local schools 
and at Elder's Ridge Academy, in Indiana County, he received an appointment to the Naval 
Academy in 1864, and graduated with distinction in 1868, being the tenth in a class of eighty. 
He served in the West Indian and Mediterranean squadrons and was commissioned ensign in 
1869 and master in 1870. During 1871, he served on the Wachusett in the Mediterranean squad- 
ron and in October of that year resigned from the navy. He studied law and was admitted to 
the Pennsylvania bar in 1872, afterwards entered the Dane Law School of Harvard University, and 
graduated in 1874, with the degree of LL. B. He served for a time as assistant reporter of the 
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and practiced his profession in Boston. In 1876, and 
again in 1877 and 1878, he was a member of the Common Council of that city. 

In 1879, Mr. Thompson turned his attention to business and assumed the active manage- 
ment of the Orford Nickel & Copper Company. His success in this important field has been 
pronounced, and he now holds a position in the front rank of American metallurgists. One of 
his notable achievements has been the economical smelting of copper ore in large quantities. The 
Orford Copper Company, of which he is president, is one of the largest producers of nickel in 
the world, and in this connection has rendered the United States Government invaluable service 
by furnishing the nickel necessary for use in the manufacture of armor plate. It was entirely 
through Mr. Thompson's efforts, working to meet the requirements of the Government, that the 
nickel industry was established in this country on its present basis, so that the metal is produced 
at the lowest cost ever known in the world, and of superior quality. 

In 1873, Mr. Thompson married Sarah Gibbs, daughter of Governor William C. Gibbs, of 
Newport, and a granddaughter of Mary Channing, aunt of the famous Reverend William Ellery 
Channing, and great-granddaughter of John Kane, of Albany, and seventh in descent from the 
Reverend Jonathan Russell, of South Hadley, Mass., in whose home the regicides, Whalley and 
Goff, were protected for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have one daughter, Sarah Gibbs 
Thompson. The city residence of the family is at 5 East Fifty-third Street, their summer home 
being in Southampton, Long Island. Mr. Thompson is a member of the University, Players, 
Racquet, New York, Engineers', United Service and New York Athletic clubs, the Century 
Association, the Downtown Association, and the Metropolitan Club, of Washington. 

Three brothers of Mr. Thompson, John Jameson Thompson, Albert C. Thompson and 
Clarence Russell Thompson, were in the military service of their country during the Civil War. 
The latter was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill. Albert C. Thompson was wounded at the 
second battle of Bull Run. Since the war he has been a resident of Ohio, where he was elected a 
Judge and for three terms was a Member of Congress. 

559 



LEONARD MORTIMER THORN 

AN original patentee of Flushing, Long Island, in 1645, was William Thome, the American 
ancestor of several branches of a family that has been distinguished in New York for two 
hundred and fifty years. Notwithstanding some differences of opinion among genealo- 
gists, it is now generally agreed that William Thorne, of Flushing, was the William Thorne who 
came from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early part of the seventeenth century 
and settled in Lynn, Mass., where he was a freeman in 1638 and had land apportioned to him. He 
came to Long Island in 1642, and after living several years in Flushing, was one of the proprietors 
of the town of Jamaica, in 1657. In the same year, he was a signer of the remonstrance to Gov- 
ernor Petrus Stuyvesant, protesting against the treatment of the Quakers. Some of his descend- 
ants dropped the final letter e from their name and adopted the surname Thorn. 

John Thorn, of the second generation, in 1664, was a freeman of Connecticut, to which 
Colony the Long Island settlement then pertained. His son, Joseph, who died in 1753, married, in 
1695, Martha Johanna Bowne, daughter of John Bowne, of Flushing. In 1704, with several others, 
Joseph Thorn was a purchaser of three hundred and sixty acres of land in Nottingham township, 
Burlington County, N. J., but it is not known that he ever lived there. Thomas Thorn, 1704- 
1764, son of Joseph Thorn, lived in Flushing and Cortlandt Manor. His first wife, the ancestress 
of that branch of the family to which the subject of this sketch belongs, was Penelope Coles, 
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wright) Coles, of Oyster Bay, one of the oldest and most 
important families of Long Island. The great-grandfather of Mr. Leonard Mortimer Thorn was 
Daniel Thorn, 1726-1765. son of Thomas and Penelope Thorn. His wife was Mary Frost, daughter 
of William and Susannah (Coles) Frost. The grandparents of Mr. Thorn were Charles Thorn, 
1755-1818, and Anne Kirby, 1752-1845, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Latting) Kirby. 

William Thorn, 1777-1861, father of Mr. Leonard Mortimer Thorn, married Anne Knapp, of 
Greenwich, Conn., and had a family of twelve children, Charles Edgar, Anne Augusta, Julius 
Oscar, William Knapp, Frances Mathilda, Mary Elizabeth, Alfred Ferdinand, Ferdinand Alfred, 
Leonard Mortimer, George Frederick, Samuel and Caroline Mathilda Thorn. Of his daughters, 
Anna Augusta married G. N. Allen. Frances Mathilda married Thomas Garner, of England, who 
died in 1867. She died in 1862. Their children were: Frances, who married Francis C. Lawrance, 
of New York; Josephine, who married James L. Graham, of New York; Thomas, who married 
Harriet Amory, of Boston; William T., who married Marcellite Thorn; Caroline, who married 
Samuel Johnson, of Bridgeport, Conn., and Anna T., who married George H. Watson, of New 
York. Frances Garner Lawrance, daughter of Francis C. Lawrance and Frances Garner, became 
the wife of George William Venables Vernon, the seventh Lord Vernon, of Sudbury Park, Derby- 
shire, England, whose mother was a daughter of the Earl of Litchfield. Francis C. Lawrence, Jr., 
married Sarah Egleston Lanier. William Thorn Garner and his wife, Marcellite Thorn, had three 
daughters, Marcellite, Florence and Adele. The parents were drowned in the Mohawk yachting 
accident in New York harbor, in 1876, the recollection of which, as one of the saddest affairs in 
New York yachting annals, has not been obscured by the passing years. William Knapp Thorn, 
of the same family, married for his first wife, Harriet Cooke, of Bridgeport, Conn., and after her 
death, married, in 1839, Emily A. Vanderbilt, daughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

Mr. Leonard Mortimer Thorn was born in 1816. In early life, he spent many years in Texas 
and acquired a thorough knowledge of Indian life and customs, being at one time proficient in 
thirteen Indian tongues. During his active business career, he was a member of the firm of Garner 
& Co. In 1858, he married Augusta Amelia Raguet and has had a family of four children, L. 
Mortimer, Jr., Conde R., Marcia, who died in 1885, and Emily Augusta Thorn. Leonard Mortimer 
Thorn, Jr., graduated from "Columbia College. He married Lillian Gwynn and lives in West 
Fifty-fifth Street. Conde R. Thorn is also a Columbia graduate. He married Louise Akerly Floyd- 
Jones, lives in East Tenth Street and is a member of the A <& and Calumet clubs. 

560 



SAMUEL THORNE 

WILLIAM THORNE was made a freeman of Lynn, Mass., in May, 1638. After remaining 
in Massachusetts for a few years, he moved to Long Island, and in 1645 wa s one of the 
patentees of Flushing. In 1646, a plantation in Gravesend was granted to him, and in 
1657 he became a proprietor of Jamaica. The Long Island pioneers of the Thorne family were 
Quakers, and prominent in the early history of that society in their section. Joseph, son of William 
Thorne, married Mary Bowne, daughter of John Bowne, one of the most noted Quakers of his 
time, who for his religion was sent to Holland, to be tried, but was acquitted, the authorities of 
New Amsterdam being censured for their intolerance. The mother of Mary Bowne was Hannah 
Feake, daughter of Robert Feake, who settled in Watertown, Mass. Martha Johanna Bowne, 
sister of Mary Bowne, afterwards became the wife of Joseph, son of John Thorne, the two sisters 
thus marrying uncle and nephew. Joseph Thorne, son of Joseph Thorne and Mary Bowne, 
was born in 1682 and lived for the greater part of his life at Hempstead. His wife was Catharine 
Smith, and his son, William, born in 1745, married Jemima Titus, while his grandson, Samuel, 
married Phoebe Dean, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret Dean. 

Jonathan Thorne, son of Samuel Thorne and Phoebe Dean, and descendant in the fifth gen- 
eration from William Thorne, was born at Washington, Dutchess County, N. Y., in 1801. His 
father was living at Thornedaleatthe time of the son's birth, and the latter was educated in the local 
schools. At an early age, he came to New York and was a clerk in the dry goods business. When 
he was twenty-three years of age, he married Lydia Ann Corse, daughter of Israel Corse, of New 
York, formerly of Maryland, who was largely interested in the leather business, in which thencefor- 
ward his son-in-law was engaged. He learned the art of tanning, and in time became the 
manager of tanneries in New York and Pennsylvania, and the proprietor of one of the largest 
establishments of the trade in New York. He was also connected with other commercial and 
financial enterprises, such as the Central Trust Company and the Leather Manufacturers* National 
Bank, of which he was a director for forty years. He died in 1884. 

Mr. Samuel Thorne, son of Jonathan Thorne, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y. Septem- 
ber 6th, 1835. He was educated in this city and, entering the counting house of his father's firm, 
acquired a knowledge of the business, in which he was engaged for a short time. Since his father's 
death, Mr. Thorne has been principally occupied with the care of the estate. He is president of the 
Pennsylvania Coal Company, and a director of the Central Trust Company, the Sixth Avenue 
Railroad, and the Bank of America. For some fourteen years he resided upon the family 
homestead, Thornedale, in Millbrook, Dutchess County, N. Y. Becoming interested in the 
importation and breeding of short horned cattle, he had one of the finest herds of these 
animals in the country. 

In i860, Mr. Thorne married Phebe Van Schoonhoven, daughter of William Van Schoon- 
hoven, of Troy, N. Y. They have five children, the eldest son, Edwin Thorne, being a graduate 
of Yale, and president of the Polar Construction Company. He married Phebe Ketchum, 
daughter of Landon Ketchum, of Saugatuck, Conn., and granddaughter of Morris Ketchum, the 
well-known New York banker. The second son, William Van S. Thorne, is a graduate of Yale 
and vice-president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The two other sons of Mr. Thorne are 
Joel W. and Samuel Thorne, Jr., and the only daughter of the family is Margaret B. Thorne. Mr. 
Thome's residence is 8 East Fifty-fifth Street, and he has a country residence in Dutchess County, 
adjoining the old family seat. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Century, Down- 
town and Riding clubs, the American Geographical Society, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 
Mr. Samuel Thome's younger brother, Jonathan Thorne, a graduate from Haverford College, 
is engaged in the leather business, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League and other 
clubs. Another brother, William Thorne, was also in the leather trade, but retired some time 
since. He is a member of the Union League Club. 

561 



CHARLES LEWIS TIFFANY 

THREE brothers of the Tiffany name came to this country from England at a very early period, 
and for five succeeding generations their descendants resided in the town of Attleborough, 
Mass. James Tiffany, the ancestor of Mr. Charles Lewis Tiffany, lived on what is still 
known as the Tiffany Farm in that town. He was born there in 1697, and died in 1776. His son, 
Ebenezer, who died in 1807, had a son, Comfort Tiffany, who was born in 1777, and moved from 
Massachusetts to Connecticut, where he was for the greater part of his life engaged in the manufac- 
ture of cotton goods. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1844. He was the father of Charles Lewis Tiffany. 

The mother of Mr. Tiffany was Chloe Draper, daughter of Isaac Draper, of Attleborough. 
Her father was born near Dedham, Mass., in 1736, and was a successful tanner of Attleborough. 
He was the son of Ebenezer Draper, 1698-1784, by his wife, Dorothy Child, daughter of Joshua 
and Elizabeth (Morris) Child, of Brookline, Mass. The grandparents of Isaac Draper were James 
Draper of Roxbury, 1654-1698, and his wife, Abigail Whiting, daughter of Nathaniel Whiting, and 
great-granddaughter of John Dwight. James Draper was a soldier in King Philip's War. He 
was a son of James Draper, who was born in England in 1618, and died in Roxbury, Mass., in 
1694, being a freeman of Roxbury in 1690. The mother of James Draper, Jr., was Miriam 
Stansfield, daughter of Gideon and Grace (Eastwood) Stansfield, of Wadsworth, Yorkshire, 
England. The first James Draper was the American ancestor of the family, and was a son of 
Thomas Draper, of Heptonstall Parish, England. The Drapers were people of good standing and 
substantial merchants, Thomas Draper being a clothier. 

Mr. Charles L. Tiffany, the eldest son of Comfort Tiffany, was born in Killingly, 
Conn., February 15th, 1812. He was educated in the public schools and the Plainfield Academy. 
Moving to New York in 1837, he started in business under the firm name of Tiffany & Young, 
and in 1857 began the special business career as manufacturer of and dealer in jewelry, silver- 
ware and bronzes, that has made his name famous throughout the world. A review of the history 
of this notable business house is not called for here, for its name has become a household word on 
two continents. Mr. Tiffany has received many honors from foreign governments. In 1878, he was 
made Chevalier of the National Legion of Honor, of France, and the Czar of Russia gave him a 
gold medal, Praemio Digno. He has also received letters of appointment from the Queen 
of England, the Czar and Czarina of Russia, the Emperors of Austria, Germany and Brazil, the 
Prince and Princess of Wales, the Kings of Belgium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Portugal, 
the Shah of Persia, the Khedive of Egypt and other crowned heads. He was one of the founders 
of the New York Society of Fine Arts, is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a 
trustee of the American Museum of Natural History. He is also a life member of the New 
England Society, the National Academy of Design, the American Geographical Society, and the 
New York Historical Society. His club membership includes the Union League, New York, 
Union, City and New York Yacht clubs. 

In 1841, Mr. Tiffany married Harriet C. Young, of Killingly, Conn. Mrs. Tiffany's father 
was Ebenezer Young, who was born in 1784 and died in 1851. He was one of the notable 
public men of the State of Connecticut in the early part of the present century. He was graduated 
from Yale College in 1806, was elected a State Senator in 1823, and twice thereafter, was for two 
years president of the Connecticut Senate, and was a member of the National House of Represen- 
tatives, 1829-35. Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany had two sons and two daughters. Their eldest son, 
Louis C. Tiffany, is the well-known artist. He married Louise W. Knox, lives in East Seventy- 
second Street, and has three children, Mary Woodbridge, Hilda G., and Charles L. Tiffany, second. 
He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union League, Grolier, Century and other clubs and social 
organizations. Charles L. Tiffany's residence is at the corner of Madison Avenue and Seventy- 
second Street, one of the most artistic houses in the city, and architecturally one- of the most 
notable private residences in the country. Mrs. Tiffany died in November, 1897. 

562 



FRANK T1LF0RD 

THE origin of the Tilford family, that has been prominent in New York City, can be traced 
back for almost a thousand years. The name, as it is in modern use, is a contraction from 
one of the various spellings of the old Norman surname Taillefer. The family is frequently 
referred to in works upon Norman-French genealogy. The general opinion of Perigourd and of 
the L'Augoumois, which is justified by the testimony of many distinguished scholars and critics, is 
to the effect that the house of Taillefer was descended from the ancient Counts d'Augouleme, and 
this idea has been confirmed in the fact that the surname is illustrated by heraldic devices in the 
coat of arms borne by the various branches of the race for so many centuries. Wlguin, chief of this 
race, was invested with great possessions in the year 866 by King Charles Le Chauve. Guillaume 
de Taillefer, first of the name and the son and successor of Wlguin, as Count de L'Augoulesme, 
transmitted the name, de Taillefer, to his descendants by an act of valor and extraordinary strength, 
during a battle for the Normans, in the year 916. From this notable ancestor, the line of lineage 
has been clearly traced down through the successive generations of the family to the subject of 
this sketch. 

The immediate ancestors of Mr. Tilford came from Scotland. The first of the name in this 
country emigrated during the reign of George II., and settled in Argyle, a village north of Albany. 
James Tilford, the grandfather of Mr. Frank Tilford, was a Captain during the War of 181 2 and his 
great-grandfather served throughout the War of the Revolution. John M. Tilford, the father of Mr. 
Frank Tilford, came to New York when he was only twenty years old, having been born in 181 5. 
Finding employment in the store of Benjamin Albro, he remained there five years. In 1840, with 
Joseph Park, a fellow clerk, he organized the firm of Park & Tilford, which has become the leading 
house in its line in the world. 

Mr. Frank Tilford, the youngest son, and the successor of his father in the firm of Park & 
Tilford, was born in New York City, July 22d, 1852. He was educated in private schools and 
completed his studies in the Mount Washington Collegiate School, and entered the paternal business 
house at Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street early in life. When the business became a joint stock cor- 
poration, in 1890, the senior Mr. Tilford was made vice-president of the company, and upon his 
death, in January, 1891, Mr. Frank Tilford succeeded him. Mr. Tilford is also associated with 
other financial undertakings. He has been a member of the Real Estate Exchange since 1873, and 
has made investments in property on the upper west side of the city. In 1874, he became a 
director of the Sixth National Bank, and in 1885, a trustee of the North River Savings Bank. In 
company with George G. Haven and other gentlemen, in 1889, he organized the Bank of New 
Amsterdam, of which he is now the president. He has also been conspicuous in the management 
of many philanthropic institutions and in other public enterprises, being a member of the Chamber 
of Commerce since 1887, a school trustee, president of the New Amsterdam Eye and Ear Hospital, 
a trustee of the Babies' Hospital, treasurer of the Hancock Memorial Association, and one of the 
most active members of the executive committee of the Grant Monument Association, which 
accomplished the work of completing General Grant's tomb in Riverside Drive. 

In 1 88 1, Mr. Tilford married Julia Greer, daughter of the late James A. Greer, and a grand- 
daughter of George Greer, one of the great sugar refiners of the last generation. Mr. and Mrs. 
Tilford have two daughters, Julia and Elsie Tilford. Mr. Tilford has been a member of the 
Union League Club since he attained his majority, and belongs also to the New York Athletic, 
Lotos, Press, Colonial, Republican, Rockaway Hunt and several other clubs. By virtue of his 
ancestry, he is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution. His country residence, 
Mar-a-Vista, is at Cedarhurst, Long Island. His city home, at 245 West Seventy-second Street, is 
one of the handsomest residences of that section of the new west side of New York. It was 
built by Mr. Tilford himself in 1895, and, largely embodying his own ideas, is architecturally one 
of the most notable buildings in its neighborhood. 

563 



HENRY ALFRED TODD 

JOHN TODD, of Rowley, born in England about 1617, was the founder of the American 
family of Todds, of Rowley, Mass. He is recorded as of Boston in 1637; of Rowley, 
Mass., in 1649; and was a member of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts in 
1664 and later. The first two generations of the family in America spelled the name Tod. 
The son of the pioneer, John Todd, himself bearing the same name, was born in 1655, and 
married Elizabeth Brocklebank, a daughter of Captain Samuel Brocklebank, of Rowley, Mass., 
under whom he served in the campaigns of King Philip's War, 1675-76. A son of the second 
John Todd, also John Todd, was born in 1688, and was married to Ruth Lunt. In the fourth 
generation, Benjamin Todd was born in 1744, and married Elizabeth Saunders. He was a 
staunch supporter of the American cause in the War of the Revolution. In the next genera- 
tion, Wallingford Todd, born in 1778, was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He 
was an officer in the United States merchant marine, and he married Hannah Todd, his cousin 
german, and daughter of Moses Todd and Elizabeth Carleton. His son, Richard Kimball Todd, 
was born in 18 14, and became the father of Mr. Henry Alfred Todd. He was graduated 
from Princeton College in 1842 and entered the ministry. For many years he was the principal 
of Todd Seminary for boys, an institution that he founded. In 1847, ne was married, at 
the Broadway Tabernacle, to Martha Clover, daughter of Lewis P. Clover, of New York City, 
officer of the United States Customs. She was a sister of the late Reverend Lewis P. Clover, 
D. D., of New Hackensack, N. Y., and of Judge Henry Alfred Clover, LL. D., of St. Louis, Mo. 

Mr. Henry Alfred Todd is in the seventh generation from the founder of the family in 
this country. He was born at Woodstock, 111., March 13th, 1854, prepared for college at his 
father's seminary, and graduated from Princeton with the degree of A. B. in 1876. Following 
his graduation, he was a fellow and tutor in Princeton College, 1876-80. Then he went abroad 
and remained three years, studying in the universities of Paris, Berlin, Rome and Madrid. 
Returning to the United States, he became instructor and associate in Johns Hopkins University, 
Baltimore, 1883-91; was made Doctor of Philosophy by the same institution in 1885; was a 
professor in Leland Stanford University, California, 1891-93, and in 1893 became a member of 
Columbia University as professor of Romance Philology. He is the author of various works 
in philology and literature. 

Mr. Todd was married, in 1891, to Miriam Gilman, of Baltimore, Md., the second 
daughter of the late John S. Gilman, of the Gilmans of Gilmanton, N. H., who was president 
of the Second National Bank of Baltimore. A sister of Mrs. Todd is Mrs. D'Arcy Paul, of 
Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Todd have three children, Lisa Gilman, Martha Clover, and Richard 
Henry Wallingford Todd, born August 2d, 1897. The town house of Mr. Todd is at 824 West 
End Avenue, at the corner of One Hundredth Street, an attractive residence, a modern adaptation 
in light brick and stone of the domestic Renaissance architecture, with American basement and 
broadly lighted and balconied foyer on the southern exposure. It contains valuable paintings, 
inherited from Lewis P. Clover, the elder. Woodlands, at Baltimore, the country house of the 
family, is noteworthy among the beautiful and stately homes of Maryland, and is enriched by 
numerous portraits and works of art of early and recent periods. 

Mr. Todd is a member of various clubs and literary and scientific societies. He belongs 
to the Century Association and the Princeton Club of New York City, the New York Academy 
of Sciences, the American Oriental Society, the American Philological Association, the Modern 
Language Association, the Dante Society, the American Dialect Society, the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society, and is a member of the Societe des Anciens Textes Frangais. The arms of the 
family, as engraved on silver plate, brought by the founder of the family from England, are : 
Vert, a fox grimpant, argent; crest, a dove with wings displayed. Motto: "By cunning, not 
by craft." 

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HENRY PENNINGTON TOLER 

WHETHER in social life, in business, or in sport, the name this gentleman now bears has 
been eminent in New York for several generations. It is of Irish origin, directly 
descended from the Norbury family (Lord Norbury— Judge Toler), which bears 
relationship to the aristocracy of that country. Its first representative to come to America was 
Mr. Toler's great-grandfather, who first settled in Providence, R. I., in the early portion of the 
century, but finally came to New York, where he was prominent in business life for many years. 

His son, Hugh K. Toler, was also an eminent and respected New York merchant throughout 
the period preceding the Civil War, and was a founder and partner of the firm which afterwards 
became E. S. Jaffray & Co. He was also a figure in metropolitan social life, but by his residence in 
Newark, was identified with the State of New Jersey and took a prominent part in many local 
institutions there. It was his custom for a long period to drive daily from Newark to Jersey City, 
cross the Hudson to his place of business in New York, and to return in the same way each 
evening, it being recorded that he was never known to miss a trip of this kind irrespective of the 
weather. The present Mr. Toler's father is Hugh A. Toler, who is still active in business pursuits 
in New York. The latter's brother, Henry K. Toler, Mr. H. P. Toler's uncle, was, however, one 
of the most renowned of the early champions of sport in America, and is mentioned in Frank 
Forresters' Warwick Woodlands as the greatest shot in the State. He was also foremost in the turf 
of his time, and was instrumental in arranging the great race between Fashion and Boston in 1842. 
The mare, which was bred at Madison, N. J., by Mr. Gibbons, represented the North, and Boston 
the South, so that the race was a test between the sections, and when it was run at the old Union 
Course, on Long Island, was regarded as a national event, attracting 40,000 people to the track. 
The race, as was then the custom, was run in four-mile heats and Boston, who held the record at 
that distance, 7.37, was beaten by Fashion, who made the time 7.32. Mr. H. P. Toler now has, 
in his home at Short Hills, N. J., original paintings of the horses, showing Mr. Gibbons' stables. 

On his mother's side, Mr. Toler descends from one of the foremost Revolutionary families of 
New Jersey, his mother having been a daughter of the Honorable William Pennington, 1796- 1862, 
who was Chancellor of the State and its Governor from 1837 to 1843 and who, in i860, became 
Speaker of the National House of Representatives. Her grandfather, Judge William S. Pennington, 
1757-1826, was a Major of Artillery in the army of the Revolution, became in 1804 a Judge of the 
Supreme Court of New Jersey, was Governor of the State in 181 3, and afterwards United States 
District Judge. 

Mr. Henry Pennington Toler was born at Newark, N. J., April 28th, 1864, and graduated 
from Princeton College in the class of 1886. While a student of that institution, he was distin- 
guished as an athlete, being a member of the baseball nine and playing half-back on the football 
team with Lamar, when the latter made his celebrated run against Yale, winning the game and 
championship for the year. He was also very active in track athletics, holding the best college 
record for pole vaulting throughout his college course. He has fully retained his taste for 
athletics, having turned his attention recently to golf, in which pastime he ranks as one of the 
foremost amateurs in America, and has been a participant in some of the most famous matches 
that have been played here, having also won several of the open tournaments. He engaged in the 
business of a stock broker and is now a member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1888, Mr. 
Toler married Virginia Wheeler, of Scarsdale, N. Y., daughter of the late George Minor Wheeler. 
The issue of this marriage is two children, Dorothy and Henry Pennington Toler, Jr. He is a 
member of the Union Club, in this city, and of many organizations devoted to golf and other 
sports. Mr. Toler's two brothers are William P. Toler, who married Miss Foote of Elizabeth, 
N. J., and Hugh K. Toler, a widower, who married the daughter of the late Dr. Thebaud, of New 
York. Mr. Toler lives at Short Hills, N. J., where he built a residence during the first year of 
his marriage. 

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JOHN CANF1ELD TOMLINSON 

IN England, in the early centuries after the Conquest, the Tomlinsons belonged to the landed 
gentry. They were descended from a member of the nobility, who had received a coat 
of arms which is still handed down in the family. These arms are: Fess between three 
ravens volant; Crest, out of a ducal coronet a griffin's head, argent. George Tomlinson, the 
English ancestor of the American family, was a native of Yorkshire, and married Maria Hyde. 
His son, Henry Tomlinson, was the American pioneer. With his wife, Alice, and several children 
he arrived in 1652 and settled in Milford, Conn. After four years, he removed to Stratford and 
engaged in business there, dying in 1681. Jonas Tomlinson, son of Henry Tomlinson, married, and 
about 1675 settled in Derby, Conn., where he died in 1692. In the next generation, Abraham 
Tomlinson, who lived in Stratford in 1728, removed to Derby. 

Augur Tomlinson, the great-great-grandfather of Mr. John Canfield Tomlinson, was a son 
of Abraham Tomlinson. He was born in Derby in 1713, married, in 1734, Sarah Bowers, daughter 
of the Reverend Nathaniel Bowers, and died in 1800. In the next succeeding generation 
came Joseph Tomlinson, of Derby, a man of wealth and position. He married for his first wife 
Nethiah Glover, and for his second wife, Jedida Wakelee. 

David Tomlinson, son of Joseph Tomlinson, was one of the noted physicians of New York. 
Born in Derby, in 1772, he graduated from Williams College in 1798, studied medicine and surgery 
under the celebrated Dr. Wheeler, of Dutchess County, and began to practice in Rhinebeck, N. Y., 
in 1802. At one time he was president of the Dutchess County Medical Society, in 1812 was 
surgeon of the Second Regiment of New York Militia, and in 1819 was a member of the New 
York Assembly. The grandmother of Mr. John Canfield Tomlinson was Cornelia Adams, 
granddaughter of Chief Justice Andrew Adams, of Connecticut, and of the Honorable John 
Canfield, a member of the Continental Congress. She married David Tomlinson in 1810. Chief 
Justice Adams was born at Stratford, Conn., in 1736, and died at Litchfield, Conn., in 1797. 
Graduated from Yale College in 1760, he was admitted to the bar in Fairfield County, and practiced 
law in Stamford and Litchfield. He was a member of the Connecticut Legislature, 1776-81, a 
delegate to Congress for two terms prior to the adoption of the Constitution, a member of the 
Governor's Council, a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1789, and Chief Justice in 1793. 

The father of Mr. Tomlinson was the Honorable Theodore E. Tomlinson, who was born in 
Rhinebeck, N. Y., in 1817. Graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1836, he 
studied in the Law School of Yale College, and being admitted to the bar in 1839, began practice 
in New York. In 1850, he was attorney to the Corporation of the city, and was intimately 
associated with Charles O'Connor, James T. Brady, William C. Noyes and David Graham. He 
was an influential representative of the old Whig party, and was chairman of the Whig State 
Committee, 18^0-55. In 1859, ne was a member of the Assembly of New York State. His wife, 
whom he married in 1844, was Abbey Esther Walden. 

Mr. John Canfield Tomlinson was born in New York in 1856, and graduated from New York 
University with the degree of A. B. in 1875, and from the Law School of the same institution 
with the degree of LL. B. in 1877. He received the degree of A. M. in 1882, and throughout his 
professional life has been in practice at the bar of the City of New York. In 1879, he married 
Frances French Adams, daughter of Charles W. Adams, of Boston, and Frances (Barker) French, 
of Bangor, Me. She died in 1886. For his second wife, he married, in 1888, Dora Morrell Grant, 
daughter of Daniel J. and Elizabeth (Crane) Grant, of Boston. Mr. Tomlinson has two children by 
his first wife, John C. Tomlinson, Jr., and Esther Walden Tomlinson. By his second wife, he has 
one son, Daniel G. Tomlinson. Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson live in West Eighty-eighth Street, and 
have a country home at Goshen, Mass. Mr. Tomlinson is a member of the Bar Association, 
the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of Colonial Wars, and his clubs are the Manhattan, 
Lawyers', Colonial and Democratic. 

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AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD TOWER 

IN most cases throughout the United Kingdom, the name of the Tower family is spelled Towers, 
though in Scotland it is sometimes found as Towars. Many in America who bear the name, 
trace their descent to John Tower, who came to this country early in the seventeenth century. 
Among the parishes in England that were in sympathy with the Puritian movement of that period, 
that of Hingham was prominent. There the Reverend Robert Peck had been installed as rector 
some years before John Tower was born, and it was under his ministry that the American pioneer 
passed his early life. The clergyman became an open dissenter; and, under the administration of 
Archbishop Laud, was reduced to the alternatives of submitting to the authorities or abandoning 
his parish. Choosing freedom of conscience to compliance, he decided to emigrate to this country, 
and in 1637 led hither a company drawn mainly from the members of his flock, among whom 
was John Tower. 

John Tower, the founder of the family in America, was the son of Robert and Dorothy 
(Raymond) Tower and was born in 1609. After coming to this country, he was made a freeman 
of Massachusetts in 1638 and had land granted to him in Hingham, Mass., named after his home 
in the old country. In 1657, he was one of the way wardens and two years after was a constable 
of the town. His wife, whom he married in Charlestown, Mass., in 1638, was Margaret Ibrook, 
daughter of Richard Ibrook, who was among the early settlers of Hingham, Mass., coming thither 
with his wife and three unmarried daughters, Ellen, Margaret and Rebecca. In 1639, Rebecca 
Ibrook married the Reverend Peter Hobart, the minister of Hingham. Being thus by his marriage 
related to the clergyman of his town, John Tower became a leader in the community. In the 
second American generation came Benjamin Tower, 1654-1721, who had for his wife Deborah 
Garnet, daughter of John and Mary Garnet. Ambrose Tower, the son of Benjamin and Deborah 
Tower, was born in Hingham, in 1699, and through his wife, Elizabeth, became the ancestor of 
most of the Tower name, who were settled in Middlesex County, Ambrose Tower having removed 
from Hingham to Concord, Mass. 

The great-great-grandfather of the gentleman whose name heads this article was Joseph 
Tower, born in 1723, who resided successively in Weston, Sudbury, Princeton, Shrewsbury and 
Rutland, Mass., dying in the latter place in 1779. His wife was Hepzibah Gibbs, whom he married 
in Sudbury in 1748. She was born in Sudbury, in 1730, the daughter of Isaac and Thankful 
(Wheeler) Gibbs, and died in Waterville, N. Y., in 1816. The great-grandfather of Mr. Augustus 
Clifford Tower was Jonas Tower, who was born in 1768. His wife was Fanny Parmenter, of 
Petersham, Mass., daughter of John Parmenter. She was the mother of Oren Tower, who was 
the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Oren Tower was born in Petersham, Mass., in 1794. 
His first wife, whom he married in 1823, was Harriet Gleason, a daughter of Joseph Gleason. The 
parents of Mr. Augustus Clifford Tower were William A. Tower, who was born in Petersham in 
1824, and his wife, Julia Davis, of Lancaster, Mass., who was born in Princeton in 1824, and whom 
he married in 1847. The children of William A. and Julia (Davis) Tower were Ellen May, 
Charlotte Gray, Augustus Clifford and Richard Gleason Tower. 

Mr. Augustus Clifford Tower was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1853. He was graduated 
from Harvard in 1877, and during his collegiate course took a prominent part in athletics. For 
three years he was a member of the First Corps of Cadets of Boston, and participated in the various 
Centennial celebrations of that period. He removed to New York early in life, entered business 
in Wall Street, served on the board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange, and has 
been identified with conservative banking and brokerage houses. In 1883, Mr. Tower married 
Louise G. Dreer, of Philadelphia. His home is at Lawrence, Long Island, and he was for a number 
of years president of the Rockaway Hunt Club, of Long Island, which is considered one of the 
foremost organizations of its character in the country. He is also a member of the Union, 
University and Westminster Kennel clubs. 

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HENRY ROBINSON TOWNE 

WHEN William Towne, the first American ancestor of this distinguished family, came to 
this country early in the seventeenth century, he brought with him his wife, Joanna 
Blessing, whom he had married in 1620. He was a native of Yarmouth, Norfolk 
County, England, and upon his arrival in New England, went to Salem, Mass., afterwards becoming 
the proprietor of an estate in Topsfield. Edmund Towne, the son of William Towne, was born in 
England, in 1628, and was brought to this county by his father. When he grew to manhood he 
became a prominent member of the community in Topsfield, and, in 1675, was interested in the 
organization of the first military company to protect the inhabitants from the Indians. His wife 
was Mary Browning, daughter of Thomas Browning, and he died in 1678. The four successive 
generations of the family leading to the grandfather of the gentleman whose name appears at the 
head of this sketch were: Joseph Towne, 1661-1717, of Topsfield, and his wife, Amy Smith, 
daughter of Robert Smith; Nathan Towne, 1 693-1762, of Topsfield, Boxford and Andover, and 
his wife, Phoebe; Nathan Towne, of Andover, and his wife, Mary Poole; Benjamin Towne, of 
Andover, who was born in 1747, and his wife, Mehitable Chandler. 

John Towne, the grandfather of Mr. Henry Robinson Towne, was born in Andover, in 
1787, and was, in many ways, a remarkable man. Early in life he was a teacher, but afterwards 
went to Baltimore, where for several years he was associated in business with Henry Robinson, 
of England. Then, in 1817, Mr. Towne, who had accumulated considerable means, went West 
and purchased a large tract of land near Pittsburg, where he made his home, and where he was 
also engaged in the steamboat business. In 1833, he removed to Boston and again became asso- 
ciated with Mr. Robinson in the ownership and management of gas works. Finally, he purchased 
a country seat in Huntington Valley, near Philadelphia, and spent the rest of his life there, dying 
in 1851. His wife, who died in 1833, was a sister of Henry Robinson. 

John Henry Towne, the father of Mr. Henry Robinson Towne, was born near Pittsburg, in 
1818. He was first educated at the Chauncey Hall private school, of Boston, and then studied 
engineering in Philadelphia with the firm of Merrick & Agnew. He then entered into a partnership 
with S. V. Merrick, under the firm name of Merrick & Towne, a relation that was continued until 
1848, their works being known as the Southwark Foundry. Then he was engaged in the erection 
of gas works in various cities of the country, and before the Civil War, became a junior partner in 
the engineering concern of I. P. Morris, Towne & Co. He was actively interested in scientific 
pursuits of all kinds, and particularly in those connected with his profession. He was a member 
of the Franklin Institute, the American Philosophical Society, and of other institutions of similar 
character. Much of his time and means were given to the advancement of the University of 
Pennsylvania, and when he died, in 1875, he left one million dollars to its scientific department, 
which is named the Towne Scientific School, in his honor. The wife of John Henry Towne was 
Maria R. Tevis, of Philadelphia. 

Mr. Henry Robinson Towne is a native of Philadelphia, where he was born August 28th, 
1844. Educated in a private school and the University of Pennsylvania, he entered the Port 
Richmond Iron Works, with which his father was connected, and gained practical experience in 
manufacturing, being particularly engaged in building engines for the United States monitors. In 
1868, he joined in organizing the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of 
the celebrated Yale locks, and has ever since been the president of the company. He is interested 
in other large corporations, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He married Cora E. White, daughter of John P. 
White, of Philadelphia, and the children of this union are: John Henry and Frederick Tallmadge 
Towne. The city residence of Mr. Towne is in lower Madison Avenue, and he has a country seat 
in Stamford, Conn. He is a member of the Century Association and the Engineers', University, 
Lawyers', Reform, St. Anthony and Hardware clubs. 

568 



HOWARD TOWNSEND 

ON his mother's side, Mr. Howard Townsend is a descendant from no less than six of the 
greatest New York families of the Colonial period, the Van Rensselaers, Van Cortlandts, 
Livingstons, Schuylers, Bayards and Loockermans. He is in the ninth generation from 
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the director of the West India Company, who established the family name 
and fortunes in this country. By his second wife, Anna Van Wely, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer had 
four sons and four daughters. His second son, Jeremias, who married Maria Van Cortlandt, 
daughter of Olaf Stevensen Van Cortlandt, was the head of the extensive family to which Mr. 
Howard Townsend belongs. Jeremias and Maria (Van Cortlandt) Van Rensselaer had three sons. 
Johannes Van Rensselaer died unmarried, and from Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and his younger 
brother, Hendrick, have come all the members of the family in later generations who have borne 
the paternal name. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the grandson of the director of the West India Com- 
pany, was the first lord of the Rensselaerwyck Manor, and married Maria Van Cortlandt in 1701. 
His second son, Stephen, was the sixth patroon, born in 1707, and dying in 1747. He married Eliza 
Grosbeck in 1729. In the next generation, Stephen Van Rensselaer married Catharine Living- 
ston, daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

Stephen Van Rensselaer, who was born in 1742, died in 1769, and his eldest son, Stephen, 
who was born in 1764, and was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of the 
most notable figures in social and public life in New York during the post-Revolutionary period. 
He attended Princeton College, and was graduated from Harvard in 1782, was Major-General of the 
militia in 1801, a member of either the State Assembly or the State Senate from 1788 to 1795, 
Lieutenant-Governor in 1795 and again in 1798, president of the Erie Canal Commission, 1824-39, 
a Major-General in the War of 1812, when he led the United States troops in the storming of 
Queenstown; a Regent of the State University in 1809, and Chancellor at the time of his death, and 
a Member of Congress, 1823-29. In 1824, he established in Troy a school for instruction in mechan- 
ical and industrial art, now known as the Rensselaer Institute, and for fourteen years supported It 
himself. General Van Rensselaer died at the Rensselaer Manor House, in Troy, in 1839. His first 
wife was Margaret Schuyler, daughter of General Philip Schuyler. His second wife, whom he 
married in 1802, was Cornelia Paterson, daughter of William Paterson, Judge of the Supreme Court 
of the United States, and second Governor of the State of New Jersey. His widow, with ten chil- 
dren, survived him. 

Stephen Van Rensselaer, son of Major-General Stephen Van Rensselaer, was the grandfather 
of Mr. Townsend. He was bom in 1789, and died in 1868. His wife was Harriet Elizabeth 
Bayard, daughter of William Bayard, and a descendant from Balthazar Bayard and his wife, Maria 
Loockermans, daughter of Govert Loockermans. The father of Mr. Townsend was Dr. Howard 
Townsend, for many years one of the leading physicians in Albany, brother of Adjutant-General 
Frederick Townsend. Dr. Townsend was born in Albany in 1823, and died there in 1867. He 
was a graduate from Union College, and from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. In 1851-52, he was Surgeon-General of the State of New York, and afterwards professor in the 
Albany Medical College. Mrs. Townsend, who was Justine Van Rensselaer, daughter of Stephen 
Van Rensselaer and Harriet Elizabeth Bayard, is still living. She has been president of the National 
Society of Colonial Dames and of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York, regent of the 
Mount Vernon Association, and vice-president of the Society of the Daughters of the Cincinnati. 
Mr. Howard Townsend was born in New York and educated at Harvard College, graduat- 
ing in the class of 1880. Admitted to the bar, he has since been active in the practice of his 
profession. He lives in West Thirty-ninth Street. His wife was Anne Langdon. He belongs to 
the Tuxedo colony, and is a member of the Century Association, the Union, University, City and 
Harvard clubs, the Bar Association, the Downtown Association, the American Geographical 
Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

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JOHN POMEROY TOWNSEND 

ARRIVING at Lynn, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1637, Thomas Townsend 
was the first American ancestor of the subject of this article. The descendants of this 
Puritan pioneer lived for five generations in the City of Boston, and vicinity. Ebenezer 
Townsend, one of the representatives of the family in the latter generation, removed, however, to 
New Hampshire and settled in Chester, in that Colony, in 1775. John Townsend, the son of 
Ebenezer Townsend, was a prominent citizen of Merrimack County, N. H., in the early portion of 
the present century. He held a portion of local offices, and was a member of the State Legislature 
for several terms. He married Anne Baker, daughter of Benjamin Baker, of Salisbury, N. H., and 
their son, the father of Mr. John Pomeroy Townsend, was John Baker Townsend, who was born 
in Salisbury. He married Eliza C. Alvord, a member of a notable Vermont family, and removed to 
Middlebury, in that State. In 1835, he, however, established himself at Troy, N. Y., and 
became a prosperous and influential resident of that city. 

Mr. John Pomeroy Townsend is the eldest son of John Baker and Eliza (Alvord) Town- 
send. He was born at Middlebury, Addison County, Vt., October 10th, 1832, and received his 
early education in the schools of Troy, N. Y. In 1850, he came to New York and entered 
business life. He has long been an active and prominent member of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, and among other positions held the office of president of the Maritime Exchange from 1885 
to 1888, and treasurer of the New York Produce Exchange in 1885 and 1886. In 1875, he 
became vice-president of the Bowery Savings Bank and was elected president of the Knicker- 
bocker Trust Company in 1889, holding that office until 1894, when he became president of the 
Bowery Savings Bank, an office he still holds. He is also a director of the Knickerbocker Trust 
Company and of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, as well as of several railroad cor- 
porations. 

Taking an interest in public affairs, especially in connection with the municipality of New 
York, Mr. Townsend was a member of the famous Committee of Seventy, in 1894. He is a 
director and trustee of several benevolent and charitable organizations, being secretary of the 
Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled in this city. He has also been, for a number of years, 
a member of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester, which institution conferred 
upon him the degree of LL. D. Mr. Townsend is an authority upon savings banks, and has 
made valuable contributions to the literature of that subject, having written numerous essays on 
savings banks and postal savings banks, as well as on the silver question and other financial and 
economic topics. He is a foreign associate and honorary president of the Society of the Universal 
Scientific Congress of Provident Institutions of Paris, France, and contributed and read papers 
upon American savings banks at the meetings of that body in Paris, in 1878, 1883 and 1889. He 
is also the author of the section descriptive of savings banks in The Cyclopedia of Political 
History and Political Economy of the United States, as well as of A History of Savings Banks in 
the United States, which was published in 1896, and of A History of the Bowery Savings Bank 
of New York from 1834 to 1888, and other works of a similar character. 

In 18s 3, Mr. Townsend married Elizabeth A. Baldwin, daughter of Nehemiah Baldwin, 
of New York. Mrs. Townsend's ancestry is traced to Joseph Baldwin, one of the founders of 
Milford, Conn., who came from England in 1635. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend have three children. 
Their daughter, Mary Eliza Townsend, married Alfred L. White. Their second child and eldest 
son, Charles John Townsend, married Louisa C. Wright, and their younger son, John 
Henry Townsend, married Caroline S. Van Dusen. Mr. Townsend has resided, since 1870, 
in East Fifty-fourth Street, near Madison Avenue, and owns a country place at Chester, N. 
H., on which is the house built by his great-grandfather, Ebenezer Townsend, in 177s. He is a 
member of the Union League, Reform and Grolier clubs, the Downtown Association, the National 
Academy of Design and the New England Society. 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TRACY 

CENTRAL and southern New York was largely settled in the years immediately following 
the Revolution, by families from New England. Among these pioneers was Thomas 
Tracy, who, in 1790, with his wife and infant son Benjamin, settled on Tracy Creek, 
Broome County, the creek receiving its name from him. Two years after he removed to Caroline, 
in Tompkins County, and then to the Holland Purchase near Buffalo. His son, Benjamin Tracy, 
returned to Tioga County and settled on Appalachin Creek, near Oswego, and died in 1883. 

The Honorable Benjamin Franklin Tracy, son ot Benjamin Tracy, was born in Oswego, 
Tioga County, April 26th, 1830. He was educated in the Oswego Academy and in the law office 
of N. W. Davis and was admitted to the bar in 1851. Politics engaged his attention early in life. 
In 1853, he became the Whig nominee for district attorney in Tioga County, and was elected, 
although Tioga was at that time a Democratic stronghold, and three years later was reelected. In 
1859, he declined another nomination for district attorney and two years later was elected a mem- 
ber of the State Assembly on a union Republican and Democratic ticket. In the Assembly he was 
chairman of several committees, including that of railroads. 

In 1862, Governor Edwin D. Morgan appointed Mr. Tracy on the committee to oversee and 
promote volunteering in Tioga and the adjoining counties, and he recruited two regiments, the 
One Hundred and Ninth, and the One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh New York Infantry, becoming 
Colonel of the One Hundred and Ninth. For two years this regiment saw active service in and 
around Baltimore and Washington and then became part of the Ninth Army Corps of the Army of 
the Potomac. Colonel Tracy led his regiment at the battle of the Wilderness and at Spottsylvania, 
and as a result of his service was prostrated and obliged to retire on sick leave. Returning 
home, he was appointed Colonel of the One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh United States 
Colored Infantry and put in command of the military post, with prison post and draft 
rendezvous at Elmira, N. Y. In March, 1865, he was brevetted Brigadier-General of Volunteers. 

After the war, General Tracy resumed the practice of law and became a member of the firm 
of Benedict, Burr & Benedict, in New York City. In 1866, he was appointed United States 
District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. He was also the author of an internal 
revenue bill regulating the collection of taxes on distilled spirits, which, when put into effect, 
increased, annually, the national revenues from that source from thirteen million to fifty million 
dollars. In 1873, he resigned his official position to devote himself more to the general practice of 
law, but in 1881 was appointed Associate Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, a position which 
he held for one year, retiring to become a partner of Honorable W. C. DeWitt and his son, F. B. 
Tracy, in Brooklyn. 

In 1889, he was called into the public service again, when he became a member of the Cabinet 
of President Harrison, as Secretary of the Navy. In that position he proved himself a zealous, hard 
working official. He took a large and creditable part in the development of the new navy, along 
the lines that had been laid down by his predecessors and left a record as one of the ablest Secretaries 
of the Navy in the present generation. His Washington life was marred by the sad death of his 
wife and youngest daughter, in a fire that destroyed their home in February 1890. Since his 
retirement from the Navy Department, General Tracy has been counsel in many celebrated cases in 
both the State and Federal courts. His most conspicuous recent service to the public has been 
rendered as president of the commission appointed by Governor Morton to draft a charter for 
the Greater New York. In 1897, he was the Republican candidate for Mayor of the City of New 
York. He is now a member of the law firm of Tracy, Boardman & Piatt. He has one son, 
Frank B. Tracy, and one daughter, the widow ot Ferdinand Wilmerding. His granddaughter, 
Alice T. Wilmerding, married Frederick R. Coudert, Jr. The residence of the family is in 
West Twentieth Street. General Tracy is a member of the Union League, Lawyers', Brooklyn 
and Hamilton clubs. 



SPENCER TRASK 

THE ancestor of the gentleman whom we are now considering was Captain William Trask, 
who came to this country in 1628 with Endicott and the other adventurous spirits forming 
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He sailed with the others in the ship Abigail from Wey- 
mouth, England, June 20th, 1628, to prepare the Colony for those upon whom the hand of 
oppression had been too heavily laid in their old home. Upon his arrival, he settled at Salem, 
Mass., and at once became prominent in the affairs of the town. He was an intimate friend of 
Governor Endicott, a deputy to the General Court, and he was a commander in the wars in which 
the Colonists became engaged with the Pequot Indians. It was in 1636 that he was appointed 
Captain, and he so distinguished himself in the troubles of the Colony that it was written of him in 
the annals of Salem that "he was one of the first military commanders in Massachusetts, and we 
can safely say of him that what Captain Standish was to Plymouth, Captain Trask was to the 
Massachusetts Bay Colony." He died in 1666, and was given a public burial with military honors, 
the town records saying : "It is ordered that Shouldyers that atend Capt. Trask to his Grave 
shall have some alowance to make them drink at Mr. Gidney * * * price not exceeding the 
som of twenty shillings and cloth to cover ye drum." He gave the first land ever given to an 
educational institution in this country, and from his donation sprang what is now Harvard College. 
The family name is mentioned many times in the annals of Salem, and the children of Captain 
Trask and their children were prominent throughout the Colonial period ; several of the family 
held commissions in the Revolutionary Army, and served during the war with distinction. 

The father of Mr. Spencer Trask, Alanson Trask, was born in Salem on the 22d of May, 
1808. Coming early to New York, he married, on October 2d, 1833, Sarah E. Marquand, who had 
been born in New York on March 29th, 181 1, and who died on September 21st, 1881. 

Mr. Spencer Trask was born in Brooklyn, in September, 1844, and was graduated from 
Princeton College. On the 12th of November, 1874, he married Kate Nichols, of Brooklyn. The 
mother of Mrs. Trask was Christina Marie Cole before her marriage. She was a daughter of 
Rebecca Van Santen and Jan Van Kool, of Holland, who came to this country at the beginning of 
this century, and changed his name to John Cole. Upon the side of her father, George L. Nichols, 
Mrs. Trask is directly descended from Anneke Jans. She has written many articles for the various 
magazines, and has published Under King Constantine, Poems and Lyrics, White Satin and 
Homespun, and other works. 

Mr. Trask is a banker in New York and the senior member of the firm of Spencer Trask & 
Co., which was established by Mr. Trask in 1869. As bankers, the firm has been largely 
identified with railroads, having reorganized and successfully managed several important lines. 
Mr. Trask has also been prominently identified with the electric light industry from its inception, 
having developed the Edison Electric Light Companies in New York, Brooklyn and other cities 
from small beginnings to concerns of great financial and commercial importance. Mr. Trask's 
energies have not, however, been confined strictly to business. He is president and largest owner 
of The New York Times, and is president of the Teachers' College, a unique institution 
among those devoted to higher education ; he is interested in various philanthropic and civic 
associations, taking an active part in movements for municipal reforms and for the preservation of 
the country's credit, being prominent in the councils of the National (Gold) Democracy. Notwith- 
standing his many and far-reaching business interests, Mr. Trask has traveled extensively abroad, 
and has taken a prominent part in social life. He is a member of the Union League, the 
Metropolitan, the City, the Reform and the Lawyers' clubs. 

Besides his house in town, Mr. Trask has a beautiful summer residence, Yaddo, at Saratoga. 
The house, a large gray stone structure, is finely situated on the drive to the lake, and with its 
surroundings embracing some five hundred acres, diversified with woods, lakes and some miles of 
drives, is one of the great attractions of the famous resort. 



WILLIAM RIGGIN TRAVERS 

FEW names on the roll of its society are more thoroughly identified with the metropolitan 
city than that which heads this page. The late William R. Travers, of whom the 
gentleman now referred to is the son and namesake, acquired a popularity without 
parallel in the history of New York. A Virginian by descent, and a Baltimorean by birth as 
well as by his marriage, he became, however, an accepted type of social New York, and has 
left an enduring memory of his personality among all classes of his adopted fellow townsmen. 

Colonel Travers, a prominent citizen of Baltimore, and the grandfather of the present 
Mr. W. R. Travers, descended from a Virginia family of ancient lineage, the name occurring 
frequently in the early history of the Old Dominion. His son, William R. Travers (the elder), 
was born in Baltimore, in 1819. About 1834, his father removed to New York, and purchased 
a country seat in Monmouth County, N. J. The house itself, after the lapse of more than half 
a century, is still known throughout the country side as the Travers place. Military instincts 
ran in the veins of the son, who secured an appointment from New Jersey as a cadet at West 
Point, but after two years he was prevailed on to forego this ambition and prepare himself for 
a business career. He accordingly entered Columbia College, graduating from that institution 
in the class of 1838. In the same year the family returned to Baltimore, where W. R. Travers 
engaged in active business, and became a shipping merchant. In 1843, he married Maria Louisa, 
daughter of the Honorable Reverdy Johnson, 1796-1876, of Baltimore. The national reputation 
of the latter makes it almost needless to mention the facts that he twice represented Maryland 
in the United States Senate, held the position of Attorney-General in President Taylor's cabinet, 
and was Minister to the Court of St. James in 1868, as well as being the leader of the Mary- 
land bar for half a century, and one of the most prominent lawyers of the country. 

In 1853, W. R. Travers again removed to New York, which continued to be his home 
until his death, that event occurring at Hamilton, in the Island of Bermuda, in 1887. He became 
a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1856, and achieved both reputation and success 
as a financier. His social relations with the most prominent men of New York were peculiarly 
intimate. He was a member of all the leading clubs, and, though not actively identified with 
the sport, he was one of the group of gentlemen who established the Jerome Park course, and 
gave to racing in New York a prestige which it had not previously enjoyed. He was also the 
first president of the New York Athletic Club, and had a large share in establishing its standing. 
This was duly acknowledged by the club in naming its country property on Long Island Sound, 
Travers Island. Mr. Travers was also a vestryman of Grace Episcopal Church. 

The elder Mr. Travers' reputation as a wit can only be compared with that of Selwin, 
Or other famous beaux esprits of the last century. He possessed the highest sense of humor, 
with keen powers of repartee, and a most effective manner. Such of his hon mots as have not 
been lost, retain a vitality in spite of time, and reveal a character fundamentally sincere, simple 
and incapable of malice. 

Mr. William Riggin Travers, son of William R. and Maria Louisa (Johnson) Travers, was 
born, in 1861, near this city. He was educated at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass., and 
graduated from Columbia College. In 1890, he married Lillie Harriman, daughter of Oliver 
Harriman, of New York. He has not followed any profession or active business, devoting 
his attention to the care of his family property. Mr. Travers has, in the main, made Newport 
his residence, his winter home being in Aiken, S. C. He is identified with fashionable sport, 
is a distinguished whip, and a member of the Coaching and Four-in-Hand clubs. He is vice- 
president of the Newport Golf Club and secretary of the Newport Casino. His clubs in New 
York are the Knickerbocker and Racquet. Of Mr. Travers' sisters the eldest, Mary, is the wife 
of John G. Heckscher; Elise married William Alexander Duer; Matilda married Walter Gay, and 
Susan is unmarried. His brothers. John and Reverdy Johnson Travers, are both dead. 



HENRY GRAFF TREVOR 

JOHN B. TREVOR, grandfather of Mr. Henry Graff Trevor, was a member of an old family of 
the Keystone State. His father was Samuel Trevor, of Cornellsville, Pa. Engaged in business 
in Philadelphia throughout his life, he occupied a high business and social position, and was 
several times a member of the Legislature. His son, John B. Trevor, the father of Mr. Henry Graff 
Trevor, was one of the leading bankers of New York in the last generation. He was born in Phila- 
delphia, in 1822, and died in New York in 1890. He entered business life in a wholesale dry 
goods house of Philadelphia, and coming to New York, in 1849, was elected, in the following year, 
a member of the Stock Exchange. From that time forth he was successful in the highest degree, 
and soon attained to a distinguished rank in financial circles. During his business career after 1852, 
he was associated with James B. Colgate, under the firm name of Trevor & Colgate, bankers. 

A devoted member of the Baptist Church, he was untiring in his zeal for religious, educa- 
tional and charitable works, and gave liberally of his means for benevolent causes. Indeed, it has 
been estimated that during his lifetime he bestowed fully one million dollars on such objects. 
The Rochester University and the Theological Seminary of that institution were special recipients 
of his favor. At one time, when those institutions of learning were in financial straits, and their 
very existence was threatened, Mr. Trevor was their main support. Trevor Hall, of Rochester 
University, was built by him, and also the gymnasium of the same institution. He was president 
of the board of trustees of Rochester Seminary and a member of the board of trustees of Roch- 
ester University. Colgate University, formerly Hamilton College, was also generously supported 
by him. With Mr. Colgate he was associated in the building of the Warburton Avenue Baptist 
Church, of Yonkers, the entire cost of which was met by the two partners, and he was also a 
liberal contributor to missionary societies. In 1880, he was a Republican Presidential elector. 
The first wife of Mr. Trevor was Louisa Stephania Stewart, a daughter of Lispenard Stewart 
and Louisa Stephania Salles, whose other daughter, Sarah Lispenard Stewart, married Frederick 
Graham Lee. By his second wife, Mary R. Rhinelander, Lispenard Stewart was the father of 
William Rhinelander Stewart, Lispenard Stewart and other children, who have been conspicuous 
in New York in the present generation. Lispenard Stewart, the elder, was the son of Alexander 
L. Stewart and Sarah Lispenard. His paternal grandfather was Robert Stewart, brother of Charles 
Stewart, who was a commissary during the Revolution and a friend of General Washington. 
Robert Stewart was a grandson of Robert Stewart, of Londonderry, an officer of dragoons. The 
Lispenard family, also, was one of the most distinguished in the annals of New York. Sarah Lis- 
penard, the great-grandmother of Mr. Henry G. Trevor, was a daughter of Captain Anthony Lis- 
penard, a younger son of Leonard Lispenard and Alice Rutgers. His wife was his cousin, Sarah 
Barclay, daughter of Andrew Barclay and Helen Roosevelt, and a niece of the Reverend Henry 
Barclay. The second wife of John B. Trevor, whom he married in 1871, was Emily Norwood. 

Mr. Henry Graff Trevor is the son of John B. Trevor and his first wife, Louisa Stephania 
Stewart. Mr. Trevor was born in New York, April 2s, 186s, and has been engaged in business as 
a banker. In 1890, he married Margaret Helen Schieffelin, daughter of George R. Schieffelin. Their 
children are: George Schieffelin and Margaret Estelle Trevor. His city residence is 20 East Forty- 
Ninth Street, and his summer home Meadowmere, Southampton, Long Island. Mr. Trevor belongs 
to the Metropolitan, Union, Seventh Regiment Veterans, St. Andrew's and Shinnecock Golf clubs, 
the Country Club of Westchester County, the Downtown Association, the Sons of the Revolution, 
the Society of Colonial Wars and the St. Nicholas Society. He was a member of Company K of 
the Seventh Regiment, from 1883 to 1888. In 1892-93, he built and presented to the Warburton 
Avenue Baptist Church, of Yonkers, a handsome parsonage adjoining the church. 

The younger brother of Mr. Trevor, by his father's second marriage, is John B. Trevor, Jr., 
and the daughters of that marriage are : Emily H. Trevor and Mary T. Trevor, wife of Grenville L. 
Winthrop. 



CHARLES HENRY TRUAX 

THE progenitor of the Truax family in this country was one of the first settlers in the 
New Netherland. Originally the family name was du Trieux. Philip du Trieux, a 
Walloon, born in i s8s, was in New Amsterdam during the administration of Governor 
Peter Minuit, 1624-29. He was appointed a court messenger in 1638, and two years later received 
a patent for land in Smits Valley. His wife was Susanna De Chiney, and three of his daughters 
married, respectively, Isaac de Foreest, Evert Janse Wendell and Dirkjanse De Groot. Descendants 
of Philip du Trieux moved to Albany, and were among the first settlers of that part of the State. 
They were especially prominent in the foundation of Schenectady, and became connected by 
marriage with many of the great families of that day — the Van Slycks, the De Groots, the de la 
Granges, the Vroomans, the Van Santvoords, the Vedders and others. The family has always been 
one of prominence and dignity in that section. 

Judge Charles H. Truax, descended in direct line from Philip du Trieux, was born in 
Durhamville, Oneida County, N. Y., October 31st, 1846. His father was Henry P. Truax, and his 
mother Sarah A. Shaffer. His grandfathers were Henry D. Truax and Gilbert Shaffer. He studied 
at Vernon Academy and at Oneida Seminary, and then entered Hamilton College, but was obliged 
to abandon his college career in his junior year, and engaged in teaching school and studying law. 
In 1868, he came to New York and continued the study of law in the office of his uncle, Chauncey 
Shaffer, a well-known practitioner of that period. The same year he passed the examination for 
admission to the bar. 

So rapidly did he advance in his profession, that in less than ten years from the time he was 
admitted to the bar he began to be spoken of for judicial honors. In 1880, he was elected a Judge 
of the Superior Court, and held that position for a term of fourteen years. At the present time, he 
is a Justice of the Supreme Court for a term expiring in 1910. The career of Judge Truax on the 
bench has been distinguished by many important decisions. One of these was the case against the 
Western Union Telegraph Company, in which he affirmed the right of companies to consolidate 
and issue new stock, a decision that was reversed by the General Term, but finally sustained by the 
Court of Appeals. Another important decision was delivered by him in 1887, when he held 
that private real estate owners were entitled to relief by injunction against the New York Elevated 
Railroad Company where their property rights were infringed. 

In social life and in literary circles, Judge Truax is not less distinguished than in his legal 
career. He has traveled extensively in all parts of Europe, and is one of the most cultured and 
most discriminating bibliophiles in this country. His private library contains over ten thousand 
volumes, including many old and rare editions and priceless manuscripts; being one of the most 
valuable private libraries in New York City. The gem of the collection is the celebrated fifteenth 
century missal known as the Trivulzio Breviary, probably as fine an example of illuminated 
manuscript as there is in existence. 

Judge Truax received the degree of M. A. from Hamilton College, in 1876, and the degree of 
LL. D. from the same institution in 1890, and he gave to that college one thousand two hundred 
and fifty volumes, known as the Truax Classical Library. He is vice-president of the Manhattan 
Club, president, in 1896, of the Holland Society, a trustee of the Mott Memorial Library, many 
years a trustee of the Church of the Puritans, and a member of the Democratic, New York Athletic 
and Harlem clubs, and of the St. Nicholas Society. In 1871, Judge Truax married Nancy C. 
Stone, who was descended on her mother's side from Anthony Demilt, Sheriff of New York, in 
1673. Her father's ancestor, Simon Stone, came over to this country from England in 1635 in the 
ship Increase, landing in Massachusetts. Mrs. Truax died, March 30th, 1886, leaving four children 
— Arthur D., Elizabeth, Nancy and Charles H., Jr., who died July 6th, 1886. Judge Truax married 
again in 1896, his second wife being Caroline Sanders, who was born at Cincinnati, O. The city 
residence of the family is at 12 East Sixty-fifth Street. 



EDWARD TUCK 

ALL the Tuck or Tucke families that have lived in New Hampshire, of whom the gentleman 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch is a representative, are descended from 
Robert Tuck, of Gorlston, Suffolk County, England. The pioneer came to New England 
in 1636, and lived first in Watertown, Mass., afterwards in Salem, and then in Hampton, 
Rockingham County, N. H., where he was a freeman in 1639. In 1648-49-52-57, he was a 
selectman of the town, and in 1647 was the town clerk. He died in 1664. Edward Tuck, son 
of Robert Tuck, married Mary Philbrick, a daughter of Thomas Philbrick, and their son, John 
Tuck, who was born in 1652, married Bethia Hobbs, daughter of Maurice and Sarah Estow Hobbs. 
From 1680 to 1717, John Tuck was ten times elected a selectman. Jonathan Tuck, in the next 
generation, was born in 1697 and died in 178 1. He was eight times a selectman and twice elected 
a member of the General Assembly. His wife was Tabitha Towle, daughter of Benjamin and 
Sarah (Borden) Towle, of Hampton. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Edward Tuck was Jonathan Tuck, 1736-1780. His first wife 
was Betsey Batchelder, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Moulton) Batchelder. She died in 1772, and 
he then married Huldah Moulton, daughter of John and Mary (Marston) Moulton. John Tuck, son 
of Jonathan and Huldah Tuck, was born in 1780 and died in 1847. He married Betsey Towle, 
daughter of Amos and Sarah Towle, of Hampton, and removed from Hampton, the ancestral home 
of the family, to Parsonsfield, Me., where the Honorable Amos Tuck, father of the subject of this 
sketch, was born in 1810. Amos Tuck studied at Effingham, N. H., where he prepared for 
college, and in 1831 went to Dartmouth, from which institution he was graduated four years later. 
He taught in the Academy in Pembroke, N. H., and was a preceptor in Hampton Academy, at the 
same time applying himself to the study of law. In 1838, having completed his legal education, he 
abandoned teaching and entered upon professional life, opening a law office in Exeter, where he 
became the partner of the Honorable James Bell, United States Senator from New Hampshire. 

Mr. Tuck began his political career in 1842, when he was elected a member of the New 
Hampshire Legislature. At that time he was a Democrat, but two years later, upon the slavery 
issue, changed his party affiliations, and in 1846 received an independent nomination for Congress, 
being elected by a combination of Independent Democrats and Whigs. Assisting at the birth of 
the Republican party, he was a member of the committee which selected the name Republican for 
the new party organization at the Philadelphia Convention, and in i860 was a delegate to the 
Chicago Republican Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. He served three terms in Con- 
gress, until 1853. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him naval officer of the port of Boston in 
1861, and reappointed him again in 1865. He was a trustee of Dartmouth College, of Phillips 
Academy of Exeter, and of Robinson's Female Seminary. His wife, the mother of Mr. Edward 
Tuck, was Sarah Ann Nudd, daughter of David and Abigail (Emery) Nudd, of Hampton. She died 
in Exeter, N. H., in 1847. 

Mr. Edward Tuck was born August 25th, 1842. Educated at Dartmouth College, he was 
graduated from that institution in 1862. For a short time he studied law, but afterwards went to 
Europe, where he became connected with the American Consulate in Paris. In 1865, he was vice- 
consul and acting consul. In 1866, he resigned from the consular service and returned home, 
soon after settling in New York and entering upon the banking business in the firm of John Munroe 
& Co., in which house he became a partner in 1871. He retired from active business in 1881. In 
1872, Mr. Tuck married, in Paris, Julia Stell, daughter of William Shorter Stell, of Philadelphia, who, 
during the greater part of his life, was at the head of a business house in Manchester, England. 
Mr. and Mrs. Tuck live in East Sixty-first street, in the vicinity of Central Park, and spend consider- 
able time in Paris. The club membership of Mr. Tuck includes the Metropolitan, Union, Union 
League, Grolier and Reform, and he is also a member of the New England Society and a patron of 
the American Museum of Natural History. 

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PAUL TUCKERMAN 

THE American family of Tuckerman is descended from an old English family of Devon 
County. Their English ancestor was Thomas Tuckerman, whose son, John Tuckerman, 
the first of the name to appear in America, came to Boston about 1651. John Tuckerman, 
of Boston, in the second American generation, was born in 1655, and died, it is supposed, about 
1735. He was a merchant, but in King Philip's War was a soldier in defense of the Colonies. 
His wife, who was the ancestress of the Tuckermans of this generation in Boston and New York, 
was Susanna Chamberline, daughter of John Chamberline, of Boston. Edward Tuckerman, 1701- 
1751, son of the second John Tuckerman, was also a merchant, and married Dorothy Kidder. He 
was the father of Edward Tuckerman, 1740-18 18, one of the prosperous merchants and distin- 
guished men of his day in Boston, a Lieutenant in the militia and a member of the artillery company 
in 1 77 1. He was a member of the Legislature, 1805-07. His wife was Elizabeth Harris, and they 
were the great grandparents of Mr. Paul Tuckerman. 

One of the sons of the second Edward Tuckerman was also Edward Tuckerman, of Boston, 
1785-1843. He was a merchant, deacon and vestryman of St. Paul's Church, director of the Massa- 
chusetts Bank, justice of the peace, and trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Another 
son of this family, the grandfather of Mr. Paul Tuckerman, was the Reverend Joseph 
Tuckerman, the distinguished philanthropist, who was born in 1778, and died in 1840. 
Graduated from Harvard College in 1798, he received the degree of D. D. from the same 
institution in 1824. He became a Unitarian minister in 1801, and was first settled over a 
church in Chelsea, Mass. In 1826, he was appointed by the American Unitarian Association 
minister-at-large in Boston, and thenceforth devoted his life principally to the scientific study of 
pauperism and the practical administration of charity. 

Among other distinguished members of this family was Henry Theodore Tuckerman, 
1813-1871, one of the most prolific and most popular writers upon art and literary subjects in the 
present generation. He was a nephew of the Reverend Joseph Tuckerman, and another nephew 
was Edward Tuckerman, 1817-1886, the scientist and professor in Amherst College. Arthur 
Lyman Tuckerman, the architect who was superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Schools, in 1888, was of this family, and so are Bayard Tuckerman, of New York, the accomplished 
historian, author of A History of English Prose Fiction, A Life of General Lafayette, Life of Peter 
Stuyvesant, and editor of the Diary of Philip Hone; Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman, the artist, 
Leverett Saltonstall Tuckerman and Charles S. Tuckerman, of Boston. 

The father of Mr. Paul Tuckerman was Lucius Tuckerman, a merchant of New York in the 
last generation, who was actively identified with the leading art, educational and philanthropic 
institutions of the metropolis. He was a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a director of 
the Children's Aid Society, and gave his generous support to other enterprises of like character. 
On his mother's side, Mr. Tuckerman is descended from the Gibbs family, of Newport, R. I., and 
the Wolcotts of Connecticut. His maternal grandfather was Colonel George Gibbs, of Sunswick, 
Long Island, the distinguished scientist. His maternal grandmother was Laura Wolcott, daughter of 
Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury in the first Cabinet of President George Washington, and 
granddaughter of Governor Oliver Wolcott, signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

Mr. Paul Tuckerman, who was born in New York in 1856, and graduated from Harvard 
College, is a trustee of his father's and other estates. He married Susan Minturn, daughter of John 
W. Minturn, and granddaughter of Robert B. Minturn, and has one daughter, Dorothy Tuckerman. 
Mr. and Mrs. Tuckerman's residence is in Tuxedo Park. Mr. Tuckerman is a member of the 
Knickerbocker, Tuxedo and Racquet clubs, and the Downtown Association. The other children of 
Lucius Tuckerman are: Alfred Tuckerman, Walter Cary Tuckerman, who died in 1894; Laura 
Wolcott, wife of James Lowndes, of Washington; Emily Tuckerman, of Washington; Bayard 
Tuckerman, the author referred to above, and Lucy, the wife of Arthur George Sedgwick. 

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HERBERT BEACH TURNER 

THE Reverend Joseph Turner, known for years as Parson Turner, of the old Swedes Church 
of Gloria Dei, Southwark, Philadelphia, came over from England not long after the middle 
of the last century. He appears to have descended from Nicholas Turner, who lived at 
Halberton, near Exeter, in 1620. Assisted by a wealthy uncle, Philip Hulbeart, who had urged 
him to settle in America, he opened a large warehouse and went into business in Philadelphia. 
Not long after he returned to England and married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Mason, a physician 
of Exeter. He then came back and remained permanently in his new home. He was a thorough 
Englishman, and was at one time sent to jail by the patriot party during the Revolutionary War 
for his Tory sentiments. He was a great admirer of the famous Dr. White, the first Bishop of 
Pennsylvania, and was induced by him to enter the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
which he did when somewhat advanced in life. He became associate rector of the Gloria Dei 
Church, originally built by the Swedes, who had endeavored to found a Colony on the banks of 
the Delaware long prior to the coming of William Penn, for which reason it is still commonly 
known as the old Swedes Church, and is to this day one of the most venerable landmarks of 
Philadelphia. He was at another time rector of St. Mark's Church, at Marcus Hook, below 
Philadelphia. 

Samuel Hulbeart Turner, D. D., was the youngest of the Reverend Joseph Turner's eight 
children. He was born in the family mansion in South Second Street, Philadelphia, in 1790. He 
entered the ministry, was ordained by Bishop White and became rector of the church at Chester- 
town, Md. Here he established the first Protestant Episcopal Sunday School in America. He left 
this parish to become Professor of Biblical Learning and Interpretation of the Scripture in the 
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in New York, which post he held, with conspicuous 
success, for nearly forty-three years. Many of the most prominent and learned clergymen for 
some two generations were instructed by him, and he exercised, during the long period in 
question, a wide influence in the affairs of the church. 

His wife, the mother of Mr. Herbert Beach Turner, came from New England families. She 
was Mary Esther Beach, daughter of Burrage Beach, of Cheshire, Conn., and his wife, Julia 
(Bowden) Beach, whose father was Professor John Bowden, one of the clergy of Trinity Church, 
New York, and subsequently a professor in Columbia College. The Beach family is one of the 
oldest in Connecticut, its ancestor being John Beach, the Pilgrim, who in 1643 was among the 
first settlers of New Haven, where his descendants rose to great and deserved prominence in the 
affairs of the Colony and the succeeding State. On the side of his maternal grandmother, Mr. 
Turner descends from Major Thomas Bowden, an officer of the British Army, who served in 
America in the French and Indian War. 

Mr. Herbert Beach Turner was born at Cheshire, Conn., in 1835. He was graduated from 
Columbia College in 1855 and adopted the profession of the law after taking a course at the Albany 
Law School. In 1863, he married Sarah Kirkland Floyd, daughter of John Gelston Floyd, of 
Mastic, Long Island. The name of Floyd is prominent in the history of Long Island and of New 
York. Richard Floyd, who migrated from Wales in 1654, was the ancestor of the family. 
General William Floyd, Mrs. Turner's great-grandfather, served in the Revolutionary Army, and 
was a member of the New York Committee of Safety and of the Continental Congress, and was 
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. and Mrs. Turner have three children, 
Thornton Floyd, Mary Esther Beach and Anna Tracy Turner. Mr. Turner's home is at Engle- 
wood, N. J., where the family resides more than half of the year. During the winter months, 
they reside at 125 East Thirtieth Street. 

Mr. Turner belongs to the Century, University, Reform, Church and A $ clubs, and the 
Downtown Association. He is an active Protestant Episcopalian, is greatly interested in eco- 
nomics, and is concerned in all movements for the reform of national and municipal politics. 

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LAWRENCE TURNURE 

LEAVING his ancestral home in Picardy, to escape religious persecution, Daniel De Tourneur, 
a member of an ancient family of France, settled in Leyden, Holland, in the early part 
of the seventeenth century. His wife, whom he married in 1650, was Jacqueline Parisis, 
of a family whose members were refugees from Hesdin, in Artois. Her brother was the Reverend 
Eustachius Parisis, a minister in Harlem, Holland. 

Two years after his marriage, Daniel de Tourneur with his wife and infant child sailed for 
New Netherland. He was one of the earliest settlers in the villiage of Harlem on Manhattan 
Island. In 1661, he was an associate schepen, and a schepen in 1662, being also chosen 
brandt meester or fire warden. In 1663, he was a magistrate, and in 1665 an under sheriff and 
president of the court, and held other offices. Later he lived in Flatbush, where he died in 1672. 
Daniel Tourneur, his son, was a freeman of Flatbush in 1672, and afterwards a magistrate and 
Lieutenant. His son, the third Daniel Tourneur, was an overseer, 1676-81, and commissioner in 
1686. Jacques Tourneur, son of the first Daniel Tourneur, married, in 1683, Aefie Kortright, 
daughter of Michael Kortright ; and their son, Michael, married Maria Oblenis, a descendant of 
Joost Oblenis, a magistrate of Harlem in 1666, succeeding his father, Joost Oblenis, who was 
named in the patents of Governors Nicolls and Dongan. 

Mr. Lawrence Turnure is the prominent representative of this ancient Huguenot family. He is 
a native of New York, and has been identified with mercantile and financial affairs, having been 
associated with the late Moses Taylor, and being now the head of Lawrence Turnure & Co. He 
married Jane Redfield, daughter of Heman Judd Redfield. Mrs. Turnure is descended from 
William Hyde, of Norwich, Conn., one of the first settlers of that place. Elizabeth Hyde, grand- 
daughter of William Hyde, married, in 1682, Lieutenant Richard Lord, of Saybrook, grandson of 
Thomas Lord, who came to Newtown, Mass., in 1635, and to Hartford, Conn., in 1636, being 
afterwards among the first settlers of Saybrook. In the next generation, Phoebe Lord, who was 
born in Lyme, Conn., about 1686, married Joseph Sill, son of Captain Joseph Sill, who was born 
in England about 1636, came to Cambridge, Mass., with his father, John Sill, previous to 1638, and 
in 1676 removed to Lyme, Conn. Jabez Sill, son of Captain Joseph Sill, moved from Lyme, Conn., 
to Wilkesbarre, Pa., in 1770, and died there in 1790. His wife was Elizabeth Noyes, daughter of 
Moses Noyes and Mary Ely, of Lyme, and granddaughter of the Reverend Moses Noyes. Mary 
Sill, daughter of Jabez and Elizabeth (Noyes) Sill, married James Gould, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The 
mother of Mrs. Turnure, Abigail Noyes Gould, was born at Lyme in 1795. She married, in 
1817, Heman Judd Redfield, who was born in 1788 in Suffield, Conn., the son of Peleg Redfield 
and Mary Judd, and in the seventh generation from William Redfield, who settled in New 
London. Heman Judd Redfield was a master in chancery, and collector of customs at New York. 

The Turnure residence is in Fifth Avenue. Mr. Turnure is a member of the Tuxedo, 
Manhattan and Democratic clubs, the Downtown Association, the American Geographical Society, 
and many of the leading artistic and benevolent organizations of the city. He has four sons and 
two daughters. Lawrence Turnure, Jr., who was at one time in the banking business with his 
father, is a member of the Union, Rockaway Hunt and Country clubs, and married Romaine Stone. 
The third son, George Evans Turnure, was graduated from Harvard in 1889, married Elizabeth G. 
Lanier, is in business with his father and belongs to the Calumet, Racquet and other clubs. The 
eldest daughter, Jeannie Turnure, married Major John C. Mallery, U. S. A. The other children, 
Redfield, Mary G. and Percy R. Turnure, who was graduated from Harvard in 1894, are unmarried. 

The late David M. Turnure, a brother of Mr. Lawrence Turnure, also a banker and merchant 
in New York, died several years ago, leaving a widow. Mrs. Turnure, whose maiden name was 
Mary E. Baldwin, is a daughter of the Honorable Harvey Baldwin. She has two children. Her 
son, Arthur B. Turnure, Princeton, 1876, married Elizabeth Harrison. Her daughter, Mary S. 
Turnure, is unmarried. 

579 



JULIEN STEVENS ULMAN 

DURING the present century, Germany has contributed a very large and important ele- 
ment of population to the United States, and especially to New York City. These 
newcomers, from all parts of the kingdom, have been representatives of many of the 
best families of their native land. As adopted citizens or as native-born Americans in the second 
and third generations, they have been among the most useful and most successful contributors to 
the preeminence of New York, as the business, professional and social metropolis of the New 
World. 

Prominent among these citizens of the metropolis who are of German descent, is Mr. 
Julien Stevens Ulman. On both the paternal and maternal side of the family he descends from 
ancestors who, from time immemorial, have been among the substantial people of Bavaria and 
have held high rank in the communities in which they lived. The Ulmans, for more than four 
centuries, have been residents of Augsberg, that celebrated city which is one of the principal seats 
of commerce of South Germany. Augsberg has always been famed for its important manufacturing 
interests and for the high intellectual position maintained by its inhabitants. Few of its families 
have stood better in professional life than the Ulmans. The paternal great-grandfather and 
great-great-grandfather of the gentleman whose family is here under consideration were especially 
distinguished in their time for high professional attainments. On the maternal side, the ancestors 
of Mr. Ulman were among the oldest families of Furth, in Bavaria. 

Mr. Julien Stevens Ulman is a native New Yorker, having been born in this city October 
ist, 1865. His father was Solomon B. Ulman and his mother was Johanna Bach. His paternal 
grandparents were Bernhard and Sophie Ulman. On his mother's side, his grandparents were 
Joseph Bach and Cecelia Englander. Mr. Ulman received his preparatory education in the Charlier 
Institute. He was prepared for college when he was seventeen years of age and passed the exami- 
nations for Harvard in 1882. Being moved by a desire to travel, however, he gave up his plans for 
a collegiate education and went to Europe, where he spent considerable time in study and in 
visiting all parts of the Continent. Returning to his native city, he engaged in business pursuits. 
In 1884, he was connected with a banking house, where he remained for six years. In 1890, he 
went into the leather business, and is now at the head of one of the largest and most successful 
houses engaged in that line of trade, having valuable connections with all foreign countries and 
doing an extensive exporting business. 

Mr. Ulman is unmarried and lives at 66 West Thirty-ninth Street, in a house that has been 
occupied by his family for thirty-three years, they being now the oldest residents in that street. 
During the summer he lives in Newport, where he is well known and popular. Interested in 
gentlemanly sports, he is a member of several clubs and similar organizations devoted to those 
interests, among them the New York Yacht Club, the Richmond County Hunt and the Polo Asso- 
ciation. He is a patron of the opera and is a member of the Ooera Club. His other clubs are the 
Lawyers', Reform and Michaux. 

Many members of the family to which Mr. Ulman belongs have been distinguished in 
the public service. One of his uncles, who is now retired from active service, was a Surgeon- 
General in the Bavarian Army, his period of service extending over half a century. The grand- 
father of Mr. Ulman on the maternal side served under Napoleon as Quartermaster-General 
during the Crimean War. In every generation members of the family have been prominent in 
the military service of their native land. Mr. Ulman's great-grandmother, Englander, nee Cann, 
founded a home for impoverished families of title in Frankfort-on-the-Main ; her people came 
from Holland, where also she founded an institution for homeless women. His brother, Morris 
S. Ulman, has been a member of the Senate of Rhode Island and was a Judge of the Probate 
Court. He still maintains his connection with New York, being a member of several of the 
clubs of this city and of Providence, R. I. 

580 



EDWARD CARLTON UNDERHILL 

AMONG the companions of Winthrop at the settlement of Boston was Captain John 
Underhill, a veteran soldier, who had served in the Low Countries under Maurice, of 
Nassau. He came of the old landed family of the Underhills, of Hunningham, in War- 
wickshire, the coat of arms which he bore, and which has been inherited by his descendants in 
this country, being three trefoils between a red chevron on a silver shield with the crest of a 
tripping buck, being that of their English ancestors. The family still possesses representatives in 
the old country. 

Captain Underbill's extensive military knowledge was of the greatest service to the New 
England Colonists in the Pequot War of 1637. He was a leader of the band of whites who over- 
came and nearly exterminated the only formidable savage tribe in that region. He was one of the 
first officers of the famous Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston, and, in 1638, 
published in London a narrative of the Pequot War, under the title of News from America, which 
ranks among the most curious and interesting literary productions which have come to us from the 
early Colonial period of New England. 

Being involved in what was termed the Antinomian dispute, Captain Underhill was exiled 
from Massachusetts to New Hampshire, being chosen Governor of the latter Colony at Dover, in 
1638. Even in this station, the enmity of some of the leading Puritans and the religious intolerance 
of the times pursued him, and he again withdrew, going to the Dutch settlements on the North 
River, where other victims of the unhappy, intolerant spirit which animated the early history of 
Massachusetts found a refuge and complete religious security, among the number being counted 
the famous Ann Hutchinson. 

His military experience was at once recognized by the masters of the New Netherland. In 
1644, he commanded the Dutch forces in a successful attack upon the hostile Indians near Stam- 
ford,' which, for the time, ended all opposition by the redskins to the whites. He settled at Oyster 
Bay,' Long Island, in 1655. He warmly espoused the occupation of the New Netherland by the 
English, and died in 1672. During his lifetime, he was commonly called "Lord Underhill," the 
designation having reference to his gentle birth and the superiority of his descent to that of 
many of the New England Colonists. 

The youngest son of the renowned soldier and Colonist was Nathaniel Underhill, born in 
1663 who, in 1685, purchased a large tract two miles from Westchester, N. Y., and became the 
ancestor of the Westchester branch of the Underhill family. He married Mary Ferris, and was 
followed by three successive Abraham Underhills, the last of them, who died toward the close of 
the eighteenth century, having been Mr. Edward C. Underbill's great-grandfather. The branch of 
the family continued for almost two hundred years to reside in Westchester, where they had num- 
erous offshoots and connections, and ranked among the most influential people of the county. 
The land originally purchased by Nathaniel Underhill, in 1685, was also, until the present century, 
still in the hands of his descendants. The published History of Westchester County is full of 
references to the bearers of the name, and to their intermarriages with other families of the greatest 
prominence in the same and other portions of the State. 

It is to this ancient race that Mr. Edward Carlton Underhill belongs. His grandfather, James 
Underhill, born at Westchester in 1784, married Lydia Carpenter, and was father of Abraham 
Underhill, born in 1804, also in his ancestral town, but who became a resident and prominent 
citizen of New York. The wife of Abraham Underhill and the mother of the present Mr. Underhill 
was Eliza Ostrander, born 18 14, in Columbia County, N. Y., also a member of an old Colonial 
funily Mr Underhill was born in this city in 1858, was educated here, and adopted the pro- 
fession of the law. In 1882, he married Esther Reynolds, the issue of this marriage being two 
daughters, Caroline Elizabeth and Dorothy Underhill. Mr. Underhill resides at 166 West Ninety- 
fifth Street, and is a member of the Republican Club. 

581 



THEODORE NEWTON VAIL 

IN 1 710, John Vail, a Quaker preacher, settled in Morris County, N. J. He was a descendant of 
John Vail, who came from Wales, and whose children and grand children were.in later genera- 
tions, the heads of families prominent and influential in New York, New Jersey and else- 
where. One of the most distinguished members of the family was the Reverend Stephen M. Vail, 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, author and professor of Hebrew and the Oriental languages. 
The grandfather of Mr. Theodore N. Vail was Lewis Vail, civil engineer, who was one of the first 
to engage in building canals and railroads in the State of Ohio. Another relative, Samuel Vail, 
was the owner of the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, N. J., and with his brother, George, 
and his son, Alfred, was the financial supporter of Professor S. F. B. Morse in perfecting and 
biinging to public attention the magnetic telegraph. Alfred Vail invented many of the appliances 
that helped to perfect the telegraph, and in the estimation of scientists who are familiar with the 
subject, is entitled to a large share of credit for all the important and practical features of the tele- 
graph of to-day. George Vail was a Member of Congress, 1853-57, United States Consul to 
Glasgow in 1858, and a member of the Court of Pardons of the State of New Jersey. 

Davis Vail, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ohio, but became connected 
with the Speedwell Iron Works of his brother. He married Phoebe Quinby, daughter of Judge 
Isaac Quinby, of Morris County, N. J., and returned to Ohio, where he lived several years, and 
where his son, Theodore N. Vail, was born, July 16th, 1845. Through his mother, Mr. Vail is con- 
nected with one of the most eminent families of New Jersey. One of his uncles was General 
Quinby, a graduate of West Point and a hero of the Civil War. 

Mr. Theodore N. Vail was educated in the Morristown, N. J., Academy, and then studied 
medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr. William Quinby. But telegraphy soon attracted him, 
and acquiring knowledge of the system, he took a position in New York on the staff of the general 
superintendent of the metropolitan and Eastern divisions of the United States Telegraph Company. 
He then went West, and in 1868 was an operator and agent at Pine Bluffs, Wyo., on the 
Union Pacific Railroad. In 1869, he was appointed clerk in the railway mail service between 
Omaha and Ogden, and his efficient work in that position led to repeated promotions, until upon 
the establishing of the railroad post office on the Union Pacific lines he was made chief clerk. 

In 1873, he was summoned to Washington and appointed general superintendent of the 
railway mail service, a position where he had special charge of the distribution of the mails, an 
onerous duty that he performed in a remarkably satisfactory manner. Promotions came fast to 
him after that. In 1874, he was made assistant superintendent of the railway mail service, in 
1876, assistant general superintendent, and in 1876, general superintendent. Thus he had attained 
to the highest grade in the service at the age of thirty-one years, the youngest officer in that 
branch of the post office department. His administration was thoroughly efficient. He expanded 
and improved the civil service system of the department, reduced the rates for transporting the 
mails, and introduced other reforms. 

In 1878, Mr. Vail resigned from the postal service to become the general manager of the Bell 
Telephone Company, a position that he retained for ten years, during which time he built up the 
business of the company in a remarkable degree, establishing long distance telephones, introduc- 
ing copper wires and making other improvements that practically revolutionized the business. 
Since his retirement from active business in 1888, he has traveled extensively, chiefly in the tele- 
phone interests. His country home, Speedwell Farms, is an estate of fifteen hundred acres, in 
Lyndon Center, Vt., where he raises French coach horses, Jersey cattle, sheep and ponies. He 
belongs to the Union League, New York, and New York Athletic clubs, and is also a member of 
the Algonquin and the Union clubs, of Boston. He married, in 1869, Emma Louise Righter, 
of Newark, N. J., and has one son, David Righter Vail, a graduate from Harvard University 
in the class of 1893, and now engaged in the practice of law. 

582 



AUGUSTUS VAN CORTLANDT 

THE Van Cortlandts of Yonkers trace their descent from the first Van Cortlandt in this 
country, Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt, of Wyk bif Diernstede, Netherland, a soldier in the 
service of the West India Company, who came to America in the ship Haring, with 
Governor William Kieft, in 1638. He was a schepen in 1654, one of the commissioners to treat 
with the Colony of Connecticut in 1663, a member of the council of Governor Andros and otherwise 
of prominence, influence and usefulness in the Colony, during the period of the Dutch occupation. 
A man of noble ancestry, he was lineally descended from the Dukes of Courland in Russia. The 
family name was Stevens or Stevenson, from Courland, and the latter was adopted as a surname, in 
Dutch being Kortelandt. His wife was Annetje Loockermans, sister of Govert Loockeimans. 

Descendants of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt have been among the most noted citizens of 
New York, prominent in business, social and political circles. They have married into all the 
leading families of the metropolis for three centuries, and so are connected with the Van 
Rensselaers, Schuylers, Philipses, Ver Plancks, de Peysters, Jays, Livingstones, Barclays, de Lanceys 
and others. Jacobus Van Cortlandt, the youngest member of the first Van Cortlandt's family, 
Mayor of New York for nine years and the ancestor of the Van Cortlandts of Yonkers, married 
Eve Philipse, daughter of Frederick Philipse, the first lord of the Philipse manor. His son Frederick 
married Frances Jay, daughter of Augustus Jay and his wife, Anna Maria Bayard. Augustus Jay 
was the son of Pierre Jay, the head of the family in this country, and his wife was the daughter 
of Balthazar Bayard. The elder sons of Frederick Van Cortlandt died without issue, and the 
entail fell to Augustus Van Cortlandt, who married Catherine Barclay. 

With the death of Augustus Van Cortlandt, in default of male heirs, the family property and 
name passed to the grandsons, children of Anne Van Cortlandt, who had married Henry White, 
her cousin, son of her father's youngest sister Eve. Henry White was of Welsh descent. His 
grandfather was a Colonel in the English Army, came to Maryland in 1712, was a merchant in New 
York, and president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1772. Augustus White, the eldest son of 
Henry and Anne White, inherited the property by will from his grandfather and took the name of 
Van Cortlandt. When he died without issue, in 1839, his brother succeeded him and upon the 
death of the latter, also without issue, only a few months after Augustus had died, the entail fell to 
his nephew, the son of his sister, who was the wife of Dr. Edward N. Bibby. The father of Dr. 
Bibby was Captain Thomas Bibby, of Revolutionary fame. 

Mr Augustus Van Cortlandt Bibby, who thus succeeded to the estate by the terms of his 
uncle's will, changed his name to Van Cortlandt, and is still living. The City of New York 
acquired by the right of eminent domain, in 1884, seven hundred acres of this land, with the Van Cort- 
landt mansion built by Frederic Van Cortlandt, in 1748, and it is now included in Van Cortlandt 
Park The present Augustus Van Cortlandt lived on this property until it was taken by the city, 
and still owns one hundred acres of it. From 1847 to 1853, he was engaged in the banking business, 
and in 1859 was a member of the New York State Assembly. He was an early president 
of the St. Nicholas club, is a member of the New York Historical Society, the Metropolitan and 
City clubs, and the St. Nicholas Society, and otherwise identified with the social institutions of 
the city The wife of Mr. Van Cortlandt was Charlotte Amelia Bunch, daughter of Robert Bunch, 
of Nassau, Island of New Providence, and granddaughter of Dr. Richard Bayley, the first health 
officer of the port of New York and a close friend of Sir Guy Carleton. The children of this 
marriage are: Augustus, Jr., Henry W., Robert B., who is a member of the Metropolitan, Knicker- 
bocker and other clubs and a Columbia College graduate; Oloff de Lancey and Mary B. Van 

Cortlandt. c 

The Van Cortlandt arms are: argent, four wings of niell, sable and gules (forming M. 
Andrew's cross), five estoiles gules. Crest, over an esquire's helmet a wreath argent and gules, sur- 
mounted by an estoile gules. Motto, Virtus sibi manus. 

583 



CORNELIUS VANDERBILT 

BILT, or Bild, a manor in the Province of Friesland, in the Netherlands, a few miles from 
Zeyst, gave its name to one of the foremost American families of the present day. Jan 
Aertsen Vanderbilt emigrated from that manor to New Netherland in 1650, and established 
himself in Flatbush. He was married three times; to Anneken Hendricks, a native of Bergen, 
Norway; to Dierber Cornellis, and to Magdalentje Hansz. Aris, his eldest son, married, in 
1677, Hildegonde, or Hilletje, daughter of Rem Janse Venderbeeck. He died after 171 1. 

In the third American generation came Jacob Vanderbilt, 1692-1759, who was the first of 
the family living on Staten Island. By his wife, Neiltje, he had a son, Jacob Vanderbilt, who 
was born in 1723 and married Mary Sprague. Jacob and Mary (Sprague) Vanderbilt were the 
parents of Cornelius Vanderbilt, their youngest child, who, bom in 1764, married Phebe Hand 
and became the father of the celebrated Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Vanderbilt 
family was settled on Staten Island, near New Dorp, and owned considerable valuable farming 
property there. The senior Cornelius Vanderbilt removed to Stapleton, Staten Island, and 
managed an extensive farm. He also regularly ran boats between Staten Island and New York 
for the transportation of produce to the New York markets and to accommodate occasional 
travelers. 

Cornelius Vanderbilt, who made the family name famous in the last generation, was 
born on Staten Island, near Stapleton, May 27th, 1794. A moderate education was given to 
him, and this was supplemented by exceptional mental vigor and business genius that led him 
to success. In 18 10, when he was only sixteen years of age, he instituted a ferry service 
between Staten Island and the City of New York, thus commencing his career as a master of 
transportation. His career from this point onward is part of the familiar commercial history of 
the country. In the course of time, he became the greatest shipowner of his generation. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War, he presented to the Government the steamship Vanderbilt, rep- 
resenting a value of one million dollars. For this generous gift, Congress bestowed upon him a 
vote of thanks and a gold medal, inscribed, "A grateful country to her generous son." His 
success in the railroad business was even more pronounced, and the series of consolidations that 
resulted in the creation of the New York Central system stamped him as one of the master minds 
of his generation in business and finance. When he died, in 1877, he ranked among the richest 
men of the world, and left to his family a fortune almost without parallel. Commodore Van- 
derbilt was a generous benefactor to religious and educational institutions, among his large 
gifts being one million dollars to Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn., and the building 
occupied by the Church of the Strangers, on Mercer Street, a memorial to the Reverend Charles 
F. Deems. 

At the age of nineteen, Commodore Vanderbilt married Sophia Johnson, who died in 
1867. He married again in 1868, his wife being Frances A. Crawford, of Mobile, Ala. By his 
first wife, he was the father of thirteen children; Phcebe Jane, wife of James N. Cross; Ethelinda, 
wife of Daniel B. Allen; Eliza, wife of George A. Osgood; William H. ; Emily, wife of William 
K. Thorn; Sophia J., wife of Daniel Torrance; Maria Louise, wife of Horace F. Clark; Francis; 
Cornelius Johnson; Mary Alicia, wife of Nicholas La Bau; George W. ; Catharine Johnson, wife 
of Smith Barker, Jr., and George W., second. The second George W. Vanderbilt died in 1866, 
as a result of service in the Union Army. 

William H. Vanderbilt, the eldest son of Commodore Vanderbilt, was born in New Bruns- 
wick, N. J., May 8th, 1821, and died December 8th, 1885. He was educated in the Columbia 
Grammar School, and at the age of eighteen, went into mercantile life. In 1864, he was elected 
vice-president of the New York & Harlem Railroad, and upon his father's death, in 1877, 
succeeded to the presidency of the New York Central & Hudson River and other railroad prop- 
erties, and became the head of the Vanderbilt family. He was one of the great railroad magnates 

584 



of this generation, but in the latter years of his life devoted much time to travel and art collecting. 
He was a lover of fine horses, and owned Maud S., Aldine, Small Hopes, Lady Mac and other famous 
roadsters and trotters. He gave large sums of money to Vanderbilt University, the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, St. Luke's Hospital, and other institutions. 

The wife of William H. Vanderbilt was Maria Louisa Kissam. Mrs. Vanderbilt was a 
daughter of the Reverend Samuel Kissam, who was born in 1796, and was pastor of the Reformed 
Dutch Church, at Cedar Hill, near Albany. Her mother was Margaret H. Adams. The grand- 
parents of Mrs. Vanderbilt were Peter Rutgers Kissam, a Columbia College graduate and a mer- 
chant of New York, and his wife, Deborah Townsend, daughter of Penn Townsend. The parents 
of Peter Rutgers Kissam were Benjamin Kissam, of Long Island, and his wife, Catherine Rutgers, 
daughter of Petrus Rutgers. Benjamin Kissam was a celebrated lawyer, member of the Com- 
mittee of Safety in 1776, and member of the First and Second Provincial Congresses. His father 
was Joseph Kissam, who was a justice of the peace of Manhasset, Long Island, and married Deborah 
Whitehead, daughter of the Honorable Jonathan and Sarah (Field) Whitehead. The parents of 
Joseph Kissam were Daniel Kissam, of Long Island, 1669- 1752, and his wife, Elizabeth Coombs. 
Daniel Kissam was the son of John Kissam, of Flushing, who was born in 1644, of English 
origin, and married Susannah Thorne, daughter of William Thome. His father emigrated from 
England, and was one of the first settlers of Flushing. The children of William H. Vanderbilt were 
Cornelius, William K., Frederick W., George W., Margaret Louisa, Emily Thorn, Florence Adele 
and Eliza O. Vanderbilt. 

Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the eldest son of William H. Vanderbilt, was born on Staten 
Island, November 27th, 1843. In 1865, he entered the office of the New York & Harlem Railroad, 
and successively held various important official positions in connection with the Vanderbilt system 
of railroads, becoming, upon the death of his father, the head of the house, and actively in control 
of the Vanderbilt properties, being now chairman and controlling director in the various compa- 
nies that make up that magnificent transportation system. He is a trustee of Columbia University, 
the General Theological Seminary, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of 
Natural History, St. Luke's Hospital, and other institutions, and is noted for his interest in charitable 
work. He erected the building on Madison Avenue occupied by the railroad branch of the Young 
Men's Christian Association, and gave a dormitory to Yale University. He is a member of the 
Union, Metropolitan, Union League, Knickerbocker, Tuxedo, Grolier, Players, Century and Lawyers' 
clubs, and of many other social organizations. He married Alice Gwynne, daughter of Abraham 
Gwynne. Their children are: Cornelius, Gertrude, Alfred G., Reginald C. and Gladys M. Vander- 
bilt. Their eldest son, William H. Vanderbilt, died while a student in Yale University. Cornelius 
Vanderbilt, Jr., is a graduate from Yale, and married, in 1896, Grace Wilson, daughter of Richard 
T. Wilson. Gertrude Vanderbilt married Henry Payne Whitney, son of the Honorable William C. 
Whitney. 

William K. Vanderbilt, the second son of William H. Vanderbilt, married Alva Murray 
Smith. He has two sons and one daughter, William K., Jr., Harold S., and Consuelo. His 
daughter married, in 1895, the Duke of Marlborough. She has one son, born in 1897, to whom 
the Prince of Wales is the godfather, and who is the heir to the historic name of Marlborough. 
Mr. Vanderbilt owns the Valiant, one of the finest steam yachts in the world. He is a member 
of the Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Union, Manhattan, New York Yacht, and Players clubs. 
Frederick W. Vanderbilt graduated from Yale College in the class of 1876, and married Miss 
Anthony. He belongs to the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, University, New York Yacht and other 
clubs. George W. Vanderbilt is unmarried. He belongs to the Metropolitan, Century, Players, 
Grolier, New York Yacht and other clubs. His country estate, Biltmore, near Asheville, N. C, 
is one of the handsomest establishments of its kind in the world. Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt 
married Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, whose family is treated more extensively elsewhere in this 
volume. Emily T. Vanderbilt is the wife of William D. Sloane. Florence Adele Vanderbilt is 
the wife of Hamilton McK. Twombly, Eliza O. Vanderbilt is the wife of William Seward Webb. 

585 



CHARLES HENRY VAN DEVENTER 

NOT only on the paternal, but also upon his mother's side, this gentleman's ancestry is 
carried back with unusual exactitude through a line of Dutch progenitors, extending to 
the early foundation of New Netherland. The Old World ancestor of his family, to 
whom the record extends, was Peiter Pieters, of Deventer, Holland, whose wife was Janneken 
Jansen, and it was their son, Jan Pietersen, born in 1628 at Deventer, whence the surname of his 
descendants was derived, who came out, in 1662, to the Colony established on the Hudson River by 
the Dutch West India Company. He brought with him his wife, Engel Teunis, and was a resi- 
dent of Brooklyn and New Utrecht, being a man of prominence and schepen of the latter place in 
1673. Peter Jans Van Deventer, who was born about 1653 and died in 1747, resided at Martins' 
Neck, Long Island, and was a deacon of the Reformed Church at New Utrecht while he was on 
Long Island. In 1698, he lived in New York, but removed to New Jersey, and in 1709, was an 
elder of the Reformed Church of Freehold, Monmouth County, and about 1720, it is recorded, lived 
in Bound Brook, N. J. In 1686, he married Maria Christiaan, who came from the town of Doom, 
Holland, members of her family being among the early emigrants to New Netherland who 
settled in the New Jersey Colony. 

Their son, Jacob Van Deventer, was an inhabitant of Freehold, and was born in 1709, dying 
in 1756. He married for his first wife Margaretta Field, and after her death, Elizabeth Van Clief. 
His son, Jeremiah Van Deventer, of Bound Brook, 1 741-1806, a patriot and a soldier in the Army 
of the Revolution, married Elizabeth Conover, while his grandson, Peter Van Deventer, a resident 
of Rah way, who was born in 1789 and died in 18 17, married Elizabeth Vail. Peter Van Deventer 
was the grandfather of Mr. Charles Henry Van Deventer, whose father, Henry Bergen Van 
Deventer, of Bound Brook, N. J., and St. Louis, Mo., was born in 1809 and died in 1879, his wife 
being a lady who, like him, was of direct Holland descent. 

As already stated, Mr. Van Deventer comes of another old Dutch family. His mother, 
Elizabeth Degroot Voorhees, who married Henry Bergen Van Deventer in 1846, was a descendant 
of Coert Alberts van Voor Hees, who lived, prior to 1600, in the village of Hees, near Ruiken, in the 
Province of Drenthe in the Netherlands. His son, Steven Coerte van Voor Hees, born in 1600, who 
came to New Netherland in 1660, was the first of the family in the New World. He purchased 
a tract of thirty-one morgens of land at Flatbush, Long Island, for three thousand guilders, being 
evidently a man of substance. His name appears in the records of that town, where he was a 
magistrate in 1664, and where he died in 1684. He was married in Holland and brought his 
children with him. In the next generation, his son, Jan Stevens van Voorhees, born in 1652, 
appears on the assessment roll of Flatlands in 1675 and 1683, and afterwards took the oath of 
allegiance in 1687. 

Jan Janse Van Voorhees, the next in line of descent, who was baptized in 1686 at Brooklyn 
and moved to Staten Island, was the father of Jacobus Van Voorhees, 1 720-1 771, who married 
Sarah Culver, and resided first at Hackensack and afterwards in Somerset County, N. J. James 
Voorhees, 1748-1810, his son, was born in Hackensack and married Anna Harris, by whom he had 
John Harris Voorhees, 1783-1856, who married Eleanor Tunison, after whose death he married, in 
181 1, Susan P. Degroot, who was the mother of Mrs. Henry Bergen Van Deventer. 

Mr. Charles Henry Van Deventer was born in New Jersey, January 7th, 1847, and was 
educated in the academy at Lawrenceville, N. J. He entered the brokerage business in early life, 
and since 1869 has been a member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1876, Mr. Van Deventer 
married Christine Miller, daughter of James and Mary A. (Roe) Miller. The two children of this 
union are Lloyd M. and R. Craig Van Deventer. The family residence is 60 West Fifty-third Street, 
near Fifth Avenue. Mr. Van Deventer is a member of the Union League and New York Athletic 
clubs, and by right of his Dutch origin through several lines of descent, has been a member of the 
Holland Society since 1885. 

586 



HENRY van DYKE, D. D. 

IN the ninth generation of an old Dutch family, the ancestors of whom came to New 
Amsterdam in 1652, the Reverend Dr. Henry van Dyke is the second of his name who 
has achieved distinction in the pulpit. He is the eldest son of the late Reverend Dr. 
Henry Jackson van Dyke, who was a noted Presbyterian clergyman. The elder Dr. van Dyke 
was born in Abingdon, Montgomery County, Pa., in 1823, being the fourth son of Dr. Frederick 
A. van Dyke. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1843, he studied at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, and in 1845 was ordained to the ministry. He married, in the same 
year, Henrietta Ashmead, of Philadelphia. His first charge was the Presbyterian Church at 
Bridgeton, N. J., from 1845 to 1852. The following year he preached in Germantown, Pa., and 
in 1853 went to Brooklyn, where he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, remaining 
in that pulpit for fifteen years. 

In 1872, Dr. van Dyke resigned from his Brooklyn pastorate to accept a call to the 
Presbyterian Church at Nashville, Tenn. Making a trip to Europe before entering upon this 
new field of labor, upon his return home he changed his plans and returned again to Brooklyn, 
where he remained until his death, in 1891. During his lifetime, he made several visits to 
Europe and wrote interesting and valuable sketches of his experiences abroad. He was an 
effective pulpit orator, and had a wide influence upon the questions of his day. In 1876, he was 
elected moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly. 

Three names are inseparably connected with the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York, 
organized in 1767. The united pastorates of the Reverend Dr. John Rodgers and the Reverend 
Gardiner Spring, the first two occupants of that pulpit, covered more than the first century of 
its existence. During the last part of its first century, however, a decline set in and the con- 
gregation became depleted. It remained for the Reverend Dr. Henry van Dyke, the present 
pastor, to restore the church to its former high position as one of the most prominent religious 
societies of New York City. 

The Reverend Dr. Henry van Dyke was born in Germantown, Pa., in 1852, and graduated 
from Princeton College in 1873, and from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. He 
studied at the University of Berlin for two years, and then returned home to become, in 1878, 
pastor of the United Congregational Church at Newport, R. I. He remained in Newport for 
four years, and in 1882 was installed as the fifth pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, and 
occupies that pulpit at the present time. In 1884, he received the degree of D. D. from Princeton 
College and was made a director of the Princeton Theological Seminary. The degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was also conferred on Dr. van Dyke by Harvard in 1893, and by Yale University 
in 1896. Princeton gave him the degree of Doctor of Literature in 1897. In 1896, he was 
appointed to deliver the Ode at the Sesqui-Centennial of Princeton. He was university preacher 
at Harvard for two years, delivered the Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale in 1896, 
and was appointed to the Levering lectureship at Johns Hopkins University for 1898. Dr. van 
Dyke's literary work is well known in England and America. Among his books are The 
Reality of Religion, The Story of the Psalms, The Poetry of Tennyson, The Christ Child in 
Art, The Story of the Other Wise Man, Little Rivers, The Gospel for an Age of Doubt, The 
Builders and other Poems, and The First Christmas Tree. He is also a frequent contributor to 
the leading American reviews and magazines, and a number of his works have been reprinted 
in the mother country. 

The wife of the Reverend Dr. van Dyke, whom he married in 1881, was Ellen Reid, 
a great-great-grandniece of George Washington. He lives in East Thirty-seventh Street. He 
is a member of the Century Association, the City, Princeton, University and Authors' clubs, 
the Holland Society, of which he is a trustee, the St. Nicholas Society, of which he is 
chaplain, and the Sons of the Revolution. 

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GEORGE WILLETT VAN NEST 

PETER PIETERSE VAN NEST, who came to New Netherland in 1647, settling in Brooklyn, 
was the founder of the American Van Nest family. In 1663, he was in the convention of 
delegates from the Dutch towns of Long Island. His wife was Judith Rapelje, whose 
father, Joris Janse Rapelje, immigrated in 1623. Joris Rapelje was a grandson of Colet Rapelje, an 
officer in the army of Henry of Navarre. 

The ancestors in the ensuing generations of the gentleman now referred to have been 
George Van Nest, 1660-1747, of Raritan, N. J.; Peter Van Nest, 1700-1795 ; George Van Nest, 
1 736- 1 82 1, and his wife, Catalyna Williamson. Next in line came Rynier Van Nest, 1 771-1859, and 
George Van Nest, 1 795-1 824, whose wife was Phoebe Van Nest, daughter of Abraham Van Nest, 
another son of George Van Nest and Catalyna Williamson. Abraham Van Nest, born in 1777, was 
a prominent citizen of New York during the first half of this century, being president of the Green- 
wich Savings Bank and an officer of other financial institutions. He was an alderman of the city, 
and Van Nest Hall, at Rutgers College, was named after him on account of his liberality to the 
institution. He died in 1864, at what was originally his country place, but from 1840 on had been 
his permanent residence — the old mansion and property of Sir Peter Warren, on Bleecker Street. 
This historic house and its grounds remained substantially as they were in Sir Peter's day until 
Abraham Van Nest's death. The latter's wife was Margaret Field, of the old New York family 
of that name. 

The Reverend Abraham Rynier Van Nest, father of Mr. G. Willett Van Nest, was the son of 
George and Phoebe Van Nest and was born in New York in 1823. He graduated at Rutgers 
College, and received from that college the degree of D. D. He was the author of a life of the 
Reverend Dr. George Bethune. On his mother's side, Mr. Van Nest is connected with the Willett 
and Bronson families of New York. She was the daughter of Dr. Marinus Willett and his wife, 
Caroline Bronson. Her grandfather was Colonel Marinus Willett, 1740-1830, the Revolutionary 
patriot. He was an officer in De Lancey's Regiment in 1758, was in Bradstreet's successful expe- 
dition against Fort Frontenac, and from the beginning of the Revolution to its close was Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Colonel in the Continental Army. He was one of the earliest Sons of Liberty in New 
York, and for his rescue of Fort Stanwix in 1777 received a sword from Congress. After the war 
he was tendered an appointment as Brigadier-General by Washington, but declined it, was in the 
Assembly, became Sheriff of New York in 1785, serving for several terms, and was Mayor of the 
city in 1807. In the War of 181 2, he planned the defenses of New York. 

The great-grandfather of Colonel Willett was Colonel Thomas Willett, 1645-1722, a member 
of the Governor's Council, Commander of the Queens County Militia and an opponent of Jacob 
Leisler. He lived in great state for those times at Flushing. From his father, Thomas Willett, he 
acquired the plot granted in 1645, which comprises most of the block bounded by Hanover Square, 
Pearl and Stone Streets and Coenties Alley. Colonel Thomas Willett's mother was Sarah Cornell, 
daughter of Thomas Cornell, of Cornell's Neck. The wife of Colonel Marinus Willett was Margaret 
Bancker, a descendant of Evert Bancker, Mayor of Albany, 1695-6 and 1707-9, and of Johannes de 
Peyster, Mayor of New York, 1696. Mrs. Abraham R. Van Nest's mother, Caroline Bronson, 
was a daughter of Dr. Isaac Bronson, 1760-1839, a prominent banker and financier and a 
descendant of John Bronson, who came to Connecticut in 1636. 

Mr. G. Willett Van Nest was born in New York, and is a graduate of Harvard, where 
he also took the degree of LL. B. Since 1882, he has been a practicing lawyer in New York, 
and has argued several cases of great importance in the highest courts. He was an editor of 
the Seventh Edition of Sedgwick on the Measure of Damages, and is the author of a number 
of articles on legal and political subjects which have appeared in the leading periodicals. Mr. 
Van Nest's city residence is at 345 Fifth Avenue. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Harvard, 
and University clubs, the Downtown Association, the Bar Association and the Holland Society. 

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WARNER VAN NORDEN 

IT was in 1623 that the name of which this gentleman is the distinguished representative in the 
present generation first appears in the records of the early Dutch settlement in the New 
Netherland. Since that date, however, the family has been identified with New York, both 
in the city and the State, and is now connected by blood or marriage with many of the more 
prominent Knickerbocker families, such as the Kips, Vermilyeas, Van Cortlandts, De La Noys, 
Waldrons, Van Dams and Van Nests. In fact, Mr. Warner Van Norden boasts of a descent of the 
most distinguished kind from the Dutch and Huguenot founders of New York on both the paternal 
and maternal sides of his family line. Among his maternal ancestors is numbered the famous 
Reverend Everardus Bogardus, the first Dutch domine or minister of the Reformed Church of 
Holland, who came to the Colony in 1633, in the same ship which brought over the second 
Dutch Governor of the New Nethlerland, Wouter Van Twiller. The wife of Domine Bogardus, 
whom he married in 1638, was the famous Annetje Jans. He is also descended from Adrian 
Hoghland, who at one time owned the greater part of the property on the upper west side 
of Manhattan Island, now included in Riverside Park, which was long known in the city's 
early history as the De Kay farm. At the same time he inherits, through the maternal side 
of his ancestry, the blood of two distinguished Huguenot refugees, who, as their names 
indicate, were of noble rank, and who, driven from France previous to the issue of the Edict 
of Nantes, 1598, and during the persecution directed against their Protestant subjects by Charles 
IX. and Henry III., in which period occurred the massacre of St. Bartholomew, sought refuge first 
in Holland, and then later, they or their children, found religious freedom, and opportunity to 
better their condition in that country's transatlantic possessions. They were Abraham de lay Noy 
and Jean Mousnier de la Montagnie, the latter of whom, under the administration of Stuyvesant, 
was vice-director and ruler of Fort Orange — or, as we know it, the City of Albany — and was in 
many ways prominent in the affairs of the New Netherland in its formative period. 

Mr. Warner Van Norden was born in New York City in 1841, and after completing his 
education, and while still a mere youth, was sent to New Orleans as the representative of a large 
New York mercantile house. At a very early age, he developed great force of character as well as 
marked executive ability, and embarking in business for himself became a successful man of affairs 
in the Crescent City, and president of one of its banks. In 1876, he, however, returned to New 
York and engaged in business as a private banker, and also took part, successfully, in the manage- 
ment of railroad and other undertakings. In 1891, he became president of the National Bank of 
North America, of this city. He is a director of the Home Insurance Company and other financial 
and business institutions, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. 

Mr. Van Norden is a man of active habits, both in mind and body, and has traveled 
extensively, both in European countries and in America. His residence, at 16 West Forty-eighth 
Street, contains a fine collection of paintings and statuary and a large library, to the gathering of 
which he has devoted much attention, and in which he finds relaxation. He is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Union League and Lawyers' clubs. His Dutch ancestry is shown in his active 
participation in the Holland Society, of which he is a leading member and its ex-president. 

In philanthropy and church work, Mr. Van Norden takes an earnest and practical share. He 
is a director of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, a trustee of the Presby- 
terian Synod and was for many years president of the Presbyterian Union of New York City, while 
he has served as a member of the Church Extension Committee and as a member of the Board of 
Foreign Missions and a director of the American Tract Society. 

In 1867, Mr. Van Norden married Martha Philips, of this city, and has two sons and two 
daughters. The older son, the Reverend Theodore L. Van Norden, is pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at South Salem, N. Y. The younger, Warner M. Van Norden, is connected with his 
father in the banking business. 

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CORTLANDT SCHUYLER VAN RENSSELAER 

THREE great New York families are recalled by the names borne by the subject of this 
sketch, the Van Rensselaers, the Van Cortlandts and the Schuylers, whose beginning in 
this country was coincident with the founding of New Netherland. Kiliaen Van Rens- 
selaer, the paternal ancestor of Mr. Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, was one of the wealthiest 
directors of the Dutch West India Company. He was descended from a long line of honorable 
ancestors, and married Anna Van Wely. His eldest son by this marriage, Jeremias Van 
Rensselaer, the founder of the American family to which the present Mr. Van Rensselaer belongs, 
married Maria Van Cortlandt, daughter of Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt. 

A great-grandson of Jeremias Van Rensselaer and his wife, Maria, was James Van 
Rensselaer, who married Elsie Schuyler, and was the great-grandfather of Mr. Cortlandt Schuyler 
Van Rensselaer. His son, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, who was born in 1797, married 
Henrietta Ann Schuyler, and his grandson, Gratz Van Rensselaer, who was born in 1834, married 
Catharine Van Cortlandt Van Rensselaer. He was therefore in the sixth generation of descent 
from the first patroon of Rensselaerwyck, whose great estates comprised the larger part of what 
is now the counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Delaware, Greene and Columbia. James Van 
Rensselaer, the grandfather of Gratz Van Rensselaer, was an officer during the Revolutionary War, 
with rank of Major, serving without pay, part of the time on the staff of General Montgomery. 

On the female side of this house, Mr. Van Rensselaer is descended through several lines of 
ancestry from the Schuyler family. His grandmother, Henrietta Ann Schuyler, who married Philip 
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, belonged to that famous race. Her father was John H. Schuyler, and 
her mother, her father's first wife, was the youngest daughter of Hendrick and Henrietta Ann 
Fort. Her paternal grandparents were Harmanus Schuyler and Christiana Ten Broeck. Harmanus 
Schuyler was the son of Nicholas Schuyler and Elsie Wendell, the grandson of Philip Schuyler 
and Elizabeth De Meyer, and the great-grandson of Philip Piertersen Schuyler and Margeritta Van 
Slichtenhorst, the remote ancestors of the American Schuyler family. 

Harmanus Schuyler was the father of Elsie Schuyler, who became the wife of Major James 
Van Rensselaer. He belonged to the Schenectady branch of the family, and settled in Albany 
before the middle of the eighteenth century. He was an assistant alderman there in 1759, and 
sheriff, 1761-70. In 1776, he was assistant deputy commissary-general of the Northern Depart- 
ment, stationed at Lake George. His wife, Christiana Ten Broeck, was the daughter of Samuel Ten 
Broeck, and granddaughter of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck, who came to America with Governor Peter 
Minuet. The mother of Christiana Ten Broeck was Maria Van Rensselaer, daughter of Hendrick 
Van Rensselaer and his wife, Catharine Van Brugh, and a granddaughter of Annetje Jans. 

Mr. Cortlandt Schuyler Van Rensselaer, son of Gratz Van Rensselaer, was born in Albany, but 
was brought up in New York, whither his parents came soon after his birth. He was graduated from 
Hobart College, and afterwards pursued a course of study in the Law School of Columbia College. 
Subsequently removing to Eau Claire, Wis., he was admitted to the bar. Returning to New York 
in 1884, he became an assistant United States District Attorney under Elihu Root, retaining that 
position under William Dorsheimer, Stephen A. Walker and Edward Mitchell. He has taken an 
interest in political matters, has been frequently a delegate to Republican conventions, and was 
once a candidate for Congress. Since 1891, he has been counsel for the American Surety Company, 
and is also a large real estate owner. In 1891, Mr. Van Rensselaer married Horace Macaulay, 
daughter of William Macaulay, of a well-known family distinguished for literary ability. She is 
also descended on the maternal side from Captain John Underhill. They reside at 40 East Sixty- 
first Street. Mr. Van Rensselaer is a member of the Metropolitan, St. Nicholas, Church, University 
and Country clubs, the Bar Association, Sons of the Revolution, Huguenot Society, St. Nicholas 
Society, Society of Colonial Wars, of which he is a governor, and the Colonial Order, of which he 
is vice-president. 

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KILIAEN VAN RENSSELAER 

THE Colony of Rensselaerwyck was the most successful attempt to plant feudal customs in 
the New World. In 1630, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a rich merchant of Amsterdam, 
obtained from the Dutch West India Company and their High Mightiness, the States 
General of the United Provinces, an enormous grant of land in the New Netherland. The tract 
included nearly all the present counties of Albany and Rensselaer, and in it the patroon ruled as a 
lord over his subjects. Settlers were sent out from Holland, who, in all respects, were bound by a 
feudal tenure to the lord of the Colony. The grant of the manor was confirmed after the 
English occupation of the New Netherland, and by the Legislature of the State of New York, and 
its possession continued uninterruptedly in a line of patroons, descendants from the first grantee. 
The original patroon never visited his transatlantic possession, and died, in 1647, in Holland. His 
sons, however, came to this country, and one of them, Jeremias, married Maria Van Courtlandt, 
and had a son, Kiliaen, who wedded a maternal cousin, also named Maria Van Courtlandt. The 
son of the latter couple, Stephen, succeeded his elder brother, Jeremias, as a lord of the manor. 
Stephen Van Rensselaer, first of the name, died in 1747, and was succeeded as patroon by a son, 
Stephen, died 1769, whose wife was Catherine Livingston. The last of the number was General 
Stephen Van Rensselaer, third of the name, the "Old Patroon," as he was known, who died in 
1830, whereupon the manor was for the first time divided among the heirs, and ceased to exist as 
an almost independent division of the State. 

The father of the present Mr. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was William P. Van Rensselaer. His 
mother was Sarah Rogers, of a well-known New York family, allied with the Bayards and other 
prominent names in the Colonial and Revolutionary history of the State. His paternal grandfather 
was General Stephen Van Rensselaer, the fifth and last patroon, whose mother was Catherine 
Livingston, above referred to, a daughter of Philip Livingston, signer of the Declaration of Independ- 
ence, whose wife was Margaret, daughter of General Philip Schuyler. 

The patroon at the time of the Revolution, despite his large possessions, was an ardent 
patriot, and his son, Stephen Van Rensselaer, inherited the same quality, served as Major- 
General of the United States Army in the War of 1812, and commanded the forces on the Niagara 
frontier during a part of the war. He was later Lieutenant-Governor of the State and Member of 
Congress, while the foundation of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, is a testimonial 
of his far-sighted philanthropy, few institutions in the country having been productive of so much 
real benefit to the people of the United States. 

Mr. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer was born at Albany, in 1845, and was educated in this city. A 
youth at the outbreak of the war between the States, he, nevertheless, entered the army before the 
close of the conflict, and, becoming a Captain in the Thirty-Ninth New York Volunteers, served 
under Generals Grant and Hancock, and took part in some fourteen different engagements. After 
the close of the war, he traveled abroad extensively, engaged in business in New York, and, in 
1870, married Olivia Atterbury, of New York. Mrs. Van Rensselaer is a granddaughter of Anson 
G. Phelps, the merchant and philanthropist. Her great-great-uncle was Elias Boudinot, the first 
president of the Congress of the United States. The Atterbury family descends from the celebrated 
Bishop Atterbury, of England. The issue of this marriage is five children, Olive Atterbury, Sarah 
Elizabeth, Katharine Boudinot, Kiliaen, Jr., and William Stephen Van Rensselaer. 

Besides membership in the Loyal Legion and the G. A. R., as well as of the Holland, St. 
Nicholas and Huguenot societies, Mr. Van Rensselaer is an active and prominent figure in many 
organizations of a religious and philanthropic character. He is, among others, a director of the 
American Tract Society, of the City Missions, president of the Grand Army Mission, and of the 
Sanitary Aid Society, and an elder of the New York Presbyterian Church, in which he takes great 
interest, in addition to which he gives much of his time and active labors in the cause of other 
organizations of the same type. 



ABRAHAM VAN WYCK VAN VECHTEN 

TEUNIS D1RCKSEN VAN VECHTEN was a native of Vechten, near Utrecht, Holland. 
With his wife, child and servants, he came to Beaverwyck, or Fort Orange, in the ship 
Arms of Norway, in 1638. In 1648, he was the owner of land near Greenbush, N. Y., 
which remains in the possession of his descendants. The eldest son of Teunis Dircksen Van 
Vechten was Dirk Teunisse Van Vechten, who was born at Vechten, in 1634, and died in 1702 at 
the place in Catskill purchased in 1681 and confirmed to him by Governor Dongan in 1686, part of 
which is still in the family, together with the old house built in 1690. He married Jannetje 
Vreelant, daughter of Michiel Jansen and Fytje (Hartman) Vreelant, of Communipaw. His son, 
Teunis Van Vechten, 1668-1707, married Cathlyntje Van Petten, daughter of Claas Frederickse 
Van Petten, of Schenectady. 

In the next generation, Teunis Van Vechten, 1707-1785, married Judiky Ten Broeck, daughter 
of Jacob Ten Broeck. He was an officer in the Colonial militia, and was present at Braddock's 
defeat. Samuel Van Vechten, the son of Teunis Van Vechten, 1742-1813, was born in Catskill, 
was an officer in the Revolution, a county judge and a large land owner. His wife was Sarah Van 
Orden, sister of Jacob Van Orden, of Catskill. One of his sons was the Reverend Dr. Jacob Van 
Vechten, long pastor at Schenectady. 

Samuel Van Vechten, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1796, the son of 
Samuel Van Vechten. He was graduated from Union College in 18 18, and from Rutgers Theologi- 
cal Seminary in 1822. He was the second pastor of the Bloomingburgh Reformed Dutch Church, 
1824-41, and was afterwards at Fort Plain; dying at Fishkill, November 3d, 1882. Other distin- 
guished members of the family were Teunis Van Vechten, Mayor of Albany in 1837; Abraham Van 
Vechten, Attorney-General in 1810; Abraham Van Vechten, City Attorney of Albany in 1843, and 
Acting Adjutant-General in 1852; and Colonel Cornelius Van Vechten, who in 1757 married 
Annetje Knickerbocker, of Albany. Anthony Van Vechten was prominent in Revolutionary times 
and married Margaret Fonda, daughter of Jelles Fonda, who founded the town of Fonda. Michiel 
Van Vechten, oldest son of Dirck Teunis Van Vechten, removed in 1685 to Raritan, N. J., and 
established an important family. His Dutch family Bible, dated 1603, inherited from his father and 
grandfather, is in the collection of the American Bible Society, and is an interesting relic of the 
eighty years war of the Netherlands for religious freedom. In Brooklyn Claes Arentse Van Vechten 
built at Gowanus, in 1699, a large house, which has but recently disappeared. 

The mother of Mr. Abraham Van Wyck Van Vechten was Louisa, second daughter of 
General Abraham Van Wyck, of Fishkill. She was the granddaughter of Theodorus Van Wyck, 
a member of the second and third Provincial Congresses, a great-granddaughter of Theodorus Van 
Wyck, one of the first settlers of Fishkill, and in the fifth generation of descent from Cornelius 
Barentse Van Wyck, who came to Flatbush, Long Island, in 16^9. The American Van Wycks are 
descended from Jacob Van Asch Van Wyck, one of the first presidents of the University of Utrecht. 

Mr. Abraham Van Wyck Van Vechten was born in Bloomingburgh, New York, March 24th, 
1828. He was educated in the Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, and graduated from Williams 
College in 1847. He then came to New York, studied law with Horace Holden, was admitted to 
the bar and has been in practice for nearly half a century. In 1853, Mr. Van Vechten married Mary 
Van Zandt Lane, great-granddaughter of Peter Praa Van Zandt, a merchant who came to New 
Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. He had a substantial city house, at the corner of Water 
Street and Burling Slip, and his country place was near Beekman Hill. Mrs. Van Vechten died in 
1864. Mr. Van Vechten has a country home at the family homestead in Catskill. He is a member 
of the University Club, Bar Association, St. Nicholas Society, Sons of the Revolution, Society of 
Colonial Wars, Holland Society, Genealogical and Biographical Society, Historical Society, Clinton 
Hall Association and Society of the War of 1812. He has two daughters, Effe, wife of Charles 
H. Knox, and Marie, wife of Samuel Van Vechten Huntington. 



ROBERT ANDERSON VAN WYCK 

CORNELIUS BARENTS VAN WYCK, who came from the town of Wyck, in Holland, in 
1650, was the ancestor of all the American Van Wycks who boast of a Colonial descent. 
His wife, whom he married at Flatbush, in Kings County, soon after his arrival in the 
Colony, was Ann Polhemus, daughter of the Reverend Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, the first 
Dutch Reformed minister in that portion of the Colony, and the ancestor of many families of note 
in New York. 

The Van Wyck family was of aristocratic origin in their parent country. Its members in 
Holland use, to the present day, exactly the same coat-of-arms that was brought to this country by 
the representatives of their name two centuries ago. While not a numerous family — less so, 
indeed, than the average race of the Holland descent — the American branch of the Van Wycks has 
furnished to the State and to the country many individual members prominent in the professions 
and the public service, while intermarriages have connected it by ties of relationship with almost all 
the old representative family names of New York, such as Van Rensselaer, Van Cortlandt, Beek- 
man, Gardiner, Van Vechten, Livingston and Hamilton, to designate only a few of the many with 
which it is related. 

Judge Van Wyck, who was born in New York, in 1849, is a son of William Van Wyck and 
his wife, Lydia Anderson Maverick. His descent on the paternal side is from Samuel Van Wyck, 
grandson of the original Colonist of the name. Samuel Van Wyck married Hannah Hewlett, and 
had two sons, Captain Abraham Van Wyck and Samuel Van Wyck. The latter married Mary 
Thorn, and was the father of an Abraham Van Wyck and Samuel Van Wyck, born at Huntington, 
Long Island, in 1767. His uncle, Abraham Van Wyck, was an officer of the Revolutionary Army, 
married Elizabeth Wright, and had a daughter, Zernah Van Wyck, who married her cousin 
Abraham, and thus united the two branches of the family. The offspring of this marriage was 
William Van Wyck, born in 1803, at Huntington, Long Island, who, as already mentioned, was 
the Honorable Robert A. Van Wyck's father. 

On his mother's side, Judge Van Wyck's ancestors were descended from prominent families 
of the State of South Carolina. His own Christian names were given for his maternal great-grand- 
father, General Robert Anderson, a distinguished soldier in the war of the Revolution, and a public 
officer of the State for over thirty years. The County of Anderson, in South Carolina, was named 
in his honor by the Legislature. Elizabeth Anderson, his daughter, born at Pendleton, Anderson 
County, married Samuel Maverick, born at Charleston, S. C, in 1772, their daughter, Lydia 
Anderson Maverick, born in 18 14, at Charleston, becoming the wife of William Van Wyck. Her 
son is a descendant in the seventh generation from John Maverick, who was among the earliest 
settlers of Charleston, and whose brother, Samuel Maverick, came to Boston in 1630, members of 
the family having also been very prominent in the affairs of New York when it passed into the 
possession of the Duke of York, the Southern branch of the same family having been extremely 
prominent in several States. 

In 1872, Judge Van Wyck graduated from Columbia College and was valedictorian 
of his class. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession until 1889. 
In that year he was elected a Judge of the City Court, and became presiding Judge of the 
court. In November, 1897, he was elected Mayor of the enlarged city at the first election 
held under the charter creating the Greater New York. It is certainly a notable fact that this 
honor should fall to the direct descendant of one of the New Netherlands founders. The 
Honorable Robert Anderson Van Wyck is unmarried. His clubs are the Manhattan and St. 
Nicholas, and he was one of the founders of the Holland Society. His brother, the Honorable 
Augustus Van Wyck, of Brooklyn, also has had a distinguished career at the bar, and some 
years ago was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York in the Second, or Kings 
County, Judicial District. He is a member of the Holland Society. 

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JAMES M. VARNUM 

FIRST of the Varnum name recorded in the annals of American history, was George Varnum, 
who was born about 1593 in the hamlet of Draycot, England. He came to this country 
about 1634 and settled in Ipswich, Mass. With him came his married son, Samuel, born 
in Draycot in 1619. The elder Varnum died in Ipswich in 1649, and Samuel was one of the 
founders of the town of Dracut, now part of the city of Lowell, and named it after his old home in 
England; there two of his sons were killed by the Indians, and there he died about 1673. His 
fifth son, Joseph Varnum, 1672-1749, was a Colonel in the Massachusetts militia and a member of 
the Massachusetts Colonial Legislature. Samuel Varnum, the third son of Joseph, was a Major in 
the Massachusetts militia, and his sons were conspicuous figures of the Revolutionary period, 
particularly Major-General James M. Varnum and Major-General Joseph B. Varnum. The elder 
brother, James M. Varnum, born in Dracut, December 17th, 1748, was graduated from Brown 
University in 1769, admitted to the bar in 1771, and settled in Greenwich, R. I. When the war 
began, he was commissioned as a Colonel of a Rhode Island regiment of infantry, and in 1777 
became a Brigadier-General in the Continental Army. He was at Valley Forge and in many 
engagements in New Jersey and Rhode Island, and retired from the service in 1779. But he was 
again on duty from 1779 to 1788, as a Major-General of the Rhode Island militia, and was a Member 
of the Continental Congress from Rhode Island, 1780-82 and 1786-87. He was later appointed a 
United States Judge for the Northwestern Territory. He was one of the original members of the 
Society of the Cincinnati, and was only forty years of age when he died. 

Joseph B. Varnum, 1 750-1 821, had a career longer and even more brilliant than that of his 
brother. During the Revolution he served as a Captain in the Massachusetts militia, was a State 
Senator, 1785-95, and in 1817-18, and 1820-21, Sheriff of Middlesex County, Justice of the Court of 
Common Pleas and Chief Justice of the Court of General Sessions of the same county, and a 
member of the Massachusetts State Convention that ratified the Federal Constitution. In 1787, he 
was Colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts militia, in 1802 was promoted to be 
Brigadier-General, and in 1805 was made a Major-General. From 1795 to 181 1, he was a repre- 
sentative from Massachusetts to the National Congress and Speaker of the House during the tenth 
and eleventh Congresses. He was United States Senator, 1811-17, and during that time was 
President pro tempore of the Senate and Acting Vice-President of the United States from December 
6th, 1813, to April 17th, 1814. 

The third son of the Honorable Joseph B. Varnum, James M. Varnum, 1 786-1 821, was a 
Captain in the War of 1812, and married a niece of Postmaster-General Gideon Granger; their son, 
Joseph B. Varnum, born in 18 18, was graduated from Yale in 1838 and studied law in Baltimore. 
He settled in New York and became a well-known lawyer. He was a member of the 
Assembly of New York State, 1849-51, being Speaker the latter year. In 1852, he was a Whig 
candidate for Congress, and in 1857 was returned to the Assembly again. He wrote much for 
publication, being a contributor to newspapers and magazines and the author of several works. 

General James M. Varnum is the son of the Honorable Joseph B. Varnum, last named. He 
was born in New York City, June 29th, 1848, and educated in Yale College, taking the degree 01 
B. A. in 1868 and the degree of LL. B. from Columbia College in 1871. He has since been 
engaged in the active practice of the law in New York City. He was a member of the Assembly 
of New York State, 1879-80; Republican candidate for Attorney-General of the State in 1889; 
permanent chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1891 and candidate of the Republican 
and anti-Tammany Democrats for Judge of the Superior Court in 1890. Taking an active interest 
in the affairs of the National Guard, he was senior aide-de-camp to Governor Cornell from 1880 
to 1883, with the rank of Colonel, and was subsequently appointed by Governor Morton, in 1895, 
as Paymaster-General of the State, with the rank of Brigadier-General. He is a member of the 
Tuxedo, Metropolitan, Union and other clubs. 



JOHN DAVIS VERMEULE 

AMONG the ancestors of Mr. John Davis Vermeule were members of several of the first Dutch 
families that settled in New York and New Jersey, in the early years of the seventeenth 
century. The American branch of the Vermeule family sprang from John Cornelissen 
Vermeule, who was a prominent citizen of Vlissengen, in Zeeland, being a town officer and church 
elder. His son, Adrian Vermeule, was the American ancestor of the family, coming to this coun- 
try in 1699. He had no intention of settling here, but came out to visit friends, who were among 
the residents of the town of Harlem. It happened at that time that the Reformed Church of Harlem 
had fallen into difficulties, principally through disagreements between its members, and Adrian 
Vermeule, who was an educated man, was engaged temporarily to fill the position of town clerk 
and voorleser, or lecturer, that had just been vacated by John Tiebout. This opening led him to a 
decision to remain permanently in the Colony, and for eight years he served the town of Harlem 
and the Reformed Church acceptably. At the end of that time the people of Bergen, N. J., invited 
him to that village to become voorleser of their church. 

After he had settled in Bergen, Adrian Vermeule married Christina Cadmus, descended from 
Thomas Fredericksen Cadmus and Andries Hopper, who were among the earliest Dutch settlers of 
New Amsterdam. Andries Hopper came to America in 1652, and acquired large real estate pos- 
sessions, principally upon Manhattan Island. His descendants of one branch of the family moved 
to New Jersey and became prominent in the early development of that Colony. Descendants of 
Thomas Fredericksen Cadmus also moved from New Amsterdam to New Jersey in the early part of 
the eighteenth century, and members of the family married with the Vermeules, Vreelands, Run- 
yons, Van Buskirks and others who were prominent in that Province. 

Cornelius Vermeule, who died in 1735, a son of Adrian Vermeule, became a large land- 
owner, his estate covering over twelve hundred acres. He was a man of prominence, and was 
several times a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey. He and his four sons were 
devoted patriots in the War for Independence, and the latter were valiant soldiers. One of these 
sons, Frederick Vermeule, became distinguished in public life after the war was ended, being for 
many years presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset County, N. J. Judge Ver- 
meule lived for a long time in Bergen County, but in 1756 he moved to Plainfield, and there his 
family remained. 

Mr. John Davis Vermeule, grandson of Judge Frederick Vermeule, was born in Plainfield, 
September 21st, 1822, was instructed in private schools until he was eighteen years of age, and then 
entered mercantile life. Having fully prepared himself for business, he became a manufacturer, 
interesting himself in the production of rubber boots, shoes and clothing, as far back as 1844, when 
that industry was in its inception. For nearly forty years he has been the president, treasurer and 
manager of the Goodyear India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Company. He is also interested in 
banking, and has an active connection with important financial institutions, being president of the 
Holland Trust Company, vice-president of the American Savings and Loan Association, and in 
the directorate of other fiduciary institutions of New York. Industrial corporations have also 
enlisted his services, and he is president of the York Cliffs Improvement Company and the York 
Water Company. 

Public life has had no attractions for Mr. Vermeule. At one time, when a resident of 
Castleton, Staten Island, he served as supervisor of the town, but has never held other 
public office. He married, in 1846, Mary C. Kelly, daughter of John W. Kelly, a merchant of 
Philadelphia. He has been one of the active members of the Holland Society from the birth of 
that organization, and is a supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his town residence, 
in West Forty-sixth street, adjoining Fifth Avenue, he has a valuable library and a choice collec- 
tion of pictures. He also has a country place at York Cliff, Me. His clubs include the Man- 
hattan, Reform, Riding, Commonwealth and Merchants. 

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WILLIAM EDWARD VER PLANCK 

HISTORIC mansions still in the possession of descendants of their original owners are 
unhappily rare in the neighborhood of New York, where improvement has played such 
havoc with the monuments of the past. The Ver Planck house, in Fishkill-on-Hudson, 
is one of the exceptions to this rule. The land on which it stands was bought from the Indians, in 
1683, by Gulian or Geleyn Ver Planck, and, before 1750, his grandson, another Gulian, built the 
house which he called Mount Gulian, and in which inheritors of the name have dwelt ever since, 
its present owner being Mr. William Edward Ver Planck. In Revolutionary times the mansion 
was the headquarters of Baron Steuben, and in it, in 1783, the officers of the patriot army instituted 
the Order of the Cincinnati. In the present century it was the home of the Honorable Gulian 
Crommelin Ver Planck, whose reputation was not merely national, but extended to foreign lands. 
Mount Gulian contains an important collection of family heirlooms and relics of the past, 
including many interesting and valuable paintings of the members of the Ver Planck family and 
their numerous connections. 

The Ver Planck family is one of the most ancient in New York. Its ancestor was Abraham 
Isaacse Ver Planck, who came from Holland before 1638, and married Maria Vinge. His son, 
Gulian, born in 1637, died in 1684, and, as mentioned above, became the owner of the lands in 
Fishkill, part of which are still held by his descendants. Samuel Ver Planck, who came next in 
succession, married Arriantje Bayard, and died in 1698. His son, Gulian, 1698-175 1, was the 
builder of the mansion, and married Mary Crommelin, a member of an old Huguenot family in 
France and the Low Countries. 

The Honorable Gulian Crommelin Ver Planck was the grandson of the last named Gulian, 
and the grandfather of Mr. W. E. Ver Planck. He was born in New York in 1786, and his long 
life, which terminated in 1870, was devoted throughout to the public service and to literary activity, 
which made him one of the most famous Americans of his time. A member at various times of 
both branches of the State Legislature and of Congress, he also occupied a seat in the Court of 
Errors, of New York, and for many years acted as president of the Board of Emigration. His 
fame as an orator and man of letters was of the highest, his works being voluminous, extending 
through many fields of literature, and included an edition of Shakespeare, of whom he was the 
first American commentator. His wife, born Eliza Fenno, belonged to a family of prominence in 
Boston, and was connected with many other notable names in New England's history. She died 
in early life. 

His son, William Samuel Ver Planck, born in New York in 1812, married Anna Biddle 
Newlin, and was the father of Mr. William Edward Ver Planck, who was born in Fishkill in 1856, 
educated at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, and graduated from Columbia College, in the class of 1876. 
Mr. Ver Planck adopted the bar as his profession and is in active practice in this city. He has 
inherited the literary tastes of his grandfather, and has published a monograph history of the Ver 
Planck family. In 1880, he married Virginia Eliza Darby Everett, born in Brownville, N. Y., daugh- 
ter of the Reverend Henry Darby, and adopted daughter of William E. Everett. Mrs. Ver Planck is 
the granddaughter of Colonel Edmund Kirby, U. S. A., a distinguished officer of the Mexican War, 
and great-granddaughter of Major-General Jacob Brown, the "fighting Quaker" of the War of 
1812, under whom the regular army of the United States at Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and Fort 
Erie gained its first laurels. Her uncle, and father by adoption, William E. Everett, U. S. N., was 
an engineer officer associated with the late Cyrus Field in laying the Atlantic cable. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ver Planck have three children, William Everett, Virginia Darby and Edward Ver Planck. They 
have a city residence in West Ninety-Eighth Street. Mr. Ver Planck has traveled abroad and is a 
member of the University and New York clubs. 

The arms of the Ver Planck family are: Ermine, on a chief engrailed sable; three mullets 
argent. Crest, a demi-wolf proper. Motto, Ut vita sic mors. 

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WILLIAM H. VIBBERT, S. T. D. 

DR. VIBBERT'S paternal ancestors were, as the name clearly indicates, French Huguenots, 
coming of that stock, the loss of which was so full of evil consequence to France itself, 
while their high mental qualities, energy of character and moral fibre supplied an element 
in the life of the American people which is constantly making itself felt. The Vibbert family was 
among those which escaped from France at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and found religious 
and political freedom in the American Colonies of England and Holland. New York and South 
Carolina absorbed the largest number of these desirable emigrants, but New England also claimed 
its share. The settlement of members of the Vibbert family, at Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., 
dates from the latter part of the seventeenth century, some of its branches having from an early 
date become identified with the State and City of New York. The subject of this sketch traces 
his descent through one of these offshoots, his grandfather, Elisha Vibbert, having been an American 
sea-captain and master of New York ships in the East India trade at the beginning of the present 
century. He married Priscilla Moore, of Salisbury, Conn., but at the early age of twenty-one was 
lost at sea, within sight of Sandy Hook, while returning from a voyage to China. 

His son, the father of Dr. William H. Vibbert, was the Reverend William E. Vibbert, D. D., 
a clergyman and theologian of distinguished reputation in the American branch of the Church of 
England, who died in December, 1895, at the venerable age of eighty-three. Dr. Vibbert, Sr., was 
born in New York, and married Mary E. Cooke, of the well-known Cooke family, of New 
Haven, Conn. Her father was John H. Cooke, of that city, and her mother, born Maria Mix |udd, 
of New Britain, Conn., came of a race of prominence in the Colonial and Revolutionary annals of 
the State. Dr. Vibbert's great-great-grandfather in this line, William Judd, was an officer in the 
Revolutionary Army, who fought throughout the war, and after the close of the struggle for inde- 
pendence became a conspicuous figure in the politics of Connecticut and of the country, and a 
leader of the Democratic, or, as it was then called, the Republican party, holding many public 
offices in the State and in the national service. His son, Dr. Vibbert's great-grandfather, William 
S. Judd, was a Major of the United States Army in the War of 1812 with Great Britain, in which 
struggle he served with distinction. 

Born at New Haven, in 1839, Dr. William H. Vibbert was educated at the Connecticut 
Episcopal Academy, graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, in 1858, and pursued his studies for 
the ministry at Berkley Divinity School, where he was professor of Hebrew for over ten years. He 
was ordained to the priesthood in 1863, and received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from 
Racine College, Wisconsin, in 1883. He traveled abroad several times, held charges in Philadelphia 
and Chicago, but devoted himself more especially to Oriental studies in connection with theology, 
his work, published in 1868, on the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, being an authority on a 
subject of the greatest importance to the clergy, and to students of Oriental philology. 

Dr. Vibbert's marriage, in 1866, with Julia Newbold Welsh, connected him with a Phila- 
delphia family of the highest social prominence. Mrs. Vibbert's father, the late William Welsh, 
was an eminent merchant and financier in Philadelphia, a distinguished philanthropist, interested 
especially in the humane treatment of the Indians. By his disinterested efforts, a new era was 
inaugurated in the government's policy towards the aborigines. He also, for a long time, held the 
position of president of the Board of City Trusts, of Philadelphia. Her uncle, the Honorable John 
Welsh, was also an eminent citizen of Philadelphia, was United States Minister to the Court of St. 
James, and was regarded as one of the most eminent laymen in the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
Dr. Vibbert has three children, William Welsh Vibbert, Mary Howard Vibbert and Aubrey Darrell 
Vibbert. The family residence is 1 1 East Twenty-fourth Street. Dr. Vibbert is Vicar of Trinity 
Chapel, the most important chapel of Trinity Parish, and his life is one of scholarship, coupled 
with an active interest in church affairs, though both he and his family are well known in 
metropolitan social circles. 

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EGBERT L. VIELE 

AN ancestry that embraces founders of the New Netherland is in General Viele's case 
supplemented by his own services in both war and peace. The first of the name in 
America was Cornelius Cornelison Viele, who settled at Fort Orange in 1630. His son, 
Arnaud Cornelius, 1 620-1 700, was a leading personage in the Colony on account of his influence 
over the Iroquois Indians; was the envoy of the Duke of York to the tribes, and was appointed 
their Governor by Leisler. Ludovicus Viele was General Viele's ancestor, his grandson, Judge 
John L. Viele, being the father of the subject of this article. The Honorable John Ludovicus 
Viele was born at Valley Falls, N. Y., in 1788, graduating from Union College in 1808. He 
served in the army during the War of 18 12, was admitted to the bar in 1814, and became 
a Judge of the Court of Errors, and was State Senator in 1822. He died in 1832, being then 
a Regent of the University, and Inspector General. 

From his mother General Viele inherits the blood of leading Colonial families. She was 
Cathalina Knickerbocker, daughter of Colonel Johannes Knickerbocker, of Schaghticoke, and 
married to Judge Viele in 1810. Her father commanded a regiment at Saratoga, and her direct 
ancestor was John Van Berghen Knickerbocker, who came to the New Netherland early in the 
seventeenth century, and who was a son of Godfrey Van Berghen, Count Van Grimberghen, 
Captain in the Dutch Navy. General Viele possesses the old Knickerbocker family Bible and 
other relics of a race which, apart from the unique celebrity due to Washington Irving, has 
ever filled a worthy part in New York. Born at Waterford, N. Y., June 17th, 1825, Egbert 
Ludovicus Viele entered West Point and graduated in 1847, and was assigned to the First 
Infantry as Lieutenant. He served throughout the Mexican War under Generals Taylor and 
Scott, and was distinguished for gallantry, serving also with the First Dragoons. He was then 
stationed in Texas and in the far West, engaging in Indian campaigns, and became Military 
Governor of Laredo, Tex., but resigned from the army in 1853 to take up the profession of 
engineer. When the Civil War came, he tendered his services to the Government, became 
engineer officer of the Seventh Regiment, was commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers 
August 17th, 1861, and to the end of the war was in constant service. Among his exploits 
was the forcing of the Potomac River to Washington, commanding the first troops to reach 
the capital by that route. He was second in command at the capture of Port Royal, led the 
victorious attack on Fort Pulaski, and participated in the capture of Norfolk, of which city he 
was Military Governor for three years. 

His civil and professional career has been equally notable. He is one of the earliest 
American sanitarians and started the agitation which resulted in the establishment in 1866 of 
the New York City Board of Health, the first organization in America empowered to enforce 
sanitary regulations. From this movement arose the Boards of Health throughout the country. 
Another of his titles to public gratitude is his service as Chief Engineer and designer of 
Central Park and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, while as member and President of the New York 
City Park Commission he added to his benefits to the metropolis. In 1885 General Viele was 
elected Member of Congress and labored successfully for the Harlem ship canal. As State 
Engineer of New Jersey, 1854-56, he directed its geodetic survey, and he has been consulting 
engineer for many railroads, among them the elevated and cable systems of this city. 

General Viele wrote a Handbook of Active Service, and a life of General Robert 
Anderson, and is the author of the well-known Topographical Atlas of New York, besides 
many articles on military and scientific subjects. He is vice-president of the American 
Geographical Society, and a member of many clubs and literary organizations. While visiting 
England in 1895, he was examined by a committee of the House of Lords as an authority on 
municipal administration and received flattering social attentions. The General's home in New 
York overlooks Riverside Park, the establishment of which was largely due to his efforts. 

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SALEM HOWE WALES 

NATHANIEL WALES, the founder of the Wales family in this country, was a Puritan, who 
came over with Richard Mather, in 1635. He was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch, 
and his descendants have been among the substantial men of affairs of New England. 
The father of Mr. Salem H. Wales was Captain Oliver Wales, a woolen manufacturer in Massachu- 
setts and a Captain of the militia in the War of 1812. 

Mr. Salem Howe Wales was born in the town of Wales, Massachusetts, October 4th, 1825. 
After preparatory education in the schools of his native town, he attended an academy in Attica, 
N. Y. In 1846, when he came of age, he removed to New York and entered the office of a 
prominent importing house. After two years of business experience, he became associated with 
Orson D. Munn and Alfred E. Beach, publishers of The Scientific American, being engaged as 
managing editor, a position that he held uninterruptedly for nearly twenty-four years. In 1855, 
Governor Horatio Seymour appointed him a commissioner for the State of New York to the Paris 
Exposition of that year, and he remained abroad several months in the discharge of the duties of 
that position. Again, in 1867, Mr. Wales went abroad, was absent for over a year, visiting all the 
principal countries of Europe and contributed an account of his travels and observations to The 
Scientific American. During the Civil War, he was a patriotic supporter of the National 
Government and active in all enterprises that were the special need of the hour. He was particu- 
larly prominent as a member of the executive committee of the United States Christian Commission. 

Always an earnest Republican, in 1872, he was a delegate to the Republican National Con- 
vention, at Philadelphia, that nominated General Grant the second time for the Presidency, and in 
that campaign was a Presidential elector for New York. In 1876, he was again a delegate to the 
Republican National Convention, at Cincinnati. His interest in public affairs led to his appointment 
as a member of the Board of Park Commissioners by Mayor William F. Havemeyer, in 1873, and 
he became president of the board. In 1874, the Republicans nominated him for Mayor of the city. 
Acting Mayor S. B. H. Vance appointed him to a vacancy in the Department of Docks in 1874, and 
he served for two years as president of the board. From 1880 to 1885, he was again a member 
of the Board of Park Commissioners, serving part of the time as president. 

He was one of the early members of the Union League Club, being for a long time 
chairman of its executive and finance committee and for several years its vice-president. 
He had charge of the construction of the present Union League Club building. Interested in 
many public institutions, he was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for many 
years treasurer, and is now a member of its executive committee. 

Governor John A. Dix appointed him one of the trustees of the Insane Asylum at Mid- 
dletown, N. Y. He was one of the founders of the Hahnemann Hospital and the New York 
Homoeopathic Medical College, and has been president of both those institutions. He was a 
director in the Bank of North America and in the Hanover Insurance Company, and has been 
connected with other corporations. Under appointment by the Supreme Court, he was one of 
the commissioners to determine the amount of damage caused to private property by the con- 
struction of the elevated railroads, and in 1895, was appointed by Mayor Strong one of the 
commissioners to oversee the construction of the new suspension bridge between New York 
and Brooklyn, being elected president of the commission. 

Mr. Wales lives at 25 East Fifty-fifth Street. He is a member of the Union League, Century, 
Church, Press, City and other clubs, and the Golf and Meadow Brook Hunt clubs, of Southampton, 
belongs to the New England Society and is a patron of the American Museum of Natural 
History and the National Academy of Design. In 1851, he married Frances E. Johnson, 
only daughter of James D. Johnson, of Bridgeport, Conn. They have two children, Clara, 
who married Elihu Root, and Edward Howe Wales, a member of the New York Stock Exchange 
and of the Union League, Players, New York Yacht and Larchmont Yacht clubs. 

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JOHN BRISBEN WALKER 

BORN in Pennsylvania in 1847, John Brisben Walker is a grandson of General S. G. 
Krepps, who was a prominent figure in Pennsylvania political life about 1820, and of 
Major John Walker, one of the first commissioners appointed for the improvement 
of western rivers. Major Walker, who was a great-grandson of Carl Christopher Springer, prominent 
in the founding of the Swedish Colony on the Delaware, was among the first to establish shipyards 
west of the Alleghany Mountains. General Krepps was chairman of the committee in the 
Pennsylvania Senate, which, in 1827, reported the resolution asking the abolition of slavery in the 
District of Columbia. 

At the age of ten, Mr. John Brisben Walker was sent to a classical school in Washington, 
D. C. Later he entered Georgetown College, and in 1865 was appointed to West Point. In 1868, 
when Minister Burlingame arrived from China, Mr. Walker was aided by him in his desire to enter 
the Chinese military service and, resigning from the Military Academy, he accompanied the 
Honorable J. Ross Brown, United States Minister to Peking. In 1870, he returned to the United 
States, engaging in manufacturing and other enterprises connected with the development of the 
Kanawha Valley, in West Virginia. Two years later, he was nominated for Congress by the 
Republicans in a strong Democratic district, and was defeated. In 1873, he represented West 
Virginia in the Immigration Convention held at Indianapolis, and in 1874, as a State delegate, was 
chairman of the committee on resolutions of the first Ohio River Improvement Convention. In 
the panic of 1873 his entire fortune was swept away. He was then engaged by Murat Halstead to 
prepare a series of articles upon the mineral and manufacturing interests of the United States for 
The Cincinnati Commercial, a few months later was offered the managing editorship of The 
Pittsburgh Daily Telegraph, and at the beginning of 1876 became managing editor of The Wash- 
ington Chronicle, then one of the two leading dailies at the National Capital. In 1879, at the 
request of the Commissioner of Agriculture, he visited the arid lands of the West with reference to 
their redemption by irrigation. Later he purchased, on the outskirts of Denver, a portion of what 
became known as Berkeley Farm, the most extensive alfalfa farm in Colorado. 

For nine years thereafter, Mr. Walker was engaged in the development of alfalfa interests, in 
which he was a pioneer. At the same time, by a series of careful engineering operations, he was 
recovering a large plot of river bottom from overflow, thus adding more than five hundred lots to 
the area of the most valuable part of Denver. In 1889, he removed to New York and purchased 
The Cosmopolitan Magazine, which he still edits. Mr. Walker is an author as well as a publisher 
and editor, having written much upon social and industrial topics. He is one of the original 
thinkers of the day, a man of radical ideas on social and economic questions and in earnest 
sympathy with every project that looks to the improvement of the status of the masses. 

In 1870, Mr. Walker married Emily Strother, daughter of General David Hunter Strother. 
The father of Mrs. Walker was born in Berkeley Springs, Virginia, in 1816, and died in 1878. 
He studied drawing in Philadelphia and New York, traveled throughout the West and in Europe, 
and then, returning to New York, made himself famous in the decade preceding the Civil War, by 
the inimitable Porte Crayon sketches in Harper's Magazine, illustrated by himself. During the 
Civil War, he served in the Union Army successively on the staffs of General McCIellan, General 
Banks, General Pope and afterwards as Chief of Staff to his cousin, General David Hunter, while in 
command of the Army of the Valley. of Virginia. From 1879 to 1885, he was United States Consul 
General to the City of Mexico. As poet, painter, a charming descriptive writer, and soldier, he 
was much admired by his generation. 

Mr. and Mrs. Walker reside in Irvington-on-Hudson. They have a family of seven sons: 
John Brisben, Jr., David Strother, James Randolph, Justin, Harold, Wilfred and Gerald, and one 
daughter. Mr. Walker belongs to the Century Association, the University Club of Chicago and 
the Ardsley Country Club. 

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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD 

T OHN WARD, of Norfolk, England, came to America in the ship Elizabeth in 1621, landing 
at Jamestown, Va. He was living in "Elizabeth Cittie" in 1623. His son, Charles Ward, 
J settled in Boutetort County, and was the progenitor of James Ward, born in 1724, who lived 
in Greenbriar County. Ensign James Ward was with the Virginia forces sent in 1754 to resist 
French encroachments on the frontier. He began the fort at the forks of the Ohio, but was com- 
pelled to retire by the French under Contrecoeur, who completed the works, calling them Fort 
Duquesne. As a Colonel he was killed in 1774, at the battle of Point Pleasant, by the Indians under 
the lead of Puckeshinwa, father of Tecumseh. Colonel William Ward, 1752-1820, the son of James 
Ward, was born in Greenbriar County, and saw much service against the Indians. In 1789, he 
moved to Mason County, Ky., but in 1798 settled in the valley of the Mad River, being one of 
the earliest settlers of Ohio. He owned large tracts in what are now Champaign and Clark 
Counties, and in 1805 laid out and named the town of Urbana, O. 

John A. Ward, 1783- 1854, his son, was born in Greenbriar County, Va., and died at Urbana. 
He married Eleanor, daughter of Alexander and Rachel (Whitehill) Macbeth. The latter's father, 
Robert Whitehill, 1735-1813, was a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, was elected to 
the first Congress that sat in Philadelphia, and was a Member of Congress when he died. Eleanor 
(Macbeth) Ward possessed marked ability and artistic tastes which foreshadowed her son's talent. 
Mr. John Quincy Adams Ward is the son of John A. and Eleanor Ward, and was born in 
Urbana, O., June 29th, 1830. He displayed a talent for modeling when a lad, and when nineteen 
years of age, while visiting his sister, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, in Brooklyn, began the study of 
sculpture in the studio of Henry K. Brown, where he remained until 1857, assisting in many of his 
instructor's works, including the Washington statue in Union Square. He then spent two winters 
in Washington and modeled busts of Alexander H. Stephens, Joshua R. Giddings, and other states- 
men. He also made the sketch for the Indian Hunter, the first statue erected in Central Park. To 
complete this he visited the Northwest and made original studies of Indians. In 1861 , Mr. Ward 
opened his studio in New York and has since practiced his profession here. He became an 
associate of the National Academy of Design, in 1863, vice-president in 1870 and president in 1874. 
At present, Mr. Ward is regarded as one of the foremost American sculptors. His Ameri- 
canism has always been one of his characteristics. He has visited Europe several times, but has 
never been tempted to attain foreign artistic development and bias. His work records features of 
American character and he has set an example that an American can attain national reputation 
without leaving his own country. His first serious study was the statuette of The Freedman. A 
partial list of his important works approximately in order of production would include the Good 
Samaritan, at Boston, Indian Hunter, Citizen Soldier (Seventh Regiment Memorial), The Pilgrim, 
and Shakespeare, in Central Park; Commodore Perry's statue at Newport; Lafayette, at Burlington, 
Vt. ; General Daniel Morgan, at Spartanburg, S. C. ; Washington, before the Sub-Treasury in 
New York; the equestrian statue of General G. H. Thomas, in Washington; the Garfield monu- 
ment, in the same city; the Beecher monument, in Brooklyn; William E. Dodge, in Herald Square; 
Horace Greeley, in Printing House Square; Roscoe Conkling, in Madison Square; and the Holly 
monument, Washington Square; besides many monumental and portrait busts of distinguished 
men. Mr. Ward has been twice married. His first wife, Anna Bamman, died in 1870, and in 
1877 he married Julia Devens Valentine, who died in 1879. Mr. Ward's first residence and studio 
was on West Forty-ninth Street, but he now occupies a more commodious studio in West Fifty- 
second Street, which he built in 1880. He is vice-president of the Fine Arts Federation, president 
of the National Sculpture Society, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the 
American Academy in Rome, an honorary member of the National Institute of Architects, a member 
of the Architectural League, vice-president of the Century Association, and a member of the 
Union League Club and the Ohio Society. 

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REGINALD HENSHAW WARD 

AMONG the Normans who accompanied William the Conqueror to the conquest of England 
in 1066 was Ward, one of the noble Captains. Subsequently the name appears as 
William de la Ward, residing in Chester in 1175. The arms anciently belonging to the 
family were: Azure, a cross baton, or.; crest, wolfs head erased; and these were retained by the 
Durham branch of the family, to which belonged William Ward, who came to America. 

William Ward was a resident in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639, a representative to the General 
Court in 1644, and one of the founders of the adjoining town of Marlborough in 1660. He had a 
family of fourteen children, and his grandson, Nahum Ward, 1684-1755, was a sea captain and 
shipmaster, one of the first settlers and proprietors of Shrewsbury, a magistrate, a justice of the 
Court of Common Pleas, representative to the General Court for seven years, a Colonel of the 
militia, and altogether a substantial man, and the most prominent member of his father's family. 

In the following generation, a son of Colonel Nahum Ward distinguished himself as one of 
the most notable public men of the Revolutionary period. Artemas Ward, who was born in 
Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1727, was a justice of the peace when he was twenty-five years of age, a 
Major of the militia in 1755, a Major in the expedition under General Abercrombie against Canada, 
returning as Lieutenant-Colonel, and a representative to the General Court. In 1774, the Pro- 
vincial Congress elected him a Brigadier-General, and in May of the following year he became 
Commander-in-Chief of the Massachusetts forces. When Washington was elected to command 
the Continental Army, in 1775, Artemas Ward was chosen first Major-General. He was sixteen 
years a representative in the Massachusetts Legislature, serving as Speaker in 178s, a Member of 
Congress 1791-95, president of the Massachusetts Executive Council, and Chief Justice of the Court 
of Common Pleas in his native county. One of the sons of General Ward, Captain Nahum Ward, 
was a Revolutionary soldier, and another, the Honorable Artemas Ward, was a graduate from 
Harvard, a Member of Congress and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of 
Massachusetts. Another son, Thomas W. Ward, 1 758-1 835, was seventeen years a magistrate 
and a sheriff eighteen years. 

Mr. Reginald Henshaw Ward is a great-grandson of Thomas W. Ward. Through his 
grandmother, he is also of ancient lineage. She was Sarah Henshaw, a direct descendant of 
Joshua Henshaw, who came from Liverpool, England, in 1653, and settled in Massachusetts. Mr. 
Ward's grandfather, Andrew Henshaw Ward, was a graduate from Harvard in 1808, a lawyer, a 
custom house officer in Boston, United States Commissioner of Insolvency, justice of the peace, 
antiquary and author. He was born in 1784, and married Sarah Henshaw, of the Henshaw family, 
which was ably represented in the Parliamentary Army and otherwise prominent in public life in 
England. He died in 1864. Andrew Henshaw Ward, the father of Mr. R. H. Ward, was born in 1824 
and was for many years in the wholesale drug business in Boston, in the firms of Henshaw, Ward 
& Co., and Ward & Boot. His wife was Anna Harriet Walcott Field, of Providence, R. I., and 
this marriage allied him to the Field and Walcott families, both of English origin and among the 
earliest settlers of the United States. The Field family was one of the largest owners of real estate 
in and about Providence, R. I., and the Walcott family which settled in Connecticut has given to 
the country some of its most brilliant public men. 

Mr. Reginald Henshaw Ward was born in Newtonville, Mass., April 22d, 1862. After a 
thorough public school education, he entered upon a business career as a clerk in a banking house 
in Boston, and in 1885, with J. F. A. Clark, established the banking and brokerage house of Clark, 
Ward & Co., of Boston and New York. In 1889, he married Edith Ward Newcomb, daughter of H. 
Victor Newcomb, and also a descendant of the Ward family. Mr. Ward is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Union, Country, Turf and Field and Suburban clubs, and belongs to the Sons of the 
Revolution, the New England Society, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, and the Military 
Order of Foreign Wars. 

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LUCIEN CALVIN WARNER, M. D. 

WARNER MOUNTAIN, which rises from the Housatonic Valley, in Berkshire County, 
Mass., takes the name of a family descended from the earlier settlers of the old 
Plymouth Colony, which furnished some of the most prominent pioneers of the hill 
country of Western Massachusetts. Dr. Lucien Calvin Warner belongs to this Colonial family, 
being a descendant of Abel Warner, who was born about 1755 and resided in Hardwich, Worcester 
County, Mass. The wife of Abel Warner was Sarah Cook, a direct descendant of Francis Cook, 
who was one of the famous company which came over in the Mayflower, and was a relative of 
Captain John Cook, the celebrated navigator. Among the children of Abel Warner were Justus 
Warner, the father of Charles Dudley Warner, and Ira Warner, the grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch. Ira Warner married Asenath Hitchcock, of Hadley, and moved to Windsor, Berkshire 
County, where his son, Alonzo F. Warner, was born. 

The first half of the present century witnessed a further movement of the energetic popu- 
lation of Western New England. Dr. Warner's father, Alonzo F. Warner, was among the 
number who joined the exodus and became a citizen of Cortland County, N. Y. He married 
Lydia Anne Converse, who also came of New England parentage. Their son, Dr. Lucien Calvin 
Warner, was born at Cuyler, N. Y., in 1841. 

Dr. Warner entered Oberlin College, but left his studies during the progress of the Civil 
War to enter the army, serving in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteers, and after 
completing the term of his enlistment, returned to college and was graduated in 1865. He then 
was graduated from the medical department of the New York University in 1867, and spent 
six years in the practice of medicine. In 1873, he gave up the practice of his profession, came to 
New York and engaged in business. He is now connected with a large number of financial and 
business institutions as president, director, or partner, and has large mill interests. 

Dr. Warner is widely known for the interest he takes in public affairs, and especially in 
benevolent and philanthropic work. Besides being active in church affairs, he was for ten years 
president of the Harlem branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, chairman of the State 
Committee of that organization, and has been for several years chairman of the International 
Committee, a trustee of Oberlin College, a trustee of the local, State and International Young 
Women's Christian Association, a member of the executive committee of the American Missionary 
Association, and president of the Congregational Church Building Society. Dr. Warner's gifts to 
educational and charitable institutions have been generous. He gave a building costing over one 
hundred thousand dollars to Oberlin College for a conservatory of music, was largely instrumental 
in the erection of a one hundred and fifty thousand dollar building for the Harlem branch of the 
Young Men's Christian Association, and in connection with his brother built a club house at 
Bridgeport, Conn., for the use of the girls in their employ. 

Dr. Warner married, in 1868, Keren S. Osborne, daughter of Judge Noah Humphrey 
Osborne, and a descendant of Michael Humphrey, who came from England and settled in Windsor, 
Conn., in 1643. Their children are: Agnes Eliza, Franklin Humphrey, Lucien Thompson and Eliza- 
beth Converse Warner. Their eldest daughter, who is a graduate of Oberlin, married, in 1896, 
Seabury C. Mastick, a member of the New York bar. Dr. Warner's remaining three children, it 
should be mentioned, have also entered Oberlin College, the two sons being members of the senior 
class, and the daughter a member of the sophomore class. Dr. Warner is a member of the Mer- 
chants' Club, Harlem Club, Congregational Club, of which he was for some years the president, 
Ardsley Casino and the Chamber of Commerce. His residence is at Irvington-on-Hudson, and is 
regarded as one of the finest country mansions overlooking the historic Hudson. It is built of 
granite and Carlisle sandstone in early English style. His art treasures have been collected in the 
course of extensive tours in Europe, and comprise a valuable example of Andrea del Sarto, together 
with pictures by Zeim, Rico, Schenck, Detti, Henry, Rehn, Guy and other modern masters. 

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GEORGE HENRY WARREN 

THE father of the subject of this sketch was George Henry Warren, Sr., a noted lawyer of 
New York. He was born in Troy, N. Y., in 1823, graduated from Union College in 1843, 
and was engaged in the practice of law and in financial operations in New York through- 
out his life. On the maternal side, George H. Warren, Sr., was descended from John Bouton, a 
Huguenot who came to Boston in 1635. He joined in the migration to Hartford in 1636 and, 
assisting in the settlement of Norwalk in 1661, was a selectman of that place in the year 1671, 
and died in 1703 or 1704. 

John Bouton's wife was Abigail Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin, who came to New 
England in 1635 from London with his wife, Elizabeth, and was one of the original proprietors of 
Hartford in 1638 and a representative from Norwalk in 1654- Sergeant John Bouton, 1659-1749, 
son of John Bouton, married Sarah Gregory, daughter of John Gregory, of Norwalk, and grand- 
daughter of John Gregory, of New Haven. His daughter, Elizabeth Bouton, married Edmund 
Warren, the great-great-grandfather of George H. Warren, Sr. Edmund Warren was a resident of 
Oyster Bay, Long Island, and of Norwalk, Conn., and died in 1749. He was the son of Richard 
Warren, or Warring, who was one of the original proprietors of Brookhaven, Long Island, settled 
in 1655. In the records of Brookhaven appears the signature of Richard Warring in his own hand- 
writing, and the name is written " Waring." Eliakim Warren, son of Edmund Warren, was born 
at Norwalk, Conn., in 17 17, married Anna Reed in 1738, and their son, Eliakim Warren, who was 
born in Norwalk in 1747, removed in 1798 to Troy, N. Y., where he was senior warden of St. 
Paul's Church from 1804 until his death, in 1824. His wife was Phoebe Bouton, 1754-1835, who 
came of the same family as the wife of his grandfather. 

Nathan Warren, the father of George H. Warren, Sr., was born in 1777 in Norwalk, and 
died in 1834 in Troy. He was a prominent business man of Troy and a vestryman of St. Paul's 
Church. His wife, Mary Bouton, was born in Norwalk in 1789, and died in Troy in 1859. She 
was the daughter of Nathan Bouton, 1756-1838, and his wife, Abigail Burlock, 1736-1827. She 
was the great-granddaughter of Jachin Bouton, the brother of Elizabeth Bouton, who was the 
granddaughter of John Bouton, the pioneer, and the wife of Edmund Warren, of Oyster Bay, 
Sergeant John Bouton being the great-great-grandfather of both Nathan Warren and his wife. Mrs. 
Warren was devoted to charity and religious work. In 1844, she built and endowed the Church of 
the Holy Cross in Troy, supported the Mary Warren Free Institute, and contributed generously to 
other educational and religious undertakings. 

The mother of Mr. George Henry Warren was Mary Caroline Phcenix, a daughter of the 
Honorable Jonas Phillips Phcenix. She was born in 1832 in New York, was married in 185 1 and 
descends from families that have been distinguished in the history of New York and Connecticut. 
She is a sister of Lloyd Phcenix, Phillips Phcenix, and also of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, the anti- 
quarian and genealogist, who died in 188 1. A full account of her ancestry on both her father's and 
her mother's side is given in the article relating to Phillips Phcenix. 

Mr. George Henry Warren was born in Troy, N. Y., October 17th, 1856, and is a stock 
broker, having been also educated as a lawyer, and is a graduate from the Columbia College Law 
School. He is a member of the Bar Association. He married in 1885 Georgia Williams, of Ston- 
ington, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Warren live in East Sixty-fourth Street and at Seafield, Newport, 
R. I. Mr. Warren is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Metropolitan and Union 
clubs. His children are George Henry Warren, Jr., and Constance Whitney Warren. The mother 
of Mr. Warren, Mrs. George Henry Warren, Sr., lives at 520 Fifth Avenue, and also has a resi- 
dence at Newport, R. I. Younger sons of the family are Whitney Warren and Lloyd Warren, 
members of the Union, Racquet and Calumet clubs. The sisters of Mr. George Henry Warren 
are Mrs. R. Percy Alden, Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. William Starr Miller and Emeline W. D. 
Warren, who is unmarried. 

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JAMES MONTAUDEVERT WATERBURY 

ONE of the most prominent figures in society, club life and sport, Mr. James M. 
Waterbury is a Puritan by race, the family of which he is the head descending from a 
founder of Connecticut. John Waterbury, his ancestor, was born in England, in 1615, 
came to America in the early years of the struggling Colonies, and settled, in 1646, at Stamford, 
Conn., which then formed part of the debatable ground between the Dutch, of Manhattan, and the 
English, of New Haven. From this pioneer, who died in 1658, sprang a family of eminence 
during Connecticut's Colonial era, and which furnished a member of Washington's staff, in the 
person of General Waterbury, while in later times its members have gained distinction- in many 
and varied spheres of activity. 

The present Mr. Waterbury's father, Lawrence Waterbury, a descendant of the Revolu- 
tionary hero, was not only one of the most successful and influential of New York's merchants in 
the period prior to and immediately succeeding the Civil War, but is remembered as originator of 
an institution in which all Americans take a legitimate pride. With his brother, James M. 
Waterbury, he founded the New York Yacht Club, in 1844, and was one of the nine yacht owners 
who incorporated the club, and constituted the nucleus of that famous body, probably the foremost 
of its kind in the world. 

His interest in yachting ceased only with his death, and he also took an extremely active part 
in establishing and promoting those yachting events which are classical to the present generation 
of sportsmen. The late Lawrence Waterbury married Caroline A. Cleveland, daughter of Palmer 
Cleveland, one of the most eminent lawyers of Connecticut, who, in his lifetime, held various 
positions of note in that State. His wife, Mr. Waterbury's grandmother, was Catherine Living- 
ston, one of the prominent New York family of that name, whose history is interwoven with 
that of the State in the Colonial and Revolutionary period. 

Born at New York, in 185 1, Mr. James M. Waterbury was an only son. His three sisters 
are now Mrs. John S. Ellis, Mrs. Frank C. Winthrop and Mrs. Pierrepont Edwards. He graduated 
at Columbia College, in the class of 1873, and immediately entered business under his father's 
guidance, becoming, in a short time, a member of the latter's firm, and ultimately its head. 
Inheriting commercial talent of a high order, as well as wealth, Mr. Waterbury has been 
instrumental in carrying out many great enterprises, and has been intimately associated with the 
leading financiers and men of affairs of the country. 

In 1874, Mr. James M. Waterbury married Kate Anthony Furman, their children being eight 
in number. It may also be noted that the younger generation of the family inherit their father's 
tastes for sport, his sons being distinguished in the polo field. Mr. Waterbury's home, Pleas- 
ance, at Westchester, N. Y., is renowned for its hospitality, and, in making their permanent 
home in that district, Mr. and Mrs. Waterbury have done much to attract other residents of 
social position to Westchester. The Country Club, at Westchester, one of the most popular 
institutions of fashionable New York in the present generation, of which Mr. Waterbury became 
president, owes its success and vogue, in a large degree, to his efforts on its behalf to promote 
its interests and influence. 

Mr. Waterbury has long been prominent in the club life of the metropolis, and is a member 
of the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Riding, Racquet and Tuxedo clubs, and the Down- 
town Association. He has held the position of director or officer in a number of the most 
prominent organizations of this kind, and has served in an official capacity in various semi-public 
and benevolent bodies. In the realm of outdoor sports, his inherited devotion to yachting is shown 
by active membership in the New York and Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht clubs, while among 
the many other organizations of a similar character, of which he is a conspicuous supporter, are the 
Coney Island Jockey Club, the American Hackney Association, the Rockaway and Meadow Brook 
Hunts and the Newport Golf Club. 

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GEORGE GOODHUE HEPBURN WATSON 

NEW YORK in no other way manifests its position as the cosmopolis, or world city of the 
Western hemisphere, better than by the manner in which it attracts within the sphere of 
its social and commercial life representatives of leading families from all portions of the 
continent. The great Canadian Dominion comes under this influence as readily as any American 
State, and furnishes an important and valuable constituent element in the great city's upper classes. 
It is particularly strong in the banking profession, the financial interests of Montreal and other seats 
of the wealth, culture and refinement of the Dominion, being closely interwoven with those of 
New York. Mr. Watson exemplifies these circumstances, having been born at Montreal, Prov- 
ince of Quebec, in 1857, and represents families of the highest social and political standing in 
Canadian annals. 

His father, Walter Watson, is of Scotch birth, and has been long a prominent and respected 
banker in this city, representing in the financial centre of the West some of the largest British and 
Canadian banking interests. His wife, the mother of Mr. George G. H. Watson, came of a family 
of the highest personal and political importance in Canada. She was the daughter of the late 
Honorable George Jervis Goodhue, 1800-1873, long a member of the Canadian Parliament and a 
prominent figure in the politics of the separate Provinces prior to their federation, and later in those 
of the Dominion after the passage of the British North America Act in 1867 by the Imperial 
Parliament. 

His marriage illustrated the tendency toward alliances between members of the Canadian 
aristocracy of wealth and talent and the families of the military and civilian representatives of the 
English rule stationed in Canada. Mrs. Goodhue, the grandmother of Mr. Watson, was Louisa 
Mathews, a daughter of Major Mathews, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Richmond and an officer of 
distinction in the British service, who came to Canada with the forces which, until within recent 
years, were maintained in garrisons throughout the Provinces. The Goodhue family is one of 
antiquity in American history, having branches in both the United States and Canada, and furnishes 
many names of distinction. The genealogy of the family was compiled by E. R. Andrews, and 
published in book form at Rochester, N. Y., in 1891. The family has been conspicuous in 
American annals on both sides of the international boundary, many of its members having 
occupied high stations in professional and business life, and has not been without some notable 
representatives in the metropolis. 

Mr. George G. H. Watson is a graduate of Hellmuth College, London, Province of Ontario, 
and, after the completion of his education, engaged in the banking profession in this city, having 
been connected with the New York Stock Exchange for some years. He has traveled abroad exten- 
sively, and took much interest in military matters, having held commissions as First and Second 
Lieutenant in the Twenty-Second Regiment, National Guard, State of New York, giving efficient 
service to his command. In 1883, Mr. Watson married Annie Townsend Barber, born 1857, at 
Davenport, la., a lady whose descent is given in full in the genealogy of the Barber family, pub- 
lished in 1890, and in that of the Atlee family, published in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have two 
children, Walter Malcolm and George Atlee Watson. 

Though taking considerable part in metropolitan society, a patron of the opera, and 
possessed of a keen enjoyment for sport, Mr. Watson prefers a permanent rural residence, and 
lives in Elizabeth, N. J., where he has a handsome home adorned by a well-chosen collection 
of paintings and engravings, mainly antiques. Among his art treasures, an original painting of 
Washington, by Rembrandt Peale, holds the place of honor. He is also an eager collector of postal 
cards, and ranks as the leading expert on that subject in the United States, if not in the world, 
having published a catalogue of the leading postal cards of all countries. At present he conducts 
and issues a monthly, The Postal Card, for collectors, which has a wide circulation among those 
interested in such pursuits both here and abroad. 



EDWIN HENRY WEATHERBEE 

ON both the paternal and maternal side, the subject of this article descends from New 
England ancestry. The family line which he represents is an ancient English one, 
being traced back to the Norwegian and Danish conquest of the Northern counties of 
the present kingdom. This is shown by the name itself, which is a territorial one, indicating the 
establishment of the family, and the calling after it of Wetherby, a well-known and picturesque 
market town in the county of Yorkshire, situated between the cities of York and Leeds, and 
possessing an interesting history and many local antiquities of a notable character. It was called 
by the Saxons Wedderbi, the final syllable being the Danish equivalent of the English town or the 
Norman-French vt'lle, and would thus denote that it was originally the seat of a race of large landed 
possessions and decided importance. References to the Weatherbee family are, indeed, not lacking 
in the earlier records of the landed aristocracy of England, and its branches, it would seem, 
extended throughout the Northern and Eastern counties. As far back as 146 1, mention is made in 
an ancient record of the daughters and coheiresses of Thomas Wetherby, a landed proprietor of 
Intwood, Norfolk, and similar references to the family occur in wills and deeds in subsequent 
generations. 

It was from Norfolk and the Eastern counties that the principal stream of the Puritan 
immigration to America flowed, and in its roll of fame is found the name of John Witherby, who, 
in 1630-32, came to Sudbury and Marlboro, Mass., and became the ancestor of the American 
branch of the family. The spelling of the patronymic has, however, assumed in the course of time 
various forms and its bearers, while tracing their descent to the same original source, are to-day 
found in all parts of the United States under such slight transformations as Weatherbee, Witherby, 
Wetherby, Witherbye, Witherbee and Witherbe. In whatever form it has assumed, its possessors 
have ever borne a distinguished part in the creation and upbuilding of America, descendants of the 
family having figured, in the country's earliest days, as members of the Colonial councils and 
legislative bodies of Massachusetts, Vermont and other New England States, or earned distinction 
in the clerical and learned professions, while the name had other representatives who fought 
gallantly in the early wars on this continent; and in the later history of our country they have in 
many instances been prominent in every walk of l'fe. 

Mr. Weatherbee's father, Henry Micajah Weatherbee, was a worthy representative of the 
sterling, energetic New England blood which he inherited. As a lawyer, he won reputation, and 
was also prominent in business life and politics, in which he attained distinction and held many 
important offices, while he took a successful and useful part in the creation of a number of the 
earlier railroad enterprises in the West. His wife, the mother of the present Mr. Weatherbee, was 
Mary Angell, a member of one of the most ancient families of Providence, R. I., in which city 
their standing is locally commemorated in many ways. Her father, John Angell, of Chatham, 
N. Y., was a direct descendant of Dr. Thomas Angell, who accompanied Roger Williams from 
England on the ship Lion, and took part with him in the establishment of Rhode Island. Repre- 
sentatives of the family from that time forward were distinguished in the history of the Colony, 
and that of New England in general, during the Colonial and Revolutionary epoch, the great- 
grandfather of the subject of this article having been Colonel Joshua Angell, who commanded a 
regiment of the Continental troops under General Sullivan on Long Island. John Angell, Mr. 
Weatherbee's maternal grandfather, was one of a large family, the other members of which were 
noted in professional life or as eminent merchants. He, however, became a large landowner in the 
neighborhood of Chatham, N. Y., as he preferred a quiet country life. The Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Chatham, one of the handsomest in the country, was mainly erected by the Angell 
family, its beautiful chancel and windows having been contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Weatherbee as 
memorials. Through the intermarriage of his ancestors, Mr. Weatherbee is also related to many 
old and prominent New England families, among whom may be mentioned the names of Drake, 

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Gillett, Manton, Marsh, Olney, Butler, Sprague, Tuttle, Whipple and Williams. Born at Chatham, 
N Y ,' Mr. Weatherbee received his earlier education at the Hudson River Institute, Clavarack, 
N Y."; Amenia Seminary, and the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, class of 1871, being an 
honor'man at the latter place. He entered Yale College, graduating in the class of 1875. After 
pursuing post-graduate studies for a time, he entered, in 1877, upon the study of law at Boston, 
in the University School of Law, and afterwards in the law department of Columbia College, 
in this city, graduating from the latter in 1879. He was for some years associated in the 
practice of ' his profession with General Stewart L. Woodford, then United States District 
Attorney, but abandoned the law to engage in the business career which now engrosses 

his energies. 

In 1881, Mr. Weatherbee married Amy Henrietta Constable, daughter of James M. 
Constable, of New York. Mrs. Weatherbee's maternal grandfather, Aaron Arnold, came from the 
Isle of Wight, England, where his family had lived on one property for over two hundred years— 
Waytes Court, Brixton, at which place many generations of his ancestors were interred. He 
established the famous New York business house of Arnold & Constable, which was started early 
in this century in Canal Street. Her father, James M. Constable, a native of Storington, Surrey, 
England, married Henrietta, daughter of Aaron Arnold. Mrs. Weatherbee, with her father, her 
brother, Frederick A. Constable, and her sister, Mrs. Hicks Arnold, built, in 1887, the beautiful 
Episcopal Church at Mamaroneck, N. Y., as a memorial to her late mother. Mr. and Mrs. 
Weatherbee have three children, Henrietta Constable Weatherbee, Hicks Arnold Weatherbee and 
Mary Angell Weatherbee. 

The Weatherbee arms are: Vert, a chevron ermine between rams, or. Those of the Angell 
family were granted to Roger Angell, a Captain under Henry VII., in 1485, who distinguished 
himself at Bosworth Field. They are described as : Or. three fusils azure. Crest, a demi-Pegasus 
argent, crined gules. Motto, Fortitude and Courage. 

While residing at 240 Madison Avenue, in the Murray Hill district of New York, the 
Weatherbees own a country place, Waytes Court, at Orienta Point, Mamaroneck, N. Y., 
comprising some thirty acres, which was originally the property of the DeLancey family and was 
part of a grant to them made by Queen Anne. The estate has a decided historic interest, having 
been the residence of Bishop DeLancey, while Fenimore Cooper made it the scene of some of his 
most celebrated novels. The house, which was built by its present occupants, is of stone in old Eng- 
lish style, while the interior is remarkable for the rich woodwork, nearly every room being finished, 
in appropriate style, with material from some foreign land. One room is thus entirely decorated 
with woods from Japan, others represent the productions of natural wood and carvings from Spain, 
Holland and India, while in other cases they are the reproductions of Old English work, following in 
their details photographic reproductions of leading manorial residences and castles of England and 
Spain, which were made especially for the purpose. The furniture and decorations bear the same 
marks of selection and are the fruit of many years' experience in travel, Mr. and Mrs. Weatherbee 
having visited all parts of the world, while almost every year they make a European trip. Mr. 
Weatherbee has a decided inclination for sport of all kinds, as well as for athletics. He is devoted 
to yachting, to riding and driving, and has been a successful exhibitor of horses at various horse 
shows. At the same time, his taste for literature is a discriminating one, and he is an art amateur 
and a collector of antiques. Mr. Weatherbee is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and, 
among other clubs, belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, University, Reform, City, Riding, 
Michaux Bicycle, Westchester County, Knollwood, Suburban Riding and Driving, Jockey, New 
York Yacht, American Yacht and Larchmont Yacht clubs. He is also a member of the Sons of the 
Revolution, the Yale Alumni, the New England Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 
American Museum of Natural History, the Historical Society and the Westchester Horse Show 
Association, as well as of many other bodies of a social, literary or artistic character. He devotes 
no little interest and attention to religious work, being a director of the Young Men's Christian 
Association, besides being a liberal supporter of various religious and charitable bodies. 

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WILLIAM HENRY WEBB 

ANY distinguished and useful men have been given to the country by the family of which 
Mr. William Henry Webb, the renowned shipbuilder and founder of Webb's Academy 
and Home for Shipbuilders, is a representative. Richard Webb, the first of the name in 
America, came to Massachusetts and was a freeman in Cambridge in 1622. When Governor 
Haynes and the Reverend Thomas Hooker led the great emigration from Massachusetts to 
Connecticut, Richard Webb was one of the company and settled in Hartford, Conn., where he 
was a member of the grand jury in 1643. He moved afterwards to Norwalk, Conn., of which 
place he was one of the first settlers, owning the first mill ever built in Norwalk. When he died, 
in 1665, his estate was one of the largest owned by any of the inhabitants of the town. 

Richard Webb had five sons, Joseph, Richard, Joshua, Caleb and Samuel. One or more of 
these brothers were among the first settlers of Stamford, Conn. There Joseph died in 1684, and 
from him Mr. William H. Webb is descended. Richard Webb, the second son of the pioneer, was 
a man of large estate and represented Stamford in the Connecticut General Court as early as 1667. 
Members of the Webb family bore a conspicuous part in the military annals of the Colony during 
the Indian, French and Revolutionary Wars. Benjamin Webb, the great-grandson of Richard 
Webb, and the ancestor in the fifth generation of the subject of this sketch, was an officer in a 
Colonial regiment, in the war with the French, and took part under Wolfe in the capture of 
Quebec in 1759, 

Colonel Charles Webb, a son of Charles and May Smith Webb, was born at Stamford in 
1724. He was elected a selectman nineteen times, and represented the town in the State Legis- 
lature twenty-three times. In 1760, he was Captain in the Militia and in 1775 was sent by the 
Continental Congress on a tour of military investigations to Ticonderoga. In the same year, he 
was put in command of the Seventh Regiment of the State Militia. At the battle of Long Island, 
in 1776, he commanded the Nineteenth Connecticut Regiment, and afterwards distinguished 
himself at the battle of White Plains and at the battle of White Marsh, in December, 1777. His 
son Charles served in the same regiment with his father, being a Lieutenant in 1775, and Adjutant 
in 1776. He was a prisoner in New York during the British occupation, and was finally killed on 
a gunboat in Long Island Sound. Colonel Webb, besides being an able and energetic officer, also 
gave liberally of his means to the patriotic cause. 

Isaac Webb, the youngest son of Colonel Charles Webb, was born in 1766, and his grand- 
son, Isaac Webb, son of Wilsey Webb, who was born in 1794, was the father of Mr. William 
Henry Webb. The parents of Isaac Webb removed from Stamford, Conn., to New York City. He 
was apprenticed to the famous Henry Eckford, who had made a national reputation as a shipbuilder 
during the War of 1812. Isaac Webb worked on the vessels built on the lakes for the Government 
of that time. Afterwards, with two fellow apprentices, he organized the firm of Webb, Smith & 
Dimon. This firm built, under contract with Henry Eckford, the Chancellor Livingston, the 
Robert Fulton, in 1819, and the steamship Robert Fulton, the second ocean steamship ever built. 
Mr. Webb designed and built, in association with Henry Eckford, the famous line-of-battleship, 
Ohio, and also constructed several of the famous packets whose performances still remain one of 
the glories of the American merchant marine. In 1825, he joined Eckford, under the firm 
name of Henry Eckford & Co., and built four frigates for South American Republics. After Mr. 
Eckford retired from business, the firm became Isaac Webb & Co., and Webb & Allen, in which 
form it remained until the death of the senior partner. 

Mr. William Henry Webb was born in New York City, June 19th, 1816. His mother was a 
member of a Huguenot family. It was not intended that he should become a shipbuilder, but his 
education under private tutors and in the Columbia College Grammar School revealed the bent of 
his mind. He was a born mathematician, and at an early age was proficient in algebra and 
geometry. At the age of twelve he built a skiff row boat, and before he was fifteen he had built 

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several other small craft. Soon after he began the study of marine architecture, and before he was 
twenty-three built three packet ships under sub-contract in his father's shipyard. His health 
becoming impaired by a too close application to his labors, he made a voyage to Europe for rest 
and recreation. He sailed on the packet ship New York, one of his own creations, in 1839, and 
while abroad, the news of his father's death reached him and caused his immediate return to the 
United States. For the ensuing three years he remained in partnership, which he conducted 
under a new firm name, in association with his father's former partner, but in 1843 succeeded 
to the entire business. 

From that time, and for nearly thirty years, Mr. Webb was one of the most prominent ship- 
builders in this country. When he retired, in 1872, he had to his credit more than one hundred 
and fifty vessels of all sizes, of an aggregate tonnage much greater than that of any other 
shipbuilder in this or any other country during that period. He was then one of the largest owners 
of tonnage in the United States, his interests covering in part or in whole about fifty vessels, most 
of them of his own construction. 

A record of Mr. Webb's achievements would include much of the best part of the history of 
American shipping. Some of the most famous American clipper sailing ships of the first half of 
the present century came from his yard. He built the steamship Cherokee, in 1848, the first 
steamship to run between New York and Savannah, the first steamship for the New Orleans trade 
in 1847, as well as the first steamship for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. He also designed 
and constructed the General Admiral of the Russian Navy, in 1858, a ship that revolutionized the 
construction of war vessels. Subsequently he built ironclads for the United States, Italy and France. 
The steam ram Dunderberg, which he built during our Civil War, and which was purchased by 
the French Government and renamed Rochambeau, was the fastest vessel of war up to that time 
and the most formidable war ship afloat. The ironclad men-of-war which Mr. Webb constructed 
were the first vessels of that kind that crossed the Atlantic. The Long Island Sound steam- 
ships, Bristol and Providence, the largest and finest vessels built up to that time for such service, 
were the product of his genius. 

Other business enterprises also engaged the attention of Mr. Webb. He was an original 
shareholder of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and one of its first directors. He was one 
of the original subscribers to the building of the Panama Railroad and contributed as much money 
as any other person to that enterprise. From 1868-70, he was largely interested in the line of 
steamships engaged in the European trade, sent the first American passenger steamship into the 
Baltic, and established the first line of mail steamships between San Francisco and various ports 
of Australia. 

From his work Mr. Webb won both fame and fortune. The Russian Grand Duke Constan- 
tine sent him a letter of commendation and valuable presents. King Victor Emmanuel conferred 
decorations upon him, and the French Government promised him the Order of the Legion of Honor. 
Three times he was offered the nomination of Mayor of the city, but politics never attracted him, 
although for fourteen years he was president of the Council of Political Reform and was instru- 
mental in defeating the Aqueduct Commissioners in their plans for a dam at the mouth of the 
Croton River. The crowning act of Mr. Webb's long and useful career has been the establishment 
of the Webb Academy and Home for Shipbuilders, a free educational institution for instruction in 
shipbuilding and marine architecture, and a home for old and decrepit shipbuilders. The Academy 
and Home on Fordham Heights overlooking the Harlem River, is a handsome building, finely 
appointed, and a splendid monument to the generous public spirit of its projector. Mr. Webb has 
a city residence at 415 Fifth Avenue. He owns a country place on the Heights of Tarrytown, 
called Waldheim, an estate of about one hundred acres, in one of the most sightly and picturesque 
situations on the Hudson River. He married, in 1843, Henrietta A. Hidden, daughter of Enoch 
Hidden. His children are William E. and Marshall Webb. He belongs to the Union, Union League, 
Republican, Century and City clubs, and has been connected with many prominent bodies of a 
business or social character. 

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WILLIAM SEWARD WEBB 

AMONG the earliest settlers in New England was Richard Webb, of Gloucestershire, England, 
who was made a freeman of the city of Boston in 1632. He accompanied the Reverend 
Thomas Hooker in the settlement of Hartford, Conn., in 1635, when the Dutch, who were 
then living on the spot subsequently known, locally, as Webb's Point, were driven away. The 
sixth in direct descent from Richard Webb was Samuel Blatchley Webb, who was born in 
Wethersfield, Conn., December 15th, 1753. His mother married Silas Deane for her second hus- 
band, and Samuel B. Webb became the private secretary of his stepfather. At an early age, he 
took an active part in the movements that led up to the Revolution, and when the war broke out 
he led a company of light infantry from Wethersfield to participation in the battle of Bunker Hill. 
He was appointed aide to General Israel Putnam, became private secretary and aide-de-camp to 
Washington, was wounded at White Plains and Trenton, was captured on the expedition to Long 
Island in 1777, became a Brigadier-General of infantry on his release, and after the war was one of 
the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati. 

James Watson Webb, journalist, diplomat and soldier, a son of Samuel B. Webb, was not 
less distinguished than his father. He served in the army from 18 19 to 1827, and from that time 
until 1 86 1 owned and edited the famous Courier and Enquirer, of New York. At the beginning of 
the Civil War he was offered a Brigadier-Generalship, which he declined. He refused appointment 
as Minister to Turkey in 1861, but accepted a similar appointment to Brazil, and held that position 
until 1869. General Webb's first wife was Helen L. Stewart, granddaughter of Lispenard Stewart. 
His second wife was Laura Virginia Cram, daughter of Jacob L. Cram, a leading New York mer- 
chant before the Civil War. 

Dr. William Seward Webb, son of General James Watson Webb and Laura V. Cram, was 
born in New York, January 31st, 1851, and when only nine years old went to Brazil with his 
father. He was sent back to the United States in 1864, and for five years attended Colonel 
Churchill's Military School at Sing Sing, N. Y. He spent two years in Columbia College, and then 
went abroad to study medicine in Vienna, Paris and London. Returning home, he entered the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and graduated therefrom in 187s. For 
several years he engaged in practice, but attention to financial interests gradually interfered with 
his professional work, and finally compelled him to relinquish it altogether. 

In 1881, he married Lila Osgood Vanderbilt, daughter of William H. Vanderbilt, and soon 
after became connected with the Vanderbilt railroad system. He was made president of the 
Wagner Palace Car Company, and became connected with the Adirondack & St. Lawrence Rail- 
road, a line that runs through the Adirondack region from Herkimer, N. Y., to the St. Lawrence 
River, a distance of two hundred and thirty-three miles. He is the president of this company, and 
is also a director in other business corporations. 

Socially, Dr. Webb is a notable figure in New York. He is a member of nearly all the 
leading clubs, including the Metropolitan, Union League, Republican, University, Manhattan, 
Players, Church, Country, Jockey, Racquet, New York Yacht, Coaching, Riding, Tuxedo, West- 
minster Kennel and Downtown. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and for 
three years was president-general of the National Society. He is vice-president of the Vermont 
branch of that society, and is also a member of the Society of Colonial Wars. His interest in 
sporting matters is shown in the large preserve that he has established in the Adi.rondacks and has 
called Ne-ha-sa-ne Park. He is also a prominent member, and secretary and treasurer of the 
American Hackney Horse Society. He owns a large farm at Shelburne, Vt., and there gives much 
attention to horse breeding, his stud having an international reputation. Through his farm and 
summer country seat at Shelburne, Dr. Webb holds citizenship in the State of Vermont. In 
1896, he was elected a member of the Vermont Legislature, and since 1891, he has held a com- 
mission, as inspector of rifle practice, on the staff of the Governor of Vermont. 

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JOHN A. WEEKES 

COMING originally from Devonshire, England, one branch of the Weekes family has been 
settled on Long Island for more than two hundred and fifty years. The name and 
the family are alike of ancient origin. In the old records the name appears in various 
forms such as Weekes, Wykes, Wicks, Wickes, Wick, Wicke, Wycke, Weik, de Weik and de 
Wyke. It was derived originally from the Saxon, Wic, Wye, Wich or Wiche, akin to the Latin 
Wicus, or the Greek Oikos, having the general signification of a dwelling place, and would seem 
to indicate that those who adopted it were especially home lovers. Those families known as the 
Wykes, of North Wyke, England, the Wykes, of Cocktree, and the Weekeses, of Honey Church, 
are closely allied and belong to the same stock from which the Weekeses of Long Island and New 
England are derived. 

Francis Weekes and George Weekes, who were respectively the heads of the Long Island 
and New England families of their name, came from England together to this country in 1635. 
They belonged to a branch of the family that had been seated at North Wyke, in Tawton Hundred, 
about twenty miles west from Exeter, long before the latter part of the fourteenth century. On 
one side their ancestors were of the Wrey family and of Huguenot descent, it is said by some 
authorities; others assert that they were among those refugees who had fled from Holland to 
England to escape the persecutions of the infamous Duke of Alva. 

According to Playfair's British Antiquities, the first member of the Wrey family of whom 
there is definite historical account, was Robert le Wrey, who was living in 1135. In the sixth 
generation from Robert le Wrey, a daughter of the family, Jane le Wrey, married John Wykes, of 
Cocktree, and their son, Roger, held a quarter part of a knight's fee, Charleigh in Broney, in Oak- 
hampton, in 1346. In the fourteenth century, Roger le Wrey, the head of the family, held a quar- 
ter part of a knight's fee in North Wyke. His son, William le Wrey, married Catharine, daughter 
and coheiress of John Burnell, of Cocktree, who, in the time of Richard III., I377~99. assumed 
the name of Wykes. It is from this ancient family that Francis and George Weekes, the American 
pioneers, were descended. 

Francis Weekes, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, and his brother, George, came to the Massachu- 
setts Bay Colony in 1635. George located in Dorchester and became the ancestor of a family well 
known in Eastern Massachusetts, but Francis went to Salem. The following year he removed to 
the Providence plantations, where he was secretary of the Colony, and where he married Elizabeth 
Luther. In 1641, he was among those who came to Long Island and settled. In 1648, he 
was residing at Gravesend, and in 1650, was one of the joint proprietors of Oyster Bay. His 
descendants have been numerous on Long Island and in New York. 

Mr. John A. Weekes, the leading representative of this historic family at the present time, is 
lineally descended from Francis Weekes, the pioneer. For a generation he was one of the foremost 
lawyers of the bar of New York City. He married Miss Delano, and lives in East Twentieth Street, 
having a summer residence in Oyster Bay, the ancestral home of the family. He belongs to the 
Century Association, the Union League Club and the St. Nicholas Society. His four sons are also 
lawyers. Arthur D. Weekes is a graduate from Columbia College in the class of 1872. He lives in 
West Twenty-first Street, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Union and other clubs. Henry De 
Forest Weekes is known as a man of public affairs. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, 
Racquet, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht, and New York Yacht clubs, is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art, and is also a member of the Portland Club, of London, the Travelers' Club, of Paris, 
and the Chicago Club, of Chicago. He has been treasurer of the Union Club since 1889. Frederick 
D. Weekes was graduated from Columbia in 1877, and is a member of the Union and the Fencers 
clubs. John A. Weekes, Jr., married, in December, 1897, Estelle (Durant) Bowers, widow of the 
late Henry C. Bowers, of Cooperstown, N. Y. He is a member of the Union, Racquet, 
Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht and other clubs. 



BENJAMIN SUMNER WELLES 

OF ancient origin and high rank in Normandy and England is the Welles family. For 
more than seven centuries it was one of the most powerful families in those countries 
and frequently intermarried with royal houses and the nobility. From this English 
source sprang Thomas Welles, who came to this country in 1636. He was one of the most 
influential members of the Connecticut Colony in its early period, serving as a magistrate through- 
out his life, being annually reelected to that honorable position. In 1639, he was treasurer of the 
Colony; in 1643, Secretary of State, and in 1649, one of two commissioners to represent Connecticut 
in the attempted confederation of the New England Colonies. In 1654, he was Deputy-Governor, 
and in 1655 and several times thereafter was Governor. His death occurred in 1660. 

Samuel Welles, son of Thomas Welles, was born in Essex, England, in 1630. He was a 
freeman of Hartford in 1657 and deputy magistrate, 1657-61. After 1649, he was a resident of 
Wethersfield. His first wife, the ancestress of the subject of this sketch, was Elizabeth Hollister, 
daughter of John Hollister. She was married in 1659 and died in 1683. Captain Samuel Welles, 
grandson of Thomas Welles, the pioneer, was born in Wethersfield in 1660, removed to Glaston- 
bury in 1685, and died there in 1731. He was a selectman of Glastonbury, and for many years a 
member of the Connecticut Legislature. His wife was Ruth Rice. 

Samuel Welles, son of Captain Samuel Welles, was born in Glastonbury in 1689. Graduated 
from Yale College in 1707, he studied theology, and took charge of a parish in the town of 
Lebanon, where he remained until 17 19. In that year he married Abigail Arnold, and removed to 
Boston, where he was a Judge, for several years a member of the Colonial Council and held other 
positions of trust. He died in 1770. The grandfather of Mr. Benjamin Sumner Welles was Sam- 
uel Welles, a prominent merchant of Boston, who was born there in 1725, graduated from Har- 
vard College in 1744, and died in 1799, having married, in 1772, Isabella Pratt, daughter of Chief 
Justice Pratt, of New York. His son was Benjamin Welles, a merchant of Boston, who was born 
there in 1781, and died in i860. Graduated from Harvard College in 1800, he traveled several 
years in Europe, and then, returning to Boston, engaged with his brother, Samuel Welles, in 
establishing the first American banking house in Paris, France. The wife of Benjamin Welles, 
whom he married in 181 5, was Mehitable Sumner, daughter of Increase Sumner, who was the 
Governor of Massaceusetts, in 1799. By her he had three children, Elizabeth, Georgiana and Ben- 
jamin Sumner Welles. By his second wife, Susan Codman, he had one daughter, who married 
Russell Sturgis, of Boston. 

Mr. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in Boston, and moved to New York in 1859. He 
married, in New York, in 1850, Catharine Schermerhom, daughter of Abraham Schermerhorn, who 
was connected with several of the great families of New York. Abraham Schermerhorn was the 
third son of Peter and Elizabeth (Bussing) Schermerhorn, and descended from Jacob Janse Scher- 
merhorn, who settled in New York in 1636. His great-grandmother was Maria Beekman, grand- 
daughter of the famous William Beekman, founder of the Beekman family in New York. His 
wife was Helen White, daughter of Henry and Anne (Van Cortlandt) White, and his daughters 
married General James I. Jones, Charles Suydam, John Treat Irving, Benjamin Sumner Welles and 

William Astor. ,,,. , ... 

Mr. Welles has had five children ; Benjamin, Helen Schermerhorn, Katharine, bhza- 
beth and Harriet Welles. His eldest daughter, Helen Schermerhorn, married George L. Kings- 
land son of former Mayor Ambrose C. Kingsland. His son, Benjamin Welles, was born in 
Boston in 1857, and graduated from Harvard University in 1878. He is a member of the Union 
and Harvard clubs, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History. He married 
Frances W Swan, daughter of Frederic G. Swan, of New York, and has two children, Emily 
Frances and Benjamin Sumner Welles, Jr. The senior Mr. Welles is a member of the Union Club, 
lives in West Thirty-ninth Street and has a country seat at lslip, Long Island. 

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JULIA CHESTER WELLS 

THE Reverend William Wells came of a family of position in the eastern countries of England, 
a grant of arms having been made to his forefathers by James I., in 1614. Imitating the 
early Puritan settlers of New England, he came to the United States from Biggleswade, 
Bedfordshire, England, in 1793, for the sake of liberty of conscience. He became minister at 
Brattleboro, Vt., where he remained for forty years, being distinguished by his refusal to accept 
pecuniary reward for his services, and by insisting upon an annual reelection by his congregation. 

By his wife, Jane Hancock, the Reverend William Wells was the father of Ebenezer 
Custerson Wells, 1777-1850, who married Mary, daughter of the famous Revolutionary officer, 
Colonel John Chester. The Chester family came from London and Barnet, Hertfordshire, England. 
Leonard Chester settled at Wethersfield, Conn., in 1633, and was the founder of a race which fur- 
nished the leading men of that district for generations. John Chester, born 1703, was a graduate 
of Yale, a judge, a member of the Connecticut Assembly, and married Sarah, daughter of the 
Reverend Joseph Noyes and his wife, Abigail Pierrepont, a lady descended from John Haynes, one 
of the Puritan gentlemen who came to Massachusetts in the earliest days of its settlement, accom- 
panying the famous ministers, Cotton and Hooker. He was Governor of the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony in 1635, and in the succeeding year was the principal layman in the company which founded 
Hartford, being chosen in 1637 the first Governor of Connecticut. Among Governor Haynes' 
wife's ancestors were the Nevilles, Earls of Westmoreland and the royal house of Plantagenet. 

Colonel John Chester, 1749-1809, son of John Chester, graduated from Yale in 1766 and 
married Elizabeth Huntington, daughter of General Jabez Huntington, who descended from Simon 
Huntington, one of the founders of Connecticut. John Chester, though a man of considerable 
property, risked fortune and life by espousing the patriotic cause in the Revolution. He was 
present at the battle of Bunker's Hill and is represented in Trumbull's picture assisting the dying 
General Warren. He was Captain of a company which he recruited, one of the first commands for 
the war, serving in the Continental Army. He received particular commendation from Washington 
for the discipline and military efficiency of his command, which was one of the few uniformed 
companies in the army and was frequently employed on particular service as escort to the French 
officers visiting the American headquarters. After the war, he attained great prominence in civil 
life, holding a number of important offices in Connecticut. His children and descendants inter- 
married with distinguished families of both New England and New York. 

William Henry Wells, of New York, was the third son of Ebenezer C. and Mary (Chester) 
Wells, and was born at Brattleboro, Vt., in 181 1. He removed permanently to New York 
in 1858, and was a man of influence and public spirit, and became distinguished in national affairs 
and philanthropic work of many practical kinds, to which he contributed his unsparing labor. 
During the war between the States, he took an active interest in the work of the Sanitary Com- 
mission and was an intimate friend and associate of the leading public men of the past generation, 
though never a holder or seeker of public office. His relations with President Lincoln were par- 
ticularly close. His charities were numerous and unostentatious. He died in 1891, having married 
in 1852, Frances Tracey, daughter of William Gedney Tracey, of Whitesboro, N. Y., the lady 
whose name heads this article being the daughter and only child of the marriage. 

The Tracey family, to which Miss Wells' mother belonged, is of ancient English descent, its 
lineage being traced back to Anglo-Saxon royalty. The progenitor of the American branch of the 
family was Lieutenant Thomas Tracey, who came to Salem, Mass., in 1636, and was afterwards 
one of the first proprietors of Norwich, Conn., being frequently mentioned in the early history of 
that Colony. Miss Wells inherited and has in her possession a number of old portraits of members 
of the distinguished Colonial and Revolutionary families from which she is descended, painted by 
contemporary artists, which form one of the most authentic as well as most interesting private 
collections of that nature. 

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BURR WENDELL 

REPRESENTING one of the oldest families of New York State, the subject of this article, 
which refers not only to the gentleman whose name is given above, but to his brothers, 
B. Rush Wendell and Ten Eyck Wendell, is a direct descendant of Evert Jansen 
Wendell, who came to this country from Embden in 1640, and is mentioned in the early records 
of New Netherland, where he established himself and founded a family which has since held a 
distinguished place in both Colonial and later times. Jacob H. Wendell, the present Mr. Wendell's 
great-grandfather, was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and par- 
ticipated, in 1783, in the organization of the Society of the Cincinnati. According to the rules of 
this order, its honors are inherited by the first born male in each generation, and Mr. Burr Wendell, 
being the eldest of the three brothers, accordingly succeeded his father as a member of the New 
York Society of that distinguished organization. 

Mr. Wendell's parents were B. Rush Wendell, of Albany, and Margaret Ten Eyck Burr, 
of Cazenovia, N. Y., his paternal grandfather and grandmother being Dr. Peter Wendell and 
Elizabeth Van Kleeck. On the side of his mother, his grandparents were William M. Burr and 
Catharine Ten Eyck. 

In addition to these names, which at once recall the foremost families of the Hudson 
River counties and the central portions of the State, the numerous alliances of their ancestors 
make the Messrs. Wendell direct descendants of such old Dutch and Colonial families as those 
of Du Trieux, Van Witbeck, Van Vechten, Lansing, Van Schaick, Schuyler, Van Dyck, Staats, 
Coeymans, Bleecker, Glen, Van Buren, Coster, Ten Broeck, Cuyler, Van Dusen, De Vos, Beck 
and Van Eslant. The family connection to which they belong is consequently a wide one, and 
it would be difficult to name any family of the old New York stock to which they are not in some 
degree related or affiliated through marriages at different times in the past. Several of their 
remote ancestors fought in the Colonial French wars, among whom may be prominently mentioned 
Colonel Peter P. Schuyler, of the New York Provincial forces. The membership of the Messrs. 
Wendell in the Colonial Order fittingly commemorates the part which so many of their progenitors 
took in the affairs of the Province from which the present State is derived. 

Mr. Burr Wendell was born at Cazenovia, in 1853, and was graduated from the Albany Law 
School in 1878. In 1881, he married Emily Lentilhon Smith, of New York, daughter of Gamaliel 
Gates Smith and Margaret Ten Eyck Foster, the issue of this marriage being a daughter, Margaret 
Ten Eyck Wendell. In addition to the inherited membership of the Cincinnati, Mr. Wendell is 
a member of the Union Club, the St. Nicholas Society, the Colonial Order and the St. Nicholas 
Club. His country home is The Farms, at Cazenovia. 

B. Rush Wendell, the second of the three brothers, was born at Cazenovia, in 1855, and was 
educated at Yale, from which institution he was graduated B. A., in 1878, and received the degree 
of M. A., in 1882. He prepared for the legal profession at the Columbia College Law School, in 
New York, which conferred on him the degree of LL. B., in 1882. Mr. Wendell's country 
residence is at Cazenovia. He has traveled extensively in all parts of the world. He is a 
member of the Union Club and St. Nicholas Society, and the Colonial Order. In 1895, he 
married Sarah Delano Swift, daughter of Dr. Foster Swift and his wife, Alida Carroll Fitzhugh. 
The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Wendell was General Joseph Gardner Swift, LL. D., the first 
graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a distinguished soldier. Her 
grandfather on the maternal side, was Dr. Daniel H. Fitzhugh, of Geneseo, N. Y. The youngest 
brother, Ten Eyck Wendell, was born at Cazenovia, in 1857, was graduated B. A. from Yale 
University in 1880, and received the degree of LL. B., in 1882, from Columbia College Law School, 
where he prepared for the practice of law. He has traveled extensively at home and abroad, 
has a country home in Cazenovia, is unmarried, and is a member of the Union and St. 
Nicholas clubs. 

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JACOB WENDELL 

EVERT JANSEN WENDELL, the ancestor of all who bear the name in this country, was 
born in Embden, East Friesland, in 1615. Emigrating to the New Netherland, in 1640, he 
lived for a time in New Amsterdam, and then went to Fort Orange, now Albany, where he 
died, in 1709. He was a magistrate and held other positions. His wife, whom he married in 
1644, was Susanna Du Trieux, daughter of Philip Du Trieux, whose wife was Susanna de Scheene. 
The second wife of Evert Jansen Wendell was Maritje Abramhamse Vosburg, daughter of Abraham 
Pieterse Vosburg. The gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch is descended in 
the seventh generation from Evert Jansen Wendell and his first wife. 

In the second American generation came Johannes Wendell, a merchant of Albany, 
magistrate in 1684, and a commissioner to treat with the Five Nations, in 1690. His first wife was 
Maritje Jellisse, and his second wife was Elizabeth Staats, daughter of Major Abraham Staats, of 
Rensselaerwyck. Abraham Wendell, son of Johannes Wendell, was born in Albany in 1678, and 
became an importer in New York, and afterwards in Boston, dying in 1734. He married Katarina, 
daughter of Tunis and Helena (Van Brugh) De Key, descended from the Honorable Johannes 
Pieterse Van Brugh, burgomaster of New Amsterdam, in 1656 and 1673. John Wendell, son of 
Abraham Wendell, born in New York, in 1703, became a well-known merchant of Boston. He 
was connected with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, being its commander in 1740. He 
married in 1724, Elizabeth Quincy, daughter of the Honorable Edmund Quincy, the grandson of 
Edmund Quincy, who came to Boston in 1633. The younger Edmund Quincy graduated from 
Harvard in 1699, was Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment and Justice of the Supreme Court. 

John Wendell, 1731-1808, the son of John Wendell and his wife, Elizabeth Quincy, was the 
grandfather of Mr. Jacob Wendell. He graduated from Harvard College in 1750, and, removing to 
Portsmouth, N. H., became a well-known lawyer. His first wife was a descendant of Lieutenant- 
Governor John Wentworth, of Portsmouth. His second wife, the grandmother of Mr. Jacob 
Wendell, was Dorothy Sherburne, daughter of Judge Henry and Sarah (Warner) Sherburne, of 
Portsmouth. Judge Sherburne was a Harvard graduate in 1728, a delegate to the Colonial Congress 
of Albany, in 1754, and Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire. 

Jacob Wendell, Sr., was born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1788, and became a successful 
merchant. His wife was Mehetabel Rindge, daughter of Mark and Susanna Rogers, of Ports- 
mouth, N. H., and descended on both sides from early pioneers to New England. 

Mr. Jacob Wendell was born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 24th, 1826. After completing his 
education in his native place, he entered upon mercantile life in Portsmouth, and then went to 
Boston, where he became a partner in the commission house of J. C. Howe & Co. Removing to 
New York in 1863, he has since then been engaged in business in this city, first as partner in J. C. 
Howe & Co., then in the firm of Wendell, Hutchinson & Co., and finally at the head of the firm of 
Jacob Wendell & Co. He is also a director in several banks, insurance and real estate associations, 
and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1854, Mr. Wendell married Mary Bertodi Barrett, 
daughter of N. A. Barrett, of Boston. He has four sons : Barrett Wendell, Harvard, 1877, who 
married Edith, daughter of W. W. Greenough, of Boston, and who is one of the professors of 
Harvard University ; Gordon Wendell, Harvard, 1882, who is in business with his father and 
who married Frances, eldest daughter of the Reverend Alfred Langdon Elwyn, of Philadelphia; 
Evert Jansen Wendell, who graduated from Harvard in 1882, and who is identified with many 
philanthropic enterprises in New York ; and Jacob Wendell, Jr., who graduated from Harvard, in 
1891, and in 1895 married Marian, daughter of the late Major Philip R. Fendall, of Virginia. The 
city residence of Mr. Wendell is in East Thirty-eighth Street, and his country home is Frost 
Fields, New Castle, N. H. He is a member of the New York Historical Society, the New York 
Biographical and Genealogical Society, the Holland Society, the New England Society, the American 
Geographical Society, the Metropolitan and Union League clubs, and the Century Association. 

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GEORGE PEABODY WETMORE 

BORN in England in 1615, Thomas Whitmore, the ancestor of the Wetmore family, came to 
America in 1635, landing in Boston. He was in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1639, and after- 
wards in Hartford. His first wife, Sarah Hall, daughter of John Hall, was the mother of his 
son, Izrahiah, one of the first settlers of Middletown, a freeman in 1652, and a representative to 
.the General Court in 1654-1655. Izrahiah Whitmore, or Wetmore, 1656-1742, was a magistrate, 
■ and in 1721-28 a deputy to the General Court. His wife was Rachel Stow, daughter of the 
Reverend Samuel and Hope (Fletcher) Stow, of Middletown. The Reverend Izrahiah Wetmore, 
their son, 1693- 1728, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Stratford. His wife was Sarah 
Booth, of Stratford. The most famous Wetmore in the early generations of the family, was 
Judge Seth Wetmore, 1 700-1 778, son of the Reverend Izrahiah Wetmore. For forty-eight 
successive times, between 1738 and 1771, he was a deputy to the General Court of the Connecticut 
Colony. He was also a magistrate of Middletown, and a Judge of the county court. By his 
second wife, Hannah Whitmore, daughter of Joseph Whitmore, of Middletown, he had a son, 
Seth Wetmore, the great-grandfather of the Honorable George Peabody Wetmore. 

The second Seth Wetmore, 1744- 18 10, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. His wife 
was Mary Wright, daughter of William and Lucy (Downing) Wright, the eighth in descent from 
John Rogers, the martyr, and in the fifth generation from George Wyllys, Deputy-Lieutenant- 
Governor, and Governor of Connecticut, 1640-43. Seth Wetmore, third, 1769-1830, was a lawyer 
in St. Albans, Vt., sheriff, a member of the Governor's Council, and a judge of probate. He was 
married three times; first to Nancy Shepard, daughter of General William and Nancy (Dewey) 
Shepard, of Westfield, Mass., second to Salome Smith, of St. Albans, Vt., and third to Mrs. Anne 
Goodrich. William Shepard Wetmore, son of the third Seth Wetmore, was the father of the 
Honorable George Peabody Wetmore. Born in 1801, he engaged in business in Middletown, 
Conn., and afterward in Providence, R. I. For several years he was settled in Valparaiso, and 
afterwards went to China as the head of the house of Wetmore & Co. He was twice married; 
first to Esther Phillips Wetmore, daughter of Samuel Wetmore, of New York; and second to 
Anstice Rogers, of Salem, Mass. He had three children, William Shepard, George Peabody and 
Anne Derby Rogers Wetmore. 

The Honorable George Peabody Wetmore was born in London, England, and was graduated 
from Yale College in the class of 1867. He has made his home principally in Newport, but in 
business and social affairs, has been closely identified with New York. He has served as Governor 
of the State of Rhode Island, and at the present time is a member of the United States Senate. 
He married Miss Keteltas, and has two daughters, Edith and Maud Wetmore. He is a member of 
the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, Union League, Union, Riding and other clubs, the 
Metropolitan Club of Washington, and the Somerset Club of Boston. 

Another branch of this family is represented in New York by Edmund Wetmore, great- 
great-grandson of Judge Seth Wetmore, by his third wife, Hannah Edwards, daughter of the 
Reverend Timothy and Esther (Stoddard) Edwards. The great-grandparents of Mr. Wetmore 
were Oliver Wetmore and Sarah Brewster, a descendant in the fifth generation from Elder William 
Brewster, of Plymouth. His grandparents were the Reverend Oliver Wetmore, 1774-1852, and 
Esther Arnold Southmaid, daughter of Captain Jonathan Southmaid. His father was Edmund 
Arnold Wetmore, a distinguished lawyer of Western New York, and for two terms, after 1845, 
Mayor of the City of Utica. The mother of Mr. Wetmore was Mary Ann Lothrop, daughter of 
John H. and Jerusha (Kirkland) Lothrop. Mr. Wetmore was born in Utica in 1838, and graduated 
from Harvard College in i860. He is engaged in the practice of law. He married Helen Howland, 
lives in' Lexington Avenue, and is a member of the Metropolitan and other clubs. Major William 
Boerum Wetmore, U. S. A., is another great-grandson of Judge Seth Wetmore. His mother, 
who lives in Newport, was Sarah T. Boerum, daughter of Captain William Boerum, U. S. N. 

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WILLIAM FISHBOURNE WHARTON 

THOMAS WHARTON, ancestor of the Pennsylvania family of that name, came to this 
country in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was a son of Richard 
Wharton, of Kellorth, Parish of Orton, or Overton, Westmoreland, England. Thomas 
Wharton became a man of prominence in Philadelphia, and was an influential member of the 
Society of Friends. In 1713, he was a member of the Council of the city, and died in Philadelphia 
in 1718. John Wharton, his son, and his wife, Mary Dobbins, daughter of James Dobbins, were 
the parents of Thomas Wharton, 1735-1778, one of the most celebrated men in the early history 
of Pennsylvania. Thomas Wharton was born in Chester County, Pa., and became highly esteemed 
for his integrity and patriotism. During the agitation that preceded the Revolution, he took a 
decided stand on the side of the Colonies, and in 1774 was a member of the Committee of 
Correspondence. In the following year, he was on the Committee of Safety, being its president 
in 1776. In 1777, he was chosen Governor of Pennsylvania, and when the British occupied 
Philadelphia, removed with the Executive Council to Lancaster, where he died. The famed 
entertainment known as the Meschianza, given by the British officers during Howe's occupation 
of Philadelphia in 1778, was held at Walnut Grove, the Wharton mansion and grounds. 

Thomas Wharton's first wife was Susannah Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd and great- 
granddaughter of Thomas Lloyd, president of the Pennsylvania Council in 1684-88 and 1690-93. 
His second wife was Elizabeth Fishbourne, daughter of William Fishbourne and Mary Tallman. 
William Fishbourne was the son of William Fishbourne, a member of the Provincial Council 
1723-31, and grandson of Ralph Fishbourne, of Talbot County, Md. The elder William Fishbourne 
moved to Philadelphia, and in 1702 married Hannah, daughter of Samuel Carpenter. 

Fishbourne Wharton, 1778-1846, son of Governor Thomas Wharton, and grandfather of 
Mr. William Fishbourne Wharton, married Susan Shoemaker in 1804. She died in 1821, and he 
married, in 1832, her sister, Mary Ann Shoemaker. George Mifflin Wharton, 1806- 1870, the son of 
Fishbourne Wharton and Susan Shoemaker, was one of the leaders of the Philadelphia bar. He 
was also interested in public education, and gave much time to its promotion. Active in public 
affairs in Philadelphia, he was for many years a director and president of the Board of Control of 
the city. He was also a member of the Select Council, and at one time president of that body, 
and for one term held the office of United States District Attorney. A graduate from the University 
of Pennsylvania in 1823, he was for many years a trustee of the institution. His wife, whom he 
married in 1835, was Maria Markoe, daughter of John Markoe and Hitty Coxe. The present Mr. 
Wharton is related to the Wadsworth family, of Geneseo, prominent in the history of New York 
State. Mary Craig Wharton, a descendant of the original Thomas Wharton through his son 
Joseph, married, in 1834, James Samuel Wadsworth, afterwards General in the Civil War, who 
commanded the First Army Corps at Gettysburg, and was mortally wounded at the Wilderness. 

Mr. William Fishbourne Wharton, the son of George Mifflin Wharton, was born in 
Philadelphia in 1846. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1865, he has since lived 
in New York, where he has been engaged in business, and is a member of the Stock Exchange 
and connected with important financial enterprises. His wife, whom he married in 1871, was 
Frances Turner Fisher, daughter of William Fisher and Sarah Julia Palmer, of Philadelphia. Mrs. 
Wharton is the niece of Admiral Palmer and Admiral Turner, and a great-granddaughter of Sarah 
Livingston and Major John Ricketts, while she is the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Alexander 
and Peter Van Burgh Livingston, and is a descendant in the sixth generation from James Alexander 
and his wife, Mary Provoost, the parents of General William Alexander, Lord Sterling. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Wharton are George Mifflin, Richard and Percival Charles Wharton. The 
residence of the family is in West Thirty-sixth Street, and their summer home is at East Islip, Long 
Island. Mr. Wharton is a member of the Metropolitan and Union clubs, and he was one of the 
originators of the Riding Club. 



EVERETT PEPPERRELL WHEELER 

ONE of the most picturesque figures in the early Colonial days of New England was Sir 
William Pepperrell, the hero of Louisburg. The story of his life reads like a romance. 
His father was born in Tavistock, Cornwall, of parents in the humblest circumstances. 
He took up his residence upon the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire, and became 
a fisherman. Prospering in business, he removed to Kittery Point, Me., and engaged in trade 
with the West Indies, accumulating a considerable fortune before he died. 

Sir William Pepperrell, who was born in 1696, received a good education, and then went 
into business with his father, in conjunction with whom he achieved a handsome fortune in 
mercantile business and in real estate transactions. They owned over one hundred vessels. He 
was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in York County, and was also a Colonel in command 
of the Maine Militia. Several times he was representative to the General Court at Boston, and 
was a member of the Council of Massachusetts in 1727, and afterwards its president. Placed 
in command of the expedition against Louisburg in 1745, he achieved so signal a success that 
he was made a baronet, the first native-born American to be thus honored by the mother 
country. In 1755, he was Major-General of the British Army in Maine; he afterwards became 
General in that army, and was acting Governor of Massachusetts, 1756-8. 

Mr. Everett P. Wheeler is descended through his mother from Sir William Pepperrell, 
whose name he bears. His mother was Elizabeth Jarvis, daughter of Consul William Jarvis, of 
Boston, Mass., who, during the administrations of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, was the 
United States Charg6 D'Affaires at Lisbon, Portugal, and introduced the merino sheep into the 
country. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Wheeler was John B. Wheeler, of Oxford, N. H. His 
father was David Everett Wheeler, who was born in Vermont, educated at Dartmouth College, 
and was a practicing lawyer in New York City from 1830 until the time of his death, in 1870. 

Mr. Everett P. Wheeler was born in New York, March 10th, 1840. He was educated in 
the public schools and in the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City of New 
York, from which he graduated in 1856. He graduated from the law school of Harvard College 
in 1859 ; and was admitted to the bar in 1861, and since then has been one of the most 
prominent members of the legal profession in New York, having been associated with many of 
the most important cases before the New York and Federal courts during the last thirty years. 
He is the author of a work on the Modern Law of Carriers. 

He has taken a very active interest in public affairs, municipal, State and National, and 
has been an influential adviser of public men, and foremost in the advocacy of reform principles 
in governmental administration. For many years he was president of the New York Free Trade 
Club, being a pronounced advocate of tariff reform, a cause to which he has contributed much 
by public addresses and otherwise. He was one of the earliest advocates of civil service reform, 
for sixteen years was chairman of the executive committee of the New York Civil Service Reform 
Association, and has represented the association in numerous litigated cases. Mayor Edson, in 
1882, appointed him chairman of the supervisory board of the Civil Service for New York City, 
and in 1895 Mayor Strong appointed him chairman of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. 
In 1894 he was a member of the Committee of Seventy. 

In 1866, Mr. Wheeler married Lydia Lorraine Hodges, daughter of the Honorable Silas H. 
Hodges, of Washington, D. C, and a descendant of Elder William Brewster, who came over on 
the Mayflower. He has four children, Annie Lorraine Wheeler, David Everett Wheeler, Ethel 
Jarvis Wheeler, and Constance Fay Wheeler. He is a member of the Bar Association of New 
York City, of which he was one of the founders, and of which he has been vice-president; 
belongs to the City, Reform, Century, Church, and A$A clubs, is a member of the Downtown 
Association, the Historical Society, and the Society of Colonial Wars, and is president of the 
New York College of Music. His city residence is at 731 Park Avenue. 

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M 



OBED WHEELER 

ANY of the most distinguished families of our city and State possess an ancestry, the 
American originators of which were among the early settlers of Long Island. This is the 
case with the Wheelers. Nathan Wheeler established himself on Long Island in 1705, 
though his immediate descendants removed in 1740 to South Dover, Dutchess County, N. Y., 
where the family homestead has since remained. Captain Thomas Wheeler, one of the ancestors 
of Mr. Obed Wheeler, was an officer in the Colonial forces during the French and Indian War and 
took a distinguished part in the conflicts of that epoch, dying at Hudson, N. Y., in 1755. The 
removal of the branch of the Wheeler family to which the subject of this article belongs from Long 
Island to Dutchess County was due to the marriage of Henry Wheeler to Catherine Wing, they 
being the grandparents of Mr. Obed Wheeler. The family of Wing was first established in this 
country by one of the New England Pilgrims. John Wing and his wife, Deborah Batchelder, 
daughter of the Reverend Stephen Batchelder, were among the incorporators of the town of Sand- 
wich in 1639. They arrived in this country several years earlier, and first lived in Saugus, Mass. 
The present generation of Wheelers consequently trace their ancestry to some of the founders of 
both the Province of New York and the New England Colonies. Thomas Wheeler, father of the 
present Mr. Wheeler, was the son of Henry and Catherine (Wing) Wheeler, and married Rhoda 
Ann Olney. 

Mr. Obed Wheeler was born at the old seat of the family, in South Dover, Dutchess County, 
in 1841. He entered Yale College in 1862, but gave up his studies to serve his country in the great 
Civil War. Joining the army as First Lieutenant of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, New 
York Volunteers, he saw arduous and continued service till the close of the conflict, taking part in 
the battle of Gettysburg and afterwards in the campaign of the West, which culminated in Sher- 
man's March to the Sea. During the latter campaign, he received the brevet of Major of Volunteers 
for meritorious and gallant services. 

Returning to civil life at the close of the war, Mr. Wheeler studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1867. He has, however, devoted his attention more particularly to financial affairs, and 
in 1868 became a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been connected with many 
large financial institutions and has engaged successfully in the banking business. At the same 
time political life has not been without its strong attractions for him, and for three terms he rep- 
resented his home district of Dutchess County in the New York Legislature. Mr. Wheeler's 
permanent residence is the family mansion in South Dover. He, however, passes a portion of his 
time in New York. Though taking an active part in society, he has not married. Interested in 
club life, he is a member of the Union League, United Service and New York Yacht clubs. He 
is also prominent in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and in the Grand Army of the Republic, 
and is an earnest patron of art and literature. 

William Bailey Wheeler, the younger son of Thomas and Rhoda A. (Olney) Wheeler, has 
been prominent both as a business man and sportsman. He was born in South Dover, N. Y., 
June 6th, 1850, and in 1868 entered Yale College, from which he was graduated with the degree of 
A. B. in 1872. In the succeeding year, when only twenty-three years of age, he became a member 
of the New York Stock Exchange and has since been^in active business as a banker and broker, and 
is widely known in financial circles. His devotion to business has not prevented his taking a 
decided interest in sports, especially those of an athletic character, and he has been prominent in 
that connection. He married Mary Toffey, daughter of George Toffey, of Jersey City, N. J., and 
niece of Admiral John L. Worden, U. S. N., the hero of the fight between the Monitor and the 
Merrimac. Mrs. Wheeler is also a descendant of the celebrated Peter de la Noy, Mayor of New York 
City, 1 689- 1 690. They have two children, a daughter, Mary, and a son, William Bailey 
Wheeler, Jr. William B. Wheeler is a member of the Union League, Lotos and New York 
Athletic clubs, and has a country residence on Quaker Hill, Dutchess County, N. Y. 

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STANFORD WHITE 

JOHN WHITE, a passenger on the ship Lion in 1632, settled in Cambridge and the following 
year became a freeman, and in 1634-35 was a selectman of that town. He was in the 
migration from Massachusetts to Connecticut in 1636, and became one of the original pro- 
prietors of Hartford. Later on, he moved to Hadley, Mass., and was a representative to the 
General Court in 1664 and 1669, and died in 1683. Nathaniel White, 1629-1711, his son, remained 
in Connecticut and frequently represented Middletown in the General Court. 

The great-grandfather of Mr. Stanford White, the Reverend Calvin White, was born in 1763 
and died in 1853. He was an Episcopal clergyman and for many years rector of St. James Parish, 
Derby, Conn. In his later years, he became a convert to the Roman Catholic faith, but did not 
enter its priesthood. Richard Mansfield White, a shipping merchant of New York, was the 
grandfather of Mr. Stanford White. The latter's father was Richard Grant White, one of the most 
accomplished men of letters of his day. He was born in New York City, May 22A, 182 1, and was 
intended for the church, but after graduating from the University of the City of New York, studied 
medicine and law and in 1845 was admitted to the bar. Literature had, however, more attractions 
for him, and he became the critic on art of The New York Courier and Inquirer in 1845, ar >d 
assisted in founding The New York World in i860, and for twenty years, 1858 to 1878, was chief 
of the United States Revenue Marine Bureau for the District of New York. He was the writer of 
the weekly letters to The London Spectator signed "A Yankee" during the Civil War, compiled 
an anthology of the poetry of the war, published books on the English language, on foreign travel 
and on Shakespearean study, the great labor of his lifetime being an annotated edition of 
Shakespeare's plays. 

Mr. Stanford White, his son, stands in the front rank of American architects of to-day. He 
was born in New York City, November 9th, 1853, and was educated in private schools and under 
tutors, taking the degree of A. M. at the University of New York. His architectural training was 
in the office of Charles D. Gambrill and H. H. Richardson, and he was the chief assistant of Mr. 
Richardson in the construction of that artist's masterly work, Trinity Church, Boston. From 1878 
to 1880, he passed his time in Europe, traveling and studying, and when he returned in 1881, 
formed a partnership with Charles F. McKim and William R. Mead, under the firm name of 
McKim, Mead & White. 

Some of the most notable architecture of the country during the last fifteen years has come 
from Mr. White, either independently or in collaboration. Most of his work is in New York. He 
was the architect of the Villard House on Madison Avenue, now belonging to the Honorable 
Whitelaw Reid; the Madison Square Garden, the Century Club, the Metropolitan Club, the 
University of New York, the University of Virginia, and the Washington Arch ; besides many 
private houses in both city and country. He has also designed the architectural features for Augustus 
St. Gaudens' sculptures, his most conspicuous mark in this line being the pedestals of the Farragut 
statue in New York City, the Chapin statue in Springfield, Mass., the Lincoln and Logan statues in 
Chicago, and the Adams tomb in Washington. He is an accomplished interior decorator, as his 
work in the Players Club, the Villard houses, the Metropolitan Club and on the altars of the Church 
of the Paulist Fathers and the Church of the Ascension clearly shows. 

In 1884, Mr. White married Bessie Smith, a member of a family descended from Colonel 
Richard Smith, the original patentee of Smithtown, Long Island, among her ancestors being 
General Nathaniel Woodhull, who was slain at the battle of Long Island. Mr. and Mrs. White 
have one son, Lawrence Grant White. Mr. White is a member of the Institute of Architects and 
of the leading clubs, including the Metropolitan, Union, University, Grolier, Players, Century, 
Meadowbrook and the Adirondack League. He also belongs to many prominent artistic and 
literary organizations. His New York residence is in Gramercy Park, and his country home 
is at St. James, Long Island. 

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JAMES NORMAN de RAPELJE WHITEHOUSE 

FOR many generations, the members of the Whitehouse family were principally clergymen of 
the Church of England, though many bearers of the name also acquired distinction in the 
navy, the law, the diplomatic service, in architecture, or in various branches of art and 
science. The first of them to make America his home was James Whitehouse, who came to this 
country and established himself in New York City, in 1798. He was a native of Taunton, Somer- 
setshire, England; his wife, Elizabeth Christina, who accompanied him to the United States, was 
the daughter of a gentleman having landed estates near that place. This couple were the great- 
grandparents of Mr. James Norman de Rapelje Whitehouse. The most famous of their children 
was the eldest son, the Right Reverend Henry J. Whitehouse, born in 1803, who entered the min- 
istry, was famous as a preacher, and became rector of St. Thomas' Church in this city, and was 
subsequently consecrated as the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Illinois. He died in 1874, and 
his son, Frederick Cope Whitehouse, who graduated from Columbia College, in 1861, has devoted 
his life and fortune to archaeology and exploration, being one of the most eminent Egyptologists of 
the age. His discoveries in regard to the situation of the classical Lake Moeris are well known, 
and his writings upon that and other subjects pertaining to ancient Egypt are of an authoritative 
nature. 

Bishop Whitehouse's younger brother, Edward Whitehouse, was the grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch. He married Julia Cammann, one of the old New York family of that name. 
Their son, James Henry Whitehouse, born in New York, married Mary Schenck, a daughter of 
John Schenck and his wife, Elizabeth Remsen, both of whom represented old and highly respected 
Long Island families. 

Mr. James Norman de Rapelje Whitehouse is the son of James Henry Whitehouse and his 
wife, Mary (Schenck) Whitehouse, and was born in Brooklyn, in 1858. He thus inherits the blood 
of a number of families of position and influence in both this country and Europe. His mother's 
ancestry in particular is notable as including in the number Jans Joris de Rapelje and his wife, 
Catelina Trico, who came to New Netherland on the ship Eendragt, or Unity, in 1623. The couple 
in question were famous as the parents of Sarah Rapelje, the first girl born to any of the Colonists 
in the new settlement, de Rapelje was a Huguenot, of La Rochelle, France, and was a leader 
among the persecuted Walloons of the Reformed faith, who fled to this country and established 
the hamlet at the Waalbought, on the Long Island shore of the East River, which now gives the 
name of Wallabout to that portion of the modern City of Brooklyn. Sarah de Rapelje became 
ancestress of the Bergen and Bogaert families, and of many of the most prominent people in Kings 
County. The name of Rapelje occurs with great frequency in the early annals of the New Nether- 
land and in those of the Province after the English occupation, often in positions of trust and 
public importance. 

Mr. Whitehouse was mainly educated abroad, attending schools in Switzerland and 
Germany, and completed his training at Oxford University, England, being one of the few living 
New Yorkers who boast of such distinction. His travels have been very extensive, and include 
visits to nearly every part of the civilized world. He is engaged in the banking business in 
this city, and has his town residence at 5 East Seventeenth Street. His country seat is The 
Larches, a large mansion and grounds at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, his time being divided between 
his city and country residences. 

It is safe to say that there is no better known figure in New York society than Mr. 
Whitehouse. He has been unusually active in that connection, and has been a popular member of 
many of the most prominent social organizations. Some years ago he, however, resigned from all 
his clubs, except the Union and the Calumet. He is a constant guest at the prominent functions 
of the higher social world, and takes part in all the sports and amusements which are patron- 
ized by the leading element of society. 

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WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY 

AMONG those who came to New England in 1635 with Sir Richard Saltonstall were John 
Whitney, his wife, Elinor, and his son, Richard. Richard Whitney, 1660-1723, second 
of the name, and grandson of the pioneer, was the first of the family born in this country- 
He was a native of Watertown, Mass., married Elizabeth Sawtell, daughter of Jonathan Sawtell, of 
Groton, and had a grant of land in Stow in 1682. His son, Richard Whitney, 1694-1775, married 
Hannah Whitcomb, daughter of Josiah Whitcomb, of Lancaster. 

General Josiah Whitney, 1731-1806, son of Richard and Hannah Whitney, was the great- 
great-grandfather of the Honorable William C. Whitney. His wife was Sarah Farr. In 1755, 
General Whitney fought against the French and Indians at Crown Point, in 1774 was in command 
of a militia company of Harvard, Mass., and the following year was Lieutenant-Colonel of one of 
the Colonial regiments. He was Brigadier-General in 1783. In civil life he was a justice of the 
peace, delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1788, and a member of the Legislature, 1780-89. 
His son, Josiah Whitney, 1753- 1837, married Anna Scollay, and served in the Continental Army. 

Stephen Whitney, 1784- 1852, grandfather of the Honorable William C. Whitney, was a 
representative from Deerfield to the Massachusetts General Court, 1834-35. His son, General James 
Scollay Whitney, 1811-1878, was the father of Mr. Whitney, whose mother, Laurinda Collins, 
was descended from Governor William Bradford, of the Plymouth Colony. A Democrat of the 
old school, James S. Whitney was Brigadier-General of the Second Brigade of the Massachusetts 
militia, in 1843, town clerk of Conway, Mass., a member of the Legislature in 1851 and 1854, 
sheriff of Franklin County in 1851, superintendent of the National Armory at Springfield in 1854, 
collector of the port of Boston in i860, and a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1872. 

Born in Conway, Mass., in 1841, the Honorable William Collins Whitney was graduated 
from Yale College in 1863, and in 1865 from the Dane Law School of Harvard College, soon 
after beginning the practice of law in New York. He early interested himself in public affairs in 
New York. He was active in the campaign that elected Samuel J. Tilden for Governor, and in 
1875 was elected Corporation Counsel, and in that office brought about the codification of the laws 
relating to New York City, which is still in use. In 1882, he resigned office in order to devote 
his attention to private business, but in 1885, he became a member of President Grover Cleveland's 
Cabinet, holding the portfolio of Secretary of the Navy. His record at the head of the Navy Depart- 
ment need not be dwelt upon in detail here, except to say that he proved to be one of the most 
efficient secretaries that the country has ever had, and that he laid the foundation of our present 
navy. Since 1889, he has been active in national politics, especially in the campaigns of 1892 and 
1896, but has resolutely declined all political preferment. 

In 1869, Mr. Whitney married Flora Payne, daughter of the late Honorable Henry B. Payne, 
United States Senator from Ohio. Mrs. Whitney died in 1892, leaving four children. The eldest, 
Harry Payne Whitney, who is a graduate from Yale University, married, in 1896, Gertrude Van- 
derbilt, daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. The eldest daughter, Pauline Whitney, married in 1895, 
Almeric Hugh Paget, who is by birth an Englishman, and a member of a family represented for 
centuries in the peerage. The two remaining children are Payne Whitney, a student at Yale, and 
a daughter, Dorothy Whitney. In 1896, Mr. Whitney contracted a second matrimonial 
alliance, his bride being Edith S. (May) Randolph, daughter of the late Dr. William May, 
of Baltimore, and widow of Captain Arthur Randolph, of East Court, Wiltshire, England. The 
city residence of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney is in upper Fifth Avenue, opposite Central Park, and their 
country home October Mountain, near Lenox, Mass. Mr. Whitney is a member of all the leading 
clubs, has been a governor of the Metropolitan, Manhattan and University clubs, is a member of 
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Society for the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals, and many other such institutions, and is one of the trustees of the Pea- 
body Museum of Yale University and of the American Museum of Natural History. 

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LOUIS CLAUDE WHITON 

HOTTENS' List of the early Puritan emigrants to America states that Thomas Whiton 
sailed in 1635 with his family on the ship Elizabeth and Ann to New England. He 
was originally from the County of Kent, in England, and the town records of Hingham, 
Mass., show that members of the Whiton family and ancestors of the subject of this sketch were 
residents and prominent citizens of that place as early as 1646. Mr. Louis Claude Whiton, of New 
York, is thus a descendant of one of those who founded the famous Massachusetts Bay Colony 
early in the seventeenth century. Thomas Whiton, a member of the family and a lineal ancestor 
of the present Mr. Whiton, fought ably and bravely in the French Wars of 1755, and in the 
company of which he was a Lieutenant he had many of his kinsmen as companions, for the 
muster rolls, now existing, contain the names of eleven brothers and cousins who served with him. 
Twenty years or so later, at the commencement of the War of the American Revolution, his son 
Thomas volunteered in the so-called Lexington Alarm, when the New England Colonists took up 
arms against the British Crown. He served with distinction in Rhode Island during the war, and 
was also a member of the Committee of Safety of the town of Hanover, of which place he 
was long a resident. 

Mr. Louis Claude Whiton's parents were Augustus S. Whiton and his wife, Caroline Ward, 
and he was born in Jersey City, on the 29th of December, 1857. His preparation for college was 
made with the aid of a private tutor. In 1878, he was graduated from the University of the City 
of New York, being the first honor man and also valedictorian of his class. He then entered the 
Columbia College Law School, from which he graduated two years later, in 1880. After his 
admission to the bar, Mr. Whiton traveled extensively in various parts of Europe, remaining 
abroad during the years 1882 and 1883. On June 10th, 1884, he married Harriet L. Bell, 
daughter of Charles Bell, of New York City. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Whiton, Angelina, Augustus Sherrill and Louis Claude Whiton, Jr. 

Mr. Whiton is now a practicing member of the bar of New York City, and he has become 
well and extensively known in professional circles, being identified with much litigation of a very 
important character, which he has conducted as counsel. His legal business constantly involves 
questions connected with the interests of the leading insurance companies of the city and country, 
and he is also active in the practice of the real estate branch of his profession. He has been a 
public-spirited citizen, greatly interested in the welfare of the community, and, although he has 
resolutely refused to accept any public office whatever, he has been prominent in politics and has 
taken a very active part in all the movements of late years designed to effect reform in the personnel 
and conduct of the municipal government of New York. All such efforts enlist his warm sympathy 
and practical assistance, and he has been prominently connected as an officer or member with a 
number of the most prominent and effective bodies and committees formed to promote such 
objects. Notwithstanding his manifold professional, political and social duties, he has found time 
and opportunity to write frequently on various legal subjects of interest for the leading law journals 
of the country, and he has contributed many poems and other articles to the prominent magazines 
and periodicals of the day. 

Mr. Whiton was a First Lieutenant of the New York Hussars, now known as Troop A. 
He is a member of the New York Bar Association, belongs to the West Side Republican Club, the 
$ B K Society, the Society of Colonial Wars, and to the Sons of the American Revolution, the 
Society of Medical Jurisprudence and the Academy of Science. 

His residence in New York City is at 114 West Seventy-sixth Street; and on the Upper St. 
Regis Lake, in the Adirondacks, Mr. Whiton owns Camp Deerfoot, which is his summer 
home. The arms of the Whiton family are : A gyronny of four azure and ermine, over all a 
leopard's head in chief in gold, three bezants. The crest is a lion rampant beneath a helmet 
resting upon the shield. 

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CHARLES ALBERT WHITTIER 

SEVERAL families bearing the name of Whittier, Witcher and Whitcher can trace their 
descent to the earliest Colonial period, their first American ancestor being Thomas 
Whittier, a native of England. Coming to this country in 1638, when he was a boy 
of only sixteen years of age, Thomas Whittier went first to live in Newbury, Mass., where he 
remained for six or seven years. In 1645 he appears on the records of the town of Salisbury as a 
resident of that place. Afterwards he removed to Haverhill, where he built a house, known 
in subsequent generations as the Whittier Homestead, and especially distinguished as the 
birthplace of the poet of New England, John G. Whittier, who was one of his descendants. 

For many years Thomas Whittier was selectman of the town of Haverhill, and in 1669 was 
chosen to be constable, a position, however, that he declined on account of religious scruples, 
for he was among the earliest Quakers in New England. He died in 1696, and his wife, Ruth 
Green, whom he married in Salisbury, died in 1710. Nathaniel Whittier, son of Thomas Whittier, 
the pioneer, was born in Haverhill in 1668, and died in Salisbury in 1722. He changed the spelling 
of his family name at one period of his life from Whittier to Whicher and Whitcher, and some 
of his descendants, heads of families, which have become distinguished in New England, have 
always retained those spellings. His first wife, the ancestress of that branch of the family to which 
Mr. Charles A. Whittier belongs, was Mary Ellsworth Osgood, whom he married in 1685, and 
who was the daughter of William Osgood. She died in 1705. His second wife, whom he married 
in 1 7 10, was Mary Wing Brown, daughter of Philip and Mary (Buzwell) Brown. She was born in 
1676, in Salisbury, and died there in 1742. 

In the third American generation came the second Nathaniel Whittier, who was born in 
Salisbury in 171 1. He lived at the family homestead for many years, but afterwards removed to 
Poplin, Fremont, N. H., and then to Chester, Vt. He died in Winthrop, Me., at the residence of 
his son, in 1784. His wife, whom he married in 1734, was Hannah Clough. The third Nathaniel 
Whittier was born in Salisbury in 1743. After residing in Raymond, N. H., for many years, he 
removed to Maine, where he became one of the first settlers of the town of Winthrop and 
prominent in the early history of that place. With several other pioneers, he was one of the 
purchasers of the township of Vienna, Me., from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which then 
owned that territory. He died in Readfield, Me., in 1798. His wife, whom he married in 1766, 
was Elizabeth Prescott, daughter of Jedediah and Hannah (Batchelder) Prescott. She was born in 
Brentwood, N. H., in 1745, and died in Vienna, Me., in 1814. 

In the following generation in the direct line of descent from Thomas Whittier was the 
fourth Nathaniel Whittier, grandfather of Mr. Charles Albert Whittier. He was born in Winthrop, 
Me., in 1783, and with his father became one of the early settlers of Vienna, attaining to high 
position in all the local affairs of that community. For many years he was town clerk, selectman, 
surveyor of the highways, and trial justice, and held other positions. During the War of 1812, he 
was a Captain in the militia, and after 18 16 was a justice of the peace. He died in Vienna in 1869. 
His wife, whom he married in 1804, in Mt. Vernon, Me., was Nancy Merrill, daughter of James 
Merrill. She was born in Raymond, N. H., in 1785, and died in Vienna in 1843. Subsequently 
he married, in New Sharon, Me., Sarah (Bodwell) Jayne. She died in 1861. The parents of 
Mr. Whittier, of this generation, were Joseph Merrill Whittier, who was born in 181 1, and Mary 
E. Morgan. 

Mr. Charles Albert Whittier was born in 1840, was graduated from Harvard College in i860, 
and has long been a resident of New York. He served in the United States Army nine years, 
being brevetted Brigadier-General for valuable and distinguished services. He married Lilla 
Chadwick, and lives in West Tenth Street. He has two daughters, Susie Whittier, who married 
the Prince Serge Belosselsky-Belozersky, and lives in St. Petersburg, and Pauline Whittier. He 
belongs to the Metropolitan and Union clubs. 

625 



REYNOLD WEBB WILCOX, M. D. 

ON both sides of the house, the Wilcox family of the present generation is descended from 
some of the oldest and most honored races of Colonial New England. Even before 
the time of William the Conqueror, the Wilcoxes were substantial citizens of Bury St. 
Edmunds, Suffolk County, England. Sir John Wilcox, in the reign of Edward 111., was leader 
of the crossbowmen of the English Army in the French Wars. 

In the seventeenth century, one of the direct descendants of Sir John Wilcox was William 
Wilcoxson, who was born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire. He emigrated to America, as a member 
of the expedition that came on the ship Planter, and settled at Stratford, Conn., in the New Haven 
Colony. In 1647, he was a representative at the General Court at Hartford. 

The father of Dr. Wilcox was Colonel Vincent Meigs Wilcox, who was born at Madison, 
Conn., in 1828, a descendant in the fifth generation from the pioneer William Wilcoxson. He 
attended Lee's Academy at Madison, became a merchant in his locality in the State of Connecticut 
and also served in the Connecticut State Militia with the rank of Lieutenant. Moving to 
Pennsylvania in i860, he entered into business there, and, at the commencement of the Civil War, 
enlisted a company of volunteers, and in 1862 became Brigade Judge-Advocate on the staff of 
General Meylert, with the rank of Major, and later was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the One 
Hundred and Thirty-Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers. With this regiment he 
went to the front, fought at Antietam and was promoted to be Colonel, resigning his commission 
in 1863, on account of illness. After the war, he settled in New York City and became connected 
with the firm of E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., of which, when it became a corporation, he was 
successively secretary, vice-president and president. He died in 1896. 

Through both his grandmothers, Dr. Wilcox is descended from Vincent Meigs, an early 
settler of Guilford, Conn., who came from England in 1638. Among the descendants of this 
Vincent Meigs have been many men who have distinguished themselves in military and civil life. 
In another line of ancestry, through his paternal great-grandmother, Olive Doude, Dr. Wilcox is 
descended from Henry Doude, who came from Surrey, England, in 1639, with the Colonists under 
the Reverend Henry Whitfield, who settled at Guilford, Conn. His mother was Catherine Millicent 
Webb, daughter of Dr. Reynold Webb, an eminent Connecticut physician, descended from Richard 
Webb, of Stamford, Conn., in 1636, who founded the family of that name. 

Dr. Wilcox was born in Madison, Conn., in iSs6. He graduated with honors from Yale 
College in 1878, with the degree of B. A. In 1881, Hobart College conferred the degree of M. A. 
upon him ; the same year he received the degree of M. D. from Harvard University, and in 1892 
Maryville College gave him the degree of LL. D. While studying medicine at Harvard University, 
he served as house physician in several of the hospitals of Boston. His education in this country 
was supplemented by study in Vienna, Heidelberg, Paris and Edinburgh, after which he com- 
menced practice as a physician in New York City. In 1884, he was appointed clinical assistant at 
the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. In 1886, he became an instructor in the same 
institution, and in 1889 Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics. He has been visiting physician 
to several other hospitals, is a member of or an officer in nearly all the prominent scientific and 
medical societies, has been for many years on the editorial staff of The American Journal of the 
Medical Sciences, has edited White's Materia Medica and Therapeutics, which has passed through 
three editions, and has published about two hundred papers upon medical and scientific subjects. 
He has compiled the genealogical history of the Wilcox, Meigs and Webb families, and many of 
his historical addresses have been published. He is a member of the Societies of the Colonial 
Wars, Sons of the Revolution, War of 1812, Loyal Legion, War of the Union, and Sons of Veterans; 
of the last he has been Surgeon General. He also belongs to the Metropolitan and Harvard clubs. 
He married, in 1895, Frances Maud, daughter of Samuel Weeks, a descendant of Francis Weeks, 
one of the first settlers of Oyster Bay, and resides at 749 Madison Avenue. 

626 



GEORGE G. WILLIAMS 

r \ A HE family of which Mr. George G. Williams is the representative in New York in this 
generation has been one of the most distinguished in the history of Wales. Roger 
-*- Williams, who founded Rhode Island, was one of its most famous members. Robert 
Williams, who came from Norwich, England, soon after the landing of the Pilgrims and settled in 
Roxbury, Mass., was the American progenitor of that branch which is now being considered. 
Robert Williams was a freeman of Roxbury in 1638, and died in 1693, a centenarian. Land that he 
acquired in Roxbury has remained in the possession of his family for nearly three centuries. 

Descendants of Robert Williams have been numerous, and have taken an active part in the 
work of developing the New World. One of his grandsons, the Reverend Elisha Williams, was 
the third president of Yale College, and another descendant, Colonel Ephraim Williams, was a 
brave officer in the French and Indian War, falling in battle in 175s, and gave his name to Williams 
College, which institution he founded. The Honorable William Williams was one of the signers of 
the Declaration of Independence. Captain Samuel Williams was killed in the battle of Lexington. 
Lieutenant John Williams was an officer at the battle of Bunker Hill. General Otho H. Williams 
distinguished himself in the battle of Eutaw, and was a confidant of Washington. David Williams 
was one of the soldiers who captured Major John Andre, the British spy. General Jonathan 
Williams, a distinguished officer of the American Army, was the founder of the corps of engineers 
at West Point, and many other members of the family have been prominent. 

A grandson of Robert Williams removed to Connecticut in the early part of the eighteenth 
century and established a branch of the family there. His great-great-grandson was Dr. Datus 
Williams, who was born in 1793, and was the father of Mr. George G. Williams. Dr. Williams 
resided and practiced for nearly half a century in East Haddam, Conn., and was one of the 
leading men of the State, professionally and socially. He married Clarissa Maria Peck, of East 
Haddam, and his eldest son, who followed him in the medical profession, was an assistant surgeon 
of volunteers during the Civil War, and afterwards connected with the Freedman's Bureau. 

Mr. George G. Williams is the second son of Dr. Datus Williams. Born in East Haddam, 
in 1826, he was educated in the public schools and in Brainard Academy, and looked forward to a 
professional career. But John Q. Jones, the cashier of the Chemical Bank of New York City, and a 
friend of Dr. Williams, persuaded the parents of the boy to let him be trained for business. 
Accordingly, at the age of fifteen, he began his connection with the Chemical Bank that has con- 
tinued uninterruptedly for fifty-six years. At first an assistant to the paying teller, in 1846, when 
he was only twenty years old, he succeeded to the position of paying teller, being then the 
youngest person so employed in any bank in the city. Next he became discount clerk, and in 
1855, when John Q. Jones was elected president of the bank, he was promoted to be cashier. 
During the latter years of Mr. Jones' life the active management of the bank was largely in the 
hands of Mr. Williams, and when his friend and patron died, in 1878, he was made president of the 
institution, and has held that office since. 

As president of the Chemical Bank, one of the most famous institutions of its kind in the 
United States, Mr. Williams has occupied a position of exceptional responsibility and influence, 
and is recognized as one of the ablest financiers in the country. He is connected with many 
commercial institutions, the Union Trust Company, the United States Life Insurance Company, the 
Eagle Fire Insurance Company, the Fidelity and Casualty Company, and the Pennsylvania Coal 
Company, being the principal corporations in which he is interested. He has been president of the 
Clearing House Association, treasurer of the Bank for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks, and trustee 
or director in several religious and charitable organizations. He is not particularly a club man, but 
belongs to the Metropolitan and the Riding clubs, and is a member of the New England Society and 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He married, in 1867, Virginia F. King, daughter of Aaron 
King, of Massachusetts. His residence is in West Fifty-Eighth Street. 

627 



RICHARD T. WILSON 

NO contemporaneous phase of metropolitan life has been more interesting or more impor- 
tant than that which is the outgrowth of the influx of Southern families into New York 
during the last quarter of a century. Since the close of the Civil War, that section 
of the country has contributed to this city a considerable number of those enterprising business 
and professional men who have helped to make the closing years of the century preeminently 
distinguished in the United States. Seeking in New York a broader field for activity in various 
walks of life than could be found in the South, which was still suffering from the effects of war, 
they have taken a foremost part in the business and social affairs of the metropolis and are num- 
bered among our most patriotic and most useful citizens. 

Among these Southern families, who have made New York their place of residence during 
the last quarter of a century, that of which Mr. Richard T. Wilson, the well-known banker, is at 
the head, stands foremost in the business and social world. Mr. Wilson is a native of Georgia, 
having been born in that State some sixty years ago, and being a member of one of the old 
families in that section of the country. Early in life, he engaged in business occupations and was 
very successful. When the Civil War broke out, he cast his lot with his native State and entered 
the Confederate Army. In the military service, his excellent business ability was immediately 
recognized and was of great value to the Confederate cause, and he rose by successive pro- 
motions until he became a Commissary-General. 

When the war ended, Mr. Wilson, who was the possessor of a considerable fortune, came 
to New York with his wife, who was a Miss Johnston, of Macon, Ga. Fixing upon this city for 
his permanent residence, he entered Wall Street, and has been for many years one of the leading 
and influential bankers of the metropolis, having handled many important financial enterprises. 
His city residence is in Fifth Avenue, near Forty-third Street, and he has a country place in Newport. 
He is a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Union clubs, the Downtown Association and 
the Southern Society. 

The family of Mr. Wilson has been notably conspicuous in the social life of New York 
and Newport. His sons and daughter are connected by marriage with several of the leading New 
York families. His eldest son, Marshall Orme Wilson, graduated from Columbia College in the 
class of 1882, and is engaged in the banking business with his father. He married Caroline Astor, 
daughter of William and Caroline (Schermerhorn) Astor. Mrs. Astor was the daughter of 
Abraham Schermerhorn. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Manhattan, Union, Knicker- 
bocker, Tuxedo, Racquet, St. Anthony and New York Yacht clubs, the Downtown Association 
and the Columbia College Alumni Association. He lives in Fifth Avenue, near Fortieth Street, 
and is a summer resident of Newport. The other son of the family, Richard T. Wilson, Jr., 
is one of the best known of the younger society men in New York. He was educated in Columbia 
College, being graduated from that institution in the class of 1887. He is prominent in many social 
functions and was an usher at the wedding of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt. 
He is engaged in the banking business with his father, and is a member of the Metropolitan, 
Knickerbocker, Union, St. Anthony, Racquet and New York Yacht clubs, the Downtown Associ- 
ation, the Columbia College Alumni Association and the Country Club of Westchester County. 

Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Wilson, Sr., have three daughters. The eldest daughter, Mary R. 
Wilson, married Ogden Goelet, who died in the summer of 1897. She lives in Fifth Avenue and 
has a summer residence at the Cliffs, in Newport, but in recent years has spent considerable 
time abroad. She has two children, Mary Goelet, who is a young lady in society, and 
Robert Goelet, who is not yet of age. The second daughter, Lelia Belle Wilson, married the 
Honorable Michael Henry Herbert, of Milton House, Salisbury, England, an attache of the British 
Embassy in Washington and a representative of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of 
England. The youngest daughter is Grace Wilson, who married, in 1896, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. 

623 



JOHN D. WING 

FROM time immemorial families bearing the name of Winge have been settled in Wales. 
Early in the seventeenth century representative bearers of this patronymic are known to 
have removed from Wales to Lincolnshire, and had numerous descendants in that and the 
other Eastern countries of England. 

The first emigrants to America belonging to this family were Puritans. John Wing, the 
pioneer representative of the name, came to New England early in the seventeenth century. Set- 
tling first in Lynn, Mass., he removed, in 1637, to the Plymouth Colony and made a home on the 
shores of Barnstable and Buzzard's Bays, becoming one of the incorporators of the town of 
Sandwich, in 1639. The leader of the company of Colonists of which he was a member was the 
Reverend Stephen Batchelder, whose daughter, Deborah, he married. The Reverend Stephen 
Batchelder, who was thus on the maternal side the first American progenitor of the Wing family 
in this country, was born in England in 1561. He was one of the clergy who adopted the Puritan 
doctrine, and, coming to this country, was first minister of the church in Saugus, now Lynn, Mass., 
for three years, and in 1635 was admitted a freeman. Afterwards he lived in Ipswich, Newbury and 
Hampton. In 1647, he was living at Portsmouth, N. H., and returning to England in 1651, died at 
Hackney, near London, at the age of one hundred. Deborah- Batchelder, who married John Wing, 
was his third daughter. 

Daniel Wing, of the second generation in this country, came with his father from England 
and was active in the public affairs of the town of Sandwich. In 1658, he became a Quaker, and 
died some time before 1664. His wife was Anna Swift, daughter of John Swift. Their son, 
Daniel Wing, second of that name, was born in 1664, and was enrolled as a townsman of Sand- 
wich, in 169 1. His wife was Deborah Dillingham, daughter of Henry Dillingham. Edward 
Wing, the son of Daniel Wing, second of the name, was born in 1687, in Sandwich, and removed 
to Dartmouth. He was married three times, first to Desire Smith, of Dartmouth, second to Sarah 
Tucker, daughter of Abraham and Hannah Tucker, and third to Patience Ellis. In the four 
succeeding generations the ancestors of the gentleman whose family is under consideration were 
Joseph Wing and his wife, Catharine; Daniel Wing, who removed about 1775 to Dutchess County, 
N. Y. ; John Wing, of Dutchess County, who died in 1858, having married Miriam Thorn, and 
Jacob Wing, born in 18 10, who married Anna M. Cornell, the last named couple being the 
parents of the subject of this article. 

Mr. John D. Wing was born near Ellenville, Ulster County, in 1834, but while very young, 
came to New York, which has since been his place of residence except during two years of his 
early manhood which were spent in California. He received a mercantile education. In 1858, on 
his return from California, he began business life in New York, on his own account, as a 
commission merchant in chemicals, and is still engaged in that branch of commerce. His two sons, 
John Morgan and Louis Stuart Wing, are now associated with him in business. Mr. Wing's 
city home is in West Forty-Ninth Street, but he has a country seat at Millbrook, Dutchess County, 
where he has resided many years. The extensive stock farm which he maintains at that 
place is well known to those interested in high grade stock. He was president of the New 
York State Agricultural Society, and of the American Jersey Cattle club, and has been a large 
importer of thoroughbred cattle and sheep. The wife of Mr. Wing was Adelaide W. Hinman, 
of an old New England family. His elder son, J. Morgan Wing, married Josephine G. 
Ireland, and is a member of the Metropolitan, Downtown, Calumet, Knollwood and New York 
Yacht clubs, and resides in West Forty-Eighth Street. The younger son, L. Stuart Wing, married 
Bertha L. Hurlbut and is a member of the Metropolitan, Downtown, Racquet, Knollwood and 
New York Yacht clubs, and resides in West Fiftieth Street. The only daughter of Mr. John D. 
Wing, Marion Wing, is the wife of Dr. Austin Flint, Jr. Mr. Wing is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Downtown, New York Yacht and Riding clubs. 

629 



EDWARD W1NSL0W 

IN the person of Mr. Edward Winslow, the persecuted Puritan of England and the persecuted 
Huguenot of France unite. On his father's side, Mr. Winslow is a lineal descendant of 
Kenelm Winslow, brother of Governor Edward Winslow, of the Plymouth Colony, while 
his mother was of the Huguenot Laniers, of Virginia. He is, therefore, a son of Massachusetts and 
of Virginia, as well as of New York. Kenelm Winslow, the first American ancestor of this 
branch of the family, was the third son and fourth child of Edward Winslow, of Droitwitch, 
Worcestershire, England. Born in 1599, he came t0 Plymouth in 1629. Although less prominent 
than his brother, the Governor, Kenelm Winslow was a man of consequence in the Colony. He 
was a freeman in 1632, and had a grant of valuable lands, removed to Marshfield, Mass., where he 
was a planter and a shipowner, was a representative to the General Court 1642-46 and 1649-53, 
and died in 1672 at the age of seventy-three years. His wife was the widow, Eleanor Adams. 
His son, Lieutenant Job Winslow, who was born in 1641 and died in 1720, was a representative to 
the General Court and held other offices. Joseph Winslow, son of Lieutenant Job Winslow, mar- 
ried Mary Tisdale, of Taunton, Mass., in 1686. She was the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Leon- 
ard) Tisdale, of Taunton, and granddaughter of John and Sarah (Walker) Tisdale, of Duxbury. 
Their son, Job Winslow, who was born in 17 18, was the father of Captain Job Winslow, who 
was born in Dighton, Mass., in 1738. Captain Job Winslow carried the family name to Connec- 
ticut, where he owned a shipyard in Saybrook for many years. Later in life he removed to Canaan, 
N. Y., and died there in 1809. He was twice married. His first wife was Temperance Hayden, 
of Saybrook. She died in 1777, and he afterwards married Mary Rogers. 

Richard Winslow, son of Captain Job Winslow, was born in 177 1. In his younger days he 
was a ship captain on the Hudson River, being ranked as one of the most enterprising and most suc- 
cessful men engaged in that business nearly a century ago. After that he became an iron master in 
Albany, owning furnaces and mines. During the War of 18 12, he was connected with the com- 
missary department of the army, and was engaged at Plattsburg and elsewhere on the Northern 
frontier. When peace was proclaimed, he went into the shipping business again, being master of 
several vessels on the Hudson, and finally, as a miller, owning several large flouring establishments, 
accumulated a fortune and retired from business in 1834. He died in 1847. He was the great 
grandfather of Mr. Edward Winslow. His wife was Mary Corning, daughter of Asa and Cynthia 
(Seymour) Corning, and sister of Jasper Corning. 

Several of the sons of Richard Winslow were notably successful. John Flack Winslow 
was manager and owner of iron works in Troy, and connected with other enterprises of similar 
character. In 1863-68, with John A. Griswold, he was interested in introducing the Bessemer 
process in this country, and with the same partner enjoyed the distinction of building the first 
monitor for Ericsson. James Winslow, another son, was the eminent New York banker. Born in 
Hartford, Conn., in 181 5, he lived to the age of fifty-nine, being one of the great financiers of his 
day. Starting in life as a clerk in the hardware store of Erastus Corning, in Albany, he afterwards 
became a partner in the banking house of Winslow, Lanier & Co., which was established by his 
brother, Richard H. Winslow, and his father-in-law. The firm was one of the first to be interested 
in the national banking system, and at the time of his death, Mr. Winslow was vice-president of 
the Third National Bank. He married Margaret Downing Lanier. 

Mr. Edward Winslow, born January 14th, 1850, entered the banking house of Winslow, 
Lanier & Co. in 1873, with his father, James Winslow, his uncle, Richard H. Winslow, and his 
grandfather, J. F. D. Lanier, and is now recognized as one of the leading financiers of New York. 
His clubs include the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht and others. He 
is a trustee of the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, and actively interested in other philan- 
thropic institutions. He married, in 1873, Emma Corning Sweetser, daughter of J. A. Sweetser, 
and has one daughter, Marguerite Lanier Winslow. He resides at 27 West Fifty-third Street. 

630 



BUCHANAN WINTHROP 

THIS gentleman is the head of the Winthrop family, being the eldest son in direct descent 
from John Winthrop, 1 587-1649, the first Governor of Massachusetts. He is descended 
through John Still Winthrop, 1720-1776, of Boston and New London, the only son of John 
Winthrop, 1681-1747, fellow of the Royal Society, whose wife was Anne Dudley, daughter of 
Governor Joseph Dudley, of Massachusetts. The grandfather of John Still Winthrop was Major- 
General Wait Still Winthrop, 1643-1717, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and his great-grandfather 
was John Winthrop, 1606-1676, Governor of Connecticut for many years, and the son of Governor 
John Winthrop, the founder of Massachusetts. 

John Still Winthrop was the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who is 
thus a descendant, in the eighth generation, from the founder of the family in this country. He 
was born in 1720, graduated from Yale College in 1737 and died in 1776. His first wife, the 
ancestress of Mr. Buchanan Winthrop, was Jane Borland, daughter of Francis Borland, of Boston. 
The sons of John Still Winthrop were the heads of two families that have been prominent in New 
York City during the present century. Francis Bayard Winthrop, 1754-18 17, the great-grandfather 
of Mr. Buchanan Winthrop, was the head of one of these branches. His first wife, from whom 
the Winthrops of this generation are descended and whom he married in 1779, was Elsie Marston, 
daughter of Thomas Marston, a prominent New York merchant of the Revolutionary period, who 
married Cornelia Lispenard, sister of Anthony Lispenard. His father was Nathaniel Marston, 
merchant, one of the governors of Columbia College, named in the charter of that institution. He 
was descended from Nathaniel Marston, who settled on Long Island in 1639. For his second wife, 
Francis Bayard Winthrop married Phoebe Taylor, daughter of John Taylor. Benjamin Winthrop, 
the head of the other branch of the New York Winthrops, was a brother of Francis Bayard 
Winthrop. 

John Still Winthrop, the eldest son of Francis Bayard Winthrop and grandfather of Mr. 
Buchanan Winthrop, was born in 1785, graduated from Yale College in the class of 1804 and died 
in 1855. He was one of New York's most successful merchants. The grandmother of Mr. 
Buchanan Winthrop, whom John Still Winthrop married in 1808, was Harriet Rogers, the 
fourth child of Fitch Rogers, a son of Samuel Rogers, of Norwalk, Conn., and his wife, Elizabeth 
Fitch, a relative of Governor Thomas Fitch. He was born about 1748, and about 1769 married 
Hannah Bell, daughter of Isaac Bell, of Stamford, Conn. 

Henry Rogers Winthrop, the father of Mr. Buchanan Winthrop, was the eldest son of John 
Still Winthrop and his wife, Harriet Rogers. He was born in 181 1, graduated from Yale College in 
1830 and was a practicing lawyer in New York during his entire life, being a member of the 
Century Association, the Bar Association, the National Academy of Design and the New England 
Society. His first wife, whom he married in 1838 and who was the mother of Mr. Buchanan Win- 
throp, was Margaret Hicks, daughter of Thomas Hicks, of the Long Island family of that name. 
He married, in 1875, his second wife, Mary Gelston, daughter of Maltby Gelston, and died in 1896. 
Mr. Buchanan Winthrop, the only son of Henry Rogers Winthrop, was born in New York 
in 1 84 1, and graduated A. B. from Yale College in 1862, receiving his A. M. degree in due course. 
He graduated from the Columbia Law School in 1864, and is a practicing lawyer. In 1891, he 
was elected by the alumni of Yale a fellow of that University, and was reelected in 1895. He has 
been for many years the treasurer of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
the United States. He belongs to the Tuxedo, Metropolitan, University, Century, Union, 
Downtown, New York Yacht and Riding clubs, the Yale Alumni Association, the Bar Association, 
and the New England Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He married, in 
1 872, Sarah Helen Townsend, daughter of Isaac Townsend. Mr. Winthrop's city residence is at 279 
Fifth Avenue, and he also has a country home at Lenox, Mass. He has one son, Henry Rogers 
Winthrop, a student at Yale University, and a daughter, Marie Winthrop. 

6 3 r 



EGERTON LEIGH WINTHROP 

MASSACHUSETTS, Connecticut and New York have each owed much to the Winthrop 
family, which has been well described as the flower of New England Puritanism. Its 
numerous branches are now found occupying distinguished places in these three States, 
while in every generation the number of its representatives possessing marked ability has been 
exceptionally large. Through the marriages of members of the family the name and ancestry of 
the Winthrops are frequently referred to in this work. John Winthrop, the founder of this nota- 
ble family in America, was the most eminent of the leaders by whose efforts New England was 
colonized. He belonged to a landed family in the County Suffolk, England, Adam Winthrop 
having been an influential merchant in London and Master of the Clothworkers' Company, a post 
of civic importance. 

John Winthrop, who was a grandson of Adam Winthrop, was born at Groton, Suffolk 
County, in 1587, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, about 1605, and was bred to the bar. 
He became an earnest Puritan, and took a leading part in the plans for the establishment of a 
Colony in America under Puritan auspices and government. In 1629, he became Governor of the 
Massachusetts Bay Company, and when, in the following year, it was determined to carry the 
company with its charter and organization to the New World, he headed the great emigration. 
Landing at Salem, he finally settled in Boston, the rest of his life being a history of the Massachu- 
setts Colony. With the exception of a few years, he was annually elected Governor until his 
death, in 1649. 

His son, the second John Winthrop, was scarcely less famous and shared all his father's fine 
qualities. Born at Groton, in 1606, he graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, studied law in the 
Temple at London, traveled on the Continent and obtained a military and diplomatic experience. 
Following his father to Massachusetts in 1 631, he became a magistrate in 1633, and returning to 
England obtained a commission as Governor of Connecticut, under which he erected the fort at 
Saybrook and founded New London. From 1657, until his death in 1676, he was annually chosen 
Governor of Connecticut, and it was through his efforts and influence at the Court of Great Britain, 
that the charter of 1662 was granted to Connecticut. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of 
Edmund Reade, of Wichford, Sussex, and step-daughter of the famous Hugh Peters. Their son, 
Wait Still Winthrop, 1643-1717, was Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and a Major-General, and 
his son, John Winthrop, 1 681-1747, graduated from Harvard in 1700, and became famous as a 
scientist and was a member of the English Royal Society. 

John Still Winthrop, 1720-1776, the only son of the third John Winthrop, was the ancestor 
of the family represented by the subject of this article. One of his great-grandsons, Benjamin R. 
Winthrop, was the father of Mr. Egerton Leigh Winthrop. Born in New York in 1804, 
Benjamin R. Winthrop was maternally descended from the Stuyvesants and other leading New 
York families. He possessed literary tastes, and was an intimate friend of' Fitz-Greene Halleck. 
Inheriting a large property, he was in early life occupied with the care of his real estate and 
interested in many philanthropic undertakings. He married Eliza A. C, daughter of William 
Neilson, and died in London in 1879. 

Mr. Egerton Leigh Winthrop is a native of New York, and was graduated from Columbia 
College in i860. He belongs to the Union, Knickerbocker, Metropolitan, Riding and other 
clubs, the Century Association, and the St. Nicholas Society. His eldest son, Egerton Leigh 
Winthrop, Jr., was born in Paris, France, August 14th, 1862, and graduated from Harvard Univer- 
sity in 1885. In 1890, he married Emeline Dora Heckscher, daughter of John G. Heckscher, of New 
York. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Meadow Brook Hunt, Rockaway 
Hunt and other clubs, and lives in East Thirty-ninth Street. Another son is Frederick Bronson 
Winthrop, who graduated from Trinity College in 1886, and is a member of the Metropolitan, 
Knickerbocker, Racquet and other clubs. 

632 



FRANK SPENCER WITHERBEE 

THE family of which Mr. Frank S. Witherbee is the representative in this generation was 
originally settled near Witherby in Yorkshire, England, to which place it gave the name, 
and whence in the course of centuries its members were scattered throughout the 
Northern and Eastern counties. John Witherbee, the pioneer of the family in this country, came 
from Norfolk, England, soon after the first Pilgrims, and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 
He was a freeman there before 1650. His descendants became leading men in public affairs in what 
is known as the Essex County section of Massachusetts. Captain Silas Witherbee, the direct 
ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was one of the most important men of Salem, Mass., where 
he was born in 1707. His descendants have been numerous, and active participants in public 
affairs in Eastern Massachusetts and elsewhere in every generation since his time. 

Jonathan Gilman Witherbee, the father of Mr. Frank S. Witherbee, was born in Crown 
Point, N. Y., June 7th, 1821. In 1839, when he was eighteen years of age, he entered upon busi- 
ness life, at first in Port Henry, N. Y., and afterwards at Saugerties, N. Y., where he remained 
for several years. In 1849, in association with an uncle, he organized the iron manufacturing 
firm of S. H. & J. G. Witherbee, in which he was the junior partner. Three years later they 
purchased an iron mine near Port Henry, and ultimately Lee & Sherman, an old established 
concern in the same line, joined forces with them, the new firm being Witherbee, Sherman & Co., 
which became one of the largest iron manufacturers in the Eastern States. 

In addition to his connection with this firm, Mr. Witherbee maintained other important 
business connections in Northern and Eastern New York, including railroad enterprises in that 
section and transportation facilities upon Lake Champlain, aiding materially in developing the 
resources of that part of the State. He promoted the Port Henry Iron Company, the Cedar 
Point Iron Company, the Port Henry Towing Company, the First National Bank of Port Henry, 
and other corporations. 

Mr. Frank Spencer Witherbee, the eldest son of Jonathan Gilman Witherbee, was born 
in Port Henry, N. Y., May 12th, 1852, prepared for college at New Haven, Conn., and 
graduated from Yale College in the class of 1874. A year after he had taken his degree, his 
father died, and he succeeded to the management of the estate, entering at once upon a busi- 
ness life, instead of upon the professional one which he had marked out for himself. He has 
been one of the most successful business men of his section of New York State. 

In 1893, he assisted in reorganizing the Troy Steel & Iron Company, a corporation of 
which he became president, and which succeeded to the management of the famous iron works 
established two generations ago in Troy by Erastus Corning, John F. Winslow, John A. Griswold, 
and others. Soon after, the company erected a large plant on Breaker Island, near Troy, for the 
manufacture of basic steel. It is one of the largest and best equipped establishments of its kind 
in this country. Another enterprise which Mr. Witherbee fostered a few years ago was the 
exportation of Lake Champlain iron ores to Europe. 

In 1883, Mr. Witherbee married Mary Rhinelander Stewart, daughter of Lispenard Stewart, 
the elder, of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Witherbee reside at 4 Fifth Avenue. Their summer 
residence is at Port Henry, N. Y. Mr. Witherbee belongs to the Metropolitan, Union League, 
Union, University, Riding, University Athletic, Westminster Kennel and Engineers' clubs, and 
is also a member of the Downtown Association, the American Museum of Natural History, 
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sons of the Revolution, and the American Geographical 
Society. He is a Republican in politics, has taken an active part in the party's councils, and 
in 1888 was a Presidential elector on the Harrison and Morton ticket. For several years he was 
a member of the Republican State and National Committees. He has traveled extensively, and 
belongs to the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science and other scientific organizations. 

633 



GERARDUS HILLES WYNKOOP, M. D. 

THE gentleman whose family history is considered in this sketch traces his descent in 
unbroken line back to the first American pioneer of the name, Peter Wynkoop, who 
came to the New Netherland before 1639. He was a commissary superintendent of 
wares and merchandise for the Patroon Van Rensselaer, and after remaining a few years in New 
Amsterdam settled in Rensselaerwyck, where he resided in 1644. He was commissioned by the 
Patroon Van Rensselaer to purchase land about Catskill from the natives and, in connection with 
Commissary General Arendt Van Curler, to recover land and other property that had been 
purchased and misapplied by a former agent, Adrian Van Derdonck. In the second generation, 
Cornelius Wynkoop, son of Peter Wynkoop, came from Utrecht, Holland, of which place he was 
a native, and settled at Fort Orange, now Albany, in 1665. After a time he removed to Hurley, 
Ulster County, where he was a schepen in 1673. 

Gerrit Wynkoop, son of Cornelius Wynkoop, took the oath of allegiance to the 
English authorities in 1689. He was an ensign of the Foot Company in Ulster and Dutchess 
County in 1700, and a deacon of the church at Kingston in 17 12. In 17 17, he removed to More- 
land, then Philadelphia, now Montgomery County, Pa., and was an elder of the church, 1744-45. 
in North and South Hampton. He married a daughter of Gerrit Fokker and Jakomyntje Slecht, 
and their son Gerrit was the father of Gerardus Wynkoop, who was an officer in the Revolutionary 
War and in time of peace was for nineteen years a member of the Lower House of the General 
Assembly of Pennsylvania, being several times its Speaker. His wife was Elizabeth Bennett. He 
died about 1812. David Wynkoop, son of Gerardus Wynkoop and grandfather of Dr. Gerardus 
H. Wynkoop, lived in Bucks County, Pa., and was a representative in the Legislature for six years. 

The father of Dr. Wynkoop was the Reverend Stephen Rose Wynkoop, son of David 
Wynkoop and his wife, Mary Van Horn. He was born in 1806 and graduated from Union College 
in 1829. Four years later, he went on an expedition to the western coast of Africa as a commis- 
sioner on behalf of the American Board of Foreign Missions, to explore that region with the view 
to establishing a missionary station there. Upon his return home, he entered upon the study of 
theology at the Theological Seminary connected with Princeton College and was licensed to preach 
in 1837. The following year he was installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Wilmington, Del., and filled that pulpit for twenty years, until his resignation, in 1858. He died 
in 1876. The wife of the Reverend Stephen Rose Wynkoop, whom he married in 1836, was 
Aurelia Mills, daughter of Judge Mills, of New Haven, Conn. 

Dr. Gerardus Hilles Wynkoop was born in 1843. He received his preparatory education in 
schools and seminaries and then went to Yale College, from which institution he was graduated in 
the class of 1864. Coming to New York, he began the study of medicine under the direction of 
the celebrated Dr. Willard Parker, and has now been engaged in general medical practice in New 
York for more than thirty years. The wife of Dr. Wynkoop, whom he married in 1866, was Ann 
Eliza Woodbury, daughter of General Daniel Phineas Woodbury, of the United States Engineer 
Corps. Dr. Wynkoop lives in Madison Avenue. His clubs include the Union, City, Democratic, 
Riding, University and Rockaway Hunt, and he belongs to the Yale Alumni Association, the 
Holland Society and the American Geographical Society, and is a patron of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art. He has four children: Gerardus Mills, who is a member of the Union and City 
clubs ; Kate Childs, who married Harold Stanley Forwood, eldest son of Sir William B. Forwood ; 
Daniel Woodbury, and Elizabeth Hilles Wynkoop. A brother of Dr. Wynkoop was the Reverend 
Theodore Stephen Wynkoop, who was born in 1839, graduated from Yale College in 1861 and 
from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Princeton in 1864, and the same year was ordained 
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Huntington, Long Island. Afterwards he engaged 
in foreign missionary work and for many years was in charge 01 a station at Allahabad, 
Northern India. 

634 



FERNANDO YZNAGA 

FROM an ancient Spanish family came Antonio Yznaga del Valle, the father of the gentleman 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch. His immediate ancestors for several 
generations were residents of Cuba, where they were among the wealthiest and most aris- 
tocratic people of that island. Antonio Yznaga was born in Cuba in 1823. In common with many 
Cuban young men, he came to this country to be educated, when he was a mere boy, and received 
instruction in private schools in the vicinity of New York. When his education had been com- 
pleted, he returned to his native island with the intention of complying with his parents' wishes, and 
settling in business there. But his residence in the United States and his education had thoroughly 
Americanized him, and, after two years, finding his interests and his sympathies fixed more firmly 
in this country than in his native island, he came back to the United States and established himself 
in business in New York, settling here finally in 1847. He first engaged in the commission busi- 
ness almost exclusively with Cuba, and for more than a quarter of a century his house was one of 
the leading commission establishments in New York. He also owned several large sugar planta- 
tions in Cuba, and had other real estate holdings there. During the Civil War, although his busi- 
ness connections were largely with the South, he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Union cause. 
He died in 1892. 

The mother of Fernando Yznaga, whom Antonio Yznaga del Valle married in 1850, was 
Ellen Maria Clements. She was the daughter of J. Clements, of Louisiana, and his wife, Maria 
Augusta Little, and the granddaughter of William Little, of Boston, and Frances Boyd, William 
Little being a well-known Boston merchant of the famous Little family, and Frances Boyd being 
the daughter of James Boyd, of Newbury port, Mass., and his wife, Susannah Coffin, also of New- 
buryport. James Boyd, of Newburyport, who was the maternal great-grandfather of Mrs. 
Yznaga, was born in 1732, and died in 1798. He was the first of his family to come to this 
country, being a son of Robert Boyd, of Kilmanrock, Scotland, and in the seventeenth generation 
through the Leslies and Earls of Sutherland from Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. 

Through their wealth and high family connections, Antonio Yznaga and his wife occupied 
high social position in New York. They had one son, Fernando Yznaga, and three daughters, 
Consuelo, Natica and Emily Yznaga. One of the most brilliant social events in New York in 
the spring of 1876, was the marriage of Consuelo Yznaga to George Victor Drogo Montague, 
Viscount Mandeville, who succeeded his father as Duke of Manchester, and died several years 
ago. The first ancestor of the house of Manchester was Drogo de Monte Acuto, a warrior who 
came with Robert, Earl Morton, at the time of the Conquest. From him sprang the 
Montecutes and Montagues, among them Sir Edward Montague, the progenitor of the Earls 
and Dukes of Manchester, who was the Lord Chief Justice of England, in 1539, and appointed 
by the will of Henry VIII. to be regent of the kingdom. His grandson, Sir Henry Montague, 
was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 161 6, and Lord Treasurer in 1620, and was created 
Earl of Manchester in 1626. The last Duke of Manchester was born in 1853, an ^ previous to his 
accession to the head of the house was a Captain in the Third Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusileers. 
The children of the Duchess of Manchester are William Angus Drogo, Viscount Mandeville, and 
Jacquiline-Mary-Alva, and Alice Eleanor Louise. Natica Yznaga, the second daughter of Antonio 
Yznaga, married, in 1881, Sir Pepys Lister Kaye, who was born in 1853. 

Mr. Fernando Yznaga, the oldest child and only son of Antonio Yznaga and his wife, Ellen 
Maria Clements, was born in New York in 185 1. He has been engaged in the banking business, 
and has been a prominent figure in the social life of the city in this generation. He is a member 
of the Tuxedo Club, and has his permanent residence in Tuxedo Park. He also belongs to the 
Metropolitan, Union, Country, Manhattan, Athletic and Meadow Brook Hunt clubs. He is a gradu- 
ate from the Lawrence Scientific School, of Harvard University, and has received the degree of 
LL. D. from the Louisiana Law School. 

635 



ANDREW CHRISTIAN ZABRISKIE 

A NOBLEMAN, who belonged to an ancient Polish family, was driven from his native land by- 
political oppression in the middle of the sixteenth century and, fleeing to Holland, joined 
there in the tide of emigration which at that time had begun to set in toward the new 
Colonies in America. Albrecht Zaborowsky was the name of this Polish refugee who came to 
New Netherland in the ship Fox in 1662. He had been intended for the Lutheran ministry, but the 
authorities had sought to force him into the army, and had also inflicted other indignities upon him 
which finally forced him into self-imposed exile. On his arrival here he settled on the banks of 
the Hackensack River at Paramus, N. J., and married a daughter of one of the Dutch families which 
are already established there. His five sons founded the numerous branches of the Zabriskie 
family in this country. The ancient records exhibit curious vagaries in the spelling of the family 
name, but finally usage settled upon the present form of Zabriskie, which has remained fixed for 
several generations past. 

The fourth son of Albrecht Zaborowsky married in 171 5 Lea Hendriksze Hoppe, or Hopper, a 
name which is identified with one of the oldest land-owning families of New York. Descendants 
of this couple have notably figured in the history of the States of New York and New Jersey. 
Abraham O. Zabriskie, 1807-1873, State Senator and Chancellor of New Jersey, was one of the 
most illustrious members of the family. One of Chancellor Zabriskie's sons, Augustus Zabriskie, is 
a prominent lawyer in New Jersey, who married Josephine Booraem and resides at South Orange. 

Another descendant was Andrew C. Zabriskie, a well-known New York merchant a hundred 
years ago, and Adjutant of a squadron of horse in Bergen County, N. J., where he lived. He was 
the grandfather of Mr. Andrew Christian Zabriskie, of this generation, who was named after his 
ancestor. The father of Mr. Zabriskie was Christian A. Zabriskie, who lived a retired life until his 
death in 1879, upon an estate in Paramus, N. J., which is part of the land handed down from the 
original founder of the family in America. 

On the maternal side, Mr. Zabriskie's grandfather was William M. Titus, a merchant 
of New York, and an officer of the Eleventh Artillery in the War of 1812. After the war, 
he became a Captain in the same regiment, which was subsequently called the Twenty-Seventh 
Infantry, and finally became the famous Seventh Regiment. The maternal great-grandfather of 
Mr. Zabriskie was Thomas Gardner, also a man of wealth and business prominence. 

Mr. Andrew Christian Zabriskie was born in New York, May 30th, 1853, and was 
educated in private schools and in Columbia College. Inheriting large real estate properties, he 
has devoted himself mainly to the business connected with those interests. Military matters, how- 
ever, have also engrossed his attention. He enlisted in 1873 in Company B, of the Seventh Regi- 
ment, and served for over seven years. Elected Captain of Company C, in the Seventy-First 
Regiment, he held that position until he was promoted to the rank of Inspector of Rifle Practice 
on the staff of the same regiment. He presented to the regiment the Zabriskie trophy, a hand- 
some bronze, to be annually competed for at rifle practice. 

In 1895, Mr. Zabriskie married Frances Hunter, youngest daughter of the late Charles F. 
Hunter, president of the People's Bank. They have one child, Julia Romeyn Zabriskie. Mr. 
Zabriskie has a beautiful country place, Province Island, in Lake Memphremagog, Me. The island 
embraces over one hundred acres of fertile land, the international boundary line passing through it. 
Mr. Zabriskie belongs to the Metropolitan, City, United Service, Military and Church clubs and the 
Seventh Regiment Veteran Association. He is a member of the Holland Society, the Society 
of the War of 1812, the New York Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, the 
National Academy of Design, the American Museum of Natural History and the American Numis- 
matic and Archaeological Society, of which he is the president. He is also active on the board of 
management of several charitable organizations, and has found time to write considerable upon 
subjects connected with the early history of New York City. 

636 



INDEX 



ABEEL, JOHN HOWARD 
ABERCROMBIE, CHARLES STEADMAN 
ACKER, FRANKLIN 
ADAMS, CHARLES HENRY . 
ADAMS, EDWARD DEAN . 
AGAR JOHN GIRAUD . 
AITKEN, Mrs. CATHERINE BEEKMAN 
ALEXANDER, LAWRENCE DADE 
ALLEN, ETHAN .... 
ALLING, ASA ALLING . 
ANDERSON, ELBERT ELLERY . 
ANDERSON, HENRY BURRALL . 
ANDREWS, CONSTANT A. . 
ANTHONY, RICHARD ALLARD . 
APPLETON, DAND3L . 
ARNOUX, WILLIAM HENRY 
ASTOR JOHN JACOB . 
AUCHINCLOSS, JOHN W. . 
AVERY, SAMUEL PUTNAM . 



BABCOCK, SAMUEL D. . 
BACHE, JULES SEMON . 
BACKUS, BRADY ELECTUS, D. D. 
BACKUS, J. BAYARD 
BALDWIN, AUSTIN P. . . . 
BALDWIN, GEORGE VAN NEST 
BANCKER MARY E. C. . . 

BANKS, DAVID .... 
BANTA, THEODORE MELVIN . 
BARBER, AMZI LORENZO . 
BARCLAY, HENRY ANTHONY . 
BARGER, SAMUEL F. . . . 
BARKER, Mrs. FORDYCE DWIGHT 
BARLOW, PETER TOWNSEND . 
BARNES, JOHN SANFORD . 
BARRON, JOHN CONNER, M. D. 
BARTHOLOMEW, JOHN OLMSTED 
BAYLIES, EDMUND LINCOLN . 
BEEKMAN, GERARD . 
BELDING, MILO MERRICK . 
BELKNAP, ROBERT LENOX 

BELL, ISAAC 

BELMONT, PERRY. 
BEND, GEORGE HOFFMAN . 
BENEDICT, CHARLES LINNEAUS 
BENEDICT, ELIAS CORNELIUS . 
BENEDICT, HENRY HARPER . 
BENEDICT, LB GRAND LOCKWOOD 
BETTS, FREDERICK HENRY 
BIGELOW, JOHN .... 
BISSELL, ARTHUR F., M. D. 
BISSELL, PELHAM ST. GEORGE 
BLEYTHrNG, GEORGE DACRE, M. ] 
BLISS, CORNELIUS NEWTON 
BLISS, GEORGE .... 
BLOSS, JAMES ORVILLE 
BODECKER, CARL F. W., D. D. S. 



PAOB 

9 



13 

15 
16 
17 

18 

19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
-•4 
25 
26 
27, 28 



29 
30 
31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
33 
39 
40 
41 
42 
43 
44 
45 
46 
47 
4S 
49 
50.51 
52. 53 

• 54 

• 55 

• 56 

• 57 

• 58 

• 59 
. 60 
. 61 
. 62 

• 63 

• 64 

• 65 
. 66 
. 67 



PAOB 

BOGART, JOHN 68 

BOND, FRANK STUART 69 

BONNER ROBERT 7° 

BOORAEM, ROBERT ELMER ... 71, 7* 

BOSTWICK, Mrs. J. A 73 

BOURNE, FREDERICK GILBERT . . 74 

BOWDOIN, GEORGE SULLIVAN ... 75. 7« 

BOWERS, JOHN MYER 77 

BREESE, JAMES LAWRENCE .... 78 

BRICE, CALVIN S 79 

BRISTED, CHARLES ASTOR .... 80 

BRONSON, FREDERIC 81 

BROWN, JOHN CKOSBY 82 

BULKLEY, JUSTUS LAWRENCE .... 83 

BULL, WILLIAM LANMAN 84 

BURDEN, JAMES ABERCROMBIE ... 85 
BURNETT, HENRY LAWRENCE .... 86 
BURRILL, MIDDLETON SHOOLBRED . 87 

BUTLER, GEORGE HENRY, M. D. . . .88 

BUTLER, PRESCOTT HALL 89 

BUTTERFIELD, DANIEL 9° 

CADWALADER JOHN LAMBERT ... 91 
CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL ... 92, 93 
CAMERON, SIR RODERICK WILLIAM 94, 95 

CAMP, HUGH NESBITT 9 s 

CANNON, HENRY WHITE 97 

CAREY, HENRY T 9 s 

CARLETON, GEORGE W 99 

CARNEGIE, ANDREW 100 

CARNOCHAN, GOUVERNEUR MORRIS . . 101 
CARPENTER, HERBERT SANFORD . . .102 

CARROLL, ROYAL PHELPS 103 

CARTER, COLIN SMITH, D. D. S. . . . 104 

CARTER, JAMES C i°5 

CARY, HAMILTON WILKES . . . .106 

CHANDLER, CHARLES FREDERICK . . 107 

CHANLER, WLNTHROP 108 

CHAPIN, ALFRED CLARK 109 

CHAPIN, WILLIAM VIALL "° 

CHAUNCEY, ELD3U "I 

CHESEBROUGH, ROBERT A 112 

CHEW, BEVERLY "3 

CHLLDS, DANIEL BREWER "4 

CHOATE, JOSEPH HODGES "5 

CHURCH, BENJAMIN SILLIMAN . . i»6, 117 

CLAFLIN, JOHN .... . . 118 

CLAIBORNE, JOHN HERBERT, Jr., M. D. . 119 

CLARK, JOHN MITCHELL "° 

CLARKE, RICHARD HENRY . . . .121 
CLARKSON, JOHN VAN BOSKERCK . . .122 

CLEWS, HENRY 123 

CLINTON, CHARLES WILLIAM . . . .124 

COCHRAN, JOHN 125 

CODDINGTON, DAVID VESEY SMITH . . 126 
COGSWELL, CULLEN VAN RENSSELAER . 127 
COLES, HENRY RUTGERS REMSEN . .128 



637 



COLES, WALTER HENRY . 
COLGATE, JAMES BOORMAN 
CONSTABLE, JAMES MANSELL 
CONSTANT, SAMUEL VICTOR 
CONVERSE, EDMUND COGSWELL 
COOK, HENRY HARVEY 
COOPER, EDWARD 
CORBIN, AUSTIN 
CORNELL, JOHN . 
CORNELL, JOHN M. 
COSTER, CHARLES HENRY 
COUDERT, FREDERIC RENE 
COWDIN, JOHN ELLIOT 
COX, WILMOT TOWNSEND . 
CROMWELL, FREDERIC 
CROMWELL, OLIVER EATON 
CROSBY, ERNEST HOWARD 
CROSBY, JOHN SCHUYLER 
CRUGER, STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER 
CURTIS, MRS. GEORGE WILLIAM 
CUSHMAN, E. HOLBROOK . 
CUTTING, WILLIAM BAYARD 
CUYLER, THOMAS De WITT 

DAHLGREN, ERIC B. . 

DALY, CHARLES P. 

DALY, JOSEPH F. . 

DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON 

DANA, RICHARD STARR 

DAVIDSON, GEORGE TRIMBLE 

DAVIES, WILLIAM GILBERT 

DAVIS, FELLOWES 

DAVISON, CHARLES EVERETT 

DAY, CLARENCE SHEPARD 

DAY, GEORGE LORD . 

DE FOREST, GEORGE B. 

DELAFIELD, MATURIN LIVINGSTON 

DELAFIELD, RICHARD . 

DE LANCEY, EDWARD FLOYD 

DEMING, HENRY CHAMPION 

DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELI 

DE PEYSTER, FREDERIC JAMES 

de PEYSTER, JOHN WATTS 

DE PEYSTER, Mus. NICHOLAS 

DEXTER, HENRY . 

Dl CESNOLA, LOUIS PALMA 

DICKINSON, HORACE EDWARD 

DILLON, JOHN FORREST . 

DINSMORE, WILLIAM B. 

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